After much delay, it is time to announce the reason for our recent disappearance from Duke City Fix and the face of the earth: The arrival of the Grumbeckle!

The Grumbeckle was born August 31^st. She weighed in at 37 pounds and measured 3 feet tall. She arrived with an iPod in one hand and a

wireless mouse in the other.…

We are very excited to be hosting this ambitious exhibition with a First Friday opening on December 7th, 2007. Joie Villeneuve has created 2 enormous (6 ft. x 9 ft.) paintings and numerous smaller paintings. There will also be signed and numbered giclee prints available created by the artist herself. Villeneuve is taking the new ArtHaus66 gallery space to it's limit with a solo show featuring her latest paintings of lotus gardens.

The lotus flower symbolizes…

NOB HILL--Nothing has more potential than a brand new ristra. And nothing has more of a story to tell than a ristra with its top half picked clean. Yet few of these beautiful but tasty icons of New Mexico make it to the kitchen. This is the season for holiday tamales and huge pots of posole. You’re going to need lots of red chile! It’s time to pluck that string of dried…

• The Trib looks at the strains on local homeless charities.
• Supposedly reaching the mid-50s today. The cold…

I don't know how to say this delicately... but I have been told I shop like a woman. Remember- I didn’t make that sexist remark, others did. I like to shop. I like to window shop. I like to "for real" shop. (?) Clothes, wine, whatever. And contrary to what some may have been led to believe...I like to shop for others most of all.…

• Overall site traffic has doubled.
• The people formerly known as readers have created profiles, groups, and generally taken a more active role now that the technology enables it.

• Space alien tourism campaign upsetting locals.
• Recent snows left about an inch; Long-term winter forecast not welcome news for ski companies.
• Fire crews contain Manzano fire.
• Illegal immigrant…

Just got back from taking my daughter to her first concert - Fall Out Boy. (I guess the concerts at the zoo don't count as 'real' concerts.) Despite the awful drive all the way out to the Santa Ana Star Center, the hundreds of screaming teenage girls, the awful bands that opened up for the really loud Fall Out Boy, the $25 t-shirt, and the hell getting out of the parking lot - I had fun. Why? Because my daughter had the biggest grin from ear to ear the entire time. She sang every bad song,…

The weather hasn't been too cold until the other day when it snowed. Other trees turn colors and drop their leaves early. It was finally cold enough last night for the tree outside to drop it's leaves.…