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Friday, July 28, 1995 ENTERTAINMENT ft CALGARY HERALD Lit crif offers accessible read A cosy mountain cafe offers just right retreat i Casino OTHER ST KIKS kl 7 missing and left him facing an army of high-tech thugs. Yes, we're talking speculative fiction now, and that brings me to On Spec: The First Five Years (Tesseract, $8), an Edmonton-based "Canadian Magazine of Speculative Writ- ing." It made its appearance in ZZ 1990, and this anthology fea- tures most of the highlights. We're talking work by the likes of Robert J. Sawyer, M.A.C. Farrant and James Alan Gard- ner, so if SF is your genre, or even might be, check it out.

And let's not forget young IZ adult fiction, not when Welwyn Wilton Katz is producing novels like Come Like Shadows (Puf- fin, $7). Kinny gets a summer tl job at the Stratford Theatre Festival, but things go seriously wrong and leave her wondering could it be that the play MacI beth really does have a curse oiC it? Kinny turns up a magic mir-2 ror and finds herself in the past, where she meets Macbeth and three mysterious women who wield unusual powers. ZZ One reviewer described this one as "a demanding but ulti- mately compelling book for ZZ young adult readers who love to wrap themselves up in the glo- rious other-world of fiction." A Herald reviewer said it: "mas- terfully blends time travel, his- ZZ tory, Shakespeare and Come Like Shadows will delight and satify." Faithful readers of Canadian literature won't want to miss Beyond The Provinces: Literary Canada at the Century's End, by David Staines (U of Press, Ken McGOQGAN Herald book editor $15). It's that rarest of entities, an expert work which is insightful, challenging and even polemical while remaining completely accessible to the interested layperson. Staines traces Canada's movement away from "the colonial mentality that pervaded turn-of the-century literature." He explores Canada's literary relationship with the U.S., and argues that the creation of "our literary selfhood" has been complemented by the development of a distinctive critical voice.

In passing, Staines observes that Sheila Watson's The Double Hook marks the emergence of "the post-colonial voice in Canadian fiction." He suggests that novels about the growth of the artist are a sign of social maturity, and lets fly at premature, would-be canonizers, while contending that the Canadian critical position is and very definitely not too much and not overpoweringly blackened. The other choices of toppings for the greens are marinated and grilled chicken or Italian sausage. I had a bowl of smoky red pepper and corn chowder ($3) accompanied by some of Cilantro's fine, fresh grainy baguette (and nibbles of Lucy's sandwich and Ma's salmon). The menu is short and sweet but youll find a reasonably wide range of choices. The tasty food is done in the SouthwestCalifornia style of Calgary's Cilantro: ginger radiatore with spicy Italian sausage; linguine with tomatoes, olives and capers; three styles of pizza, including pear, gorgonzola and pine nut; and daily specials.

Desserts run the gamut from the clean taste of a summer berry pie to the decadent delights of creme brulee and chocolate brownie with ice cream. We shared the pie, made in a flaky golden crust, with ice cream. Along with the peace and quiet and the good food, Mountain Cafe also offers a small but decent selection of reasonably priced wines (most are in the $20 range) and a brew selection that includes three from the new Banff Brewery. Panino, the mountain cafe's companion bakery on Cariboo Street in Banff offers good bread and a selection of hearty, flavorful cookies and other baked goods. If you're in the neighborhood, stop into both places.

iece Lucy and Ma were still hanging around and badgering me to take them to the mountains, so this seemed an appropriate time to drop into Cilantro Kathy RlCHARDIER Freelance columnist Mountain Cafe, at Buffalo Mountain Lodge, which is a relation of the restau- rant, Cilantro, in Calgary. i Cilantro Mountain Cafe is charming and rustic, a small, cosy, log building with an open I kitchen, a stone-faced wood- burning oven and a delightful outdoor patio. We knew we were in exactly the right place. Forest odors drifted in the windows, commingling with a smoky wood fire and the seductive aroma of freshly baked focaccia. Lucy ordered the focaccia sandwich and it was the bread that had been just baked.

