This month's Socorro restaurant review features the Stage Door Grill located in the historic Abeyta building off of the plaza in Socorro, New Mexico.

Dr. James E. Hansen, a physicist by training, directs the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. On June 23rd, he addressed the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming; we present his full testimony here. If Hansen's remarks don't get your attention, nothing will.

As with the first three gatherings, the fourth National Conference on Media Reform went conspicuously missing on the pages, screens, airwaves, and cables of what attendees nowadays refer to as the MSM, mainstream media. My recent search of the New York Times website for their coverage of the conference went unrewarded. In spite of recent successes for the media reform movement and burgeoning numbers at the annual event, the MSM silence alone tells us there’s a lot of work yet to do.

The world's largest gold mining company, Freeport-McMoRan, recently donated $1 million to NM Tech's department of minerals engineering. That's the good news. The bad news is the company has a troubled history, and the money may well be tainted.

There are some books so important and insightful that they become instant classics and "must reads." Dave Wheelock, The Pencil Warrior, tells us of his pick for the must read of the year, if not the decade.

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory renamed the building which houses the operational staff for the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in honor of retiring NM Senator Pete Domenici. The renaming has not been without its share of controversy. Full video report here.

Socorro will soon have one less restaurant for high falutin' restaurant reviewers to kick around. Kentucky Fried Chicken, on the corner of California and Bullock Streets, will soon close its doors.

Congratulations, graduate. Now that you’re grown up enough to move on to the responsibility of a job, the challenge of college, or the promise of a career, I’m sure you can appreciate the story of how a lot of your elders still believe in the Easter Bunny. Hopefully sooner rather than later, you’ll discover the way the world beyond the textbooks really works – and about the economic fairy tale that currently dominates the everyday lives of virtually everyone on Earth.

With gas prices nearing $4.00 per gallon not to mention global warming concerns, we can't in good faith recommend driving from Socorro to San Antonio just to dine out. However, if you happen to be in that neck of the woods for other reasons - going to the Bosque Del Apache Wildlife Reservation, for instance - we've got just the spot for you to enjoy a tasty little treat: Acosta's Restaurant (at Acosta's Bed and Breakfast) in San Antonio, New Mexico.

With gas rapidly approaching $4.00 per gallon, this is a good time to start thinking about solutions to our oil addiction. Unfortunately, many so-called conservatives are now spouting "solutions" that do nothing to actually address the root of the problem, but instead serve only to further enrich the oil companies and keep us dependent on a commodity that funnels money to dictatorial (and unfriendly) regimes while simultaneously polluting the very air that we and our children breathe.