Lifestyles

Dixie Girl Creates New Pub Menu

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Dixie Girl Restaurant at 1789 Central Ave., in downtown Los Alamos. File photo

Staff Report

New owner Victor M. Medina of the Dixie Girl Restaurant at 1789 Central Ave., has developed a new pub menu with weekly liquor specials. (See menu below)

Medina told the Los Alamos Daily Post this morning that the restaurant will be open late Friday and Saturday evening so people can treat their out of town guests to dinner and drinks.

“I also want to let the community know that we are going to start having entertainment and are looking for musicians, either solo or bands to play in the restaurant,” Read More

Community Thanksgiving Dinner at Elks Lodge

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Roast turkey. Courtesy photo

ELKS News:

The Los Alamos Elks in conjunction with the American Legion and VFW are sponsoring a Thanksgiving Dinner 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Elks Lodge, 1601 Trinity Dr., next to Sonic.

A traditional Thanksgiving meal will be served free of charge to anyone who would like to attend.

The dinner, which has been held annually for at least 20 years, gets rotated around to the three organizations. Read More

Sheriff’s Posse Flips Seasonal Surprise Pancake Sunday

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SHERIFF’S POSSE News:

When Sunday rolls around, you will no longer have to be cooking for your Thanksgiving guests. The Los Alamos Sheriff’s Posse will be serving up the monthly cowboy pancake breakfast 7-11 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 1 at the Los Alamos Sheriff’s Posse Lodge at 650 North Mesa Road..

Fluffy hot pancakes in a wide variety of flavors, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, juice and hot coffee will be served just in time to help entertain your holiday crowd. In addition to plain pancakes and perennial favorites such as blueberry, banana, and chocolate chip, the kitchen will be flipping Read More

Food on the Hill: Savory Monkey Bread

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This Week’s Recipe: Savory Monkey Bread

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 

Ingredients:

Around 20 frozen dough dinner rolls, defrosted
10 pieces of bacon, fried until crispy and then crumbled
2-3 oz of melted butter
2 cloves of garlic, pressed and added to the butter
Italian Seasonings
Thyme
Good parmesan cheese, grated fine. (Optional)
Piece of aluminum foil to cover the pan during the last part of cooking.

Directions:

Take each piece of dough and split it in half. With your thumb make a well in the center of each piece. Put a little bit of the crumbled pieces of bacon in the Read More

Shop on the Corner Offers Christmas Bargains

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SOTC News:

The annual Shop on the Corner Christmas Sale will offer holiday bargains on Wednesday, Dec. 4. The thrift shop sale is 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and includes both brand new and gently used  items, which the volunteers set aside all year. 

Holiday decorations, festive and new clothing, toys and games, books and music, linens, china and glassware, jewelry, leather goods, and gifts are some of the items that will attract scores of bargain hunters, collectors, and hobbyists.

Shop on the Corner thrift store is in the lower level of Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church, off Canyon Read More

Celebrate Green Friday in Los Alamos!

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ART CENTER News:

Feel like shopping a bit on Black Friday, but don’t want to brave the crowds, long drives, and craziness?  

Why not shop locally instead and celebrate Green Friday? Of course we encourage you to start with the 2013 Affordable Arts here at Fuller Lodge Art Center, and then move on to explore some of the “hidden” options for local holiday shopping in Los Alamos: the Co+op, PEEC, the Historical Museum gift shop and more.

The Art Center’s Affordable Arts show is a local holiday tradition. The Gallery Gift Shop spreads into the Exhibition Hall to create Read More

Crowd Supports Troop 22 Activities

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Sunday’s annual Boy Scout Troop 22 Turkey Roast  was held at the 50’s diner on Trinity Drive due to snow and ice conditions in the area. American Legion Post 90 offered the troop the use of the 50’s Diner for the event, which raises funds for the troop. Despite the stormy weather, a crowd turned out to eat turkey and all the trimmings and help out a worthy cause at the same time. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com

Boy Scouts help prepare Sunday’s noontime feast. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com

Hungry turkey eaters fill the 50s Diner Sunday. Photo by Leland Read More

NCRTD ‘Blue Buses’ Not in Service Nov. 28-29

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NCRTD News:

The North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD) has announced that the RTD “Blue Buses” will not be in service Thursday, Nov. 28 and Friday, Nov. 29 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.  Regularly scheduled bus service throughout north central New Mexico including Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe and Taos Counties will resume Monday, Dec. 2.

The North Central Regional Transit District provides free bus service Monday through Friday to a service area that encompasses over 10,000 square miles of north central New Mexico including the counties of Los Alamos, Rio Read More

UNESCO Sites: Irreplaceable Sources of Life and Inspiration

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Stones of Avebury. Photo by Jason Frazier

Terry Foxx of Los Alamos with her daughter Kerri Frazier, granddaughter Sydney and husband Jim Foxx gathered around one of the large stones of Avebury. Photo by Jason Frazier

Avebury, a Site Worth Visiting

By TERALENE FOXX

Our traveling family (Kerri, Jason and Sydney Frazier) frequently joke that Kerri should get a bumper sticker that reads, “Will stop for flora, fauna, cheese, and UNESCO World Heritage Sites.” Although it may be a joke, there is some truth to this. Kerri confesses “I am a serious UNESCO junkie and admittedly several of the places Read More

Los Alamos Pastor Broadcasts Live Nov. 22-23

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RELC News:

Issues, Etc. 24 will be broadcast live Friday, Nov. 22 and Saturday, Nov. 23 and Rev. Brian L. Kachelmeier, pastor of Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church (RELC) in Los Alamos, will discuss in the last block of two hours from 8-10 a.m., the Community Lament Psalms.

In particular, Pastor Kachelmeier will talk about Psalm 79, Psalm 44, and Psalm 89. You can listen live by going to the Issues, Etc. website at www.issuesetc.org from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 23 or download the entire two hour interview later this weekend.

What is Issues, Etc.? It is a talk show radio program broadcast Read More