Nava Luvu’s music defies easy categorization. It’s a pulsing, clicking melange of found sounds, tape loops, samples, noise and audio glitches. By any measure, it’s avant-garde. By the North’s conservative musical standards, where cover bands and acoustic guitars still rule, it’s revolutionary. Take the track “Reach” off 2014’s . Fragments of a dance-y club beat
The City of Yellowknife is set to get a $2.5 million bump in federal infrastructure funding over the next five years following a major rejig of municipal funding across the NWT. Yellowknife will also be eligible for a $12.9 million one-time federal grant for a piece of infrastructure that has to be finished before 2022.
James Wah-Shee First of all, it’s very comfortable. I usually wear it during the spring and summer. I can’t wear it during the winter months, of course. It goes well with my casual outfit, and also when I wear a white shirt, a tie or dress pants, a hat also goes with that quite well. I got
Despite seemingly little interest from food truck operators in creating a semi-permanent “food park” in the 50/50 lot, there may yet be a weekly summer food truck festival in the empty City-owned lot. The idea was floated by Coun. Adrian Bell during a discussion of new food truck regulations during Monday’s Municipal Services Committee meeting.
The two men arrested following Sunday’s shooting and high-speed pursuit have each been charged with two counts of attempted murder. While only one person was wounded in the shooting, “there’s evidence that suggests more than one person was targeted in the incident,” said RCMP const. Elenore Sturko. Hence the two counts of attempted murder for each
Yellowknife-based artist Germaine Arnaktauyok launches her new book today from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Visual Effects Gallery, YK Centre West, 4905 48th Street. My Name is Arnaktauyok is an illustrated memoir, reflecting on the celebrated artist’s traditional Inuit upbringing in a camp near Igloolik; her move to a residential school and her education in Southern art
The ice will barely be off Yellowknife Bay when hungry multitudes descend on the Northern Frontier Visitor Centre for the second annual Great Northern Shore Lunch Cook-Off, this June 6. There will be more of everything, promises Tracy Therrien, the centre’s executive director: more fish, more entertainment and more competitors, and more recognition, both for
We’ve both got cold, natural beauty, and colourful names that confuse southerners. It’s hard not to compare Yellowknife and Whitehorse. In this third installment of a series exploring the two cities, EDGE online searches for a good cup o’ joe in Whitehorse, and discovers much more than coffee. (See Parts One and Two) Maybe Whitehorse’s Cascadia vibe
Stephen Harper has a well-known love of panda bears. How about gorillas holding protest signs? Not so much. At least that’s what Shauna Morgan learned one chilly spring morning in 2011 when she donned a chunky inflatable gorilla suit and staked out the Yellowknife Inn with a sign saying “Enough monkey business in parliament.” She
Early evidence suggests last night’s shooting was “a targeted attack” and police are investigating “possible ties to gang activity,” say RCMP in a press release sent out at 2:45 p.m. on Monday afternoon. No names or charges have been announced yet. However, “the suspects and the victim are known to one another, and known to
The first thing morel mushroom hunters need to know about their quarry is that it is safe, regardless of whether it is found five, 10 or 50 kilometers from the site of the former Giant and Con mines. The same goes for the birch boletes, hawkswing, hedgehog, shaggymane, and common meadow mushrooms that are abundant
Yellowknife RCMP seized a suspicious package from inside the evacuated Yellowknife courthouse early Thursday evening. “Police are now confident the Court House and surrounding area is safe,” said an RCMP press release sent out shortly before 6:00 pm. At this point it’s unclear what was inside the package, however, the RCMP say the package will be
Food trucks circle around a makeshift patio of tables and chairs in the middle of a downtown parking lot; late into the evening, people of different backgrounds mingle freely in the festive atmosphere, grabbing a bite to eat between shopping at local stores; this is the stuff downtown revitalizers’ dreams are made of. It’s a
Despite further cutbacks at CKLB, the chairman of the Native Communications Society of the NWT says a probable funding commitment from the GWNT means things are nonetheless looking up for the long-suffering “Voice of Denendeh.” According to J.C. Catholique, representatives for the GNWT’s Department of Education, Culture and Employment have offered to help NCS ”not
