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If the revelry hap- MOVIE REVIEW Mission: Impossible III pens to spill out of our living rooms and by Catherine McKenzie... p. 9 into the streets or the nearest neighbour- WINE: Big House Red (Ca’ del Solo), hood bar, so much the better. When it Sauvignon Blanc (Kim Crawford), Cabernet comes to the guest list, our credo is sim- Merlot (Sumac Ridge) and Chenin Blanc ple: the more the merrier. (Paarl Heights) by Carola Price... p. 8 Nowhere is this collective quest for cel- RECIPES Father’s Day Feast ebration more evident than during our by Anthea Dawson... p. 11 myriad summer festivals, from Jazz to MISSION MONTREAL Just for Laughs, but when it comes on the Casino (MONT)Royal cleated heels of a major sporting event, by Ashley Cotter-Cairns... p. 12 Barmaid Amélie Rheault serves up a pint to client Roger Delisle at the Cage aux Sports resto-bar continued on page three on René Lévesque West, where big-screen TVs will show all World Cup games live. Philly Stakes Maternally Yours Brontë Restaurant, Restaurant Garçon and Joe Beef Cafés and Sunscreen by Phil Price by Annika Melanson This column is to give you, the reader, epicurean enlightenment from me, a hum- My pre-child motto was: ‘cafés are for double espressos, not for ble lover of all things food. I don’t have a background in the culinary arts. I hold no double strollers.’ I used to cringe at the sight of a mother or father trying desperate- degrees from the Cordon Bleu, I am not a trained chef, nor have I ever owned a restau- ly to squeeze a heavily overloaded stroller through the narrow doorway of a coffee rant. I write about food because I love it. I love to talk about it, to cook it, to consider shop, and hoped that they wouldn’t sit near me. it, to smell and taste it. I have worked in restaurants as a bus- The Café boy, a dish pig, a waiter and a line cook. 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Soccer is a big deal to think really, really hard. We know it’s Cup in 2002. That’s not ington, DC, at the end the café’s clientele, says Elio, who been awhile). But for a more regionalized the case this year and of the 2004 season and declined to give his last name, and they’ll taste of sports frenzy in Montreal, it’s best Empari says Le Com- a lengthy struggle to be out in full force whenever their coun- to seek out some of the liberal smatter- plexe, formerly the retain its fan base. That trymen are on the pitch. ings of neighbourhood cheer that rise up Rocksbury, is commit- leaves the Montreal Im- ‘As long as Italy stays in it, we should in pockets around the island when a ted to showing all of the pact as one of the city’s be good, but it’s going to depend on how favourite team is on the pitch in, say, a 2006 World Cup con- two major-league sports they advance.’ World Cup soccer match. tests on its big-screen teams and major hopes When Brazil took the Cup in 2002, it The FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 TVs. for glory, making now wasn’t unusual to see the country’s flag runs from June 9 to the final showdown Same goes for the the perfect time to stand flying from the windows of cars parading on July 9, and, as always, Montrealers are Cage aux Sports on up and take notice of along the city’s main thoroughfares, paying attention, urging on their heroes René Lévesque West be- soccer. horns blaring. Such is the excitement of as they hoist a few among friends, either tween Bishop and Mac- In fact, though no- World Cup fever in Montreal. at home, or, quite often, in one of the kay streets. Though where near pandemic Even the retiring homebody need not city’s many sports-minded resto-bars. each of the more than half-dozen central proportions among Montreal’s often fin- worry about missing a match. Radio sta- To get the party started, the hot ticket in locations of the popular sports-bar chain icky sports fans, soccer fever in the city tion 940 Montreal has announced plans town was the kick-off party that the sets its own policies about marking an has extended beyond even the World Cup to broadcast all the games live and pro- German Consulate General of Montreal occasion like the World Cup, this one matches themselves, as La Lucarne, vide twice-hourly updates from opening threw on Friday June 9, at Le Complexe plans to extend its hours to accommodate Cinémathèque québécoise, TV5 and the day through to the final. on Bishop Street. soccer fever. Goethe Institute teamed up to mount a So although the actual competition is ‘We’re expecting a lot of people,’ Mike ‘We’re going to show each and every film festival featuring soccer-related taking place a world away, there’s really Empari, night manager of Le Complexe, game, even at 9 am,’ says manager movies in the run-up to the Cup.