Glenn BurnSilver
Features writer
Call Glenn at 907-459-7510.
Glenn BurnSilver is a journalist with almost 30 years experience, specializing in music, entertainment, beer, outdoor sports, pop culture and, more recently, Alaskana. Glenn is a former music, entertainment and associate editor for a variety of Lower 48 newspapers and magazines, and remains a contributing editor with several publications. He comes to Fairbanks by way of Colorado, his home and playground during the past 24 years.
Recent Stories
- Locally produced skateboarding, snowboarding film premieres tonight
- Friday, Oct. 23, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — Skateboarding is not a crime, and a group of local amateur filmmakers aim to prove it with the showing of “High Five!” tonight at Eagles Hall.
- Paperback Hero brings rocker sound to The Blue Loon
- Friday, Oct. 23, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — Everything seems so right about Paperback Hero. The band hails from Los Angeles, has that brawny tough but loveable look, plays radio-friendly modern rock that is heavy-ish but not challenging and has secured deals that have their music playing on television shows, airplanes and in the bathrooms of cinema multiplexes across the United States.
- Fairbanks’ Boss Hogg barbecue team heads to national grilling event
- Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
- When it comes to good barbecue, there is no right way or wrong way, only the winning way.
- The history of Samson Hardware
- Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — It survived floods, earthquakes, near fires, boom-to-bust times and 105 years of brutal winters, but one of Fairbanks’ oldest establishments —Samson Hardware just off Cushman Street— proved no match for the yellow excavator that leveled it the morning of Oct. 8.
- Teen idol still crooning the hits 50 years later
- Friday, Oct. 16, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — It’s a talent that very well might never have surfaced.
- The drive for compassion and understanding
- Friday, Oct. 16, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — “How I Learned to Drive” is a play about an inappropriate relationship between uncle and niece, but humor and the humanity of the two characters allows audience compassion.
- Shakespeare-quoting zombies bring undead theater to life
- Friday, Oct. 16, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — Shakespeare and zombies — sounds like a marriage made in hell.
- Work was never such a good time
- Friday, Oct. 16, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — Need an excuse to get out of the house tonight, but don’t want to be obvious about your intentions? Since Fairbanks lacks a bar called The Library or some other “decoy” establishment, well, just tell that significant other, “I’m going to Work,” and leave before those quizzical looks begin.
- Battery plays tribute to Metallica
- Friday, Oct. 9, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — Typically, most tribute bands are playing someone else’s music because they can’t get their own act together. Battery, the “Masters of Metallica,” however, is the story of a good band looking for a creative way to get signed.
- Comedian brings high times to Fairbanks
- Friday, Oct. 9, 2009
- Doug Benson is a stoner. He’s the first to admit it, but he has also turned his passion into a creative career as a stand-up comic, playwright and filmmaker.
Recent Photos
- Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009
- A polar bear moves near a collection of driftwood and whale bones on Barter Island, near Kaktovik, Alaska.
- Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009
- A polar bear roars to assert its dominance among a crowd of bears near a bowhead whale carcass.
- Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009
- Two polar bears feed on the carcass of a bowhead whale near Kaktovik, Alaska.
- Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009
- A crowd of polar bears feed on the carcass of a bowhead whale near Kaktovik, Alaska, as a flock of seabirds swarms around them.
- Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009
- A polar bear loafs on the shore of the Beaufort Sea as two others play with the body of a seabird at the waterline.
