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Humpback sinks sailboat

...went their way and led to their rescue."We lost out boat but we have our lives," he said.In the literary classic "Moby Dick," from which the name "Ishmael" comes, it is the name of the narrator, not the whale.A scene in the book in which...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-07-30/whale-tale-humpback-sinks-sailboat
Local
Perseverance season to include two plays in Anchorage

...Macbeth," which traveled to Sitka, Hoonah, Kotzebue, Valdez, Anchorage and Washington, D.C., and 2001's "Moby Dick" which they produced in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Barrow. This season marks a more systematic approach to taking shows...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2011-09-22/perseverance-season-include-two-plays-anc
Art
Internet archivist seeks 1 of every book written

...warehouse floor unpacked boxes of books and entered information on each title into a database. The books ranged from "Moby Dick" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" to "The Complete Basic Book of Home Decorating" and "Costa Rica for Dummies...

http://juneauempire.com/marcus-wohlsen/2011-08-03/internet-archivist-seeks-1-eve
Haida coffee shop gets legal help in Starbucks fight

...it was bought out by Starbucks last month. Starbucks derives its name from a character in the Herman Melville novel "Moby-Dick," which has long since passed into the public domain.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/051203/bus_coffeeshop.shtml
Business
Perseverance launches cross-training workshops

...served as co-creator of the Perseverance productions "Moby Dick" and "Short Stories." He earned his master's of...with the process you go through developing a piece like 'Moby Dick,' " Maynard-Losh said. "Developing a performance...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/062302/loc_persevwksp.shtml
News
Best Bets: From feminist comedy to Beethoven quartets

...be performed next spring at Perseverance. Actor and director Leon Ingulsrud, the co-creator of Perseverance's "Moby Dick" show last year, and Perseverance's Peter DuBois and Art Rotch also are teaching. Contra dancers generally take a...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/062702/thi_bestbets.shtml
This WeeK
What's up with the weather?

...of water in the creeks and streams to swim home. I feel like Ishmael did when he roamed the streets of Manhattan in "Moby Dick." I think the good weather probably got him down, and he became depressed, and decided to sign up to go to sea. Here's...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/070204/nei_engstrom.shtml
Neighbors
Proof: Love, math and mystery

...mysteries is who wrote this proof. Waisanen, 24, played Ahab last spring in Perseverance Theatre's production of "Moby Dick." Raised in Soldotna, she studied theater and acting in Anchorage and Dallas. "Proof" offers a chance to flex her...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/091301/Ent_proof.shtml
Entertainment
Bringing Mae West back to life

...If they weren't back there I'm sure I'd come out in the wrong costume." Waisanen played Captain Ahab in "Moby Dick" and opened Perseverance's last season as the lead in "Proof." Bouncing back and forth between two characters in...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/091902/thi_dirtyblonde.shtml
This WeeK
One-night sendoff

...roadshow. "UP! The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair" traveled through the Interior in March, as did "Moby Dick" in 2001. "With 'Moby Dick' there was a focus on subsistence and talking about whaling culture," said Ishmael Hope, who plays...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/100704/thi_onenight.shtml
This WeeK

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