Domestic partnership, outlaw texting, transparent investing, Frank Foy, Steven Soderbergh and the Railrunner's weekends.

“It’s like a library in here!” —Man to female companion in Border’s on Zafarano Drive “I’m serious, Mom, if people took their money out of those bailout b

Once (and future?) land commissioner Ray Powell argues against putting New Mexico's White Peak under the control of private interests.

If you want to see a movie about a family triumphing against the odds and glowing slightly, you are unlikely to do much better than Extraordinary Measures. If someone who has sex with you wants to see a movie about a family triumphing against the odds and glowing slightly, at least you’ll have an angry Harrison Ford to watch, and that helps a lot.

Sensitivity to electromagnetic fields or sensitivity to articles about sensitivity to electromagnetic fields?

Bombs instead of health care, Richardson takes a bow, not-so-gay bishops and colored sidewalks.

Overheard on the Plaza and at the Railyard Restaurant and Saloon

If anything seemed like a sure thing, it was the film adaptation of The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold’s mega best seller—it remained on The New York Times hardback best seller list for more than a year—directed by Oscar winner Peter Jackson, helmsman of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and, apropos of the dark subject of The Lovely Bones, Heavenly Creatures.

SFR's Alexa Schirtzinger joins the New Mexico Independent in live blogging the opening of the legislative session.

Investment Council antics, gubernatorial name-calling, tropical rain forests, political scions and legislative bar tabs.