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Comedy nights
come to Tugs

headiong into the roaring ‘90s and feel the need for

| F YOU are still trying to digest the 1980s before rushing
something to help aid in that digestion, behold below

some lighter restaurant items for consumption.

The regular four-course restau-
rant review will appear in next
week’s column.

TUG’S PUB AT THE LONSDALE
QUAY HOTEL, 123 CARRIE
CATES COURT, NORTH VAN-
COUVER, 986-6111

The ever-jocular Tug has decid-
ed to inject some levity into the
Quay atmosphere by launching a
weekly “Looney Nights” comedy
night starting at 8 p.m. tonight.
Showtime is 9 p.m.

TIMOTHY
RENSHA

table hopping

Tug, a well-known change-room
cut-up from everyone’s high
school days, plans to import joke
artists from around North America
to supply the boffs and jests for
local humor enthusiasts and
assorted chuckieheads.

Scheduled for the opening night
laughfest are Billy Mitchell, David
Bruce and feature performer,
Janice Ungaro.

Toronto's Evan Carter will ap-
pear at the Jan. 24 Looney Night,
while Seattle's Greg Moreland is
the scheduled feature performer
Jan. 31.

A guaranteed laugh and a half,
sayeth Tug.

THE KEG PRIME RIB, 134 WEST
ESPLANADE, NORTH VAN-
COUVER, 988-7158

North Vancouver's remaining

Keg restaurant is scheduled to

close its doors at its present loca-
tion on Jan. 28.

But fear not Kegophiles: a new
and improved Keg Prime Rib will
reopen approximately nine
months later in the new building
that will be built on the corner of
Rogers Avenue and West
Esplanade, adjacent 10 the present
Rib site.

The building will also house the
new central office of North Shore
Health.

The Prime Rib has been at its
present location since 1982.

It was the second Keg to open in
North Vancouver, and is perhaps
best known for its being across the
street from the cradle of all
Kegdom: the original Keg &
Cleaver restaurant, which opened
in 1971 in North Vancouver and
unleashed the Keg experience
across Canada and around the
world.

The chain, which was bought
out in the late 1980s by the
massive Whitbread brewing com-
pany, now includes 115 restau-
rants and plans to triple that
number in the next five years.

The new Prime Rib will be larger
and will include facility for out-
door dining.

CHARTWELL AT THE FOUR
SEASONS HOTEL, 791 WEST
GEORGIA, VANCOUVER, 689-
9333

Late tast year | took advantage of
an extremely generous offer to
break bread with the upper crust
and sample some excellent sparkl-
ing and still wines from California’s
tron Horse winery.

The glitterati and ! began our
dining odyssey in the Four
Seasons’ Le Pavillon restaurant

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

COMEDIENNE Janice Ungaro prepares, with looney is hand, for the
new Looney Nights comedy night at Tug’s pub. Scheduled to run every
Wednesday night, Looney Nights will feature comedians from alt over
North America . Ungaro will be the featured performer tonight.

with a sparkling brieting from the
tron Horse’s Joy Anne Sterling on
the winery's stable of bubbly. An
address followed from our host
Ruy Paes-Braga, who is also Four
Seasons’ regional vice-president
and general manager.

We sampled a 1985 Blanc de
Blanc, a sparkling made from 100
per cent Chardonnay grapes and
progressed through the 1984 Brut
Late Disgorged, made with a 60-40
pinot noir-chardonnay grape ~
blend, to the 1986 Blanc de Noirs
and and the 1986 Brut Rose, both
made from 100 per cent pinot noir
grapes.

The line-up provided a wonder-
ful armchair tour through top
quality California sparkling wine.

Works exhibited at Ferry Building

TWO WEST Vancouver artists are showing their
works at the Ferry Building at Ambleside Landing.

Featured currently is painter Heather Turner, who frame truck.

began her art training in the mid ‘50s- at
Loughborough College in England and continued her
studies at the Ontario College of Art and the Artist’s

Workshop in Toronto.

Images from nature in watercolor and mixed water

media is the subject of her shaw.

From Jan. 21 to 28, quilter Daphne Trivett will show

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SUSHI

1 Koji presents’

BUFFET SPECIAL

For your enjoyment, our Sushi Buffet features both
sushi and special foods prepared by our kitchen.

Downtown

a selection of her recent works and a soft sculpture
truck, a take-off of Vancouver Ernie Ruf's biblical A-

Since 1962 Trivett has created numerous bed quilts;
in 1976 she switched to making wall hangings.
Educated in the U.S., Trivett has shown her work at
UBC, the Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver Museum and
the Community Arts Council Gallery. She is one of
the founders of the Imagination Market.

pate: Jan. 28th (Sun.)
TIME: 4:30-6:30 6:30-8:30 8:30-10:30
(PM) 3:00-7:00 7:00-9:00 9:00-

(Maximum 2 Hour Seating Per Reservation)

LOCATION: 630 Hornby St., Vancouver
(BC. Bank Building 2h)

PRICE: $2 1 . 50 wsio.50 - He years and under)

INQUIRY: 685-7355

(Sorry No Discount Coupon Accepted) (e) if

Y Offwial Caterers ta saoan am wines

If you see any of the above in
your local Siquor store, | recom-
mend each of them for their
brilliance and effervescence and
dry characteristics, especially the
Blanc de Noir with its marvellous
fruit and fabulous glitter — just
right for me and the rest of the
upper crust.

The dinner that followed in the
hotel’s Chartwell restaurant in-
cluded such delicacies as Grilled
Vegetables with Swordfish, Pheas-
ant Consomme, and Roasted Veal
Short rib terrine .

Accompanying wines: Iron
Horse, of course, of course: 1986
Chardonnay; 1984 Cabernet
Sauvignon and a 1984 Blanc de
Noirs.

The Avalon Hotel announces the

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Nothing new
this July 4th

Born on the Fourth of July **%
(Universal) Rated R (at the Gran-
ville, Park & Tilford, Oakridge,
Scott 72, Coquitlam, Station Sq.
and Clearbrook Cinemas)

onderbread
helped build
bodies in 12 ways.

Mickey Mantle was a
baseball god. The way to
win the war against Com-
munism was through the
ultimate sacrifice. !t was the
mid-sixties when Ron Kovic
(Tom Cruise) traded his
box-boy job at the AP&P for
two tours of duty.

He ieft home thinking he was
john Wayne. But the Duke didn’t
kill innocent peasants and one of
his own men. And he sure didn’t
come back paralysed from the
chest down to be rewarded with a
nightmarish recovery ina
veteran’s hospital where rodents
outnumber the patients.

film review

Born on the Fourth of July is the
latest in the seemingly intermina-
ble aftershocks of Vietnam, and
this is the second from Oliver
Stone, who won an Oscar for Pla-
toon. This time, he’s collaborated
with the real-life Ron Kovic to br-
ing his story to the screen.

Ron feels he’s not whole. It's not
just because he’s a paraplegic, it's
also because his country has split
over the war. Police are attacking

See Joe
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return of its famous ...

PRIME RIB

Thursday nights
in our Bistro
For reservations
call 985-4181

$995

THE AVALON HOTEL

1025 Marine Dr., North Van