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Can't Buy Me Love

Summer shopping roundup.

Local Guides, Summer Guide Author Jennifer Palmer Date 05/27/2009
Summer Guide 2009

Thunderstorms over Memorial weekend may have delayed the first pool weekend of the season and rained out a couple of barbecues, but they also (hopefully) foreshadowed the monsoons Santa Fe counts on to cool off hot summer afternoons.

SFR's guide to Roller Derby, ice cream, music, swimming, golf, hot-air ballooning, movies & more.

Local Guides, Summer Guide Date 05/27/2009
Divide and Conquer

This summer’s movies can be separated into three categories, provided one is willing to make up three bullshit categories and put this summer’s movies into them.

Free to Be You and Me

A chronicle of free outdoor music for summer in Santa Fe.

Local Guides, Summer Guide Date 05/26/2009
Perfect Moment

Hot air ballooning only seems expensive until you realize it's necessary.

Local Guides, Summer Guide Author Zane Fischer Date 05/26/2009
You Can Take the Heat

Wherein Chef Johnny Vee teaches a sad bachelor how to cook. And how to date.

Local Guides, Summer Guide Author Justin Nyberg Date 05/26/2009
The Empress of Ice Cream

It’s a yummy job, but somebody’s gotta do it. Santa Fe offers many varieties of cold treats—ice cream, gelato, frozen yogurt, ice pops—so the hardest part about finding the good stuff is simply choosing from the many options.

Local Guides, Summer Guide Author Charlotte Jusinski Date 05/26/2009
Ocean Bound

Puerto Peñasco is a former fishing village-turned-vacation-destination, a mere 12 hours away from Santa Fe or, if you’re traveling in a minivan with two kids, the journey translates to about eight DVDs with some time added for bickering as to whether Iron Man’s Robert Downey Jr. beats School of Rock’s Jack Black when it comes to charisma and believability.

Local Guides, Summer Guide Author Rob Wilder Date 05/26/2009
Be An Outsider

The Santa Fe Botanical Garden's many satellites offer solace among nature that other people mercifully maintain.

Local Guides, Summer Guide Author Patricia Sauthoff Date 05/26/2009
Joining the Club

This was supposed to be a “hilarious tale of misery and humiliation on the green.” At least, that’s how I pitched the story. But I made a gross miscalculation when I thought Nettles, the head golf pro at Marty Sanchez Links de Santa Fe, was gonna be the guy to help me with that plan