April 18 2013

North Star Provides Direction, Hope

By Jodie Thomson / 18 April 2013 / 3 minutes of reading

Author R. Bruce Macdonald at the edge of his boat on the Beaufort Sea near Tuktoyuktuk, NWT. “Literally, the first day we had the ship a guy knocked on the door,” says Bruce Macdonald, owner and inhabitant of the North Star of Herschel Island. “And since then, we’ve had people knock on the boat almost …

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Yukoner Willow Gamberg, left, and Annastasia Fairbanks launched the online magazine Not Your Scene to promote the Vancouver underground heavy music scene.

Heavy Love

By Tamara Neely / 18 April 2013 / 4 minutes of reading

Yukoner Willow Gamberg, left, and Annastasia Fairbanks launched the online magazine Not Your Scene to promote the Vancouver underground heavy music scene. We shouldn’t judge bands such as The Almighty Excruciating Pain, Xenocide and 3 Inches of Blood by how they look and their creepy names. If we do, we won’t get past the macabre …

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