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Column: Anywhere But Here

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By KAY KERBYSON
Formerly of Los Alamos

“I want to go home”. Those were my Mom’s most memorable words, after “I love you”, just before she passed away from cancer.

At that moment, I thought I knew exactly what she meant. It was physical, not a call to God to take her, but a wish to be back in the house she had lived the majority of her adult life; the house where
she raised her two kids and watched them go off into the world; where she worked from and happily retired in. It was the home she shared with my Dad and the one in which she outlived him. Home
in every sense of the word.

So it came as somewhat of a shock, when one Read More

Food On The Hill: Oatmeal Raisin Walnut Cookies

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By FELICIA ORTH
Los Alamos

Oatmeal Raisin Walnut Cookies

With cookies, it seems sometimes that the population can be divided into two teams—those whose favorite cookie is the chocolate chip, and those who prefer oatmeal raisin. Count me as an oatmeal raisin team member. Even my chocolate chip cookies are simply oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips instead of raisins. (Try it! Delicious, if initially confusing. The chocolate chip team members usually examine them suspiciously, pointing at the dark bits, “What are those? Are there any raisins in here?”)

Predictably, the best recipe Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews: Insurgent

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Smart Design With Suzette: Quick And Inexpensive Ways To Change Up A Room

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Newly updated living room. Courtesy photo
 
Smart Design with Suzette
By SUZETTE FOX
 
Quick and Inexpensive Ways to Change Up a Room

Looking around my office today, I felt the need to change it up. I painted the walls a beautiful blue two years ago, but after spending many hours in it each day, I need a visual change. I want a quick and inexpensive update. I’m sure some of you feel the same way about rooms in your home. Take heart, there are solutions – ones that won’t break the bank.

Interior designers know that a home is a constant work in process. Styles change. Tastes change. That’s why it’s Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Cinderella’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“Cinderella”, Disney’s 2015 remake of the much-remade story, is actually not bad. Although there are parts of the film that are obviously for children and pre-teen girls, adults who remember with fondness the animated Disney film of the same name will find some happy memories here.

Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) makes it possible for this live action film to incorporate visual magic.

The list of delights found in this film version of the classic fairy tale would have to start with the CGI transformations of the mice, lizards, and goose into the horses, footmen Read More

Pastor Granillo: The Bigger Picture

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By Pastor RAUL GRANILLO
Los Alamos

The Bigger Picture

A.W. Tozer once said, “The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.”

In the same way that a puzzle’s picture cannot be fully seen without all of the pieces, the scriptures in the Bible cannot be fully understood unless they are in context with the rest of the Bible.

Paul tells Timothy that the holy Scriptures, “are able to make you wise for salvation Read More

Cinema Cindy: ‘The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’

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Review by CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” is an equally entertaining sequel to the first film of the same enterprise. Like the “First Exotic Marigold Hotel” which gained much acclaim in 2011, “The Second” features Judy Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy and a few other British character actors, all of whom have chosen to retire in this hotel in Jaipur, India. Their relationships with one another and their adventures in India create the vignettes in this ensemble film.

But the story holding all the vignettes together is the impending wedding of Sonny (Dev Patel), Read More

Mrs. Beadsley’s Jewel Box: Vintage Costume Jewelry – What’s It Made Of?

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By DEBRA LOWENSTEIN, Owner
Mrs. Beadsley Vintage Jewelry

This month’s column is about the materials vintage costume jewelry is made from.

You may have inherited a piece of jewelry from your grandma or you might have bought a piece of old jewelry at a flea market that intrigued you, and now you are wondering what it’s made of. One thing is certain: if it’s costume jewelry it will not be made of precious metal such as gold or platinum and it will not be set with fine gemstones.

So what materials are commonly used to produce costume jewelry?

Costume jewelry can be made of a great many Read More

Fitness Column: Time To Get Started

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By KENT PEGG
Los Alamos

One of the hardest parts of anyone’s workout program is getting it started. We all know the benefits of regular exercise but for many getting started can be the most difficult step to take.

Not having enough time, not having enough exercise knowledge, and not having enough energy are three of the most common cases people give as to why they never get going on an exercise program.

First, you can make time to exercise if you want to. I know it’s difficult to add one more thing into our already busy lives, but this is just too important to neglect. We make time for going to the coffee shop, Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

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By Jim O’Donnell
Reel Deal Theater

This Friday we are opening The Second Best Marigold Hotel (one week only) and The Divergent Series: Insurgent. We will hold Cinderella and Run All Night for one more week. Still Alice and Chappie will end this Thursday.

Movie poster for ‘The Second Best Marigold Hotel.’ Courtesy Reel Deal Theater

 The Second Best Marigold Hotel: Now that The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is full up with its long-term residents, co-managers Muriel Donnelly (Maggie Smith) and Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel) have a dream of expansion, Read More