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🦃 Anchorage is stuffed with events this weekend 👇
🍽️ Free Thanksgiving dinner (Thu)
🎨 Meet Barbra Lavallee (Fri)
🎄 Tree lighting & Santa downtown (Sat, 6:15)
🛍️ Small Business Saturday
Full list → alaskapublic.org
#AnchorageWeekender #AnchorageEvents #ShopLocalAK
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
What if hatcheries—once thought of as the solution to dwindling salmon runs—are actually an ocean-wide ecological problem?

Explore the ripple effects in Trouble at Sea (thefern.org & alaskapublic.org).

📺 Nov. 25, 7 p.m. on Alaska Public Media TV
📲 Nov. 26 PBS app | alaskapublic.org | YouTube
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Debbie Sis is a volunteer for the Listening Post, a group that provides a space for people to share their stories with a non-judgmental partner.

Check out Debbie's story here, and meet more people who go above and beyond to strengthen our community at alaskapublic.org/littlebit.
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
📺 TV Festival is back!

Celebrate 50 years of KAKM with encores of Walrus: Life on This Ice and Ken Burns: The National Parks. We'll be live in the studio sharing what makes Alaska Public Media special and how you can show your support.

Learn more at buff.ly/o82S9jm.
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Anchorage’s got plenty to do before the turkey’s in the oven 🦃👇
💼 Job fair (Fri)
🥬 Kimchi Day Festival (Sat)
🧶 Craft Fair (Sat)
🎁 + More markets, music & trivia!

Full list → alaskapublic.org/weekender
#AnchorageWeekender #AnchorageEvents #ShopLocalAK
November 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Katy Arvidson uses her title as Ms. Wheelchair Alaska USA 2024 to provide mental health advocacy for people with disabilities. 

 Check out Katy's story here, and meet more people who go above and beyond to strengthen our community at alaskapublic.org/littlebit.
November 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
📺 TV Festival is back!

Celebrate 50 years of KAKM with an encore presentation of episode 6 of Ken Burns: The American Revolution. We'll be live in the studio sharing what makes Alaska Public Media so special.

Learn more at buff.ly/o82S9jm.
November 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Patriots, Loyalists, enslaved people, Indigenous nations — the American Revolution was everyone’s story. And they all saw something worth fighting for.

Watch The American Revolution, a new series for @pbs.org by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein & David Schmidt, TONIGHT at 7 pm.

#AmericanRevolutionPBS
November 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
From concerts for a cause to coffee and early holiday shopping — Anchorage is busy this weekend. 👇
🎶 Benefit concert for Western Alaska (Sat)
☕ Coffee with a Veteran (Sat 10am)
🎺 Free “Phantom” concert (Sun 4pm)
🛍️ PLUS our Holiday Market Handbook 🛒

Your full list → alaskapublic.org/weekender
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"One of the most remarkable aspects of the Revolutionary War is that you had such different places come together as one nation."

Watch The American Revolution, new for @pbs.org by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein & David Schmidt, Nov 16 on Alaska Public Media TV.

#AmericanRevolutionPBS #documentary
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Derrick Moore has been using his recovery to help youth navigate coming into adulthood by giving presentations and inspiring others to get help when they need it.

Check out Derrick's story here, and meet more people who go above and beyond to strengthen our community at alaskapublic.org/littlebit.
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
From rebellion to revolution.

The American Revolution, a new six-part series for @pbs.org by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, premieres November 16 on Alaska Public Media TV.

#AmericanRevolutionPBS #documentary #KenBurns
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Stay cozy this weekend with The Anchorage Weekender:

➡️ Christmas Bazaar (Fri–Sat)
➡️ Free Museum Night (Fri 6–9) + Veterans free Sunday
➡️ Toy Swap (Sat–Sun)

Plus: makers market, book sale, beer + sea life night in Seward in the full article. Find the full list at alaskapublic.org/weekender
November 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
"To believe in America is to believe in possibility, possibility worth fighting for."

The American Revolution, a new six-part series for @pbs.org by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, premieres November 16 on Alaska Public Media TV.

#AmericanRevolutionPBS #documentary #KenBurns
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Larry Monsma and his team of volunteers help remove thousands of pounds of trash from Anchorage’s waterways ever year.

Check out Larry's story here, and meet more people who go above and beyond to strengthen our community in Anchorage and Southcentral Alaska at alaskapublic.org/littlebit.
November 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
🎃 Halloween’s not over yet! Here’s the highlights of what’s up in this week’s Anchorage Weekender: STEM Day at UAA (Sat, 10-4), November Free Store (Sun, 1-4), Inclusive Spooky Experience (Sat). Read our full weekend list at: alaskapublic.org
November 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Reimagined by Alaska Public Media, Bram Stoker’s immortal tale rises again in a chilling modern retelling set between the frozen wilds of Alaska and the shadows of Transylvania. 🦇

Listen now on our website or wherever you get your podcasts.

alaskapublic.org/dracula
October 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This week, on the Series Finale of Dracula: Mina faces Dracula—and herself—in a final reckoning that blurs the line between freedom and fury. 🦇

A story reimagined by Alaska Public Media.

Listen now on our website or wherever you get your podcasts
🎧 alaskapublic.org/dracula
October 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
We checked the horror-scope for this weekend and the events are eerie-sistable. 🎃

👉Halloween at the Museum (Fri, 3–6)
👉Trick or Treat Street downtown (Sat, 12–4 — Molly of Denali’s there!)
👉Fright Night Manor haunted house (Midtown Mall, $20)

Plus 5 more events 👉 alaskapublic.org/weekender
October 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM