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Poker Conquers the Internet WINE Trends for the New Year by Carola Price P ou No r 2 w nd in y ea r! TRUST. REACH. RESULTS. BRIAN, TIMOTHY, JOAN M cGUIGAN AGENTS IMMOBILIER AGRÉES / CHARTERED REAL ESTATE AGENTS Now in both languages! Happy Happy Maintenant en ear New ew Y www.McGuiganPepin.com Year deux langue s! N See our listings on the back page. January 2007 –v2.1 Arts & Entertainment on the Island and Beyond 27,000 copies RESTAURANT REVIEW O.NOIR and Robin des Bois by Stuart Woods p. 1 Poker Conquers the Internet WINE Trends for the New Year by Carola Price p. 9 THEATRE Living Shadows: A Story of by Ashley Cotter-Cairns, aka Father Ashley Mary Pickford by Kristine Berey p. 4 of the Church of Texas Holdem BOOK REVIEW Griffin’s Babyproof and Perry’s Dark Assassin A glance at the schedule of the cable sports channels will tell you how by C. McKenzie p. 3 popular poker has become in recent years. Internet qualifiers have risen MOVIES The Good Shepherd by David from nowhere to instant fortune and fame in the big Las Vegas tourna - Price and Catherine McKenzie p. 10 ments. Millions of players around the world log on to play poker every PRACTICAL POINTS Tech Trends p. 14 day from the comfort of their home or office. TOWNSHIPS CALENDAR pp. 14-15 But before the advent of internet gambling, if you wanted to play HEALTH Weight Loss poker, chances are you’d either be facing a long drive to an out-of- by Dr. Virginia Heese p. 6 province casino, or looking for an underground, home-based game. DRIVING A Cautionary Tale for Real world poker is not illegal in Montreal – certainly not when played Snowbirds by Jordan W. Charness p. 12 amongst friends who are not charging people to play – but it’s not REAL ESTATE licensed here either, so the Casino de Montréal doesn’t offer it. The Secret Life of Selling Agents There are no laws forbidding, or even seeming to forbid, Canadians by Barry Schreiber p. 11 from playing online poker. Some months ago, an act Eastern Townships Real Estate p. 15 passed in the US seemed to ban online gambling. In continued on page 8 Before the internet, gamblers used playing cards to play poker. Restaurant Review Maternally Yours New Restaurant Leaves Customers in the Dark Things for Kids to Play With: but Robin Hood Hits His Mark Food, Music and Snow by Stuart Woods by Annika Melanson With its curtained exterior and licentious slogan (“It’s better in the dark”), you’d be The holidays are over. If you are anything like me, you have overspent and over-in - forgiven for mistaking O.NOIR, a new restaurant on St. Catherine St. at Guy, for a dulged. The aftermath of it all can be a little anti-climactic, so here are some fun massage parlour. things to do with the kids during the cold (warm?) month of January in Montreal. A notice posted in the front window explains that O.NOIR is the only restaurant in Through the grapevine, I got wind of a new child-friendly restaurant with a play Canada with a “dark” dining room, where diners can’t see the tips of their noses, let area and all sorts of activities and ateliers (workshops) on site called Kavaloo . Kavaloo alone what they’re eating. continued on page 7 opened last summer and is owned by Anne Pelletier and Luc continued on page 5 2 – Vivva MONTREAL – January 2007 Happenings Vivva Montreal’s guide to what’s on around the island. Community Events Dame de Bon Secours Cathedral, ឣ Shane Philips , self-described “sultan Maison de la Culture Côte-des-Neiges, ឣ Films That Transform . The McGill 400 St. Paul St. East. Tickets and of soul,” is in town after a European 5290 Cote des Neiges. 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