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Kitchen Fan: Whatever’s in the Fridge Pasta

A friend shared his family’s highly secret recipe for pasta, called ‘Whatever’s in the Fridge Pasta’. Now, I take it upon myself to share this recipe, which frankly changed my life, cured my ailments, and transformed my thinking. Try it for yourself!

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Berries Out Our Backdoor

Fall is here! While that might mean the temps are starting to dip and days are getting shorter, there is still some foraging to be done. Interior Alaska is home several edible (and delicious) berries. Here is a quick guide to late summer foraging and ideas of what to do with your fresh found goods!

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Meet DancingFaraZ! 

We have the privilege of hosting the fantastic Seattle based DJ, Faraz Zarghami, otherwise known as DancingFaraZ. He’ll be performing at this year’s Starvation Gulch, which will be held on September 23rd, starting at 10pm in the Nenana parking lot on campus. Read on to learn a bit more about Faraz, his larger than life personality, and his work as a DJ.

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Scream VI - Film Review

Scream VI has no business being as entertaining as it is.

The second sequel from Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, known to their fans and the world as the filmmaking collective Radio Silence, came to mainstream success and acclaim with 2019’s Ready or Not, a quietly subversive and fun black comedy horror film that established many of Scream VI’s strengths, which, unfortunately, also highlight the growing weaknesses of the popular slasher film franchise after Wes Craven’s death in 2015.

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Certified Copy, Certainly

When I return to the Museo del Prado this summer and gaze once more at Francisco Goya’s The Third of May 1808, I will think of Walter Benjamin. His seminal essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility,” is as frustrating as it is a necessary document in the study of all text: art, film, or literature. Benjamin’s thesis pivots on three questions: how artistic production is affected by machinery and industry, what this technology does to the authenticity of a work of art, and from where art in an industrial, machine-led world derives its value.

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Cracker Island: Catching Up on the Music and Lives of the Gorillaz

The latest Gorillaz album came out on February 24th after months of high anticipation from fans. Cracker Island is their eighth studio album, its production began in 2021 after the Gorillaz Netflix movie was scrapped. They collaborated with an impressive list of artists for this album including Stevie Nicks, Bad Bunny, Tame Impala, and more. 

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Currants Becoming Current

The UAF Georgeson Botanical Garden will host an inaugural currant festival for the Fairbanks community in August.

The purpose of the Georgeson Botanical Garden's inaugural currant festival is to bring awareness of currants to the community, share their history, and promote growing currants. Currants thrive in northern climates, and Fairbanks is an especially great place to farm currants or grow them in your home garden.

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Natural Habitat

What would happen to both the built and natural environment if humans suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth? Sarah Olson goes in depth about the balance between Homo Sapiens impact on the natural environment.

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