Metro Regina - January 18, 2013

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Dear Mr. President: Wall urges
Obama to approve Keystone XL
Joint letter sent to line. the United States and put for-
In the letter the premier ward what we think is a very
White House. Premier,
and the governors note the compelling case for the U.S.
U.S. governors tout pipeline is “fundamentally administration to approve
pipeline’s role in ‘future important to the future eco- Keystone,” said Wall at the
nomic prosperity of both the legislature on Thursday.
economic prosperity’ United States and Canada.” Alberta Premier Alison
of both countries The pipeline has become Redford was not among the
a divisive issue in the U.S and politicians who signed the let-
Canada. While many point ter, but Wall said he doesn’t
to the economic benefits of see a problem with that. Red-
JEFF such a pipeline, others have ford has been working hard
MACKEY expressed concern about the on the file and Saskatchewan
[email protected] environmental impact of wanted to do its part, he said.
such a project. “I think this is helpful
Premier Brad Wall and 10 U.S. The pipeline would trans- where you have the province
governors are hoping they’ve port oil from Hardisty, Alta., of Saskatchewan, with a real
given U.S. President Barack through southwest Saskatch- stake in the project, also tak-
Obama something to think ewan to Steele City, Neb., and ing a bit of a lead and so we’re
about as he continues to mull then on to the Gulf Coast. happy to do that,” he said.
over his options regarding The president could rule on A spokesman for Redford
the Keystone XL pipeline. a revised application for the said in an email to The Can-
The group of leaders sent pipeline in the first quarter adian Press that he did not
a joint letter to Obama on of 2013. believe she had been specific-
Thursday urging him to ap- “We wanted to work ally asked to sign the letter.
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Victoria Club Friday PAGE 3 brunch dish PAGE 10 Obama urging the U.S. president to move forward on the Keystone XL pipeline project. JEFF MACKEY/METRO
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metronews.ca NEWS 03
WEEKEND, January 18-20, 2013
Friday night’s all right for fi ghting
for these Regina pro wrestlers
Ready to rumble.
It’s Thryllin Dylan vs.
Robbie Gamble on
Friday’s ticket N
ALYSSA
MCDONALD
[email protected]
E
High Impact Wrestling Can-
ada’s first show of the year
features fights, tights and over-
dramatics. W
“Its almost a testosterone-
fuelled soap opera,” HIW owner
Mike Roberts says.
He says HIW’s brand of pro-
wrestling is much like the pro-
fessional wrestling you see on
TV and with World Wrestling
Entertainment, complete with S
the zany outfits and flips off
the ropes. HIW has been based
in Regina for more than 15
years and also runs a training
centre. It usually holds one or
two shows a month and tours
around Saskatchewan and Regina wrestler Thryllin’ Dylan, in the air, will fi ght heavyweight champion Robbie Gamble at High Impact Wrestling’s fi rst show of the year on Friday night.
other Prairie provinces. CONTRIBUTED/GREG RIVETT
“It’s a great, entertaining
show and a really good display though Roberts says most are little out of control and they between 14-year veteran Thryl- built a loyal following in Sas-
of athleticism as well,” Roberts fighting their way up the lad- will both be disqualified. It can lin’ Dylan and current cham- katchewan and is expecting
says. der simply to qualify for a spot get pretty chaotic at times,” pion Robbie Gamble. It will also about 200 people for the 8 p.m.
At the shows, some 20 to in the final fight of the show. Roberts says. see a “return” of someone Rob- Friday show, called Darkness
25 wrestlers grapple for the “There are winners and los- Friday night’s show features erts refers to as “a local legend.” Falls, at its home venue, the
High Impact Heavyweight title, ers. Sometimes they will get a a heavyweight title matchup Roberts says the HIW has Victoria Club.
