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Show r M 1 f N I ' J ZvifTTlTT VM v I 111 fL - - (fl) N f If Ml J VC - - N , J , L- -l FRIDAY, MAY 30, 2008 1 Elyssa Andrus EDITOR n ii Fans eager to welcome back 'Sex' More four-pla- y: A little over the top? Not if you're among the millions of dying to see one of the summer's biggest films. How pumped WALNUT CREEK, Calif. After all, as Wong likes to say, "We'd do up is Michele Wong over the "Sex and the anything for our girls." The girls, as if you had to ask, are Carrie City" movie? Well, pour a round of cosmos and let's talk. (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda To celebrate premiere night, the Danville, Calif., resident is planning a (Cynthia Nixon), the gal-pposse that spent six delicious seasons on HBO prowling Manbash with, oh, about 30 of her closest female hattan's concrete jungle in towering stilettos, friends. The women will be rocking their ultra-hig- h heels, big flower brooches and bagging various beaus. Along the way, they revolutionized television, became fashion aunameplate necklaces. There will be lots of fizzy cocktails, fun theme music, frivolity and thorities and put forth a convincing argument that being single is not a disease. fantasy. Chuck Barney Sex"-holic- CONTRA COSTA TIMES s Cat-trail- ), eandrusOheraldextra.com 344-255- (:- - When the series ended in 2004, there was lots of talk about a quick leap to the big screea Unfortunately, Cattrall and HBO couldn't agree to contract terms and the project fell apart. But in the spring of 2006, Parker met with r Michael Patrick King and ball rolling again. Now, the girls are the got back in a film that picks up four years after the series finale and finds our comely quartet "settled," as Parker has put it. Among the Her Carrie Bradshaw is planning a wedding with beloved Mr. Big (Chris Noth). Naturally, the fans are stoked. a ii nil . . Actresses Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker attend ' v. "" writer-directo- t " the premiere of "Sex and the City' at Radio City Music Hall on Tuesday in New York. v. plot-line- s: See 'SEX', EVAN AOOSTINI Associated Press D6 II-- 1 I' Cody Clark DAILY H l M HERALD elsey Nixon can't talk much about what hap-penea wnen sne went to New York to compete in J7 IV "TViQ Mnvt Vrsr Toh,rrrlr Star" for the culinarv cable empire that's home to such other programs as "Barefoot Contessa," "The Essence of Emeril" and "Iron Chef America." "The Next Food Network Star" pits contestants against each other for the right to host a new cooking show, and the competition is intense. "I definitely had a couple of moments on the show where I completely surprised myself," Nixon said. "I also had some of the opposite moments, where you think, 'I can't believe I just humiliated myself.' " The Nixon, who hosted 100 episodes of "Kelsey's Kitchen" on local cable TV (iProvo's Channel 1) while a broadcast journalism student at Brigham Young University, is contractually obligated to mostly say nothing about what happened in Season 4 of "The Next Food Network Star," which begins airing Sunday night at 10 p.m. on the Food Network. You'll have to watch the show if you want to know whether she won. You don't need to watch the show, however, or even have met Nixon, who graduated from BYU in 2007, to have a pretty good idea that she's bound for something big, whether or not it pertains to the Food Network. 'l See If NIXON, D6 you watch The Next Food Network Star What: Ten aspiring Julia Childses show off their culinary mastery and broadcast in savoir-fair- e a "Survivor"-lik- e nar- showcook-off- . reality Judges row the field each week, with the last chef standing winning the opportunity to host a new Food Network cooking program. I Season 4 begins: Sunday, 10 p.m. The Food Network Getting away from it all - sort of Gary A. Warner THE " . , i '" - " ' 1 . '' . ' - r4 "' MICHAEL OOULOINQOrange County Register Thert'i not much to do at El Capitan Canyon, a collection of tents and cabins for rent near Santa Barbara, Calif., and that's the beauty. ORANGE COUNTY REGIONAL REGISTER An oxymoron is a term that seems to defy itself. Like "nuclear defense" or "jumbo shrimp" or "working vacation." For me, "luxury camping" makes the list. the It's supposed to days of the Raj, camping in the Indian rough. A British lord on an African safari sipping tea from bone china next to his canvas home in the wild. Gilded Age Wall Street barons escaping the sweltering New York summer to "grand camps" in the Adiron-duckI've tried a few of these places TRAVEL over the years, with mixed results. One in Hawaii was far more camping than luxury, with the wind whipping my canvas tent. A spot in Australia r hotel was essentially a with a fabric roof over a unit on stilts that came with a $250-a-nig- five-sta- n television and a "menu" of daily hikes. Plus you're likely to get criticized by nearly everyone. Hardcore outdoors types call it "glamp-ing- " short for "glamour camping or "Cabernet camping" for its wine-sippin- g yuppie allure. Yet, those seeking real luxury are likely to balk at real bugs, real poison oak and "real" people on the other side of the thin canvas tent. I discovered a pleasant middle ground (not too rough, not too slick) on a November trip up the California coast to 300 acres of former Texaco company land that now drills for tourist dollars. At El Capitan Canyon, just above El Capitan State Beach, 108 cabins and tents are set along the kind of California coastal valley I knew well as a kid, but has been pretty much paved over as I grew and grayed. See EL CAPITAN, D2 |