Gallup Sun

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Navajo Technical University has hired J.D. Kinlacheeny as the school’s new catering coordinator, school officials announced this week. Kinlacheeny will oversee the school’s outside and in-house catering requests from NTU’s Food Services and Culinary Arts and Baking programs, Daniel Vandever, a spokesman for NTU, said.

Kinlacheeny has been working with NTU the past two years where he has run the “Healthy Cooking and Eating in Indian Country” initiative, which trains food preparation staff at Bureau of Indian schools on how to prepare and present Navajo foods in a healthy way. The experience is something that NTU culinary arts instructor Brian Tatsukawa...

The parking lot for Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe is the Sunday morning meet up place for vintage car enthusiasts. The event ends its 2016 season Nov. 20.

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Running Time: 118 min.

Director Denis Villeneuve has been on a great run. His previous films, Sicario, Enemy, and Prisoners have been unique films tackling deeper themes and raising as many questions as they answer. The science-fiction drama Arrival (based on a short story by Ted Chiang) may be the most cerebral of the bunch. Despite focusing on the mysterious appearance of alien spacecraft in locations around the globe and that have a worldwide impact, this tale manages to maintain a small and intimate focus.

The central character is Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams), a linguist who is called in as a translator by U.S. Army Captain Weber (Forest Whitaker)...

Rating: ««« out of 4 stars

Running Time: 123 min.

Director Jeff Nichols (Midnight Special, Mud and Take Shelter) has frequently taken on the fantastic in his movies. This includes kids with psychokinetic powers, criminals on the run, and persons with apocalyptic visions, all done while maintaining a low-key approach. His latest is called Loving, and it’s a very sweet and affecting tale based around a true story. It’s also a lot more traditional and straightforward in its approach than one might have expected.

This feature depicts the 1959 union of Richard (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred Loving (Ruth Negga), and their eight-year struggle to be recognized as a married couple in...