Feds, province fund aboriginal job-skills program
With the aim of helping ab- main purpose for economic new investment in NCQ will
original peoples in Saskatch- development, and that’s help address Saskatchewan’s
ewan obtain long-term em- through job skills and train- labour shortage.
ployment, Ottawa and the ing,” Clarke said. “The federal “This is an opportunity of
province have announced government has really made a lifetime,” Norris said. “There
some $9.4 million in funding a concerted effort to look at are more than 10,000 jobs open
for Northern Career Quest economic growth for the Can- and available in Saskatchewan
(NCQ). adian economy … and aborig- today. So by making sure that
At a press conference on inal people out there are going more people in Saskatchewan
Thursday at Cameco Corp. to participate and become ma- — especially our First Nations
in Saskatoon, MP Rob Clarke jor contributors.” and Métis people in Saskatch-
(Desnethé-Missinippi-Church- A press release says the ewan — have increased access
ill River) said $7.9 million NCQ will provide classroom to skills, training and educa-
will be contributed to NCQ and on-site training in the tion, that learning component,
through the federal Skills and mining industry. Over a period then they’ll also have access to
Partnership Fund. The provin- of two years, 800 participants the earning component.”
cial ministry of the economy will be trained for high-de- The NCQ will also be partly
will pitch in the remaining mand positions such as mine funded by industry partners
Rob Norris, MLA for Saskatoon Greystone, speaks at a press conference at $1.5 million. technicians and heavy-equip- including Cameco, Areva and
Cameco Corp. on Thursday afternoon to announce funding that will help “It’s looking at First Na- ment operators. Northlands College.
800 First Nations people in Saskatchewan train for high-demand jobs in the tions, Métis and Inuit about Rob Norris, the MLA for MORGAN MODJESKI/
mining industry. MORGAN MODJESKI/METRO IN SASKATOON providing the funding for the Saskatoon Greystone, said the METRO IN SASKATOON
Health care Food and arts fest Police investigation
pared to October 2012. about 90 kilometres east of
Since November 2007, Nipawin.
Patients waiting Developing a Missing woman’s
the number of people A family friend reported
less time for waiting more than half taste for Cathedral body found at seeing Kitchener in a
a year for surgery has Nipawin bar on Jan. 4.
surgery in dropped 60 per cent to Nine Cathedral Village res- Shoal Lake Her family reported
Saskatchewan 4,271. taurants are raising money her missing last Saturday,
A total of 54,853 surger- for the Cathedral Village RCMP are not ruling out a day after her cellphone
Wait times for surgery ies had been performed as Arts Festival with a gourmet foul play in the death of a was noted to be active in
continued to fall in of the end of November tasting, silent auction and Saskatchewan woman who the Saskatoon area.
November, the province 2012. live music. The event starts had not been seen by her Police say Kitchener had
says. The government has at 6 p.m. on Saturday at the family since Christmas Eve. possible ties to Sturgeon
The latest statistics set a goal of reducing wait Italian Club. Tickets are $20 The body of Emiline Lake, Sask., and The Pas,
show about 300 fewer times for surgery to three and available from Argento Marie Kitchener, 34, was Man.
people had to wait more months or less by April Jewellery and Dessart discovered by volunteer An autopsy is sched-
than six months for sur- 2014. Sweets, both on 13th Av- searchers in a field on the uled.
gery that month, com- THE CANADIAN PRESS/CTV REGINA enue. ALYSSA MCDONALD/METRO Shoal Lake First Nation, THE CANADIAN PRESS
04 NEWS metronews.ca
WEEKEND, January 18-20, 2013
Terror-case Canadian
School staffer’s claim
Fracking fuss. Yoko Ono
Boy, 13, accused
takes son Sean Lennon
gets 14-year jail term of sex attack
on a protest over drilling
A 13-year-old boy is facing
charges after Peterbor-
ough, Ont., police allege a
He’s cleared of most work for the Mumbai attacks. Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and the Marcellus Shale drilling female staff member at an
The American-Pakistani actress Susan Sarandon spoke boom. area school was choked
serious charge. Man testified against his school out against fracking — a They also visited with resi- and sexually assaulted.
with links to Toronto friend Rana to avoid the death drilling technique — during dents who say they have been Police say the woman
penalty and extradition. a tour of natural-gas drilling negatively impacted by drill- said she was alone in a
and Ottawa convicted
He is scheduled to be sen- sites in northeastern Pennsyl- ing. classroom with the boy
of supporting group tenced in Chicago next week. vania on Thursday. Fracking involves the when she was attacked.
