On June 1, nine Democrats will compete for spots in four divisions of the 1st Judicial District Court, which oversees Santa Fe, Los Alamos and Rio Arriba counties. SFR asked all of the candidates to respond in writing to a questionnaire about their races.

Say what you will about Thomas Balmés’ documentary, but don’t accuse it of false advertising. Look at How Cute might also have worked as a title, but the director obviously wants some points for nonchalance. His film follows four babies through their first year of life.

Juliana Margulies looks terrific! Maybe it’s the way she’s grown into her 40s without trying to hide it, or maybe it’s the bangs or that Bronx dame eyeliner she’s rocking, but there’s something sexy and fascinating her in City Island, a new dramatic comedy. But that’s about all there is to see here.

Each year, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression recognizes the previous year’s most egregious acts of disregard for the First Amendment. This year’s “Muzzle Awards” are steeped in two key points.

Have you heard about that protracted, politically porky legal battle over moving a dead millionaire’s priceless, private early modern art collection from a wealthy Philadelphia suburb into a downtown tourist mecca? Perhaps a better question: Do you care?

The debate about how Santa Fe Public Schools should close its $6.9 million budget deficit presents a good opportunity to start thinking differently about how we deliver education in our public schools.

Kick-Ass comes to us with a little bit of built-in controversy. Its title alone—at once an adjective, an imperative verb and a proper noun—might strike some joyless fussbudgets as a touch too syntactically cavalier or just plain impolite.

What is the purpose, if any, of the nuclear bomb, that brooding presence that has shadowed all human life for sixty-five years? The question has haunted the nuclear age. It may be that no satisfactory answer has ever been given. Nuclear strategic thinking, in particular, has disappointed. Many of its pioneers have wound up in a state of something like despair regarding their art. Now a new moment, full of fresh promise but also with novel perils, has arrived in the nuclear story, and all the old questions have to be asked again.

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Director Floria Sigismondi has composed an artfully condensed cinematic snapshot that mercifully avoids most of the pitfalls of the celebrity biopic: herding the viewer through the predictable rote exercise of hitting biographical data as well as the rise, fall, and re-rise plot points—the CliffsNotes of a person, a summarized life.