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Lindarae Shearer of Metlakatla is one of Sealaska Heritage Institute's featured artists this First Friday in Juneau. Shearer, who is Tsimshian, makes abalone and silver jewelry, cedar bark baskets, and skin care products made with devil's club and other Southeast Alaskan ingredients.

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First Friday listings in Juneau

Featured Artist: jewelry designer Carol White The Bear’s Lair Senate Mall building (175 S. Franklin St.), first floor,…

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Writers’ Weir: Three poems on heroin

HEROIN   You thief of dreams steal with your tricks of illusion giving one dream at the price…

Liz Snyder and Alex Kotlarsz perform as the Wool Pullers at the 41st Annual Alaska Folk Festival at Centennial Hall in 2015. They've just released their first album.

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Review: The Wool Pullers’ debut album

The Wool Pullers’ unique spin on the songwriters’ genre is a far cry from the tourist-pandering folk music…

Chilkat weaver Anna Brown Ehlers and her apprentice Darrell J. Harmon add fringe to the diving whale blanket at the Alaska State Museum's conservation lab on Sept. 28.

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Bringing a century-old Chilkat robe back to life

The Alaska State Museum broke new ground this year — not on the new building, but inside it,…

Red mountain ash berries stand out against a blue shed.

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Art in Unusual Places

The Capital City Weekly welcomes reader-submitted images of art in unusual or unexpected places. Photographers of all levels…

Helen Alten and Tim Huber of Haines celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in 2014.

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Former Empire reporter rebuilds life, mobility, language after stroke

Five years ago this June, Tim Huber’s life changed in a big way. Huber, a former Juneau Empire…

Necklaces made from burl pieces at Rainforest Custom.

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Making furniture with a unique cartography

Each piece at Rainforest Custom tells a story. The day I visited Dean Graber’s woodworking shop in the…

Loading the boat. The computer was one of three that some non-homeless person threw down the hill into the water.

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Woodshed Kings: Homeless Camp is pass/fail

Juneau’s got the Boy Scout Camp, Methodist Camp, Running Camp, 4-H Camp, Discovery Camp, Bible Camp, Science Camp,…

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Juneau zine seeks submissions

JUNEAU — A local zine, MYTH, with new editions out the first of each month, is seeking poetry…

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Gathering Alaska: Bog cranberries

Editor’s note: This is the last of Corinne Conlon’s foraging columns for the year. “Gathering Alaska” will return to…

The cross-hatched area is closed to goat hunting, starting Tuesday night.

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Goat hunting closure

Effective 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced an early closure of the middle…

Friends of the Poor Walk participants raise money for St. Vincent de Paul.

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Thank you for caring for the poor of our community

The Friends of the Poor Walk, the annual fundraiser for the St. Vincent de Paul Society, was a…

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Recent births

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital • A daughter, Lucy Eleanor Poff, weighing 6 lbs. 15 oz., was…

Amy O'Neill Houck (Perseverance Theatre's Director of Marketing & Engagement) facilitates a post-show Question & Answer session with the cast of Peter and The Starcatcher and Juneau Girl Scouts, their friends and families.

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Girl Scouts thank Perseverance Theatre

Thank you Perseverance Theatre for a great Girl Scout event. Thank you and the cast of Peter and…

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A Family Promise thank you

Family Promise of Juneau would like to thank the following businesses and individuals for making our Halibut Catty…

The Alaska Brewing Co. recently celebrated their 30th anniversary at Mount Robert's Tramway where 500 people showed up. The silent auction at the event raised $3,000 for the brewery's non-profit partner this year, the Juneau chapter of the National Alliance for Mental Health.

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Photo: Alaska Brewing Co. celebrates 30 years

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Senior Menu

Juneau Senior Center Menu Monday, Oct. 3 Pork Chop Suey Rice Spinach Salad with Mandarin Oranges Tuesday, Oct.…

Guy Unzicker.

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Guy About Town: Happy SAD!

Hello, all. It’s SAD season again. No, I wasn’t saying “sad” extra loud — it’s the time of…

Butch and Janice Holst celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary on Sept. 30, 2016.

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Holsts celebrate 55th anniversary

Butch and Janice Holst will celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary on Sept. 30. The couple was married at…

Quiet Defiance: Alaska's Empty Chair Story will be released during First Friday, Oct. 7 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Mendenhall Valley Public Library, and on Saturday, Oct. 8 from 10:30 a.m.-noon at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum. Complimentary copies available.

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Local writer chronicles Juneau’s Japanese-American incarceration

“How do you put your life in a suitcase and leave?” That was the question the Japanese-Americans of…