Headley spent five days on The celebrities said the high-pressure injection of He was charged with
behind Mumbai attacks
the witness stand — taking technique is a danger to air, millions of gallons of water, sexual assault and over-
up more than half the trial water and human health. along with sand and chemical coming resistance to com-
— detailing how he allegedly Ono accused the gas indus- additives, deep underground mit an indictable offence.
A Canadian businessman was worked for both the Pakistani try of disregarding residents’ to break apart shale rock and He cannot be identified.
sentenced to 14 years in pris- intelligence agency known as welfare. “They care about free the gas trapped inside it. THE CANADIAN PRESS
on Thursday for providing the ISI and Lashkar. making money,” she said. The industry and many
material support to overseas Prosecutors also presented The celebs headed to rural federal and state officials Public in danger?
terrorism. Rana’s videotaped arrest Susquehanna County to see say fracking is safe when it’s
It was alleged Tahawwur Tahawwur Rana is shown in a 2011 statement to the FBI, during gas wells, compressor sta- done properly.
Rana supported a Pakistani courtroom sketch. which he said he knew Head- tions and other evidence of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS B.C. gang wars
group whose 2008 attacks TOM GIANNI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ley had trained with Lashkar. worry police
on Mumbai, India, left more They also played a September
than 160 people dead. The cartoons angered 2009 recorded phone conver- Metro Vancouver police
The judge sentenced Rana many Muslims because pic- sation between the men. fear innocent bystand-
in a Chicago court to the tures of the prophet are pro- Rana — who owned an ers may get hurt in the
prison term followed by five hibited in Islam. immigration consulting firm crossfire of what could be
years of supervised release. But jurors cleared Rana of in Toronto and a home in a return of gang-related
Rana, a 52-year-old Pak- the third and most serious Ottawa — was accused of al- violence in the region.
istani-born Canadian, faced a charge of involvement in the lowing Headley to open a Since Sunday, nine
maximum 30 years in prison. three-day rampage in Mum- branch of his Chicago-based people have died and five
Jurors in 2011 convicted bai, India’s largest city, which immigration law business in others have been injured
him of providing support for has often been called India’s Mumbai as a cover story and in violent incidents.
the Pakistani group Lashkar- 9-11. travel as a representative of RCMP Sgt. Peter
e-Taiba, and for supporting The government’s star wit- the company in Denmark. Thiessen said: “The poten-
a never-carried-out plot to ness at Rana’s trial was admit- In court, a travel agent tial for innocent people to
attack a Danish newspaper ted terrorist David Coleman showed how Rana booked be hurt is high.”
that printed cartoons of the Headley, who had pleaded travel for Headley. Mother and son: Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon chat as they head to drilling THE CANADIAN PRESS
Prophet Muhammad in 2005. guilty to laying the ground- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS sites in Pennsylvania on Thursday. RICHARD DREW/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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metronews.ca BUSINESS 05
WEEKEND, January 18-20, 2013
Britain says neigh
Provincial growth rates
Government victory. Supreme
Gap narrows
Court will not hear challenge
between West to eating horsemeat
and rest: BMO to wheat-board overhaul
Bank of Montreal says the
gap between economic The federal government scored
growth rates in Western another court victory Thurs- Quoted ‘Horse burger’ scandal.
