Overheard on W. San Francisco Street, Canyon Road and at Corazón.

Gentle prodding, more coffee, manning up and still more coffee.

I don’t want to be one of those alarmist film critics always telling you how to live but, seriously, we are rapidly depleting the world’s supply of teenage sex comedies. If we don’t stop soon, there may be no boner jokes left for our children’s children.

Dog pardoning, pecan problems, impending red light cams and special holiday salary cuts.

Overheard at the Farolito Walk and at Chocolate Maven

Corey Pein alleged to be "courteous," mayor alleged to be "prompt" and shade-grown coffee alleged to taste "better."

When you live above the clouds, the forecast is always sunny. So that’s where George Clooney’s Up in the Air hero chooses to exist: in a mile-high club accessed by frequent-flyer platinum cards. As a means to this lifestyle, he soothingly executes mass layoffs for cubicle farms, confiscating the key-cards of the newly fired on their way out the door.

Richardson plays reindeer games, task force lobbies to tax food, unemployment fund is broke, UNM is overpaid and potholes abound, as do criminals.

Overhead at Borders, Albertsons and San Miguel Mission church.

2009 began with celebratory optimism as Santa Fe watched—along with the rest of the world—the inauguration of President Barack Obama. The Champagne glasses didn’t get much more use as the year unfolded. As the economy tumbled, with it came the housing market, the job market and the public pocketbook. SFR's Top 10 stories of the year.