The Year of Mugs
and Malbec?
When it comes to booze,
more and more Canadians are sacrificing quality for quantity.
It's the recession question on the lips of many penny-pinching drinkers: What pairs with
a meatloaf? The Globe's Beppi Crosariol looks ahead to 2009 and finds small consolation in former trophy-wine hunters turning to bad beer or fighting with the plebes over cheap screw-cap reds.
Globe Life, L1
Have jokes,
will travel
For comedian Ron James,
the country is his office
He's a Cape Breton native raised in Halifax who lives in Toronto. He's currently touring non-stop from Newfoundland to Victoria to promote a concert called Manitoba Bound. It's easy to see why the veteran entertainer calls all 10 million square kilometres of Canada his "niche market."
Globe review, R1
Take flight
on the cheap
How travellers will cash in
on the economic downturn
Falling hotel rates, cheaper
airfares and discounted cruises are all on the horizon for those looking to set sail in 2009, Douglas McArthur reports.
Globe Travel, R8
She owned
the night
Proprietor of Montreal nightclub
was a singer, actress and mentor
After dropping out of school at 12, Claire Oderra worked at a hairdressing salon, a soap factory and a film studio before presiding over the landmark Chez Clairette nightclub, where she went on to launch the careers of such famous Quebec entertainers as Robert Charlebois, Diane Dufresne and Claude Dubois. Obituaries, S6
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