When we find ourselves in the place Just Right
Ravens are laughing outside my window as I write this. The sun came up at 5:30. A river runs through my city and mountains to […]
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No folly to come up to the Yukon
Five guys are sitting, standing or dressing in this small makeshift room. I’m on the floor, my legs on steps leading back down to my
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Coyote Teaches Us About Love in the Time of Collaring
What I enjoy about Ivan Coyote’s stories is their unwrapped honesty. The book says these are fictional stories, but they seem so much like memoir
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Home, created one piece at a time
I want to spend my life with you Don’t want to live all alone I can’t conceive of the years left in me Without you
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Walks into her life, tips hat, sweeps her off to the Yukon
Vanessa takes me to the Millennium Trail on a sunny afternoon. We smell the heavy aroma of flowers, somewhere, and find the top of a
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More than a devotional (book is insight into community)
Northern Reflections, Desmond Carroll, paintings by Ted Harrison, The cover of Northern Reflections shows an inukshuk and a blazing sun over ice. One of Ted
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New Canadians desire a better country
Canada Day means you can see Canadian citzenship happening in front of you. Outside the Shipyards Park pavilion, bordered by black speakers and rows of
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They chose Whitehorse first
I’m sitting on a rock where Lil’s Place will be in about 14,000 years. I’m thinking about a chocolate shake, but chocolate hasn’t really been
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Believing in the dog
First Prize PSAC Whitehorse Regional Pride Committee Short Story Contest It’s night. A man walks his black lab in the forest — and when the
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She’s not eighteen and scared anymore
I’m back at Lil’s, slurping on another old-fashioned chocolate milkshake. There’s a family in the next booth talking to a young woman at a table.
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No one can shock with such delight
In 1962, it was shocking and titillating. Though the Pulitzer Prize committee handed it a Pulitzer, it was revoked for language, for sexual situations. When
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Round 1 goes to the Guild, and what a fight
4 out of 5 Stars The Guild pulled no punches with its first production of the season, dragging Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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A play without boundaries
After presenting Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, one of the most well-known plays of the post-modern era, the Guild Theatre follows with the world premiere
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Romantic Christmas comedy had a long journey
Patti Flather is sitting at a coffee shop talking about how much fun it is to write strong roles for actors over 40. “There’s just
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Queer Coffee is a community saying hello
I don’t know what I was looking for when I walked into Baked Café for the Queer Coffee, advertised on ArtsNet. I knew I was
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From dress rehearsal to final performance
Jerome recounts his experiences with The Soul Menders, highlighting the transformation from rehearsal to performance.
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Vigils bring people together
In Philadelphia to attend a science-fiction convention, I received an email telling me that a young gay teen, Jorge Lopez Mercado had been dismembered, partially
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Walker’s Laramie Project shows the triumph of community
Clinton Walker, the director brought up from Toronto for The Laramie Project, has made me chili. Little triangles of toasted bread sit next to the
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Avalanche warnings: What you think you know, can kill you
“You can’t read the Avalanche Conditions Report and make it apply to backcountry skiing,” Jennifer Magnuson warns me. She’s the communication analyst for the Department
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Just a big wacky musical about corruption
”It’s a huge show,” Todd Duckworth the director tells me. Twenty people in the cast, four in the band. “When you see 20 people stretched
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The 3rd annual Pivot Festival: Floating, swimming, flying
The Pivot Festival is upon us — and with it comes a huge ton of theatre. You have six shows you can see at multiple
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Ron James shifts comedy paradigm
Ron James used to be the spokesman for Texas tourism for three years on CNN. “It was during George Bush senior’s term. I can imagine
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Nina Arsenault talks about the pursuit of beauty and truth
Nina Arsenault warns me that she’s not about to tell the “typical” transsexual story to Nakai Theatre’s Pivot Festival audiences. You know the story, she
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River Walk Columns appear out of nowhere overnight
How many times had I passed by the columns without seeing them? Joyce Majiski swears she put the columns up two years ago, and yet,
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The Trickster as Bingo Master
Can one Holy Grail of a Bingo Game in Toronto be the answer to the dreams of seven women living on a reserve? Tomson Highway’s
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Epstein leaves, stage right
Eric Epstein and I are sitting in the black box — the creative centre of the Guild Theatre — the room that can become anything,
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The brutal, relentless comedy of The Boys
The Quickie: The Boys is not a feel-good drama, an easy date night play, or a relaxing evening. However, it is outstanding acting and thought-provoking
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Wicked wits of the west spar in Irish black comedy
There are two prizefighters in this ring. And they’ve been going round and round trading off the mantles of victor and victim for too many
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Artistic transitions: McCallum enters, stage left
Katherine McCallum is sitting on the couches of the Guild Hall, the place the audience gathers before a show begins, that place of anticipation. She’s
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Laramie Project delivers stunning ensemble work
I gave Justine Davidson, the theatre reviewer for the Whitehorse Star, a long hug at the end of The Laramie Project, the Guild Society/GALA play.
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Guild goes ‘Into the Woods’ and gets its wish: Magic
This is a solid performance by a great cast. In Into the Woods nearly everything is sung. They pull it off with gusto!
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Stories you’ve never heard, brilliantly told
I went Saturday night to The River, a Nakai production, with Michael Greyeyes directing a play written by David Skelton, Judith Rudakoff and Joseph Tisiga.
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Hazel Venzon embraces the Filipino community
Hazel Venzon is holed up in Porter Creek when she Skypes me. She’s been in Whitehorse since December working on her play. “Vancouver has a
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A Christmas wish for stability, sanity and love
The Soul Menders invites you to witness a touching story of resilience and romance, perfect for the festive season.
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Finding Lil’s Place
I tell everyone I know how good the milkshakes are at Lil’s Place. In one day, they can go through four buckets of chocolate ice
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Midnight Sun is Storytelling Most Unique
Ben Towle’s Midnight Sun takes a reader by surprise. What could be a convoluted, expansive story of a balloon crash in the Arctic, finds instead
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We wanted a community we could call our own
“We were in Pakistan — as ever, saving children,” Martin Crill says at the Baked Café, where the sun has finally come inside. “We believed
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