Is it Really Greener on the Other Side?
The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. When living in the north, it is easy to look at how things
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Issue: 2010-11-11
Telling our Northern Tales
Storytelling heavyweights Ivan Coyote, Pat Braden and Yukon songwriter Kim Beggs will step onstage at the Yukon Arts Centre on October 28 in a collaborative,
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Going Plum Crazy for Fabulous Flavour
With fall come many fruits, particularly juicy plums – lovely large dark ones and smaller golden plums. Either variety will work well in this easy-to-make
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A Special Trip, with Talent Included
The air crackles with energy as members of the Ynklude Art Troupe rehearse for their next stage outing. Laughter and chatter abound as producer Julie
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A Day to Remember
The first time you read this might be on Remembrance Day, November 11, a day which has a lot more significance now than it did
Chronicling Life With a Touch of Mischief
More than six decades later, Ellen Davignon vividly recalls her first trip to Whitehorse. In was 1943 when six-year-old Ellen and her three siblings embarked
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City Livin’
It’s early. I’m walking across the Riverdale Bridge in Whitehorse, just about three hours shy of the ten-minute morning rush hour. 5:30 in the am.
Cheap Beer!
Now that we have your attention . . . . Let’s pretend that you, our readers, wrote us letters. We imagine one of them would
A passion for piglets
Last spring, we took both Kali and Sienna to visit Boris, the boar. So this fall we were waiting with bated breath for them to
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Choosing sides for the Klondike winter
Twice a year in Dawson City, lives are disrupted, homes are abandoned and the big question is, “What side will you be on?” Is Dawson
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A View from the Blue Pumpkin Cafe
Moody red skies with tumultuous waves crash against a rocky cliff. Bright, luscious cherry blossoms bloom in Central Park. Anna Schmidt, former Yukoner, takes us
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The Question: 3-D or not 3-D?
The wonderful ArtsNet list serve is many things: a notice board, a trading post, a soapbox. I’ve never posted anything on it, but the ArtsNet
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All Time is Not Equal
How much time do you have, I mean to think, right now? If you are like me, the answer is probably, “Not much.” Keeping track
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Attack of the Gargantuan Tumbleweeds
It was a bit like being in a B movie. We were on our way north from Baja, California and had just broken free from
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A Simple Binary Equation: Snooze = Lose
It was a plaintive little e-mail, familiar in both theme and tone. No, it wasn’t the weekly missive from the executor of some unfortunate Nigerian’s
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Chocolate + Porter = Genius
One of the swell new editors of WUY dropped us an email on the weekend inquiring about the status of our column, and casually mentioned
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Art Film & Firehall Films Preview
It’s a good week for film, as the Qwanlin Cinema presents the last in its fall season of the Arts Film series, and the Yukon
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A Marriage of Minds, Words and Music
For Russell Braun, the accompanist’s role is not to play second fiddle. Figuratively or literally. The Frankfurt-born lyric baritone will share the Yukon Arts Centre
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Celebrate Our Supporters
As I write this column, my partner has been a recent victim of homophobic slurs in her work place. As well, there is a furor
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GALA Pub Nights at Foxy’s Cabaret
Let’s see What’s Up in the gay community. The GALA Pub nights have moved to Foxy’s Cabaret. The first Saturday of every month, between 4
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Yukon: No Star-Whackers Here
Has my gast ever been flabbered! Trolling through Randy Quaid’s IMDB (Internet Movie Database) listing, I was shocked to discover that someone already had the
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Singing the Alaska Highway
Brandon Isaak almost trashed his musical career before it started. “I didn’t see it. I stepped on it, broke it in half”
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The Best Remembrance
There is service at the battlefront, a Calling to be sure, though not for God and Glory, that old lie from days of yore. Those
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