Canada and the rest of the day in an ongoing battle over
“(The ruling) turns the Tesco supermarket chain
country appears to be nar- its changes to the Canadian
rowing. The resource sector Wheat Board. page, lets farmers get on amps up damage control
continues to fuel growth in The Supreme Court of Can- with what they do best.” in wake of discovery that
Western Canada, but the ada ruled it will not hear an
bank says it will be slower. appeal by eight former board Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz meat products contained
The bank suggests directors, who accused the gov- up to 29% equine flesh
Alberta’s growth in the ernment of breaking its own underway and that action is
energy sector is being tem- law by making radical changes based on a variety of legal
pered by a lack of pipeline without first holding a plebis- theories that are quite differ-
capacity and B.C. has been cite among grain producers. ent from what was argued in In Britain, a horse is a horse
held back by a softer hous- New legislation introduced the case ... that went to the Su- — not a main course. Tesco,
ing market. By contrast, On- by Prime Minister Stephen preme Court of Canada,” said the country’s biggest super-
tario’s economy is expected Harper’s Conservative gov- Anders Bruun, a spokesman market chain, took out full-
to gain momentum into ernment strips the market- for the Friends of the Canadian page newspaper ads Thursday Putting the cart before the horse? An employee pushes shopping carts past
2014, helped by improve- ing agency of its monopoly Wheat Board. to apologize for an unwanted the entrance to a Tesco Extra supermarket in New Malden, Surrey, England,
ments in the U.S. on western wheat and barley The lawsuit seeks a court or- ingredient in some of its in this 2009 photo. The Tesco chain has had to apologize to Britons after
THE CANADIAN PRESS sales. der to restore the board’s mon- hamburgers: Horsemeat. horsemeat was discovered in some of its burgers. GETTY IMAGES FILE
As is its usual practice, the opoly and to give farmers $17 Ten million burgers have
Online ticketing high court did not release rea- billion in damages. been taken off shop shelves about contaminated food.
sons for its decision. Agricul- The wheat-board monop- after the revelation that beef While people in some coun- Quoted
ture Minister Gerry Ritz wel- oly had forced western produ- products from three com- tries happily dine on equine
Ticketfly to enter “Some people say, ‘I have
comed the ruling as “fantastic.” cers to sell through the board panies in Ireland and Britain flesh, in the land of Black
Canadian market “It turns the page, lets farm- since the 1940s — unlike their contained horse DNA. Most Beauty and National Velvet, a horse. It’d be like eating
ers get on with what they do counterparts in other parts of had only small traces, but the idea fills many with hor- my grandmother.’”
Canadian concertgoers best, which is produce those the country. one burger of a brand sold by ror.
may soon notice there’s great high-quality crops,” Supporters said the single- Tesco had meat content that Labour Party environment Paul Webb, director of Exotic Meats, a
a new online ticketing Ritz told Regina radio station desk approach ensured better was 29 per cent horse. The spokeswoman Mary Creagh company in the English Midlands that sells
company in town aiming CKRM. prices and prevented farmers contrite grocer told custom- reflected the feelings of many products including horse burgers.
to compete with Ticket- It is not the end of the legal from competing against each ers that “we and our supplier when she said Thursday that
master. battle. Supporters of the wheat other for sales. But many pro- have let you down and we eating horsemeat is “strongly cultures that go back to 732
The San Francisco- board as it was prior to the ducers opposed the monopoly apologize.” culturally taboo in the United AD, when Pope Gregory III
based Ticketfly announced change have filed a separate and the Conservatives had Reaction to the scandal in Kingdom.” She was echo- declared horse-eating a pagan
Thursday that it’s ex- lawsuit in Federal Court. They promised for a long time to Britain goes beyond concerns ing prohibitions in Western practice. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
panding into Canada and said the Supreme Court rejec- allow farmers to sell to whom-
has reached deals with tion will not deter them. ever they chose.
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WEEKEND, January 18-20, 2013
HAPPINESS
HE DECLARES, THE WORLD WATCHES
IS A WARM
1
CONFESSION WHAT HAPPENS AT 38
million TV Obama used Abraham
THE INAUGURATION? president viewers Lincoln’s inaugural bible for
being sworn in the 2009 swearing-in —
George Washington’s has
It was the best of weeks, it was JAN. 19 been used five times.
THE LIST the worst of weeks. U.S. President Barack Obama and his
Paul Sullivan And it’s not even over. family participate in a National Day
metronews.ca 1 Lance backpedals on of Service.
