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 figured the world needs a big bear hug, and it’s up to us to take care of our planet …
I 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 had accompanied her daughter on this cruise in a show of support. The mother was saying how her husband had refused …
American liquor connoisseurs have Canada to thank for keeping their palates wet during Prohibition, as it was Canadians who made sure they didn’t go thirsty. In fact, in its heyday Canadian-based Seagrams was the largest distiller in the world. It’s no wonder than that Canadians are always near, if not at, the top when it …
Dawson 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 run down buildings that probably don’t meet any kind of safety standard. Some have …
When 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 recently when Tanner drove to Kelowna with London strapped safely into the seat beside him. Not the real Jack …
Judy 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 may be stitched or paint-altered. Sometimes photographs are digitally printed onto the fabric to create a background landscape, instead of piecing …
Many 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, with Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep). The other is Three Days of the Condor, filmed in 1975 with Robert …
Middle row, centre: Red: Inspired by Two Key Predecessors Read More »
In 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 some very good Spanish red wines and special-ordered one from the Yukon …
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This is the second and final part of a cyber-chat between What’s Up Yukon editors Meg Walker in Dawson City and Ken Bolton in Whitehorse. KB: I was a bit puzzled the last time we spoke when you said you’d like to seeWhat’s Up Yukon cover fashion. I hope you don’t mean photos of anorexic …
