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The Price of Beauty
Alyeska Center for Facial Plastic Surgery and ENT. Dr. Jack Sedwick seems like a cool guy and all, but it sounds scary as hell. Not ready to set foot in that door, but Exquisite Skin Esthetics, their...
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Susie Chapstick
I am not a lotions and potions kind of girl, but I have this uneasy feeling that today marks the day that I officially moved into that category.It started out simple enough - shower, which means...
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Things about Dorene you Never Knew, and Never Wanted To
I don't wash my face. I know that sounds odd, but it is true. Not to say that I walk around with a dirty face. I stick it under the nozzle in the shower and give it a good blast, and rub make up...
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Where is the Love?
Dorene Lorenz, Charisse Millett, Bella ColeyI am disappointed by how negative this political season has become, and hope we don’t reward that type of ugly behavior. As a Seward resident, never in a...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly all in one week.
This has been a fast paced week. Whomever complains that there is nothing to do in Alaska between the seasons is lacking in imagination. I was privileged to be chosen to be on the feature film jury...
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Going Skin Deep without a Tongue Bath
Spynx are hairless and creep me out.Microdermabrasion. It's a long word. Actually, it maybe a couple words that I just say together really fast as if they were one. I'm not really sure. It means...
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All Toned Up Without 5 Minutes of Working Out
You know, I am kinda enjoying being the "in the know" guy for skin care. Normally, my cousin Kim Kashevarof is the family expert. Her skin is f-l-a-w-l-e-s-s from decades of being kind to it. You...
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Peeling, on Purpose
The only really bad sunburn I recall was when I was in my late teens. Diana Gross, my Chugiak High School debate partner, and I went over to Hawaii on a Mark Air special - not the Captain Bly Standby,...
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Alvin Amason Delights
Alvin Amason mingles at his Alaska House: New York showSugpiaq artist Alvin Amason developed his world view in a remote Unangan village on Kodiak. A somewhat charmed past, for the bold use of color...
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1957 Pioneers of Alaska Grand President Robert DeArmond Passes
DeArmond's Alaska State Flag design contest SubmissionAt age 15, Robert Neil DeArmond of Sitka contributed a design for the flag of Alaska contest in 1927; it is housed in the Alaska State...
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The Skinny on the Skin
It has been a month now since I started paying attention to my skin, and I have made quite a few discoveries.Bella kindly pointing out my Cholesterol Deposits1) Bella loves to see others in pain. She...
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Free Happiness from the Faith of a Stranger
Our Little Angel.You can tell a lot, just by looking at someone. I could tell she was raw, it wasn’t just the eyes that were red from crying. She was fragile, hurt, needing unconditional love.Instead...
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Karma Calling
This move had a lot of promise, but failed to deliver. The storyline is compelling, a Hindi family in New Jersey gets wrapped around an "Its a Small World" theme when the drowning-in-debt father gets...
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The Last Stop [Son Istasyon]
My first experience with Turkish drama was a poetic one, The Last Stop [Son Istasyon]. This beautiful film was intimately shot on location in Istanbul and Usak, Turkey by cinematographer Tolga...
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The Wild Hunt
Exquisite, masterful and compelling. Not the biggest fan of Medieval Times or the Renaissance Fair, but Director/Producer/Co-writer Alexandre Franchi's dramatic tragedy is a cautionary tale so well...
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The Arctic Circle
This stop-motion animation short is Canadian producer/cinematographer Kevin Parry's cautionary tale about greed. In a story as cold as it's arctic setting, it is the little things that demonstrate the...
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Kinyarwanda
There is a humanistic point of view that is rarely reflected on screen, but is celebrated when well executed. It is when we are allowed to discover all that we have in common through the process of...
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Wasted Breath, Relationship Advice from Dorene Lorenz
Q: My longtime girlfriend was diagnosed with MS, and has had several significant attacks this year. We are both in our late 30s. She is wanting to have a child because she heard that being pregnant...
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Wasted Breath, Relationship Advice from Dorene Lorenz
Q: My girlfriend is driving me crazy and I want to break up with her. We are both in our early 20s. I am her first serious boyfriend. We have been dating for just under a year, and the closer we get to...
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Wasted Breath, Relationship Advice from Dorene Lorenz
Q: My husband and I are in our late 30s, and were high school sweethearts. He is the second guy that I have kissed, and the only guy that I have been with. We have had our ups and downs over the...
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