By early 1982, Anchorage authorities were aware that something was wrong in their fair city. Something dreadfully wrong. Seven dancers…
We’re inching deeper into 2022 and what a year it’s turning out to be. To kick off the year, Open Road…
As Anchorage historian David Reamer notes, the first big turn in the B-girl universe took place just after midnight on…
The city of Gary, Indiana, is famously name-checked in the Broadway musical, The Music Man. Okay, maybe that’s a dated…
The first hint that B-girls were in for trouble came in 1957. Alaska statehood was still two years away (the…
The B-girl worked bars and clubs throughout the thirties, forties and into the fifties. She was not, officially, a sex-worker.…
All these years later, my heart still registers a skip and a bump when I think of the aftereffects of…
By June of 1983, several Anchorage strip joints were in jeopardy. One Fourth Avenue club had its license revoked. Another’s…
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