There is no shortage of talented musicians in Anchorage, but sometimes it can take a while to find the right combination of players. In the case of up-and-coming rockers Secondhand Feels, it took a complicated game of seven degrees of separation to finalize their three-piece outfit. “Originally, it was two much older friends and me, but then we lost our drummer, and I found Craig [Lematta] through a friend of a friend of a friend,” laughs Secondhand Feels singer Grant Slama.

Courtesy Photograph In 2017, Dan Redfield and Kristen Fredric welcomed a healthy baby girl into their lives. Apart from being the most beautiful thing either had seen, Ava Rose was remarkably ordinary and in good health. For a year, the happy parents enjoyed the trials of raising a newborn but at her one-year check-up, they received some alarming news. “Her pediatrician said she wasn’t hitting her gross motor skills and developmental benchmarks,” recalls Redfield. At the time