Homer Features
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Not only does Pier One entertain Homer with quality plays, but it also provides youth with the opportunity to learn about acting with hands on experience through youth theatre camps. Jennifer Norton, along with many other members of the Pier One community, firmly believes in the benefits of theatre ...
Wed, 06/15/2016 - 3:26pm -
Every season, Pier One Theatre brightens the Spit with its lively performances, but more than that, it brightens the whole community with its passion for the arts. With productions for any taste — comedy, drama, musicals and more — there is something for everyone. The standard holds true for thi...
Wed, 06/15/2016 - 3:26pm -
Forget the cruise ship passengers, the foreign adventurers and the production staffs of Alaska’s 47 reality TV shows. As most Alaskans know, the real backbone of the visitor industry can be summed up in three initials: V, F and R. That’s ‘visiting friends and relatives,’ the people you know ...
Thu, 06/09/2016 - 3:51pm -
Seldovia Solstice music fest is June 16-19...
Thu, 06/09/2016 - 1:24pm -
More than a splash of color appeared on the Star Car Wash building over the June 3 weekend as Anchorage mural group Spellar started and completed the first mural in Bunnell Street Arts Center’s Peonies on Pioneer public art project. Peonies on Pioneer, a brainchild of the Homer Chamber of Co...
Thu, 06/09/2016 - 1:19pm -
There might have been the usual kerfuffles, but pat yourselves on the backs, Homerites. You survived the Memorial Day weekend and the traditional opening of the summer tourist season and the temporary occupation by southbound Alaskans and visitors. It looked like most everyone on the Spit found a ca...
Thu, 06/02/2016 - 2:27pm -
There are basic truths that bear repeating: • Keep your garden small; • Weed, if you can; • Water, if you have it; and • People, just shake your tomato plants. That’s all it takes to fertilize the bloom and you will have more tomatoes than you know what to do with. Keep your electric...
Thu, 06/02/2016 - 2:15pm -
‘The Drunkard’ auditions this weekend Auditions for The Drunkard, a melodramatic morality musical to be performed the second and third weekends in September, will be 5:30-7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in the Mariner Theatre. There are...
Thu, 06/02/2016 - 1:57pm -
Last summer’s Paint In live-art series at the Homer Elks Lodge returns for First Friday this month. Artist and sign painter Dan Coe is joined by his son David as they each paint a large canvas on the back deck of the Elks Lodge. The action starts at 5 p.m., and paintings will be auctioned at 9 p.m...
Thu, 06/02/2016 - 1:56pm -
In 2003, writer and journalist David Holthouse plotted to kill a man — the Bogeyman. He’d bought a throwaway pistol and silencer, and he’d go up to the man who raped him when Holthouse was 7 and put three bullets into his head. Instead, Holthouse wrote an essay. “Stalking the Bogeyman” sho...
Thu, 06/02/2016 - 1:53pm
