Victim of mysterious attack in South Anchorage ready to leave hospital and other top stories.

• Victim of mysterious attack in South Anchorage ready to leave hospital

  Fred Mayac is alert, talking, and ready to leave the hospital. Mayac, 50, is an ivory carver who suffered serious injuries in a mysterious attack in South Anchorage on June 8. At first it appeared that Mayac had been stabbed. But emergency room staff later told Anchorage police they believed Mayac’s wounds were the result of a bear mauling. Fish and Game biologists investigated the bloody scene the next day and concluded that a moose likely stomped Mayac, who was found unconscious on a small di..

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• YEP Program Benefits Anchorage

  

  Anchorage, AK - The Youth Employment in Parks Program (YEP) is orchestrated by the Anchorage Parks & Recreation Department and the Anchorage Park Foundation.  As employee Hunter Baker described, “I’m enjoying it a lot.  We come to Russian Jack Chalet, and then we get in some vans and come to wherever our work sites are.  It’s hard work, but it’s fun and there are a lot of cool people here.” YEP began a rehabilitation project today at Taku Lake Park.  Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz stated, “You..

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• Anchorage's Best Chicken Sandwich?

  Anchorage is blossoming with food trucks this summer, helped along by the Spenard Food Truck Carnival on Thursdays and K Street Eats, a new Monday–Friday food truck pod on the southwest corner of K Street and 8th Avenue. When I interviewed K Street Eats organizer Darrin Huycke for the 2016 Anchorage Press Insider's Guide, he pointed to one of the food trucks that was helping anchor the pod until more truck operators could make it through the backed-up permit process. Go try one of their chicken ..

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• The Tale of an Impossible Journey

  On a rainy Wednesday Shahar Azani nervously paces back and forth while a crowd gathers at the Lubavitch Jewish Center of Alaska for an Alaska Jewish Museum summer programing event. A former Israeli diplomat and Executive Director of StandWithUs New York, Azani is used to addressing a crowd but this time it is different. He has traveled from New York with a story to tell and like most stories worth telling, his story begins with an impossible journey and ends with a lesson learned. The year was ..

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• Flames visible up the slope from Beluga Point

  

  Update (9:15 p.m): People at Beluga Point report being able to see flames in the trees up the slope as firefighters continue to battle the McHugh Fire. Lori Wiertsema with the AK Division of Forestry is advising motorists on the Seward Highway near McHugh Creek to be aware that smoke may drift down to the road tonight and tomorrow morning. Wiertsema also says contingency plans have been made in case the fire threatens residents of Rainbow Valley. Update (4:30 p.m.): Two firefighters have been ..

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• Shtick and Sherlock

  

  As the house lights slowly dim, a black and white reel of film begins to play against the theater’s back wall. Clips of movie classics unfold, and before the play begins, the full credits of the actors and crew scrolls by, as if it too were a serial from the time. Soon, smoke pipes in from the left, a man in a hilarious fake mustache taking to the stage to show the murder that begins it all. As the audience smirks and rolls its eyes, the action shifts to 221 Baker Street, and soon enough, the ga..

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• What Time the Whale

  Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? —“The Summer Day,” Mary Oliver And—my God—who made the whale? This whale. This humpback. The dead humpback that washed up outside Hope, Alaska almost a week ago before the tide called it back again, and then delivered it here—flung it along the beach at Kincaid Park in Anchorage. The humpback that Susannah and I can ripely smell hundreds of yards before we ever reach its massive, still and deteriorating bulk..

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• Fourth Avenue Theater shows signs of life at own funeral

  On Sunday, July 10, community members gathered to mourn the passing of the Fourth Avenue Theater, which has been frequently lauded as Anchorage's only true architectural landmark. Musicians took turn serenading the crowd—or maybe the theater herself—from beneath the cover of its stoop, backed by a mural of Fourth Avenue during the theater's heyday and a few costumed mourners in black. Michael Howard, the musician and community organizer behind the funeral, explained that there's a public belief ..

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