I’m not sure why I wanted to starve myself. I like my body, and I take fairly good care of it. Granted, walking my dog is the only exercise I get these days, and the svelte, yogic physique I had once carved for myself has settled back into its natural, softer state, but I’m no body-hater.

While you might believe the fun ends with the arrival of school and the changing colors and temperatures of fall, there is still plenty to do outdoors. SFR chose 10 possibilities for stimulating and—most importantly—active events happening in the north.

True story: Somewhere in the South during the Great Depression, an old man lived alone in the woods; one day, for reasons unknown, he decided to host his own funeral. Now, he has a movie, which asks: By what process does a man become a reclusive codger? How might he unbecome one?

Santa Fe’s history as a center for arts and culture imbues the city with quirky character, bucket-loads of charm and an internationally recognized élan all its own. But the arts also are big business. So it’s a big deal when three major exhibitors of contemporary art bring new directors on board as new guardians of the avant-garde.

Movies have begun to teeter toward the kinetic, mile-a-minute logic that mimics the heart-racing pace of video games. But with Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, the video game has finally and definitively entered the movie realm. Scott Pilgrim is the ultimate 21st century meta-text.

One of the funnier scenes in Michael Moore’s last intentionally funny polemic, Bowling for Columbine, imagined NYPD officers chasing down shirtless Wall Street criminals for a show called Corporate Cops. Will Ferrell’s new movie The Other Guys is essentially an expansion of this skit except, you know, it’s a Will Ferrell movie.

In the grand scheme of things, we should have known it wouldn’t be so long after Breakfast of Champions that we’d be having Dinner for Schmucks.

Like casualties, war movies keep mounting. Now here's Restrepo, for which square-jawed, thrill-addicted journalistic-T rex Sebastian Junger and fellow war-zone regular Tim Hetherington embedded among a platoon of American soldiers in Afghanistan's "deadliest place on Earth," the Korengal Valley.

Several times last spring, I was approached by friends and strangers wanting to know if “it was too late to vote.” Being the dullard that I am, I would then dutifully launch into a recitation of all the various deadlines for the primary elections... Of course, folks weren’t asking about that. They were asking about SFR’s annual Best of Santa Fe Readers’ Poll.

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