With all it’s going through, the world needs a hug.That’s one of the messages underlying this year’s Blue Feather Music Festival, which takes place November 5 and 6 at the Yukon Arts Centre.”We just...
Read MoreI was watching All Aboard! Rosie’s Family Cruise a while back – a documentary about Rosie O’Donnell’s gay family cruises. In the film they interviewed various people, including the mother of a woman who...
Read MoreAmerican liquor connoisseurs have Canada to thank for keeping their palates wet duringProhibition, as it was Canadians who made sure they didn’t go thirsty.In fact, in its heyday Canadian-based Seagrams was the largest...
Read MoreDawson City has long been known for unique answers to its housing shortage, especially in the summer, when the place is flooded with summer people (or summerdoughs) looking for work and a cheap place to live.Some of them live in...
Read MoreWhen Harreson Tanner was a youngster in Ottawa reading Jack London tales of the unforgiving North, he never dreamed the San Francisco-born author would one day be a passenger in his motorhome.But that’s what happened...
Read MoreJudy Matechuk’s show Through These Eyes succeeds best where she works deliberately with edges.On the walls at Arts Underground you will find textile pieces made of glass laid over pieced-together fabric landscapes which...
Read MoreMany movies dealing with the CIA seem to draw from two seminal films for their inspiration.One is the 1962 thriller The Manchurian Candidate, starring Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury and Laurence Harvey, (later remade in 2004,...
Read MoreIn the days leading up to the Rotary Wine Festival, I felt as if I was eating, sleeping and breathing wine. At that point it was almost a subject I didn’t want to contemplate for a week or two.However, I recently tried...
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