Rhonda McBride

Although Erin Heist is a familiar name in the Southeast Alaska folk music scene, she’s never recorded an album. Until now. On  Wednesday’s Juneau Afternoon, she’ll share one of the songs from her first recording project. Also on Wednesday’s show: How you can help the Alaska Design Forum create a new card game. Campus life…

  It’s not every day that someone comes to Juneau, who has bicycled from the Florida Keys to Prudhoe Bay. But Gary Radford will take time out from his visit with his daughter to share his story on Juneau Afternoon. He finished his 6,000-mile trip two years ago. And now at the age of 64,…

The Goldbelt Heritage Foundation’s summer camps are a time when young people are encouraged to explore their roots in Southeast Alaska’s Native languages and culture. High school students can even earn college credit. The program is also designed to help kids keep their learning skills sharp, so they are ready to dive back into their…

Kelli Patterson is Black and one of her best friends, Heather Pederson, is White. On this week’s program from the Black Awareness Association of Juneau, the two women talk about their friendship and the challenges of maintaining it, during these times of social upheaval. Listen to the program:  The Black Awareness Association of Juneau’s “Culture…

We’re just barely past Solstice, but at the Eaglecrest ski area, thoughts have already turned to winter. On Wednesday’s Juneau Afternoon: season passes, a campaign to raise money for snow-making and other off-season projects. Also: Monsters, shipwrecks, and sorcerers. Theatre in the Rough has all that and more in its upcoming performance of Shakespeare’s “Tempest.”…

With fireworks and parades, there’s plenty to see in Juneau and Douglas over the July 4th holiday — and quite a sound track to go with it, provided by the Juneau Volunteer Marching Band. It was a festive Friday on Juneau Afternoon with a preview of the band’s concert this Saturday at Marine Park. Also:…