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Solo Traveler: What The French Do Best

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Andouillette sausage in mustard sauce with potatoes au gratin, carrot puree, and salad at Restaurant Les Paves de St. Jean in Old Lyon. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
Joyce Nickols of Los Alamos in a self-cleaning restroom in Lyon, France. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
Solo Traveler
What the French Do Best
By SHERRY HARDAGE

The Michelin guide in France is known for its unfettered judgment of the best restaurants and chefs.

There are a maximum of three stars awarded to any given restaurant. When a chef loses a star, it is said to be as traumatic as the breakup of a marriage.

Reviewers who work for Michelin Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Intersteller’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“Interstellar” is an all-engrossing and vastly entertaining Science Fiction film, currently playing at the Reel Deal. Absorbed in it, one doesn’t notice that the film runs as long as two hours and 49 minutes. Writer/producer/director Christopher Nolan opts to keep the story in one piece, unlike many over-edited films today.

“Cooper” (whose first name is never given) is a NASA trained pilot who, after a horrific crash, becomes a farmer. He is raising two kids with the help of his late wife’s father (John Lithgow) in a dystopian future, where history is rewritten Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

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Column By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater   

 Due to Thanksgiving week we will be open for additional showtimes so please check our schedule closely.

 This Friday we are opening Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, but don’t forget our special showing at  8 p.m. Thursday Nov. 20. Tickets are going quickly.

Movie poster for ‘Mockingjay Part 1’ Courtesy Reel Deal Theater

On Tuesday, Nov. 25, St. Vincent and Interstellar will be leaving to make room for Penguins of Madagascar and Horrible Bosses 2, which both open Wednesday the 26th.  We will hold Read More

Food on the Hill: Sour Cream Dill Onion Bread

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Food on the Hill
By FELICIA ORTH
 
This Week’s Recipe: Sour Cream Dill Onion Bread
 
Photo by Felicia Orth

This Sunday is Family Bread Service at church. Congregants bring two loaves of bread from a recipe that is meaningful to them for cultural reasons or as a reflection of ethnicity.

Although I was aware growing up that my ethnic heritage was German-Swiss on both sides, there was no special focus on that history in my family. Nevertheless, the dishes that appeared on our table routinely and at the holidays spoke volumes: my mother served cabbage as a regular vegetable and made sauerbraten Read More

Yang: Putting Them All Together!

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Putting Them All Together! – Summary of the intergroup dynamics of the three-tiered system
Part 6 in the series on intergroup dynamics
By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

The first and foremost important lesson I learned from these simulations is that we don’t just occupy only one level or belong to only one group in any system. 

The top-middle-bottom resides simultaneously in all of us, but depending on the situation, we evoke only one level at the moment of that situation. The majority of the time we cross these boundaries without giving any thought to it. For example, a manager within a large organization Read More

Sunday Wellness Column: The Art Of Sleeping Well…

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The Art of Sleeping Well: Natural Solutions for Insomnia
By PATRICIA WALD-HOPKINS MSc, DABT, LMT, RMP
Holistic Wellness Practitioner

We all have suffered from lack of sleep at one point or another in our lives, and we get through it with some extra caffeine or whatever means it takes knowing that we will catch up on sleep later.

However, people can experience prolonged periods of poor quality sleep due to being parents of young children, having a job that requires shift work, having a high stress job, having a health condition or going through a big change in their life that evokes anxiety Read More

Regina Wheeler: PNM And Los Alamos DPU Propose To Buy Dirty San Juan Coal Mine; New Mexico Deserves Better

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By REGINA WHEELER
CEO, Positive Energy Solar
Times have changed since solar and wind power first became available. Across the country, the cost of coal is going up, and the price of clean energy – like wind and solar – is coming down. Employment trends are changing, too. Today, more workers are employed in the clean energy industry than in coal mining nationwide. Since 2012, New Mexico’s solar industry has added nearly 1,000 new jobs. Almost 2,000 New Mexicans now work in our state’s growing solar economy. 

As owner of a local solar company, I’ve seen the remarkable transition to clean energy Read More

Review: On My Own, New Autobiography By Dimas Chávez Beginning In Los Alamos

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Dimas Chavez
 
On My Own
Review By JOYCE JOSLIN WOLFF
Los Alamos

Editor’s note: This is a book review by Joyce Joslin Wolff who went to school with Dimas Chávez from 1944 through their graduation from Los Alamos High School in 1955. They shared teachers and experiences those many years.

It was 1943. A 6-year-old Dimas Chávez and his family from Torreon, New Mexico wound their way up the front hill road to make their home in Los Alamos. As the Manhattan Project was top secret they had little idea what living on the isolated Pajarito Plateau would be like. 

On My Own, a new autobiography Read More

This Week at the Reel Deal

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Column By JIM O’DONNELL 
Reel Deal Theater  

Reel Deal Tuesday’s are back! All movies, all day Tuesday, are only $6.50! Holidays, winter and summer break excluded.

This Friday we are opening St. Vincent and Laggies. We will hold Big Hero 6 and Interstellar for another week.

Book of Life and Nightcrawler will end this Thursday.

We tried to get a print of Dumb and Dumber To but we didn’t make the cut. If it turns out to be a good film we’ll try and get it for a one-week run in the near future.

Movie poster for ‘St. Vincent.’ Courtesy Reel Deal Theater

St. Vincent:  Maggie Read More

How the Hen House Turns: A Mothering Instinct During WWII

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How the Hen House Turns
A Mothering Instinct During WWII
Column by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

In the spring of 1943 we moved seven miles, from San Leandro. Calif., to an apricot orchard on Madeiros Avenue. It lay on 40 acres of rolling hills just outside the city limits of Hayward.

Those were the days when my mirror was telling me that 6-year-olds have big ears that stick out in front of braids that are never long enough. The horrid mirror also was saying that 6-year-olds have knobby knees that wiggle and frown beneath skirts that pull up too short or hang down to long on one side or the other.

Of course, Read More