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The Economic Cook: make dinner tonight for less than $5

After ringing in the New Year, many people have the ambition to improve their health by exercising and maintaining a healthy diet. My ambition this post-Christmas season is to maintain a healthy account balance. Last year, I realized how much money I was throwing in the trash in the form of unused food.
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‘Inherent Vice’ film review: an incoherent mystery

What does a film involving hippie detectives, neo-Nazis, drug smugglers and a missing rich guy create? Surprisingly nothing that exciting. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (“There Will Be Blood”), “Inherent Vice” is set in 1970 and follows private investigator/hippie Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix, “Her”) who’s hired by his ex-girlfriend Shasta (Katherine Waterston, “Michael Clayton”) to track down her missing current lover, a real-estate mogul named Michael Z. Wolfmann (Eric Roberts, “The Expendables”).
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‘Interstellar’ is science fiction at its mind-bending best

With the excellent “Interstellar,” director Christopher Nolan continues his career-long crusade against mindless moviemaking. This film is an artful, operatic science fiction epic with a potent emotional core. It’s Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Cosmos” on steroids, and my top winter break entertainment recommendation.
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The Weekly Dead: ‘Slabtown’

On episode four of AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” Beth, who was previously taken at the end of season four by a black car with a white cross, wakes up and discovers the former way of life: electricity, the ticking clock on the wall. She’s also startled when police officer Dawn and Dr. Steve Edwards enter the room.
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