New Chief Fiscal Officer Named for Municipality of Anchorage
ANCHORAGE—Mayor Ethan Berkowitz announced the appointment of Alex Slivka as the Chief Fiscal Officer for the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA).
Slivka comes to the MOA from McKinley Capital Management, LLC, where he served in various leadership capacities. Mr. Slivka has over 35 years of experience in the financial industry and is an active member of a number of community organizations.
He begins full-time employment on October 15.
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The Marx Bros. Café
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Jack Amon and Richard “Van” Hale opened the doors of the Marx Bros. Café on October 18, 1979; however, the two had already been partners in cuisine for some time, having created the Wednesday Night Gourmet Wine Tasting Society and Volleyball Team Which Now Meets on Sunday, a weekly evening of food and wine. It was actually the end of the weekly event that spurred the name of the restaurant: hours after its final service, Amon and Hale were hauling equipment and furnishings out of their old location and to their now-iconic building on Third Street, all while managing arguments about equipment ownership, a visit from the police, and quite a bit of wine. “If you’ve ever seen the movie ‘A Night at the Opera” starring the Marx Brothers, that’s what it was like,” Hale explains.