Yellowknife’s grandest hotel has a pair of dining options. Floor-to-ceiling windows make the dining room a great place to enjoy a side of natural light with your meal while the dim-lit, fireside-chat feel of the Trapline Lounge make it great for locals to grab a drink away from the intense social spotlight of places like
Perhaps Yellowknife’s most fascinating restaurant offering, One of a Thai has been serving up authentic Thai food from its mobile food truck in summer and out of the Yellowknife Curling Club in fall, winter and well into the spring. Those willing to venture off the well-beaten menu path, past the spring rolls and pad thai,
Newbies find it hard to believe YK has two Vietnamese restaurants. This is the original, linoleum floor, wobbly tables and all. Some people are near maniacal fans, such as Peter Sheldon, who wrote a column about it in magazine, a two-by-three-foot version of which is now proudly displayed beside the restaurant’s front door. The Noodle
Twirling, swooping, and stomping here’s Cree dancer Alex Twin, mesmerizing a small Yellowknife crowd with a traditional Chicken Dance at a house concert on Thursday evening. Alex is a powwow dancer, actor and contemporary dancer originally from Kehewin Reserve, and now living three hours further south in Edmonton. He’s been dancing since he was eight and
Even Spock-ified money doesn’t go as far as it should in the NWT these days | Illustration courtesy the Internet Last-minute declines in gasoline and fuel oil prices helped the Northwest Territories show a cost of living increase of just under the one percent national average for 2014, but if potential immigrants look more closely,
by Fran Hurcomb Dog musher Lorraine Tees is hanging fish for her dogs in a pen in the Woodyard. Whitefish caught during the fall run in October were routinely hung to dry and could be used all winter.
Veronica and Dave Johnny want to show Yellowknife some love They may have to wear a few more layers over top of their signature black leather, but The Johnnys promise they’ll bring their high-energy heat to the Snowcastle Friday night, with a few new twists. “We’re accepting donations of fur clothing, or some down, even if
Sponsored by Coyote’s Steakhouse & Lounge | Photo by Angela Gzowski Playoff Preview by Spencer Lyman Yellowknife can be identified by its sport recreation community. There’s a variety of sport options in town, and it’s relatively easy to get involved. For such a small population, there’s plenty of variety of skill, intensity and character. About
Let’s start by getting the disclosure out of the way: under the terms of the CRTC’s ruling this week on Northwestel’s internet rates, I am one of the winners. The commission ruled Wednesday that Northwestel must reduce the cost of its DSL internet service by 10 to 30 percent, depending on the package. It also
Picture this: mid-winter heating bills under $100; a five-storey greenhouse in Yellowknife heated by the byproduct of methane-driven power turbines; a production plant for an international pipeline manufacturer in Fort Enterprise; and a pipeline, spooled out the back of ships into open water or laid along the ice pans, all the way to the North
Yellowknife, last summer | Illustration by Tomasz Jedruszek Flamin’ Raven | SATIRE Last year, Yellowknife saw one of the worst summers in recent memory, an apocalyptic, near-permanent deluge of ash and smoke thanks to the hundreds of forest fires that burned in and around the territory. With this summer looking like it might take a similar turn according
Gary Vaillancourt reimagines the site as a 21st century Model Village, where instead of Giant Mine being known as one of the most contaminated sites in Canada, political will instead focuses on creating an eco-friendly, self-sustaining community that is a model for the rest of the world | Image as drawn by Sasha Stanojovic. Gary Vaillancourt
Our editorial team liked the art for this poster so much they chose it as the Feb/Mar cover of EDGE YK magazine. | Artwork by Cody Fennell There are a bunch of kind-of insane things about Yellowknife, not the least of which is a town of 20,000 people having its own homegrown genre festival, complete with
Over the past week, the legislative assembly saw a move to beef up security at Stanton Hospital, discussed the ongoing travails surrounding a broken turbine at Snare Falls, aired the shocking revelation the people aren’t that interested in commenting on devolution legislation and held the first reading of a bill that will make Deline the
Hanson Brothers were out on a smoke break | Photos courtesy Johnnie Bowden As the local rec hockey season heads into the home stretch, with the Weaver and Devore Marauders battling it out in the middle of the pack, three points out of second place, take a look back at this portrait of Yellowknife’s winningest team, from March 2012: