The editor at What’s Up Yukon doesn’t often receive handwritten letters, but there were two on file when I arrived. We’ve sent Mrs. Schorn a copy of her letter in print and I hope she’s found some new penpals from our...
Read MoreIf Louis Gagnon has learned anything from five years of successfully running a food truck in the Yukon, it’s “Batten down the hatches!”Gagnon says this with a hearty laugh, but securing every food item in a food truck, is no...
Read MoreConsider Murphy, whoever he was. When anything goes wrong, people assume it’s somehow his fault.Being a forgiving sort of guy, I try to give ol’ Murph the benefit of the doubt. Still, there are some situations in...
Read MoreAppearing nightly in vaudeville, burlesque, ballets and operas, on tiny rustic stages of the Wild West mining camps and in the frontier theatres of the Pacific Coast, by the 1870s the cancan was in North America to stay.When the...
Read MoreYoung Alex DeLarge and his gang of droogs aren’t choosy about whose lives they wreak mindless havoc on. From the down-at-the-heels to the well-heeled, the young thugs attack indiscriminately, mercilessly and irrationally.One...
Read MoreAlthough women of Paris played an integral role in the French Revolution, once the dustsettled they were given a stern message by the new men in power: Stay home, tend to the children and leave the important business of...
Read MoreOn February 16 I picked up my roommate, Taylor Tiefenbach, from the Erik NielsenInternational Airport. His flight was due to arrive at 3:05 p.m. and I was running late. Given this, I decided to park right in front of the...
Read MoreHandwritten, unwitnessed wills — also called holographic wills — are valid in the Yukon as well as some of the provinces. One of the more famous examples of a holographic will comes from Saskatchewan, where in 1948 , Cecil...
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