Fun Fair tips by Nash and Thayer
What are those? “Whiffle balls.” What are they for? “Tic-Tac-Toe.” Five-year-old Nash Battersby is about to school me in the art of winning prizes at
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Darrell Hookey
Darrell Hookey was the first editor for What’s Up Yukon from 2005–2010. Starting in 2015, upon his return to Yukon, Darrell has rejoined the team as a freelance contributor.
Captain Neely leaves the ship
Tamara Neely, the stalwart editor of What’s Up Yukon since October 2012, is having a kid. As assistant editor, I’ve watched her grow rounder month-by-month
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A guest column: The Yukon’s peaceful, easy feeling
by the Globe and Mail‘s Gary Mason A couple of years ago, I flew to Whitehorse for the opening of the Canada Winter Games. Prime
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The long and the short of it
“Jesus wept.” That is the shortest verse in the Bible and one of the most powerful. It has a subject and a verb, and that’s
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Journalists should examine themselves
Guest Column by Tammy Beese I agree with some of the points made by Darrell Hookey in his column last week, “It’s worth the paper
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Another Mack attack
To the Editor, Hookey, you fiendish, fiendly fiend. Like an anarchic CBC host maliciously injecting a noxious ear worm such as Seasons in the Sun
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The editor’s Christmas Wish List
Over a mug of root beer, the editor of What’s Up Yukon, Darrell Hoo key, extols his particular Christmas Wish List. Topping the list, Wish
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From the publisher’s desk
Time flies when you’re having fun! Our goal at What’s Up Yukon has always been to be a true reflection of Yukon’s living culture. Before
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We would like to share this award with all of you
It is with your support these past years that our community entertainment magazine has grown to what it is today. We didn’t create the events,
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Mommas, don’t let your babies grow up to be Darrell
I met an expectant mother the other day and I asked if they had picked out a name yet. When she said, no, they haven’t,
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In praise of the community paper
With the departure of What’s Up Yukon founding editor Darrell Hookey, last week (may he live out his retirement never again checking for typos), it
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Reid Parent – artist, mentor, friend
Laughter, tears, dancing and push-ups. The celebration was just how Reid Curtis Parent would have wanted it, as if his spirit were guiding us. To
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Hate to say I told you so
In September of 2008, I was working construction in Edmonton when the bottom fell out of the economy. There were a few workers on my
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Getting the ‘keys’ to the Carhartts
When the good folks at What’s Up Yukon asked me to fill in for their editor, Darrell Hookey, during his well-deserved honeymoon vacation, two things
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Historic contest in pictures and words
The Heritage Places Poster and Photo Contest allowed Yukoners to express themselves creatively, a challenge taken on wholeheartedly by many
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He Paved the Road to Sporting Success
The sports world is losing a good friend: Curtis Prosko is leaving the Yukon in July. And curling, in particular, is losing one of its
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