Blue in Green: Public competes with plants to hear duo revive ‘old women’s’ music at Mary-Ann’s Polarrigg
(Dark Season Blues festival blog by Staff Writer Marion Prudhon, 4 p.m. Saturday): No stage here, just two chairs and a...
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Far adrift, yet solidly anchored: Billy T and other longtime Dark Season Blues colleagues liven up lunch at Svalbar
(Festival blog by Staff Writer Marion Prudhon, 1:30 p.m. Friday): "People say we have drifted far from the blues," said William...
Dawn at sunset: First night of 15th Dark Season Blues lights things up as sun bids Svalbard goodbye for four months
(Festival blog by Staff Writer Marion Prudhon, 1:40 a.m. Friday): The sun disappeared from Longyearbyen just a few hours before...
Motherland lode: Barentsburg salutes its workers with food, music and frivolity during annual Miners’ Day party
On a day saluting the work of the miners, all work stopped except for tourism activity – and those poor...
Russian Revelution: Strange invasion from the motherland prompts foreigner to crash 85th birthday party in Barentsburg
Russians are flooding into Longyearbyen in force under very strange circumstances indeed. The bus with the "Barentsburg" decal keeps going...
Rant: Homeless – a very true story about ‘that woman holding all her belongings in a plastic bag’
Most locals have probably seen the cover of the most recent Svalbardposten and know people (or were among them) joking...
