Yukon Events Magazine
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Issue: 2018-10-17, PHOTO: courtesy of Jeff Martin
Give in to your temptation
Jeff Martin’s life has been blessed with music and he’s had the chance to explore it with long-time The Tea Party bandmates Jeff Burrows and Stuart Chatwood. Martin’s solo concert on October 20 will be the first time that his unique music has been... more
Oct. 17, 2018
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Issue: 2018-10-17, PHOTO: courtesy of Lulu Keating
Hip hip hooray! for local filmmaker Lulu Keating …
When the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) in Dawson City put out a call for a members’ exhibit with the theme of “The Age of Selfies,” local filmmaker Lulu Keating decided to submit a work about her recent hip replacement... more
Oct. 17, 2018
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Issue: 2018-10-17, PHOTO: Danny Macdonald
Let be whatever may befall
To be, or not to be. For advocates of plain writing, Shakespeare’s most famous monologue is a touchstone. Its opening sentence consists of nine one-syllable words in a row, followed by one containing just two (depending on whether one reads... more
Oct. 17, 2018
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Issue: 2018-10-17, PHOTO: courtesy of Michael Gates
For those who answered the call …
Lest we forget … This is why Michael Gates (Yukon historian and Yukon News columnist) and D. Blair Neatby (military historian, Yellowknife) have co-authored the memorial book, Yukon Fallen of World War I, a collection of more than 100 biographies... more
Oct. 17, 2018
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Issue: 2018-10-17, PHOTO: Kim Melton
Batten down the hatches
I feel tumbled up against the advance of winter. All summer, the sun pulled me on with the force of a tearaway sled dog and, when the days shortened into fall, it was as if she slowed suddenly to sniff out a piece of news and I hurtled into her... more
Oct. 17, 2018
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Issue: 2018-10-17, PHOTO: Pat Bragg
Living With Wildlife: Pat Bragg
Hello Everybody, We invite you to share your photos of Yukon wildlife. Email your high-resolution images with a description of what’s going on and what camera equipment you used to Editor@WhatsUpYukon.com more
Oct. 17, 2018
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Issue: 2018-10-17, PHOTO: Courtesy of Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition
What’s your story?
Life isn’t always kind and rosy. Each of us experiences things we would rather not and, as a result, have a story to tell. These challenges sometimes leave deep hurts, wounds and scars that drastically affect our lives and how we live them... more
Oct. 17, 2018
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Issue: 2018-10-17, PHOTO: MacBride Museum Collection, 1990.29.1.60
Ship of Sorrow
On October 23, 1918, at 10:10 p.m., over three hours later than scheduled, the CPR vessel S.S. Princess Sophia (So-PHY-Ya) piloted by Captain Leonard Locke, departed Skagway with at least 353 passengers and crew, the exact number unknown because... more
Oct. 17, 2018
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Issue: 2018-10-10, PHOTO: Pixabay
Superbirds (a.k.a. ornithology, a.k.a. birdlore)
This quiet, reserved and thoughtful corner of the year-round Yukon has gone to the birds this week, namely Arctic terns, the all-time migratory champions, not only of the bird kingdom but also the entire non-human animal world, including bugs and... more
Oct. 10, 2018
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Issue: 2018-10-10, PHOTO: courtesy of Gwaandak Theatre
What would you do?
Wren Brian was just 10 years old when the first X-Men movie came out in 2000. The film’s opening scene, set in the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, triggered a fascination with the Nazi Holocaust that remains with her today... more
Oct. 10, 2018
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