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A man who is walking around the world is in Juneau through the weekend. Norio Sasaki is from Kyoto, Japan, and has been on the road for a while.

Last weekend, some 40 Alaskans journeyed down to Louisiana for the Blackpot music and food festival.

The Juneau Symphony season premieres this weekend with a performance called “New Beginnings.” It will be Troy Quinn’s first shows as the symphony’s new conductor.

The proposed ordinance specifies where marijuana can be grown, processed and sold. A moratorium on marijuana businesses expires at the end of the year.

Watch Rebecca File and Annie Bartholomew of Fairbanks’ experimental psych-folk band Harm perform in this Red Carpet Concert.

“It sounds so aggressive, the idea of a poetry slam. But it’s actually kind of been dubbed the friendliest competition in town,” says Woosh Kinaadeiyi Poetry Grand Slam co-founder Christy NaMee Eriksen.