There'll be no lassos at the Bike Rodeo this Saturday, but there will be helmets, an obstacle course, and some greased-up bike mechanics. The Bike Rodeo for kids will be the first in Sitka since 2019. Sponsored by a coalition of local...

Free jazz performances will be held all around Sitka next week, presented by professional and student musicians participating in an intensive workshop called Sitka Jazz Week. Twelve music students from Mt. Edgecumbe High School, professional...

Four local artists are inviting Sitka partygoers to dive into the depths of electronic dance music at an underwater-themed EDM concert Saturday evening at the Sitka Fine Arts Camp's Odess Theater. The "Submersion Rave" is a first for Sitka, and...

A lineup of jazz concerts performed by professionals and students alike is planned for the third annual Sitka Jazz Week, coordinated and produced by professional bass player Christian Fabian. Starting Monday, August 25 and through the remainder...

Texas musicians Carolyn Wonderland and Shelley King will headline the first-ever Sitka Blues Festival on the Sitka Fine Arts Camp lawn Saturday, sharing the event with local groups Slacktide and BellyMeat, kids games, food and drinks. The...

A musician, a mage, a brawler and a thief walk into a tavern, and a few weeks later the same unlikely adventurers are dodging dragons and searching for treasure as they seek to prevent the machinations of a power-drunk sorcerer. That story is...

Experienced music theater actor Kaden Traxler, 18, is used to putting on his pants one leg at a time, just like everybody else. For the next two days, though, he's doing it one tentacle at a time.  Traxler plays Squidward in “The SpongeBob...

Two concerts this weekend will give Sitkans a taste of high-quality trumpet performance, as students and renowned professionals here this week for the Ictus International Trumpet Seminar take the stage. The first concert, at 7 p.m. Friday at St....

Dinners, trips, artwork, clothing and services are on the auction block in a Sitka Fine Arts Camp fundraiser to “raise the roof” - or rather replace the roof - of Richard H. Allen Memorial Hall, the home of Odess Theater. The auction closes at 11...

Liz Chikayaasix̂ Morrow, a relief print maker and acrylic painter of Unangax̂ descent, set up a workstation in the entryway of the Sheldon Jackson Museum this morning and began carving the image of a woman in a kelp forest into a linoleum...

A number of Sitka events are set for Flag Day on Saturday, which coincides this year with the U.S. Army 250th Birthday Parade and Festival slated for the National Mall in Washington, D.C., as well as President Donald J. Trump’s 79th...

Almost 3,000 miles away from the heartland of American bluegrass music, Grammy-winning musicians Mark and Maggie O’Connor will play their unique blend of folk and classical styles to an almost sold-out audience at Centennial Hall tomorrow night,...

A vocal concert “Mina Keeps Singing,” featuring Mina Brooks-Schmidt, will be performed 7 p.m. tonight at Odess Theater on the SJ Campus. Born and raised in Sitka, Brooks-Schmidt just completed her junior year of vocal performance at Carnegie...

Local arcade game aficionado Scott Bowen performed surgery on multiple pinball machines this week ahead of the opening Friday morning of the new Flipside Arcade at 322 Lincoln Street that features 40 pinball and 25 other video game consoles...

Porch Fest, the annual street festival in downtown Sitka on Saturday, will celebrate Sitka artists, art in all its forms and - perhaps most of all - community. “My favorite thing about Porch Fest is the sense of community, just being able to be...

The annual Sitka Salmon Derby kicks off Saturday and will draw local angers of all ages to pursue king salmon in the waters around town in search of prizes or fame, but foul weather is in the offing, with rain and wind expected through the holiday...

FRIDAY Noon AA, St. Peter’s basement, call AA hotline 907-747-8866 for information  1-4 p.m. Portable Southeast Art Exhibit, Performing Arts Center 1:30 p.m. Bingocize, Swan Lake Senior Center 5:30 p.m. NA Meeting, St. Peter’s Church...

THURSDAY 6-8 p.m. ‘‘The Sitka Etoughffee-Off,’’ Sitka Lutheran Church kitchen, 907 747-9440 6 p.m. Sitka Tourism Commission, Harrigan Centennial Hall 6:30 p.m. An evening of poetry, poet Shauna Potocky, Sitka Public Library 6:30 p.m. Women’s...

WEDNESDAY 6-8 a.m. MEHS Aquatic Center Pool Open  11-2 Salvation Army Little Store open Noon White Elephant Shop open Noon AA, St. Peter’s basement, call AA hotline 747-8866 for information  Noon STA Tribal Council, via...