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Your Window to the World

All Articles: Guardian News & Media Ltd 2013-22, New York Times Inc
Please note: the New York Times allows non-subscribers to read five articles a month for free

Our Recipe of the Month is for Kuku Sabzi, an Iranian egg and herb dish that can be eaten as a snack or main course. Often referred to as "frittata-like," the proportion of eggs to other ingredients is lower than what is typical for a frittata. The addition of flour and baking soda makes kuku sabzi a bit more cake-like, resulting in a unique and absolutely herbaliscious!

The Participant Observer Recipe of the Month is for Spanish Gambas al Ajillo. Only taking about 10 minutes to prepare this scrumptious dish is a very popular in tapas bars.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the San Diego Latino Festival. Understandably the pandemic impacted the festival, but we are excited to report that it has returned in full vigor with live film screenings and a number of exciting special events for 2023. This year's festival will feature over 150 feature-length films and shorts that represent a wide variety of Latino experience, both here and in Latin America. There will be opening and closing night parties (with live music), a festival-long art exhibition (Arte Latino Gallery & Mercado), an awards ceremony, a festival “village” of community partners and sponsors, and the return of the Sabor Latino Food, Beer & Tequila Fest (March 11) and more. Every year, the festival producers, the San Diego Media Arts Center, host a Media Kickoff party to introduce the festival and to provide an opportunity to talk with local filmmakers whose films have been selected for this year’s festival.

By T. Johnston-O'Neill & Miseong Kim
Photos by: Mariano Diaz & Miseong Kim

The Joomla! content management system lets you create webpages of various types using extensions. There are 5 basic types of extensions: components, modules, templates, languages, and plugins. Your website includes the extensions you need to create a basic website in English, but thousands of additional extensions of all types are available. The Joomla! Extensions Directory is the largest directory of Joomla extensions.

Components are larger extensions that produce the major content for your site. Each component has one or more "views" that control how content is displayed. In the Joomla administrator there are additional extensions such as Menus, Redirection, and the extension managers.

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These modules display information from components other than content and user. These include weblinks, news feeds and the media manager.

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