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Food On The Hill: Red Green Chile With Corn, Mushrooms And Goat Cheese

Red and green chile with corn, mushrooms and goat cheese. Photo by Felicia Orth
 
Roasted red chile. Photo by Felicia Orth
 
Food On The Hill
By FELICIA ORTH

Red Green Chile With Corn, Mushrooms And Goat Cheese

I get as excited as any New Mexican in the summer when first greeted at the market by the smell of roasting green chiles, the whoosh of the flames, and the crackling of the blistering pepper skin.

I get just as excited at the end of the chile roasting season, right about now, because this is the time the green chile is ripening to deep red. This is when I purchase my sacks of chile for the freezer, Read More

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Letter To The Editor: Donations Pour In Following Theft At Los Alamos Historical Museum

By HEATHER MCCLENAHAN
Executive Director
Los Alamos Historical Society

By now many of your readers may know that a theft occurred at the Los Alamos Historical Museum Friday, Sept. 25.

The good news is no one was hurt and no objects were taken from the museum. However, we did have a beautifully crafted, wooden donation box—made by one of our volunteers—which was torn apart, and the cash donations inside were stolen.

The theft received a significant amount of attention on social media over the weekend, and the response from the community, both far and near, has been tremendous. We have received donations Read More

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How The Hen House Turns: Nesting

How the Hen House Turns
By CAROLYN (CARY) NEEPER Ph.D.
 
Nesting

David Attenborough has hosted a special on PBS called “Animal Dwellings”, which reminds us that we are not alone in needing shelter or knowing how to construct it.

Beavers do a fine job of building dams and water lodges that contain a vented family room, a mud room, and a moat to protect it all.

But it is the birds that practice a wide variety of specialized architectural skills. We are amazed at the Merganser ducks that hatch in a hollow tree and jump 50 feet out of the nest when mother calls for a walk through the woods to water.

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Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘The Intern’

By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB

“The Intern” stars two of our better contemporary actors, Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway, as a retired businessman and the successful founder of an online start up.

The send up is that De Niro’s 70-year-old character, Ben Whittaker, needing something more to do with his life, applies and gets accepted for a “senior intern” program at (Hathaway’s much younger character) Jules Ostin’s company.

Movie poster for ‘The Intern.” Courtesy Reel Deal Theater

The tag line for the film, “Experience never gets old,” is descriptive of the plot. Ben Whittaker’s 40 years Read More

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Yang: Buy, Buy, Buy … Now, Now, Now

By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

Buy, Buy, Buy … Now, Now, Now

Do consumers help shape the work environment? In some ways, of course; yet, most of us as consumers feel pretty helpless about getting quality service most of the time. 

In that light, Amazon’s success, at least as of now, could not have been possible were it not for its ferocious customer-focus operations. So, consumers definitely have helped determine the working conditions at Amazon. The evolution of their customer services has been groundbreaking for sure, and as a consumer, I have been part of their equation. 

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Pastor Granillo: Life Imitating God

By Pastor RAUL GRANILLO
Los Alamos

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” –Oscar Wilde

I am a Gen-Xer. I was part of that group that grew up on hairbands, Nike Pumps, Goonies, and MTV. What I remember most about my youth is so desperately trying to stay in touch with the pop-culture. Fashions and slangs seemed to change more often than my shoe size did; and surviving Jr. High and High School meant never missing the newest fad. I had to really be careful which “artist” I imitated. In hindsight, I made a good choice in jamming to Metallica rather than to The New Kids on the Block.

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TALES OF OUR TIMES: Chronic Bias Is Hardwired

Tales of Our Times
By JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water

Chronic Bias Is Hardwired

In partisan issues, which are most issues, the mind judges “our side” and “their side” in wholly different ways.

At last, hard data confirm the stubborn trait. Physical science can now see the biased brain doing its dark deeds. We watch it simply sidetrack anything that helps an opposing view.

A study at Emory University shows how the biased brain physically throws away annoying evidence. This revelation may help or not. Still, the contortions of the reflex that trashes evidence are worth

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