If you’re like me, whenever a new restaurant or other food outlet pops up in town, you have to give it a shot in the hopes of adding a bit of variety to the otherwise monotonous Juneau food scene.
Last night around 8pm, it was suggested I go to Valentine’s and try a gyro. Knowing what [...]

Just wanted to reiterate that the Juneau Vampire was intended to let you, the readers, writers, and thinkers, have a place to share your thoughts on all things Juneau.
If you register to have the ability to comment on Juneau Empire articles, be aware that you can also submit articles to be published on the Juneau [...]

Today the Juneau Empire proclaimed, quite proudly, that it was removing the comment functionality from its website. Citing a lack of manpower to moderate comments and more than hinting at a general dislike for the whole idea, effective today you may no longer comment on stories published in the Juneau Empire.
But guess what. You can [...]

The other day I was thinking of a story I was assigned to read in elementary school meant to illustrate irony, “The Gift of the Magi.” I’m not sure what made me think of it, but I was intrigued by how it was simultaneously unfortunate, tragic, and humorous.
Last night, with that sort of tragic, humorous [...]

We’ll keep this our little secret and not tell Delta, American Airlines, or any of those other airlines in the struggling industry.
Because if we told them that we pay up to three times “normal Lower 48 ” rates just to travel from Juneau to Seattle, they might be interested in this little Southeast gold mine. [...]

The power went out in Juneau today. Again. Here’s the explanation, courtesy of KINY:
Juneau was struck by an areawide power outage this afternoon when the line to Snettisham tripped off when an avalanche knocked down a tower that was among those knocked off last April 16th.
The power went out at about 1:51 p.m. and was [...]

Way back when, as a child, I’d sometimes watch TV shows about UFOs like Unsolved Mysteries or some random documentary about UFO sightings. Of course, these shows never presented any solid evidence, relying instead on grainy film and dodgy interviews.  Still, I thought it was neat that there was the possibility that this unexplainable stuff [...]

I have to say that I appreciate Ms. Mother Nature handing Juneau a bunch of snow to start the new year off right. It actually feels like winter, which I suppose offsets the dismally rainy and cloudy summer we had. The City & Borough of Juneau is doing a great job keeping up with snow [...]

I’ve eaten sushi in Minneapolis, I’ve eaten sushi in Phoenix, I’ve even eaten sushi in Helsinki, Finland. I’ve eaten a lot of sushi: rolls, nigiri, raw, cooked, good, bad, homemade, you name it. All this and I only started eating sushi within the last five years or so!
In all this sushi eating, the best sushi [...]

Something is rotten in the city of Juneau.
No, seriously.
I just got back from a week out of town and upon my return, on the drive from the airport to downtown, it hit me. That kind of indescribable but instantly familiar reek. I have to turn to a Fat Bastard quote from the movie Austin Powers [...]