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Food on the Hill: Recipes From ‘The Messy Hands Cookbook’

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Food on the Hill
By FELICIA ORTH
 
This Week’s Recipes from ‘The Messy Hands Cookbook – Grown-up Tested and Kiddo Approved’
Copy of ‘The Messy Hands Cookbook/ Courtesy Felicia Orth

Los Alamos Family Strengths Network, a local non-profit organization, improves the quality of family life in our community through educational and fun activities provided to families, parents, teens and children. Susan Mack is FSN’s gracious and energetic executive director. Chit Chat and Change Diapers is a local group of parents and caregivers to small children, joined to create Read More

Classical Music World: Viva Baroque!

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Red Priest. Courtesy photo
 
Classical Music World
By ANN MCLAUGHLIN

Have you noticed the posters around town advertising the Los Alamos Concert Association’s next event featuring Red Priest? Maybe you assumed that the rock star poses, leather pants, and crazy hair mean they will be playing something other than classical music. Look again! You will see a recorder, a violin, a cello and a harpsichord. Not an electric guitar or amp in sight.

This flamboyant ensemble from the UK has taken the vibrant artistic spirit of the 17th  and early 18th centuries very much to heart. Below are the

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Pegg: New Year’s Exercise Program

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New Year’s Exercise Program

By KENT PEGG
Los Alamos

Another new year is upon us and that means that many of you will be resolving to get fit, lose weight, or improve your health this coming year. Good for you! There is no time like the present to start out on your path to a healthier, more fit life.

But often that’s easier said than done. If you don’t have a significant workout history it can be challenging to find the right exercise program and stick with it long term. Fear not because there are some things you can do to significantly improve your chances of succeeding with your resolutions this year.

First, Read More

Yang: Do Geeks Have Three Ears & Eight Fingers?

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Do Geeks Have Three Ears & Eight Fingers?
 
By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

Go figure. Right after I mentioned in the last column before the holiday that www.stumbleupon.com is one of the sites that can generally lift my spirits, I “stumbled upon” an article that impacts me like a particle landing in my eye. 

The title of the article is The Unspoken Truth about Managing Geeks, by J. Ello, “currently managing IT for the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University.” In essence, his view is that geeks in IT are logical beings, always pursuing the “right” answers and solutions, not suffering Read More

Smart Design With Suzette: Closet Organization

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A custom closet designed for a client by Suzette Fox. Photo by Suzette Fox
 
Smart Design with Suzette
Closet Organization
By SUZETTE FOX

Happy New Year! Many New Year’s resolutions involve getting organized. I’ve had requests to write a column on organization, specifically closet organization. It’s one of my favorite things to do!

Disorganization puts tremendous pressure on both the mind and body. Taking the time to organize your life can lift a great weight off of your shoulders and reduce stress. An organized closet can make a difference in reducing stress in the morning, whether it’s Read More

Solo Traveler: Testing Manhood

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The Matadors greeted by the Queen and her Lady. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
Solo Traveler
Testing Manhood
By SHERRY HARDAGE

My Cuban Spanish teacher taught us a lot about bullfighting when I was in high school; the purpose of matadores and picadores, how the bulls were raised, that the skill and the dance of the bullfighter made him a true artist. But in my lifetime I had yet to see a bullfight.

In September, 2010, my friend and I were in San Miguel de Allende for the Bicentenario of the Mexican Revolution. Bullfights are always part of those independence day celebrations. John had gone to many in Read More

Pendergast: Soufflé Is Not Magic

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By PEGGY PENDERGAST
Los Alamos

Does just reading that word “soufflé” fear and trepidation in your heart?

Soufflés are nothing more than little cakes and these little cakes are actually pretty darn resilient. Chef extraordinaire James  Beard shared that if you show “absolutely no fear … your soufflé will not fall”.

So with utter confidence, let’s make a soufflé.

A soufflé has a base, which should be highly seasoned to taste and a leavener (egg whites). These egg whites are instrumental as when whipped to their full capacity, provide the oomph and Read More

Hannemann’s Music Corner: The Language of Music

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By RICHARD HANNEMANN
Los Alamos
 
Music is a language. As such it has structure, context, idiom. As with verbal language it has phrases, subject-predicate relations, sentences, independent clauses, dependent clauses — it can even be said to have passive and active verbs, adverbs, nouns. In verbal language we spell words — in music we spell chords.
 
Music as language can be written or aural — you can read it, you can write it, you can “speak” it with an instrument, you can hear it. Most importantly you can think in it and communicate
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How the Hen House Turns: Safety in Trees

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How the Hen House Turns:
Safety in Trees
By Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

At age 11, there were times when I felt exposed in a world filled with scoffing eyes. That’s why, after basking in my brother’s accepting company as we walked back through the tall mustard flowers toward the house, I ran to the pepper tree.

My green dome world under that tree was all cool green and sunlight. The big horizontal branches, as wide as a stuffed chair, took me up and held me gently against rough bark. It felt good to be alone there, away from mirrors and everyone else. I could reach the lovely tree’s fine green veils. I Read More

This Week at the Reel Deal

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By JIM O’DONNELL    
Reel Deal Theater

We are holding The Hobbit, Wild, Into the Woods and Night at the Museum for another week.

We have been working on our broken projector for almost two weeks now and hope to get it up and running today so we can finally show Night at the Museum.

It has been disappointing to only have three screens over the holidays, but hopefully we are close to a solution.

Just after the holidays, we will open Unbroken, American Sniper, The Imitation Game, Paddington, Big Eyes, The Wedding Ringer, Mortdecai, and Homesman.

“Into the Woods” is Read More