Issue: 2014-02-27
"Going SOLO Together"
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Issue: 2014-02-27
Didee & Didoo - Poem "Just For Today"
YESTERDAY IS HISTORY AN' TOMORROW IS A MYSTERY. FOR YESTERDAY I DON'T WORRY AN' TOMORROW I'M NOT IN A HURRY. IF I WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW I CAN LIVE IN SORROW. Read more
Matching Wine to Cheese Fondue
I'm always interested whether when people choose the foods for dinner first, and then select accompanying wines, or vice versa. I use both methods. Several weekends ago my partner and I hosted a cheese fondue in honour of a friend's birthday... Read more
Winter Blues Breaker
During Yukon winters it's important to keep yourself motivated to stay active, and to seek ways of making it fun. While suffering from my own lack of motivation, I searched for something that could rekindle my desire to move again. Read more
Finding the Essence of Experience in Nature
Yukon artist Helen O'Connor's textural, organic, large-scale sculpture, assemblages, and installations beg the viewer to reach out and touch them. The works seem as though they are part of the natural world, not made by human hands. Indeed, O'Connor' Read more
The Legend of Pusser's Rum
ROYAL NAVY TRADITIONAL TOASTS Monday: Our ships at sea. Tuesday: Our men. Wednesday: Ourselves (as no one is likely to concern themselves with our welfare). Read more
Ecologically-inspired Cuisine
When I first arrived in Kluane as an aspiring biologist, it seemed fitting that I would land in the place where the famous lynx-snowshoe hare cycles had been studied since the '70s. Famous – at least to ecology students and trappers – graphs... Read more
What Does the Future Hold for our Famous Eagle Family?
There is real-life drama unfolding in the nest of a Whitehorse eagle couple. Right now the question is, who is the eagle that has appeared and is repairing the nest from last year? Is it the dad eagle, or the mom eagle, or is it some squatter that... Read more
Too Hot To Stop
Sexy, smart, sassy, sultry, superfragilisticexpialidocious: five words Big Mama Lele uses to describe her music, and it's pretty spot on. With titles like "Dirty Old Man" and "Montreal Boys," as well as soulful pipes to go with her twangy ukulele tun Read more
The Natural, Bizarre, and Heart-Wrenching
Three luscious, solo visual art exhibitions are coming to the Yukon Arts Centre (YAC). Rosemary Scanlon's The Rose Parade, Helen O'Connor's Salutation, and Michèle Karch-Ackerman's Foundling each open at YAC's Public Art Gallery on March 6, and run u Read more
The Trek Will Be Coming Soon
The 21st running of the Trek Over the Top snowmobile run from Tok, Alaska, to Dawson City and back will take place from March 6 to 9. It's a 200-mile (382 km) trip each way, over the spectacular scenery provided by the Top of the World Highway. Read more
These Teens Don't Miss a Beat
Learn, listen, and play is what Jazz in the Hall events are about. On March 6 Jazz Yukon is presenting a Jazz in the Hall event featuring youth musicians. Read more
Bison Hunt Part 4 of 5: In the Kitchen
The Canadian Nutrient File offers the following comparison of fat per 100 grams of lean cooked meat: bison: 2.42 grams; choice beef: 10.15 grams; pork: 9.66 grams. Read more