Klondike Catwalk
In a show of pre-season energy akin to athletes’ pre-game excitement, Parks Canada interpreters Carrie Docken and Carly Sims gallantly put on their copies of […]
Green Eggs and Moose
I like to eat them by the lake, I like to eat them when I skate, I’d share them with a fox or goose, I
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A Dempster Special
One morning on the highway outside of Tombstone Territorial Park’s campground, I was sipping a much-needed coffee. It was Weekend on the Wing, and three
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Mr. Music
This is day one of Year 15,” announced Steve Slade, as he opened the Yukon Arts Society’s first Arts in the Park lunchtime show of
No Blues But The Blues
Minimalist blues duo The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer (“HAM” as they refer to themselves) are days away from beginning a string of pre-summer tour
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New Life, New Challenges
Well, spring has sprung. I am seeing the evidence of this everywhere. Trees and bushes are starting to bud, grass is coming up and crocuses
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Art Passes the Torch
One of Whitehorse’s oldest commercial art galleries has changed hands. Art Webster started the North End Gallery at First Avenue and Steele Street 12 years
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Searching for Dolly in Skagway
As you come upon a stretch of river and notice the ripples, runs, deeper channels, pockets and back eddies, you think to yourself: this water
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World of Words: Home truths About eBooks
The publishing industry is in some kind of spring flurry. In February this year, Amazon announced that, for the first month ever, their eBook sales
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Coffee Beans On The Rise
To paraphrase Bill Maher on the subject of rising oil costs: It’s not that oil is too expensive, it’s that it is too cheap when
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Young Talent Moves Uphill
Watercolour, acrylic, pastels, collage, papier maché, polymer clay, dioramas, aluminum engravings and even multi-media with recycling, The students at École Emilie Tremblay (EET) have done
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Rock in a Rush
Would-be rockers in Haines Junction and Faro have a chance to perfect their performance chops in the next few weeks, with help from rock trio
Elfin Creek Magic
This morning I heard the grouse drumming. All these signs of spring! This drumming is the mating call of the male grouse. He produces it
Girls With Guitars
The Town of Faro will soon be taken over by teenage girls on a mission. Musical instruments in hand, they will immerse themselves in music
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Birth of an Idea
Do you ever wonder how an idea comes into your brain? Once it’s there it is up to you whether or not you proceed to