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With daytime temperatures in the triple digits, it's the perfect time for one of my favorite warm-weather dishes: pasta primavera. --- It's a dish originally created and popularized by the New York City restaurant Le Cirque in the 1970s, where it was prepared tableside, and is still one of the great pasta dishes ever invented.�
Wine-glass holders, plush blankets and polite small talk abounded as the sold-out crowd waited for Steve Martin and his bluegrass quintet The Steep Canyon Rangers to grace the stage at Deer Valley on Friday night.
It seemed like a foregone conclusion that R.I.P.D. would take the Hack Stamp race in a crowded field, but it's Turbo instead making the underdog move across the finish line. Despite plenty of "R.I.P.D. is D.O.A." headlines -- and we've been clear in the past that writers don't get tagged for their editors' pun-filled choices -- the critics themselves mostly avoided the groaners when writing about the late-screening supernatural action-comedy (though kudos to regular Hack Stamp-er Mike Scott of the New Orleans Times-Picayune for stepping up with "R.I.P.D. puts the 'R.I.P.' in ripoff.”
