MY COLUMN: My Brother as a TV Star?

(Capital City Weekly open to my column, in the observation lounge of the M/V Columbia)

​I probably should have done this a long time ago, but I just realized I should have a category for people to go to that will lead them to my column. I'll put up brief posts that summarize what the column is about and put a link at the bottom.

What gave me the idea was my recent trip to Juneau. Everywhere I went I came across the paper that my column appears in, Capital City Weekly. It was at the hotel, the jet airlines, floatplane airlines, a sporting goods store, and on the ferry itself. At one point, I came across one issue open to my column. It was an odd experience that I'm still hashing over.

(Copies of Capital City Weekly on the ferry)

​My most recent column "Casting the Panhandle" was about a major television production company that's been working to put together a "documentary series" (as opposed to a schlock-filled, scripted reality TV show) that focuses on people living subsistence lifestyles in Southeast Alaska. My oldest brother Jamie was someone the multiple award-wining producer came out by floatplane to possibly recruit.

(Two producers of the internationally famous production company getting their gear together to get on the floatplane after interviewing and giving my brother Jamie a film test.)

You can read all about it at: http://juneauempire.com/capitalcityweekly/ccw-columns/2018-06-20/alaska-real-casting-panhandle

For all of my columns: http://juneauempire.com/tara-neilson

(Jamie and my dad--on the right side of the dock--in their respective skiffs waiting for the propane man to show up in Thorne Bay and discussing Jamie's possible future as a TV star.)