We honestly, seriously, really, didn't know when we planned our annual work/fun trip to Sin City that it would coincide with the Adult Video News Expo at the Hard Rock Casino's meeting hall. After all, this annual junket is more about a winter getaway than anything else. But when we found ourselves credentialed to the porn and adult novelty show, we knew it would play a prominent role in ...

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February is Film Month for the Sound and Motion Series at the University of Alaska Southeast Auke Lake campus. All events take place on Fridays at 7 p.m. in the Egan Lecture Hall and are free to the public. Feb.

Ben Fogle and his wife return to Portugal's Costa do Sol, where they honeymooned five years ago.

A mouthwatering scent emanates from the dark, velvety oxtail stew bubbling away on the braai in the middle of our camp. I'm sitting at an Out of Africa-style outdoor table laid with white china, silver cutlery and hurricane lamps in the deep, dramatic interior of the South African bush, the rolling hills and valleys of the Eastern Cape uninterrupted in every direction as far as the eye can see ...

THURSDAY Storytime and crafts, 11 a.m., Douglas library. Details: 586-0434. Juneau People for Peace and Justice weekly meeting, 5:15-6:15 p.m., Northern Light United Church. Everyone welcome. Details: Judith, 789-9229.

Subsistence farmers should be helped to increase yields and find profitable markets, says researcher.