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ISSUE 1: January 9
Bill O' Fare
ISSUE 2: January 16
Sometimes You Need To Dance
ISSUE 3: January 23
Some Things Foreign and Strange
ISSUE 4: January 30
I Got The Baby!
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ISSUE 5: The Krewe of Gambrinus
EDITOR'S NOTE: There is just no doubt that Mardi Gras in Alaska was no more than a reason for a bar to throw a party until Karen Berger and Steve McCasland showed up in Homer bringing with them a rich tradition. Over the years, a host of traditions grew and flourished until now, Kings and Queens dot the landscape and the Krewe of Gambrinus is a regular in the Homer Winter Carnival parade. This issue is devoted to the little New Orleans of Homer and it's Krewe of Rex, the Krewe of Gambrinus. And we ask the question, just who the heck is this Gambrinus guy? Enjoy!
-- Aileen McInnis, Editor
Featured Writing
"Mardi Gras, Homer Style" by Karen Berger and Jennifer King
They do Mardi Gras up big and wild in Homer. And the Krewe of Gambrinus, pioneered out of the Homer Brewing Company run by Karen Berger and Steve McCasland, is the heart of the celebration. It's gone from cooking up mess-o-crawfish in 1995 to cooking up a full blown New Orleans-style brass band for the Homer Winter Carnival Parade in 2007. Karen, with the creative haiku of Jennifer King, gives a short history of an ever growing tradition.
"When the Saints Go Marching In" by Aileen McInnis
King Gambrinus is considered the unofficial Patron Saint of beer and brewers. But who is the official one? And while we are on the subject, who is considered to be the Patron Saint of Mardi Gras?
If Homer is the little New Orleans of Alaska, it is only right that the Krewe Du Review check out the Little New Orleans Restaurant in Anchorage and its menu bursting with all things Cajun.
COMING FEBRUARY 13, 2007:
Jazz Funeral By Aileen McInnis
There hadn't been a decent funeral in New Orleans since Katrina ripped through the city. But the town would do it right for Tubs. Eustace straightened a bit and peeked out a quarter-size hole in the cardboard covering up his busted out window. He do it straight for Tubs … he do right by Tubs, just like Tubs had done right by Eustace.
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