Oprah. Lance Arm-
strong pedals an epic JAN. 20
7.7
two-part confession that he did in fact use performance-en- million Internet
Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden
hancing drugs to win a record seven Tour de France titles. If he are officially sworn into office at a viewers
doesn’t end up resurrecting his reputation, at least he’s resur- private event at the White House.
recting Oprah’s ratings. Hey, it’s not about the bike. Obviously, JAN. 21 1.9million
it never was. attendants in the
2 Idle No More. You can say that again. Aboriginal Obama, Biden and their National Mall
people are mad as hell and they’re not going to take families participate in a traditional
it anymore. So they’re barricading roads and bridges prayer service at St. John’s Church
to make their point. But the spontaneous uprising seems to be in front of the White House.
taking more out of aboriginal leaders such as hunger-striker
Theresa Spence and Assembly of First Nations Chief Shawn Obama, Biden and their
families ride to the Capitol. The
Atleo than original-target Stephen Harper, whose Teflon coat-
public swearing-in ceremony takes in 2009
3ing remains intact. place on a platform in front of the
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Unfortunately, it seems to have descended into a feud Biden is sworn in by Barack Obama will travel in his armour- INAUGURATIONS (IN 1,000 RAISED TO COVER
between Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj, while the talent tries Supreme Court Justice Sonia plated Cadillac One limousine to Capitol Hill PEOPLE) INAUGURATION
to get a few licks in edgewise. I never thought I’d say this, but Sotomayor. for his inauguration. But cars weren't always (IN MILLIONS)
what happened to the good old days, when professional A & R Obama is sworn in by Chief the preferred mode of transport:
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maintaining that weapons designed for a theatre of George Washington took a 1st Inauguration
war have no place in a movie theatre, a reference to the mass Obama and Biden participate horse-drawn carriage to (Jan. 20, 2009)
shooting six months ago at a Colorado screening of The Dark in an inaugural lunch with Federal Hall, New York City
Knight Rises. Gunslinger, er, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas angrily re- members of Congress. (April 30, 1789).
jects any attempt to limit access to assault weapons and instead
Evening: Inaugural Balls. The
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court battle over who gets to keep Darwin the Ikea Thomas Jefferson (March 4, 2nd Inauguration
monkey, the people sheltering him have accused his 1801) walked to his (Jan. 20, 2005)
erstwhile owner of, um, choking the monkey, hitting him swearing-in from his lodgings
with a wooden spoon, forcing him to live in a small crate and $4.2 less than 300 metres from
making him wear that ridiculous double-breasted shearling million Capitol Hill.
coat (OK, I added that last one). If God meant monkeys to go to will be spent on preparing Capitol GEORGE W. BUSH
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so-called Dreamliner, has been grounded as engineers SUNDAYS by railroad from Virginia (an
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Dame Maggie Smith stars in Quartet — a story of a once famous singing group now retired and living together. HANDOUT
Reel Guys Aging a little too well
RICHARD
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CROUSE AND
MARK BRESLIN
Crowd pleaser. The an idyllic view of old age — Synopsis a class of visiting teenagers
everyone has money and tal- and trying to explain opera
Reel Guys agreed ent, and only a little bit of through comparisons with
Quartet was a nice dementia, a wisp of a stroke, The action centres around rap and hip-hop. But the en-
or a slightly malfunctioning Beechham House, a luxurious tire plot revolves around the
look at old age, but hip. If they showed what old retirement home for aging will-she-or-won’t-she decision
ultimately couldn’t age was really like, the movie musicians. Three quarters of of Maggie Smith to join the
would be unwatchable. The a once famous vocal quartet, quartet.
stomach the ending
great thing about the movie Reginald (Tom Courtenay), The script has her make
is the cast — and what a cast! Cissy (Pauline Collins), and that decision too blithely
Could Billy Connolly be more Wilfred (Billy Connolly), live after resisting so vociferously.
Richard: Mark, this could charming? Tom Courtenay there quietly until their for- I just wasn’t convinced. And
have gone one of two ways. more noble? Maggie Smith mer diva, Jean (Dame Maggie she goes from imperious wit
It could’ve been a depress- more ... Maggie Smith? But Smith), arrives. Her presence in her grand entrance to em-
ing look at the difficulties the film falls down in the stirs up old feelings from pathetic sensitivity way too
of growing old, or it could storytelling. There’s just not ex-husband Reggie but might quickly. The movie’s not long.
have turned into one of those enough there. If you’re going also be the key to changing Maybe a few scenes were ex-
“loveable old coot” movies. to cast these legends of stage the fortunes of the cash- cised?
