I noticed rather incongruously that there was a salmon scale plastered on his big black nose. The bear’s head wasn’t the length of five gun barrels away from us. “Can’t shoot — too close,” I whispered ...

From shimmering silver salmon to reflections on impermanence, two new exhibitions at the Bear Gallery invite Fairbanks viewers to explore life’s rhythms through water, memory and transformation.

So when the internet erupts with the age-old Reddit thought experiment — “Could 100 unarmed men beat a silverback gorilla in a fight?” — it isn’t just banter. It’s masculinity’s ...