Overheard at Whole Foods and outside the Santa Fe Public Library.

Booting cars, DNA testing cut, power outages, shopping locally, leaking locally and boozing locally.

 As the economy began to tumble last year, here at the Reporter we decided we wanted each week to look at all the ways money changes everything. These were the stories we hoped we’d hear when we made this year’s Annual Writing Contest nonfiction topic: Money Changes Everything. And hear them we did. 

Usually I am suspicious of plein air painters. Setting up an easel to work in public feels like an activity of the attention-starved, like bringing a book to a party. Besides, the art it yields tends to be less of the gallery caliber and more in the realm of the craft fair hobbyist.

 BLM's rigidity, passing out party packs to addicts and the vague back story of the New Mexico Free Press.

To hell with the breakfast burrito—the congee at Mu Du Noodles’ Sunday brunch is sumptuous enough to make me lie in print about giving up the tortilla-wrapped goodness for good. It’s like a plate of migas crashed into a bowl of miso in a display case full of fine spices and landed in a gift basket of Asian delicacies.

Like so much Hollywood product these days, Brothers is a remake—in this case, of a Danish melodrama that was released in the US in 2005. In preparation for the new version, I looked up some reviews of the original—which I hadn’t seen—and discovered I had in fact seen it.

By now you know the drill: Spending your money at local businesses keeps more of it in the community, pays for public services and supports independent stores. SFR is a big supporter of the shop local movement for all of these reasons—and for one other: Shopping locally is way more fun.

MVD learns about customer service, Cormac McCarthy pawns his relics, Police begin mobile ticketing and New Mexicans may need passports to go...anywhere.

Overheard at 315, William & Joseph Gallery and Santuario de Chimayo