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Designed to delight
New library fuses style and technology

By Jennifer Keese
Special to the Northern Light
Published July 29, 2003

More than 700,000 books are on the move at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Library staff members are preparing for the big move to the new addition of the Consortium Library, scheduled to begin Aug. 11.

The move into the new portion of the library will take approximately two-weeks, according to Stephen Rollins, the dean of the library at UAA. More...

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University sports news

• Hensen adds assistant coach
• Wilderness marathon no match for Schwoerer
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Powerline Pass run tests trail runners

One hundred and twenty runners tested their mettle Saturday in the first ever Powerline Pass trail run. The race, a fund-raiser for the University of Alaska Anchorage ski team, started at the Indian Valley trailhead and finished 11 miles later at the Glen Alps parking lot. More...

RIGHT: The University of Alaska Anchorage Ski team hosted the first-ever Powerline Pass trail run on Saturday, July 26, attracting 120 runners. Runners started at the Indian Valley trailhead and finished at the Glen Alps parking lot.

Summer 101: Part V

Taiji: Relax, go to it Part five in the Northern Light’s Summer 101 series offering readers a beginners perspective on how to get involved in those Alaska activities you’ve never tried, but should.

Kellen Kjera / NL Susan Elkins has been practicing and instructing Taiji in Anchorage for eight years. Taiji is considered one of the oldest forms of martial arts, combining meditation with motion to help students develop their focus and learn how to face conflict. More...

Theater Review
‘Steel Magnolias’ for and about community

By Marissa Palmer
Special to the Northern Light

As Madonna’s “Material Girl” blares over the speakers at Cyrano’s Off Center Playhouse, I’m seated next to a long row of women cradling glasses of white wine and gabbing with each other. It is 10 minutes past the time the Brown Eyed Girls Theater Company’s production of “Steel Magnolias” was supposed to start, and it’s become clear that the audience is going to contribute to the evening’s atmosphere as much as any of the play’s characters might.

“Steel Magnolias,” written by Robert Harling is set entirely in Truvy’s Beauty Salon, a converted carport in Chinquapin Parish, La.

The salon serves as a center of community for the women of the neighborhood, including Truvy, her assistant Annelle, M’Lynn Eatenton and her daughter, Shelby, the widow Clairee and the caustic divorcee Ouiser Budreau. More...