While Mona Lisa smokes a joint on the far wall, Jimmy “da Barber” McGaughey tells EDGE that much of the décor of Ragged Ass Barbers isn’t so much about projecting a single image, but a mish-mash of everyone there – from owners to staff to clientele. “That fish there, somebody, their wife wouldn’t allow them to have it
Cynthia Brown, Gary Vaillancourt, Greig Upton and John Alexander swap tales in the spring sunshine on the deck of John’s houseboat, which was one of the first to be built in Yellowknife Bay.
Driving around Iqaluit one afternoon with photographer Angela Gzowski, we spy a few guys by the side of a cul-de-sac road, squatting around a gory mess with a pair of knives. Angela whips the truck to the curb, jumps out, camera in hand, and races over to join the group. A few minutes later she’s
You wouldn’t know it from the sparse but powerful riff in Willie Thrasher’s 1979 song “Old Man Carver,” but the Inuvik musician didn’t start playing guitar until relatively late in life. The story goes that none of the guitarists in Inuvik, his older brother included, would teach the young drummer, then playing with local rock
See you in two weeks, I hope Over the years, we’ve learned there are a few dating complications that seem to only happen in our little northern city. From waking up on a houseboat to scheduling your love life around a two-week rotation to being in at a dinner party with more than three of your
City-provided rendition of the project, featuring a hypothetical library The $6.5 million proposal to turn the empty lot on the corner of Franklin and 50th Street into a plaza was met with cautious approval from City Council during the first full discussion of the plan yesterday. Two councillors were in full support of the
Lights, curtain, drumroll… ladies and gentlemen, let us present the new $6.5-million vision for downtown Yellowknife and the 50/50 lot, at least as City planners and architects would have it. The 50/50 lot, purchased by the City for $1.45 million last October, is now envisioned as a plaza, with a bus stop, washrooms, arts centre (not included
Businesses, organizations and homeowners in downtown Yellowknife had major hangups in their internet service this week Northwestel will reimburse customers affected by this week’s painfully slow internet, says Coun. Dan Wong. It’s unclear at this point whether it will be a credit going forward or a direct money transfer for the number of days affected.
Ron and Agnes ran Captain Ron’s B&B for many years on Latham Island near the causeway. He was called Captain Ron because of his tour boat, the “Naocha”, which was one of the first tour boats to ply the waters of Yellowknife Bay.
RCMP have confirmed that personal items found with human remains in a forest outside of Yellowknife on Monday belonged Atsumi Yoshikubo, a Japanese Tourist who went missing last October. “Sufficient evidence exists for police to determine without a doubt that the items belonged to Atsumi Yoshikubo,” said RCMP, in a press release sent out Wednesday
If sometime in the next few days you run into an exceptionally beautiful middle-aged Japanese woman rocking furs and serious diamond swag, chances are you’re brushing shoulders with celebrity. Actress Kaho Minami – better known in Japanese tabloids as the wife of Ken Watanabe, of Godzilla and The Last Samurai fame – is in Yellowknife
A scow powered by ragged red sails cut from cloth of forgotten provenance took home the trophy in the sixth annual Old Town Pond Sailor’s Regatta this weekend. “It’s pretty heavy,” Dave Kellett said when asked to describe Thrush, his winning entry. Fashioned from pressure-treated four by four, and scow-like in appearance with a keel
A photograph taken when she was ten years old shows Dr. Michelle Tuma lying on a deck, covered in kittens. “I always remember, whenever we would go visit my dad’s family – they’re from the Czech Republic – there were always barn cats around,” Tuma laughs. “If they couldn’t find me, I’d always be out
Prior to Friday’s arrest, Jonah Keyuayuk was not facing criminal charges, but has a long and documented history of violence The ‘violent sexual offender’ who the RCMP warned the public about yesterday was back off the streets today, at least temporarily. Jonah Keyuajuk, 44, originally from Pangnirtung, was arrested in downtown Yellowknife early Friday morning for
Even if you’ve spent the last three days staring at an empty email inbox, crying, wondering why you ever did this, things are always “going great. Super busy.” Most Yellowknifers have at some point, been involved in that slightly lubricated, late-night “you know what we should do?” party conversation, in which someone (perhaps you) tells