Anchorage Folk Festival finds community ties through music

There is an entire week in Anchorage devoted to combining performing and learning traditional and original sounds of folk. The Anchorage Folk Festival, not to be confused with the Alaska Folk Festival held in Juneau, has brought the folk community together since the first festival in 1990.

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Dogs Gone Wild

Real dogs - uncensored, uncut and out of control! Get your mind out the pooper scooper, people. It's not pooch porn, it's Alaska's only flyball team. Flyball is a team sport for dogs. Essentially, it's a hurdles relay race for Spot. Two teams of four dogs race down a 51-foot stretch to a box with a ball in it. Full Story

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Lupe Fiasco too 'Cool' to get caught up in materialism

Lupe is killin' it. "Food and Liquor" was hot; "The Cool" is fire. He didn't have much time to do it, but somehow, between albums, Lupe Fiasco became a beast on the mic. Collectively the beats are more creative and of higher quality than he's had before. For every good line on Lupe Fiasco's first album, there's a great verse on his second. Full Story

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New ID rules may complicate air travel

WASHINGTON - Millions of air travelers may find going through airport security much more complicated this spring, as the Bush administration heads toward a showdown with state governments over post-Sept. 11 rules for new driver's licenses. By May, the dispute could leave millions of people unable to use their licenses to board p***s, but privacy advocates called that a hollow threat by federal officials. Full Story

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Minnesota man finds his AWOL wallaby CHAMPLIN, Minn. - Dave Carlson says the police in this north-metro suburb thought he was joking when he called to report that his wallaby went AWOL. "And then they wanted to know what a wallaby was," he said. "I explained it was like a kangaroo, but smaller. Full Story

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