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Your weekend guide: A family fair, a 5K run and more

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Your weekend guide: A family fair, a 5K run and more

Here’s what’s happening this week.

Backyard glaciers: They’re still here, but they’re retreating

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Backyard glaciers: They’re still here, but they’re retreating

“I was born of ice.”

Museum combines sweet treats and grisly crimes, Sitka earns grant and library plans new event

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Museum combines sweet treats and grisly crimes, Sitka earns grant and library plans new event

Capital City Weekly news in brief.

Here’s what the Juneau Empire and Capital City Weekly writers watched, read, heard and played this year. (Courtesy Photos | Unsplash)

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Staff Picks: Here’s what we read, played, listened to and saw in 2019

Did “Cats” make the list?

About 50 artists stand with their work in front of the Sealaska Heritage Institute on Tuesday, July 9, 2019, to protest heavy cuts to state arts programs. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

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The 5 biggest arts stories of 2019

The near-vetoes, protests and more that made the year.

Anastasia Hobson-George, right, works with weaver Lily Hope as the Artist-in-Residence at the Walter Soboleff Center in May 2019. Hobson-George is one of the youngest-ever winners of a Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award. Applications for the awards are now open. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

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Rasmuson Foundation accepts artist award applications, the city museum receives an art donation and more

News briefs for the week of Dec. 19, 2019.

Toby Russell, stars as Buddy the Elf, during rehearsal of “Elf the Musicial” at Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

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‘Elf’-centered: JDHS brings musical based on hit movie to its stage

What’s your favorite color?

Juneau performers will rock the mic before Wu-Tang rapper

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Juneau performers will rock the mic before Wu-Tang rapper

Local talent gets chance at big stage.

Photos: Take a peek at ‘Elf the Musical’

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Photos: Take a peek at ‘Elf the Musical’

JDHS students will take the stage this weekend.

Vivian Mork teaches harvesting of devil’s club in Wrangell years ago. ( Vivian Mork | For the Capital City Weekly)

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Planet Alaska: Winter Medicine

Tea-ing off on cold season.

Julia O’Malley, food journalist, has a new book out that was co-published by the University of Washington Press and the Anchorage Museum. (Courtesy Photo | Nathaniel Wilder)

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New books tells stories about Alaska’s singular food culture

Here, food is more than fuel.

Your Weekend Guide: Choirs, concerts ski training and more

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Your Weekend Guide: Choirs, concerts ski training and more

Here’s what’s happening this week.

Wayne Price, associate professor of Northwest Coast art and Tlingit artist, and student Kaytlynne Lewis pose with their paddles at a recent Northwest Coast arts showcase. (Courtesy Photo | Davina Cole)

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Northwest Coast arts showcase draws a crowd, scholarships available, Alaska Pacific University looks for a new president

News briefs for the week of Dec. 12, 2019.

Crystal clear: Subsistence and tradition influence new exhibition at city museum

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Crystal clear: Subsistence and tradition influence new exhibition at city museum

Worl’s whirlwind world shapes her work.

Your weekend guide: a tourism talk, a robotics tournament and live music and art

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Your weekend guide: a tourism talk, a robotics tournament and live music and art

Here’s what’s happening this week.

Gallery Walk offers snapshot of Juneau arts

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Gallery Walk offers snapshot of Juneau arts

Gallery Walk on the wild side.

Holiday pops, a Gallery Walk street closure and a New Years Eve party announced

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Holiday pops, a Gallery Walk street closure and a New Years Eve party announced

News briefs for the week of Dec. 5, 2019.

Juneau Dance Theatre freshens up a classic

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Juneau Dance Theatre freshens up a classic

‘The Nutcracker’ is back with a new coat of paint.

People gather on Front Street during Gallery Walk on Friday, Dec. 7, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

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Your Guide to Gallery Walk 2019

It’s the biggest Friday Friday of the year.

Jackson Pearson learns to harvest porcupine quills in Wrangell. (Vivian Faith Prescott | For the Capital City Weekly)

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Planet Alaska: Gifts from the porcupine

Looking sharp.