21 #SoAnchorage Holiday Delights: #8, Wintertime Brews
Come my friends, come with me to coffee-nerd forest and let us nerd out together over special brews, exotic brewing methods and beans from faraway continents.
21 #SoAnchorage Holiday Delights: #7, a rink near you + the moon
Within a short walk from my house, there are four places to skate outside. Some of the rinks are lighted, but my favorites are the ones that let you skate in dark, hopefully by moonlight.
21 #SoAnchorage Holiday Delights: #6, not turkey
It isn’t easy to get your hands on a suckling pig, but they work nicely on a holiday table as a surprising and delicious alternative to the usual turkey or grocery-store ham
21 #SoAnchorage Holiday Delights: #5, A Drive-in Movie
A drive-in movie in the Loussac parking lot + a light show from atop a Midtown office building. I don’t know, might be kind of awesome?
For Al Jazeera America: Alaska Muslims raise the roof of state’s first mosque in Anchorage
Six thousand miles from Mecca, Anchorage’s rapidly growing Muslim community worships in a strip mall as the state’s first mosque slowly rises on a South Anchorage lot. (Pictured above: From inside the mosque building, the church next door.)
21 #SoAnchorage Holiday Delights: #4, kiss somebody
This is what mistletoe looks like when somebody is going to kiss you under it. Can’t hurt to have it around.
21 #SoAnchorage Holiday Delights: #3, the nog milkshake
How does holiday nog shine brightest? In milkshake form.
21 #SoAnchorage Holiday Delights: #2 is this ah-mazing radio light display
The yard has lovely light-covered trees and what I might describe as an illuminated spire that points skyward with a star on top. That is cool on its own, but then you tune the radio to 89.9 FM.
21 #SoAnchorage Holiday Delights: Here is #1, Mystery Bike Santa
This year I’m leaning into it: the dark, the gritty city, the unique Alaska holiday vibe. Until solstice, I will post once a day about something wonderful/quirky/magical/delicious/fun that can be experienced here in Anchorage in the dead of winter. (And I am totally open to suggestions.) Here is #1.