Then the pizza and sandwich maker covered one half of the bread with Gouda cheese, Westfalian ham and greens, folded and quartered it like a quesadilla, 'and served it with a mess of mesclun balsamically dressed Lucy loved it. Ma had the blackened salmon filet perched atop a gen-'erous helping of mesclun, also dressed in a balsamic vinaigrette The salmon was perfectly cooked not too little Master drawings being destroyed by ink RESTAURANT OF THE WEEK CILANTRO MOUNTAIN CAFE Reservations: TUNNEL MOUNTAIN ROAD, BANFF 262-6777 (CALGARY DIRECT LINE) Food: good. Service: good. Specialty: CaliforniaSouthwest Prices: Hours: 11 a.m. -11 p.m.

Credit: Visa, Mastercard, Am.Exp recommended. Parking: Buf falo Mtn. Lodge lot Disabled: I entrance ramp. Washrooms: clean, separate wheelchair facilities. No-smoking area: yes, smoking on patio only.

Licensed: yes. Herald Graphic The WONDERFUL WORLD of HORSES' ROYAL LIPIZZANER i A STORIES: Won Giller Prize Munro, all of whom are full of praise. Need I say more? Cut to Johnny Mnemonic, a novel by Terry Bisson based on the short story and screenplay by Vancouverite William Gibson. The latter has been made into a motion picture starring Keanu Reeves. Like the other versions of the story, the novel focuses on "the future's most wanted fugitive" a slick young 2 lst-century hustler with a storage chip embedded in his brain.

Johnny smuggles information for a living, but the code to unload his latest stash has gone tion. To the mixture produced from iron sulphate and oak apple juice, artists often added urine and alcohol to improve the texture. Over the centuries acid and oxidized ink have eaten into the paper. Louis Damen, head of conservation at the Boymans Museum, has applied for $3.25 million US from the European Union's Raphael Fund, set up last year following difficulties in finding funding in the Netherlands to help preserve Europe's cultural heritage. "Restoration is not a Pictures Presents ENJOY A "Smpfiony In Wfou" WITH THE "WORLD FAMOUS LIPIZZANER STALLIONS" naturally that of the "dispassionate witness." Staines's book has put me into a very Canadian mood, so let's turn to Casino Other Stories by Bonnie Burnard (HarperCollins, $15).

This one took the Saskatchewan Best Book of the Year Award (yes, I was on the jury) and was shortlisted for the 1994 Giller Prize. As the back cover puts it, Burnard "has a gift for recreating the tensions of family life and the frailty of love; marriages dissolve, parents fear for their children, young people face uncertain futures. Writing with deceptive simplicity, she seduces us with the familiar, only to surprise us with the unexpected and unnerve us with the feared." Meanwhile, what should turn up recently in the mail but half a dozen Ethel Wilson paperbacks, among them Swamp Angel, Hetty Dorval, The Equations of Love and Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories $6 or $7 each). Born in South Africa in 1888, Wilson emigrated to Vancouver at age 10.

She published her first book at 59, her last at 73, and earned major honors for her work before she died in 1980. These editions of her books come with Afterwords by such diverse readers as George Bow-ering, Northrop Frye and Alice Rijks Museum, the Boymans Museum in Rotterdam and the Maritshuis Museum in The Hague are known to be affected. They include a valuable collection of sketches by the early 18th-century French artist Claude Lorrain and manuscripts and portraits by German artist Albrecht Durer. Along with a number of artists of the early seventeenth century and later, Rembrandt favored iron gall ink for his pen drawings. They liked the ink's rich brown colour and ease of applica MI LIOKEA MIS Produced and by DOLBY SI LHCO r-11 1 STALLION SHOW "A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE EQUESTRIAN TREAT OF THE CENTURY" TOMORROW! 7:30 PM STAMPEDE CORRAL By Christine Aziz (InsightGuardian News Service) AMSTERDAM priceless collection of Rembrandt ink sketches Lin the Netherlands is being destroyed by the ink the artist used.

More than 450 of Rembrandt's seventeenth-century sketches are affected, including a famous portrait of his wife, Saskia, leaning out of a window. A further 10,000 ink drawings by mainly Dutch, Italian and French artists of the same period in Amsterdam's DAM GLOVER artists usedi priority," he said. "It doesn't pull ZZ in the tourists." 1 The money will be used over four years to find a treatment to halt the process of oxidization. A further $7.5 million will be ZZ required to restore the damaged ZZ sketches. An effective solution has so far-eluded Europe's art conservation-! ists.

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