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More than 80 Rubik’s Cube solvers converged on downtown Anchorage for the Up in the North competition, which had doubled in size since the last event in 2019.

Alaskan Tallie Medel, who played a key supporting role in the hit film and best picture winner “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” is working on a screenplay about their hometown featuring dance and comedy.

Zines (essentially DIY small-batch booklets) are famously counterculture, and some may balk at the idea of a commercial marketplace. To that organizers say: zines change constantly, and zine fairs can too.

In Middle Spenard, the Pavement's Full of Possibilities

You hoist wooden spoons in the air and smile politely. “Look into each other,” Nina commands. She means “gaze into your date’s eyes,” but in her Russian-inflected English, words have a way of coming out upside-down. Which is how you’ll feel after a night in Nina’s kitchen. If you barely know your dinner date, maybe … Continue reading Date Night in ‘Old Russia’

For many urban Alaskans, weekends are for peeling out of town, capturing drool-worthy Instagram posts and screeching into the office parking lot Monday morning smelling like a campfire. And for others, weekends are for getting a beer. Surely there’s an overlap here. So whether or not you’re escaping into the wilderness next weekend, why not … Continue reading Grab a beer in Christmas country

Raphael Jimmy, age 91, and Vivian, age 87, both grew up in the Yukon Delta but didn't meet until the day of their arranged marriage. Two years ago they formed Kuigpagmiut, a dance group to share their love of song and dance.

Beer, art and business blend together for Scott, who has worked as a full-time artist for nearly nine years. Together with his wife and business partner Maria, the duo are tackling their largest challenge to date. It’s a new year’s resolution with a following—release a new beer portrait every day for an entire year.

Shannon L. Brown has been writing since her student days, when she helped launch the campus newspaper. After a long career writing for various magazines, she recently published her first book, a children's mystery novel called 'The Feather Chase.'