Object/Runway fashion show

More than 50 artists from Alaska and beyond contributed to the International Gallery of Contemporary Art’s Object/Runway fashion show at The Anchor Pub last Saturday. The garments are now all installed at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art (427 D St.) and will be on display until Feb. 27. .

Object/Runway contestants

Flip through portraits of the models displaying their garments in the Object/Runway fashion show.

Paratroopers return from Afghanistan

Paratroopers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division were welcomed home to Fort Richardson Sunday morning. They came back from a year long deployment in Afghanistan.

SLIDESHOW

Packraft Polo

The Alaska Kayak Academy recently began offering packraft polo games in the Bartlett High pool.

Back from Kosovo

Alaska Army National Guard soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment, were reunited with friends and family at the Alaska National Guard armory at Camp Denali on Fort Richardson on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, after a year-long deployment where they supported peacekeeping and peace enforcement missions in Kosovo.

Honoring the Veterans

Lt. Col. Marc Hoffmeister, who was injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2007, gave the keynote address during a Veterans and Remembrance Day ceremony in the Alaska National Guard armory at Fort Richardson on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2009. Canadian Forces from Elmendorf AFB held a Remembrance Day ceremony at the Fort Richardson National Cemetery.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW: ALASKA EXCURSIONS

Coastline at the edge of Anchorage

Frozen ground with no snow means much of the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge is accessible to walkers. Explore the shoreline southwest of the city in this Excursion.

More excursions

A Marriage in Every State

New York City-based artist Maria Yoon performed a wedding ceremony with help from Emil Churchin, who stood in as her momentary husband, at Kincaid Park on Saturday, December 26, 2009. This was the 43rd "wedding" Yoon has participated in - each in a different state - as part of her project called "Maria the Korean Bride." Yoon said the performance project began as a way to rebel against the expectations of her parents, but evolved over 8 years to be a study into how Americans view marriage and love. The project will be edited into a documentary, she says.

Flight Back to Anchorage

Retired doctor Bill Compton recently completed his seventh round-trip flight to the Hawaiian islands when he returned to Merrill Field in Anchorage on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. Compton was injured in a motorcycle accident eight years ago and he thought that was the end of his flying career. He now uses hand controls to operate the rudder and brakes of his 1966 Beechcraft Bonanza V35TC.