Issue: 2017-03-01
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Issue: 2017-03-01
Issue: 2017-03-01, PHOTO: Andy Hedden
Something for Everyone
Cabin fever kicking in? Why fly south when you can visit a friendly neighbour? With Winter Fest happening this weekend, Haines Alaska is the place to be if you’re feeling like a road trip out of Territory. “The best part of this festival is that... Read more
Issue: 2017-03-01, PHOTO: courtesy of Ryan Alaric
Thoughtfully Thrifty
The Anglican Church thrift store in Watson Lake has nearly doubled in size thanks to carpentry students from the Skills for Employment program run through Yukon College. The project, which started in October 2016 and ended in January 2017, saw the... Read more
Issue: 2017-03-01, PHOTO: Christian Kuntz Photography
Making her Own Trail
If Claire Ness had her druthers, she’d be performing for children by day and providing cabaret-style adult fare once the sun goes down. But not just as a singer-songwriter. “There's something about straight music that lacks the theatrical part... Read more
Issue: 2017-03-01, PHOTO: Wikipedia
A Provocative Gold Rush Mystery From the Other Side of the World
The Luminaries is a story of drama and mystery of the best variety; it will delight both those brainier sorts with a very calculated attention to detail, but also dreamers of the astrological sort— as long as you’re willing to work through its... Read more
Issue: 2017-03-01, PHOTO: Dan Davidson
Making Music and Money for Good Causes
You never quite know how the monthly coffee house/open mic sessions in the KIAC ballroom at the Odd Fellows Hall are going to go. For several months recently the evenings have started out with Peter Menzies leading a group of young fiddlers in an... Read more
Issue: 2017-03-01, PHOTO: Pixabay
Life hacks for the kids
In previous columns in this space, I have offered various suggestions of ways to improve life for those who roam the earth on two legs, especially those of us who do so burdened by creeping senescence. Read more
Issue: 2017-03-01, PHOTO: Dan Davidson
The Trekkers Will Soon be Here
The Trekkers are coming again, and this year’s Trek Over the Top from Tok Alaska to Dawson City, will have a substantial increase in numbers over the last two years. Paul Robitaille, marketing and events manager with the Klondike Visitors... Read more
Issue: 2017-03-01, PHOTO: Lori Garrison
Bush Gypsy's Banquette
Sometimes when you're in the bush you need lots of calories, but you don't have lots of time (or energy) left at the end of the day. By prepping the first part of this three part recipe for dinner, you have yourself a hearty, quick breakfast, as... Read more
Issue: 2017-03-01, PHOTO: Pixabay
For the Love of Potatoes
Let’s go back in time, say 60 some years ago. Potatoes in those days, in my mother’s kitchen, were an everyday vegetable and cooked in some tasty remarkable different ways. Here are some recipes for you to try. Read more
Issue: 2017-03-01, PHOTO: Sydney Oland
Honey Panna Cotta with Pineapple
Although I’ve spent most of my career around sweets and pastries, I don’t often eat dessert. And yet whenever I see panna cotta on a menu I always order it because of how simple and satisfying it is. Panna cotta is sweetened milk set with gelatin... Read more
Issue: 2017-03-01, PHOTO: Kim Melton
Bingeing on Brassicas
Potatoes, kale and cabbage is a pretty common answer to the question, “What can you grow up there, anyways?” For those of us who get excited about growing, however, it is easy to go kind of crazy even within the parameters of a single vegetable... Read more
Issue: 2017-03-01, PHOTO: Courtesy of EDI Environmental Dynamics Ltd.
May the Force Be With You at This Year’s Hut to Hut Ski Event on Saturday
The EDI Hut to Hut, taking place this Saturday, is a family, social event that aims to encourage skiers of all ages and ability to participate while discovering new trails and three trail huts. Those huts will be heated and stocked with... Read more
Issue: 2017-03-01, PHOTO: courtesy of the Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club
A Long Race for a Big Finish
Registration is now open for the premiere Yukon Ski Marathon, hosted by the Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club. The 50 km race is being held on Sunday, March 5 and begins at Mount Lorne, runs from there to Cowley Lake, then to Wolf Creek... Read more
Issue: 2017-03-01, Illustration: Shauna Jones
The Cancan Under Arrest
Appearing 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. Read more
Issue: 2017-03-01, PHOTO: Natalya Keller
Yukon’s Best Friend: DOG CULTURE, Natalya Keller
Meet our dogs, they live for us, we live for them, the Yukon would not be the Yukon without Dog Culture. Send us photos of Yukon dogs and their people! Read more
Issue: 2017-03-01, Cartoon: Allan Benjamin
DIDEE & DIDOO: THOU SHALT NOT SWEAR
*EAT THIS RICE ALL MUDDY. WHY DON’T YOU THUCK OFF. THUCK YOU. DON’T THUCK AROUND. Read more
Issue: 2017-03-01, PHOTO: Tess Casher
Gender Equality
The more scientists, experts, and the general public collectively study the concept of gender, the more questions arise. And in the realm of high school, these questions become more poignant and utterly colourful. Read more