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This Week At The Reel Deal

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By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

This Friday we are opening Strange Magic and Mortdecai. We are holding American Sniper for another week. Big Eyes and Unbroken will end this Thursday. We have booked The Imitation Game for Jan. 30. Again we hope you can wait to see it at the Reel Deal Theater. I wish I could have gotten it sooner but that’s the best I can do.

We are hosting our third annual PEEC event, Back Country Film Festival at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22. Hope you can make it. There will be fun raffles and Pajarito Brew Pub will be there serving up some nice brews. All proceeds from our box office sales Read More

PEEC Amateur Naturalist: A Cup Of Tea, Ponderosa Trees And Forest Fires

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PEEC Amateur Naturalist:
A Cup of Tea, Ponderosa Trees and Forest Fires
By ROBERT DRYJA

Winter is settling in and I am enjoying a cup of warm tea. My mind tends to explore ideas far afield in these circumstances. The cup is filled about four inches deep with tea when a thought comes to me. Those four inches would make all the difference if I were a ponderosa tree. Now, what is the connection between a cup of tea and pine trees? Is it not apparent?

Since it is a pleasant winter day with sunshine, let us make a trip to see what is going on. Specifically, let us go to Burnt Mesa along N.M. 4, where a Burnt Mesa extends Read More

Mrs. Beadsley’s Jewel Box: An Introduction To Vintage

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Debra Lowensteil at Mrs. Beadsely Vintage Jewelry, 2101 Trinity Dr., Suite G. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon
 
By DEBRA LOWENSTEIN, Owner
Mrs. Beadsley Vintage Jewelry

I am Debra Lowenstein, the owner of Mrs. Beadsley Vintage Jewelry. I am new to Los Alamos, having moved here three years ago. Nine months ago I moved my shop up the hill from Santa Fe where I was in business for approximately eight years. This is the first of a monthly series of columns I will be writing on various aspects of vintage jewelry.

Since I now live in a town that, in general, appreciates the gift of knowledge, I hope my Read More

Smart Design With Suzette: Trash To Treasure

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Smart Design with Suzette
Trash To Treasure
By SUZETTE FOX

Have you ever thought about updating some old furniture with a coat of paint or adding something new to an old piece? Until I became passionate about eco-design, it never occurred to me.

Recently, I ran across a pair of vintage mid-century modern chairs at a local thrift store. They struck me because they had great lines but were in such a sorry state. I HAD to rescue them. I purchased the pair for $20 and drove off with a big smile on my face. I was very excited about the thought of recovering them and saving them from the landfill. Yay!

Better yet, Read More

How the Hen House Turns: The Carnivore Dilemma

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How the Hen House Turns
The Carnivore Dilemma
By Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

Next to the mayo-drenched BLT, I like chicken salad sandwiches best, even though I have come to know and to love chickens for who they are, far better than I ever knew a pig.

All this didn’t strike me until I was eating a chicken salad sandwich one day in 1975, some 30 years after I heard a pig’s death squeal on our World War II Victory Farm. Deep is the irony that lies in the nature of humans as both carnivores and animal lovers.

I had brought my chicken salad sandwich out to the picnic table because I wanted to be with my daughter’s Read More

Die Laughing At LALT’s ‘Murdered to Death’

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The full cast of ‘Murdered to Death.’ Photo by Laurie Tomlinson
 
Review by BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Some (okay all) of my family members are continually telling me I have no sense of humor. I prefer to think of myself as discerning where comedy is concerned. In any case, I’m generally a hard sell with comedy, so when I tell you I was rolling in the aisles and laughing my head off along with the rest of the full house at Los Alamos Little Theatre Friday for opening night of “Murdered to Death” it’s quite a compliment to the play and the performers.

The first of Peter Gordon’s Read More

Classical Music World: How Do They Do That?

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By ANN MCLAUGHLIN
LACA Artistic Director
 
After Red Priest’s phenomenal performance on the Los Alamos Concert Association series last week, several people asked me the same question: How did the ensemble transport a harpsichord all the way from Great Britain?

The answer: They didn’t. We rented an instrument for them to use. That sounds simple enough but the reality makes for quite a story. 

Harpsichords are notoriously finicky instruments. They don’t take kindly to being moved about or to temperature and humidity changes. They need to be tuned by a skilled technician before

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Grant: Taking Risks

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By ELIZABETH GRANT
Los Alamos
 
Become The ‘Da Vinci’ Of Your Own Life!

For many of us, the start of each New Year coincides with an enthusiastic commitment to improve our lives in some form of a New Year’s resolution. A membership at the local gym, more trips to the salad bar or pledges to cut down on unpleasant habits can each make for a commendable effort for self-improvement.

But what if our New Year’s Resolution was to become an artist, a sculptor and inventor of our lives, a Da Vinci? What if we resolved to jump into our lives more fully? In order to do that we must commit to move out Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

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By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

At 7 p.m. this Thursday,we are opening American Sniper. Friday we are opening Paddington and Big Eyes. Amy Adams won a Golden Globe for her performance in Big Eyes.

We are holding Unbroken for another week. The Hobbit, Night at the Museum and Into the Woods will end this Thursday.

We have booked The Imitation Game for Jan. 30. Again, we hope you can wait to see it at the Reel Deal Theater. I wish I could have gotten it sooner but that’s the best I can do.

We are hosting ourthird annual PEEC event, Back Country Film Festival, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22. Hope you can Read More

Food on the Hill: Irish Hot Potato And Smoked Salmon Starter

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Food on the Hill
By FELICIA ORTH
 
This Week’s Recipe:
Irish Hot Potato and Smoked Salmon Starter
(Adapted from Aherne’s recipe to increase the garlic and reduce the cream and salt)

My husband’s brother is married to Anne, an accomplished woman from County Cork, Ireland. In December 1989 we traveled to Ireland to attend the wedding of Anne’s sister, Carmel, and enjoyed the warm hospitality for which the Irish are well-known. I made notes about the meals we were served at the wedding, in homes and in pubs. This was my introduction to so many wonderful dishes: prawn salad, broccoli-almond Read More