Fred Astaire, meet the street dancers
It’s Boys in the Hood and “Singin’ in the Rain” combined with what Nicolette Little describes as a “Sinatra-y feeling.”Little is an instructor for the Northern Lights School of Dance where...
Read MoreIssue: 2008-05-02
Artrepreneur: Corsets and a Hunger for Colour
It’s spring. For Cori Giacomazzi, that means busy.I had the chance to visit this Canadian garment artist in March at her home in Skagway. I had seen her work at the Yukon Riverside Arts Festival in Dawson City. I had...
Read MoreGlobal Warming Affects Beer Production … OK, Now It’s Serious
Just the other day while I watching the store here at the Yukon Brewing Company, I had a customer look outside our windows while I was filling his growler and remark that maybe we have global warming wrong.I finished filling his...
Read MoreThe Disappearing Yukon Night Sky
The month of April is at a close and, as May begins, great changes are taking place high overhead in the amazing Yukon Night Skies.It is a time of discovery and exploration with an endless supply of cosmic jewels that can be...
Read MoreFaro’s sheep and cranes ready for their closeup
Faro’s Crane and Sheep Viewing Festival has attracted international attention before as it grows yet again in its fifth year, but this time the International Crane Foundation will help attract even more attention.The...
Read MoreTurbulence
She unscrewed the cap on her Coke and it “fff’ed” as air escaped.Inflight turbulence, she reckoned. The captain had warned them at takeoff. People were unusually silent; each, no doubt, finding their own way to...
Read MoreThe Art of Timing: Planting by the Moon
The “art of good timing” is the age-old belief in lunar rhythms. In the old days, people would plan their daily life, from health and home, to nutrition to farming, forestry and gardening, around the positions and...
Read MoreSingers sing sea shanties
“They are clean drinking songs,” says Barbara Chamberlin, half laughing and half pleading. “There is such a thing.”The conductor of the Whitehorse Community Choir was explaining the name of the spring...
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