Instead, like the recent The and screen, you need to give strapped retirement home.
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, them more to do. RC: It feels a bit like there was
it treats its elderly characters Star ratings: some unfortunate chopping,
like vibrant, real people, even RC: It is predictable, just this but I have to say overall the
though they use walkers and side of twee and don’t get me (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:74)(cid:255)(cid:221)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:225)(cid:552)(cid:3)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580) actors carried the day for me.
have lapses of memory. Med- started about the unsatisfy- Weak story and even weaker
ical conditions aside, emo- ing ending. Luckily it’s also (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:55)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:266)(cid:552)(cid:3)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580)(cid:580) ending notwithstanding, it’s
tionally they are as rich — if a crowd pleaser due to the a crowd pleaser.
not richer — than 90 per cent chemistry of the cast. I loved
of the characters we see in Billy Connolly’s roguishness MB: The ending is horrible, MB: And it looks great. It was
any Katherine Heigl romantic and the sense of real warmth one of the worst cheats in a pleasure spending 90 min-
comedy. What did you think? that exists between all the cinematic history. I was look- utes in a perfectly groomed
main players. That Dustin ing forward to those vener- mansion in the English
Mark: Richard, they are lov- Hoffman learned a thing or able actors tackling Verdi. countryside. When I start to
able old coots, or at least two about directing actors But the scene I really enjoyed lose it, make me a reserva-
high-functioning geeSzers. It’s hover thae years. rawbas Tom Ciourtelnay teiachintg tyion.
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named Oscar
Jennifer Lopez’s career OUR TAKE ON THE WORLD OF CELEBRITIES
is doing just fine, but
there’s at least one item
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“I think everybody
that has ever taken acting
seriously would love to be
recognized in that way,”
Lopez tells E! News. “Of
course! Why not?”
She’s even good about
keeping her acceptance
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the need for it arise.
“It changes every so
often over the years,”
Lopez says. “Different
people, different things.” Jennifer Lopez. Nicole Kidman. ALL PHOTOS GETTY IMAGES
Kidman not weirded
out by peeing on
Zac Efron
Nicole Kidman has been peed in the beginning of
getting plenty of attention Eyes Wide Shut, too. But
for her Golden-Globe-nom- then, I don’t find a lot of
inated role in the Paperboy things shocking. Violence
thanks to an infamous is a lot more shocking
scene in which she urinates than sex — sex is primal,”
on Zac Efron. she tells the Hollywood
But Kidman doesn’t get Reporter.
what the big deal is. “I felt shy singing in
Is Lohan “She is getting paid to “I just don’t find urina- Moulin Rouge, but peeing
date rich men,” Michael tion shocking. I think I — no, not shy.”
working as a says, putting the blame
Russell Crowe
squarely on his ex-wife, YOU COULD WIN
high-paid Dina Lohan. “Dina is pimp-
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escort? But so far there are no
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viding any services more
Lindsay Lohan has reported- intimate than acting as arm
Russell Crowe has taken New York last month and ly found a new way to help candy.
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burlesque star Dita Von brave, smart, sweet and other sources claim that thing — hotel, travel costs,
Teese are an item. elegant. She is a friend of the troubled actress is mak- food, whatever — as well
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album in a decade drop- Chicken and Waffles com-
ping in March, savvy wine bines the best of the break-
I lovers are rediscovering the fast and dinner worlds in
value found across France one soul food dish made
— especially in its lesser famous by the Southern U.S.
L known regions like the There’s even a whole
Côtes du Rhône. Though chapter devoted to the meal
famous for Châteauneuf- in Fried Chicken: An Amer-
du-Pape — its liquid love ican Story by John T. Edge.
letter to the pope — many In it, he writes that the
wine newbies are surprised dish goes back to the late
to discover that the Rhône 19th century, when South-
Valley is the original home ern African-Americans, re-
of both the red syrah (a.k.a. cently freed from slavery,
shiraz) and grenache grape began migrating to the
varieties. northern United States.
