Richard Dargan

1 week ago | abqjournal.com | Richard Dargan

Bob Ross, the preternaturally calm, immaculately permed painting instructor, was an unlikely TV star. Over his 11 years at PBS, he made painting landscapes into a meditative pursuit. His tutorials were soothing and reassuring even for those who didn’t paint. Ross’ stock quote — “we don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents” — informs the philosophy at Happy Accidents, the five-year-old cocktail bar in Nob Hill.

3 weeks ago | abqjournal.com | Richard Dargan

When Sean Sinclair took over last year as executive chef at Level 5, the restaurant atop Hotel Chaco near Old Town, he had some big shoes to fill. Sinclair’s predecessor Marc Quiñones created a buzz during his brief tenure at Level 5 with his use of New Mexican flavors filtered through his Dominican and Puerto Rican roots. His efforts made him a 2024 James Beard semifinalist for Best Chef Southwest before he left to take over the kitchen at Ex Novo Brewing Company Downtown.

1 month ago | abqjournal.com | Richard Dargan

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1 month ago | rsna.org | Richard Dargan

Gadoquatrane Showed Linear Signal Boost at Lower DosesThe Phase 1 study focused on identifying a dose of gadoquatrane that would yield similar relative signal enhancement as gadobutrol, a commonly used macrocyclic GBCA, at 0.1 millimoles ofgadolinium per kilogram of bodyweight (mmol Gd/kg).

1 month ago | abqjournal.com | Richard Dargan

Few restaurants are as stitched into the fabric of a community as Barelas Coffee House. When Mike Gonzales and his late brother Jim opened the restaurant in 1978, the historic Barelas neighborhood south of Downtown was at a low point. The railroad business and all its jobs had gone, a victim of the switch from steam locomotives to diesel. An ill-advised urban renewal project had wiped out almost the entire neighborhood of South Barelas for an industrial park.