Albertans can be doggone proud of three pooches who made it into the big leagues at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, winning best of their respective breeds last Tuesday. Grand Champion Rootin Flirtin With Texas, Champion Mystic Ava Gardner and Gran

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Ava Gardner was a huge star from the late 1940s onwards—and had the fabulous wardrobe expected of stars at the height of Hollywood's "Golden Age". Frank Sinatra was no slouch in the fashion department either, with a rakish style of his own. Her form-fitt

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I have a story in the Saveur March issue about Iranian food. My first ever Iranian meal in London may have been an impossibly glamourous one at Ava Gardner’s house (cooked by an Iranian friend of hers) which I describe at the beginning of my piece or it

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EDMONTON - GCH Rootin Flirtn With Texas, a coloured bull terrier owned and bred by Terrena Jacobsen and Glen Whyte of Stony Plain, won a best-of-breed award on Tuesday in New York at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. The top-ranked bull terrier in Ca

Gallery: World's top dogs compete at Westminster dog show. EDMONTON — Among all of the beautiful Borzois, dazzling dachshunds and foxy terriers at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, two Alberta pooches named after Hollywood stars stood out. Ch Mystic

Among all of the beautiful borzois, dazzling dachshunds and foxy terriers at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York City, two Alberta pooches named after Hollywood stars stood out. Ch Mystic Ava Gardner, a fetching three-year-old Shetland sheep

EDMONTON — Among all of the beautiful Borzois, dazzling dachshunds and foxy terriers at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, two Alberta pooches named after Hollywood stars stood out. Ch Mystic Ava Gardner, a fetching three-year-old Shetland sheepdog br

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The competition was fierce, but fortunately, the competitors were on their best behavior. Day one of the 136th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show drew a star-studded cast of characters: Tina Fey, James Bond, Ava Gardner, Giorgio Armani, and Martha Stewart

What kind of name would you give to an aspirational dog — say, one who’s in the running for Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show? If this year’s best of breed winners are any indication, you might want to name him or her after a celebrity

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Ian McShane appeared in 1970s Tam Lin-inspired film The Devil's Widow The ballad inspired the 1970s film, The Devil's Widow, starring Ava Gardner and Ian McShane. Dr Heddle said: "This lecture is about the shape-shifting supernatural creatures like selki