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Food on the Hill: Victor and Frida

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Food on the Hill
By FELICIA ORTH
 
Victor and Frida
 
This Week’s Recipes:
Cold Chiles with Vegetable Stuffing and Christmas Salad

Victor Medina retired from the Laboratory in 2005 and acted on his dream of owning a restaurant in late 2013. He has made the Manhattan Project on Central a special place to enjoy a nice lunch or dinner in downtown Los Alamos. The menu is broad and reasonably priced. I love that I can design my own veggie platter, and my younger son is especially fond of the “Hippie Chick” sandwich.

I first met Victor as part of some special event planning. Our conversation Read More

Does Wilder’s Masterpiece Hold Up In 2015?

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Original movie poster for ‘The Apartment.’ Courtesy/prettycleverflims.com
 
Review by KELLY DOLEJSI
Los Alamos

 

Best Picture. Best Director. Best Writing. Best Art Direction. Best Film Editing – “The Apartment” (1960) swept the 33rd Annual Academy Awards.

 

Decide how it holds up to contemporary standards Thursday when the film re-ignites the big screen at Mesa Public LIbrary.

 

One of the last black-and-white films to win an Oscar for Best Picture, director Billy Wilder’s “The Apartment” is a quiet comedic drama about a man, C.C. Baxter (the young, Read More

School Board Candidate Outlines To-Do List

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By WILLIAM (BILL) HARGRAVES, Candidate
Los Alamos Board of Education

I’m a candidate for the Los Alamos School Board from the Aspen District. The election is Tuesday and I encourage you to take a few minutes during the day to vote.

We are facing many challenging issues and I want to share my immediate priorities:

  • Improve our response when students struggle. We need to identify focused and effective responses and remain engaged with students and families until students move toward success.
  • Tighten the strategic planning process and communication between the school district and the community.
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Pastor Granillo: Genuinely Human

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By Pastor RAUL GRANILLO
Los Alamos

What does it mean to be genuinely human?

Trying to discover our identity seems like it has caused more division than unity in our world. There are too many people today who have been told that their very existence is a mistake and at the very best they are certainly an inconvenience to those who matter.

There are far too many today who think that being genuinely human is bad thing. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Regardless of who you are, you were created by the one true God. He gave you life for a purpose beyond anything you might have imagined. You have great Read More

Pendergast: Homemade Broth On The Fly

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Art And Science Of Entertaining
By PEGGY PENDERGAST
Los Alamos

Snowy days warm my heart and one of the reasons is comforting memories of home-made soups, created deliciously with homemade broths.

Broths can be made on the fly, usually in less than 15 minutes! I will share here, just how to create a stock that will have you never buying “stocks” in cubes, boxes or cans again, and you won’t be ingesting unhealthy preservatives, chemicals and salts.

 I will hazard to guess that you have more than adequate basic ingredients right at your fingertips in your cupboards and/or

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Smart Design With Suzette: Bookcases

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Courtesy photo

 
Smart Design with Suzette
Bookcases
By SUZETTE FOX

If you are like me, I absolutely love bookcases in a home. I dream of having a custom bookcase built around a fireplace or a library dedicated to relaxed reading.

Most people think they need to fill bookcases with only books, and as time progresses, they end up asking me for advice. More than one client has asked me to handle an out-of-control bookcase.

It’s really quite easy to declutter, organize and decorate your bookcase if you have a little bit of time and a step-by-step guide to help you. Here are my guidelines to do just that. Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews American Sniper

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“American Sniper” may not be a movie for everyone. It takes the audience into a bloody war we don’t want to witness. It highlights of the life of Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history. We watch as he lines up each target in the crosshairs and decides whether or not to pull the trigger.

The movie takes essential highlights from each of Kyle’s four tours of duty in Iraq, his life leading up to his decision to enlist, his training as a Seal and his relationship with his wife Taya.

Mostly, though, this is a war movie. The scenes on patrol, sniping from rooftops Read More

Solo Traveler: You Just Never Know

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Solo Traveler
You Just Never Know
By SHERRY HARDAGE

If all we know about a country is from news reports and movies, it’s a guarantee we don’t really know much.

My youthful impression of India was that everyone was dirt poor and on the verge of starvation. I was shocked to discover Weight Watchers is big business in Delhi. The first time I ever flew over the ocean was on a trip to India in 1985. I went with my boyfriend, who was born in Lucknow. Our travels, to visit his extended family, took up the entire three-week vacation.

The way I met them all was at dinner and house parties. I quickly learned that upper Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Mortdecai’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“Mortdecai” is the kind of film one attends when in the mood for some light, sophisticated silliness. It isn’t getting great reviews, but perhaps one’s expectations of the film are a bit off. This is an art-heist caper in the genre of The Pink Panther, complete with incompetent thugs, misguided detectives and aristocrats behaving badly.

Movie poster for ‘Mortdecai.’ Courtesy/Reel Deal Theater

Mortdecai, the movie, is based on “Don’t Point That Thing At Me,” the first in a trilogy of books written in the 1970s by British author Kyril Bonfiglioli. Read More

TALES OF OUR TIMES: Herds Print News In Rocks And Politics

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The Coelophysis is the New Mexico state fossil. Courtesy image

By JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water

Herds Print News In Rocks And Politics

The New Mexico state fossil, the Coelophysis (SEE-low-FY-sis), is not your plain everyday dinosaur fossil.

The critter gets no leading roles in movies, though its adventures are top-notch for surprising turns of fate.  

Coelophysis was an early dinosaur of the Late Triassic period, some 210 million years ago. History shows that movie fans are drawn more to the Jurassic period, which came later. Bigger dinosaurs make Read More