Grenache dominates According to Edge: “My
the southern portion of the guess is that it comes from
valley, where the bright- the days when someone
fruited berry makes up would go out in the mor-
the majority of the area’s ning and wring a chicken’s
blends. Most are smooth, neck and fry it for break-
new worldly wines with fast.
great food appeal (think “Preparing a breakfast
everything from hearty bread with whatever meat
stews and lamb to a relaxed you have on the hoof, so
charcuterie platter). to speak, comes out of the
Famille Perrin is a rural tradition.”
regional superstar and its The fried chicken is usu-
grenache-led 2010 Côtes du ally served with a waffle
Rhône Réserve that is covered in butter or
Rouge ($15.95 to syrup. This version, how-
$17.99) ever, is more like the trad-
is rich and ele- itional Pennsylvania Dutch
gant with licorice
and wild berry Ingredients
aromatics and a This recipe serves four. MATTHEW MEAD/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
meaty, mouth-
1.
filling body (cid:580)(cid:3)1 tbsp olive oil dish, which consists of a In a large skillet over and pepper, then set aside.
of balanced (cid:580)(cid:3)Two 4-oz containers sliced plain waffle with pulled, medium-high, heat the oil.
3.
black fruit. button mushrooms stewed chicken covered in Add the mushrooms, on- Toast the waffles accord-
PRICES RE- (cid:580)(cid:3)1 medium yellow onion, gravy. ion and garlic, then sauté ing to package directions.
FLECT THE RANGE diced But it’s even easier than until the mushrooms are Place one toasted waffle on
ACROSS THE (cid:580)(cid:3)2 cloves garlic, minced that when you use store- browned and the pan is each serving plate. Top with
COUNTRY. SOME (cid:580)(cid:3)1/4 cup white wine bought waffles and rotis- nearly dry, about 5 minutes. a heap of warmed, shredded
PRODUCTS MAY (cid:580)(cid:3)1 cup heavy cream serie chicken. chicken, then spoon ample
NOT BE AVAIL- (cid:580)(cid:3)Salt and ground black pepper No frozen waffles handy? 2. Add the wine and stir to amounts of mushroom
ABLE IN ALL (cid:580)(cid:3)4 frozen waffles You can serve this chicken deglaze the pan. When the gravy over it.
PROVINCES. (cid:580)(cid:3)Meat from a 2-lb rotisserie and gravy over toasted wine has evaporated, stir
chicken, warmed and shredded slabs of sourdough bread in the cream, then bring to THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/ WITH FILES
too. a simmer. Season with salt FROM METRO
A fl avour of one small screen kitchen
Anthony Bourdain.
every dish is sampled blind in who figured that out were the signed beforehand, and there
Celebrity chef takes on
one bite. ones who did well. These are were a couple that were geared
judging full time on people who’ve eaten a lot of more toward home cooks.
ABC’s The Taste How did the home cooks food. Truffle oil is not going A comfort food challenge is
measure up against profes- to work with these people. obviously in a zone where a
sional chefs? People who cooked looking home cook is just as likely to be
The people that did well were for an emotional response, I as good at it as a professional.
NED
aggressive with their season- think, were the ones who did I’m not going to say which one,
EHRBAR
ing. They were looking to well. I think we were all very but there was one challenge
Metro World News in Hollywood make an impression and they emotionally involved in the where it was just a slaughter-
Alongside Nigella Lawson, Ludo were very forward with their progress of this show. fest, where everybody across
Lefebvre and Brian Malarkey, flavours. We were fooled all the the board just really had a hard
celeb chef Anthony Bourdain time with that. “Oh, this is a Were the challenges de- time with it, and there was a
will judge The Taste, which professional.” No, it turned out. signed to take into account lot of weeping and rending of
pits home cooks against profes- We were four very jaded pal- both types of contestants? garments. I’m talking about
sional chefs in a contest where ates, and I think that the cooks The challenges were all de- the judges (laughs). Anthony Bourdain GETTY