Jenna Schnuer

Anchorage Daily News: Singer-songwriter Annie Bartholomew Shares Stories of Gold Rush Women on 'Sisters of White Chapel'

“Alaskan Storyteller.” That’s the phrase Juneau-based Annie Bartholomew uses to describe herself on her website. Simple and to the point but way too modest.

Just one round of listening to Bartholomew’s first album makes that clear. “Sisters of White Chapel,” which tells the stories of the women who did sex work during the Klondike gold rush, was released earlier this month. The life stories woven into the album’s nine songs took Bartholomew several years to research and write.

Read the story on the ADN website.

Rolling Stone: Jack White Opens Acoustic Tour With Surprise Show in AlaskaApril 21, 2015

Nashville residents know the feeling of entering an intimate concert space filled with world-class musicians and a shared sense that something special is about to happen. This, however, was Anchorage, Alaska, on a Monday night—the location for the first of five surprise acoustic shows that Jack White is performing in states where he's never previously toured, effectively bringing the best of his adopted hometown out to the far-reaches of the United States.

Read the rest of my concert report on RollingStone.com.

National Geographic Traveler: A Fair to RememberJuly/Aug 2011

The Ferris wheel awaits. This charticle serves up the Blue Ribbon goods on five State Fairs. Pick up the July/Aug issue of Traveler to find out the best place to eat candy buckeyes, which fair serves reindeer sausage, and where you can meet Bardo the Clown.

American Way: Guesswork-Free GiftingDecember 15, 2009

Does it seem as though your loved one owns every CD and DVD known to man? Follow our easy-to-use guide to find the perfect present for the entertainment buff in your life.

Get in the flow on the American Way site.

American Way: It's a Hard Rock LifeDecember 15, 2008

There's no doubt that music fans enjoy telling tales of their favorite rock gods' outrageous behavior as much as they love listening to those artists' tunes. But flip open to almost any page of Lost Genius, a biography by Kevin Bazzana (recently released in paperback) about twentieth-century piano prodigy Ervin Nyiregyházi, and you’ll find that rockers didn’t invent the bad-boy thing. We take a look at Lost Genius as well as three other recent memoirs and biographies to see which musicians have really earned their reputations.

Read the chart(toppers).

American Way: Hitting the Clubs with Alice Cooper (So to Speak)November 15, 2007

Alice Cooper snickers while telling the story of his onstage midair skewering of a doll thrown from the audience, done with a sword formerly owned by Errol Flynn. Moments later, I'm standing just a few feet away from the original shock rocker as he raises another potential instrument of death and prepares to whack away at a small object. But instead of aiming for my head, Cooper sends a dimpled golf ball sailing out over a grassy expanse, courtesy of a highly polished titanium driver and a powerful but elegant swing.

It's my first lesson in a good golf swing. To be honest, it’s my first golf lesson of any kind — and from Alice Cooper, no less.

Read the profile on the American Way site.

American Way: Jingle All the WayJune 1, 2007

For one week each year, the male half of the Today show's anchor team dashes around the globe, inviting viewers to figure out where in the world Matt Lauer is. But a task far more challenging than Lauer's exausting jet-setting ways rests squarely on the viewers: Just try to keep the series' theme song from sticking in your head. That's called a sonic brand, and it comes courtesy of 615 Music, a company in Nashville that started writing advertising jingles for local companies in 1984 and which now crafts theme music and songs for companies and TV shows in 30 countries.

American Way: All That Glitters Goes Way Beyond GoldMarch 1, 2005

While everybody else oohed and aahed, rodeo couture designer Manuel and his son, Manuel Jr., giggled. Standing in his workroom with visitors all around, the designer had just flipped the switch on a tiny power pack that was attached to a pair of black wool gabardine pants decorated with rhinestones, intricate silver embroidery--and tiny light bulbs. "You need humor to do everything," says Manuel.

That humor--along with impeccable tailoring and quite a bit of fashion and music history--is on display at Nashville's Frist Center for the Visual Arts.

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