By Robin Rosemond
Turnagain Times Correspondent
Robin Rosemond/Turnagain Times
The International Market on West 36th Avenue in Anchorage offers fresh Asian produce and an extensive variety of other Asian foods and spices. They also cook up some delicious authentic Korean and other Asian-influenced food for take-out. All an an very affordable price.
Because January and February are our coldest months here in Alaska, friends are encouraging me to stay active and not to isolate which is what people have been known to do in Arctic conditions.
One way to avoid isolation and Cabin Fever is to get out and enjoy winter sports such as ice-skating. There is a golden opportunity to ice skate in Town Square, in downtown Anchorage for free.
Town Square is sporting a lovely ice rink that you, your family, and the entire community can skate on December 31 – Feb. 28. You can glide about Friday evenings from 5-9 p.m. and practice your Double Axle Sundays noon-4 p.m. For more information: 279-5650.
The Anchorage Symphony is presenting Pride of Alaska, Jan. 16, at the Atwood Concert Hall. Experience the Symphony's world premiere of a work commissioned by the ASO's commissioning club and inspired by the Anchorage Museum's Permanent Collection.
They will be projecting images of the collection as the symphony plays their heart out. Plus, Alaskan-grown double bass virtuoso Paul Sharpe returns to his hometown to perform A Carmen Fantasy for Double Bass and Orchestra. For more information: 263-ARTS.
Cyrano's Off Center Playhouse has a World Premiere opening Jan. 8. Wind Blown and Dripping, is an highly anticipated, exciting two-act drama written by Alaska journalist and investigative reporter Peter Porco. Wind Blown and Dripping is fiction inspired by famous mystery writer Dashiell Hammett's WWII years when he was the editor of a soldier's newspaper in the Aleutian Islands. Hammett fights segregation in the U.S. Army and sexual blackmail. Come watch as he comes up against a racist; corrupt mob and his own limitations.
The preview is Thursday, Jan. 7 and plays Jan. 8-24. PAC Box Office, 263-ARTS. You can also purchase tickets two hours before the show at Cyrano's.
In my eternal search for healthy, reasonably priced, gourmet food, I found International Market. International Market is an Asian grocery specialty store that sits discreetly in a strip mall, looking like any other mini-mart in mid-town.
The market is usually filled with shoppers, color, culture, and it reminds me of my younger days in New York City where there were many Asian specialty stores all over the five boroughs. International Market is family owned and operated, offers unique food items from around the world, and has delicious home cooked food to go.
When you enter the bustling marketplace you get an eye full of imported dry goods, fresh fruits, vegetables, tofu, duck eggs, quail eggs, and many exotic ingredients I can't pronounce, or identify. You can get dizzy with all the choices, and being surrounded by people speaking Vietnamese can be intimidating, but if you get past the small, cultural hurdles, you can score delicious treats that are impossible to find in any standard grocery stores. 601 West 36th Avenue #8, 561-5755.
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