Planning a Wine Tasting
Several months ago I was asked by my friend Wendy in Dawson City to plan a wine tasting at her B&B, Bombay Peggy’s.We’ll be doing it over the May long weekend, so by the time you read this it will have been...
Read MoreIssue: 2012-05-24
Artrepreneur: Birds in Wrenches, Birds in Landscape
Paul Baker and Rosemary Piper share the solo show room at the Yukon Artists @ Work (YA@W) co-operative gallery this month.Piper’s framed watercolours line the walls. To left and right, many smaller paintings make a more...
Read MoreWalk With Her
Daphne Mennell wants people to share her enjoyment of footpaths.To encourage them, the Carcross Road artist has assembled an exhibit of 12 new paintings grouped under the show title, Come for a Walk.”In some areas,...
Read MoreDrum Roll, Please
Editors love – and hate – writing competitions.We love them because they give us a chance to discover how different writers approach similar subject matter, the choices they make about what details to include, the images they...
Read MoreIn a Different Light
My first conversation with Andreas Horvath was right after I’d seen Views of Retired Night Porter at the Dawson City International Short Film Festival.The movie is his intimate 38-minute portrait of a security guard...
Read MoreMaking Music in the Ballroom
The last of the monthly winter coffee house and open mic nights at the Odd Fellows Hall ballroom occurred on May 5.They are a tradition that goes back five or six years now, having been started by an educational assistant at the...
Read MoreA Partial Lunar Eclipse and Spectacular Saturn
With the partial solar eclipse taking place on May 20 it seems only fitting to back it up with a partial lunar eclipse.A little known fact is that lunar and solar eclipses always come in pairs, two weeks apart. This partial...
Read MoreRelaying the Relay
The Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay turns 20 this year. For all of those years, Ron McFadyen has worked dedicatedly in the background, radio in hand, to make the event a success.”I founded the Yukon Amateur Radio...
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