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  • Klondike Creative Class

    Klondide Creative Class What’s the Klondike really like today, more than a century after the Gold Rush? Well, according to one filmmaker who lives in Dawson City, it’s like Leonard Cohen’s Greece. Here’s “Klondike Creative Class,” my story about the coolest town in Canada and how it created a thriving arts community. And here’s an […]

  • My favourite music of 2013

    My favourite albums of 2013 • The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas Courtney Barnett Ever listen to NPR’s All Songs Considered podcast? It’s a great way to discover new music. Exhibit A is this album from an Australian singer-songwriter • The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Flight, the […]

  • The music that meant the most to me in 2012

    The music that meant the most to me in 2012 Doing my radio show at CFYT in Dawson City (photo by John Lund) I couldn’t do it. There was so much fabulous music this year that I just couldn’t narrow it down to a Top 10. So here—alphabetically because there was no way I could […]

  • Wild ending

    Wild Ending This photo is from the canoe trip I did on the Snake River in the Peel Watershed with friends this past summer. A few days later, though, the sky wasn’t so peaceful. In fact, the end of our trip was pretty wild, but as I wrote in “In the Yukon’s Stormy Embrace” for Up Here magazine, my […]

  • It’s my funeral

    It’s my funeral I wrote about memorials in a secular age. I was trying to be funny; my editor thought it was poignant. You be the judge.

  • The words we use

    The words we use Sometimes I don’t know what’s wrong with me: I spend my life trying to convince women to like me and then I go and write this. Of course, not all prostitutes are women and the rights and safety of prostitutes shouldn’t be solely a women’s issue and language is something everyone […]

  • Remembering a friend

    Remembering a friend This guy died this week and that really pissed me off because he was my friend. Calling Chris Chenoweth a character seems like too much of an understatement. He was a complete nut–often infuriating, he was nevertheless totally loveable. And totally memorable. His obit nails it: “Full of fun, bluster and bonhomie, he was a […]

  • That Summer in Elsa

    That Summer in Elsa After my second year of university, I spent four months working in a mine in Elsa (I lived in a bunkhouse just like this one–maybe even this one–though it was in better shape back then). That was the first time I fell in love with the Yukon, but the summer of […]

  • Dawson City’s heritage building dilemma

    Dawson City’s heritage building dilemma “Dawson City — big city problems in a small northern town” is a piece I wrote for Spacing magazine’s blog about what to do with unused (and underused) heritage buildings in the Klondike.

  • Face the Music

    Face the Music My Maisonneuve magazine story about singing, tone deafness and how we hear music is now online. Includes some science, some culture and lots of personal humiliation.