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For The New York Times: A postcard from Kenai’s dipnet beach, America’s most...

I am pretty excited (and was VERY, like going to pass out, nervous) to get the opportunity to contribute a story to The New York Times Dining section this week about the diverse, unique, crowded Kenai...

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Come to our Ottolenghi cookbook dinner at South!

My brilliant friend Tamar Ben-Yosef and I are making dinner this month using recipes from our well loved cookbooks by the Israeli-British chef Yotam Ottolenghi  in the lovely, intimate back room at...

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DIY foraged, wire-hanger wreath with Natasha

By Natasha Price As part of my never-ending quest to be an adult, I’ve been trying to purge my home of wire hangers. It’s sort of an awkward struggle to throw away a hanger. They poke through the trash...

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There’s more to my relationship with this place than politics (For The Guardian)

I didn’t vote like most people here on Tuesday and I was surprised by the result of the election, though maybe I shouldn’t have been. As a gay person and a journalist, this election makes me worry for...

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For ADN: A look at prostitution in Anchorage from someone who lived it

In today’s ADN: The first time Amber Batts traded sex for money, she said, she was 30. She had two small children, her husband at the time was hurt at work, she said, and they needed money. She...

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For The Guardian: In Alaska, homeless on the frozen streets (with Ash Adams...

Two weeks ago, photographer Ash Adams and I spent a few days at Bean’s Cafe and Brother Francis for a story for The Guardian about homelessness in Alaska. Here’s how the story starts: As soon as she...

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For the Washington Post: Alaska, Veterans, Esteban Santiago

I had the privilege of helping the Washington Post on two stories (read them here and here) last week about Esteban Santiago, the Anchorage man who shot five people at the Ft. Lauderdale airport. Then,...

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For The Guardian: Homeless in America

I am helping The Guardian with a large project on homelessness in the west funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Below is the beginning of one of the first stories in the project....

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From trafficked to trafficker: youth homelessness and sexual exploitation in...

(This story is part of a larger project by The Guardian that looks at homelessness in the western United States. Ash Adams made the photos. ) Heidi Ross was a senior in high school when she hitchhiked...

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For the New York Times: For a climate and food reporter in Alaska, a new...

I was asked to write about the experience of reporting my story about the poor red salmon season. Here’s how the column begins: My grandparents came to Anchorage after the war. My parents grew up here...

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