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• ADAM REILLY
  - Media -- Dont Quote Me - Poor reception
  The right loves to rant against the "liberal-media elite," but there's one key media sector where the conservative id reigns supreme: talk radio.
• BETSY SHERMAN
  - Reviews - Review: Mystery Team
  Indie comedy has it tough in the marketplace, so though it's no fun to pan the first feature by the Derrick Comedy troupe, neither was it fun to watch Mystery Team .
• BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS
  - Letters - Acid flashback
  Don Lattin may be right that the “most important” experiments of Timothy Leary’s Psilocybin Project took place at 64 Homer Street, in Newton.
• BRETT MICHEL
  - Reviews - Review: When In Rome
  Exhibits neither an eye nor an ear for comedy.
• BRIAN MCFADDEN
  - Big Fat Whale - Big Fat Valentines 2010
  Be my porno
• CHRIS FUJIWARA
  - Reviews - Review: Petition
  This distressing documentary explores a netherworld of individuals who have come to Beijing from all over China hoping that their grievances against their local governments will be heard.
• DAVID KISH
  - Hoopleville - The ringworm has turned
  Stay vigilant, and ringworm-free!
• DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
  - Talking Politics - Bay State's top lobbyists
  Nearly everyone in Massachusetts felt the pinch of the recession in 2009 — even Beacon Hill lobbyists had to tighten their belts.
• DAVID SIPRESS
  - Reality Check - Internet Slang
  Laughing online
• EDITORIAL
  - The Editorial Page - Impeach John Roberts
  It is time for an enterprising and courageous member of the US House of Representatives to file articles of impeachment against the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts. The charge: lying under oath.
• ERIN BALDASSARI
  - Live Reviews - Photos: Anya Marina at Jose McIntyre's
  Photos of Anya Marina performing at WFNX and Coors Light Snoriders show on Thursday, January 21, 2010
• HARVEY SILVERGLATE
  - News Features - Free speech for me, but not for thee
  Last Thursday's Supreme Court opinion striking down corporate campaign advertising restrictions might as well have been divorce papers in the rocky marriage between the political left and the First Amendment.
• KARL STEVENS
  - Failure - He's so insecure it's making me ill
  Sounds like someone's in the market for a new mommy.
• LANCE GOULD
  - Features - Rainbow Nation
  After a torturous history of being treated like second-class citizens, the black population in this country stunned the world by pulling off the unimaginable: voting a black man in as president.
• LASER ORGY
  - Television - Live chat of Lost
  An ongoing, interactive, discussion on the final season of the most popular TV show
• LUCY SHERMAN
  - Live Reviews - Photos: Mariah Carey at the Wang Theatre
  Photos of Mariah Carey on her 2010 world tour
• MARCUS GUTTENPLAN
  - Museum And Gallery - Photos: AMALGAM and Different Kind of Monster at BCA
  Photos from opening night in the Mills Gallery at BCA
• MARIANNA FAYNSHTEYN
  - This Just In - Orwell and Shakespeare in a Minute
  "I thought we were going to be talking about windmills," Jenny Sawyer mutters as she looks into the camera, sandwiched between two pigs.
• MATT BORS
  - Idiot Box - Wink!
  The GOP pulled a Coup D'e Tea Bag on the Massachusetts Senate Seat.
• MATT PARISH
  - Music Features - Oddballs
  Even if they had closed up shop 15 years ago, the Residents would go down as some of rock's most prolific pranksters. They aped the Beatles on their 1974 debut, Meet the Residents , tormented short attention spans with 40-minute songs on 1980's The Commercial Album , and skewered standards by everyone from James Brown to John Philip Sousa along the way.
• MATT TAIBBI
  - Sports - Bengals and Bulldogs
  There hasn't been a whole lot to cheer about in New England Patriots country of late, and I'm not sure that this will fit the bill, but let's try it on for size.
• MC SLIM JB
  - On The Cheap - The Spot Café
  Your typical cheap-eats reviewer spends a lot of time in diners: they're America's original inexpensive quick-service restaurants, and most are a step up from modern fast-food franchises.
• MICHAEL NEEL
  - Features - Video: 2010 horror movie previews
  Will 2010 be a festive romp of eye-gouging, throat-slitting, and disemboweling?
• MICHAEL PATRICK BRADY
  - CD Reviews - Pit Er Pat | The Flexible Entertainer
  Pit Er Pat, the minimalist duo of Fay Davis-Jeffers and the dubiously named Butchy Fuego, have pared down their sound in search of simple beauty, but the result is an icy album utterly lacking in energy.
• MITCH KRPATA
  - Videogames - Review: Army of Two: The 40th Day
  When I reviewed the original Army of Two , I found myself in the unfamiliar position of being the guy who liked something everybody else hated (as opposed the guy who hated something everybody else liked).
• NINA MACLAUGHLIN
  - Books - Small wonders
  The books — a quartet of them, each five-by-five, smaller than a CD case — feel like treasures, handsome little volumes, a different gem of a story in each.
• PETER KEOUGH
  - Reviews - Review: Frozen
  A storm is coming, the girl has to pee, and then things get much worse.
• PETER SIMON AND DAVID BIEBER
  - This Just In - Photos: Howard Zinn and memorabilia
  Photos of Howard Zinn, courtesy of Peter Simon, and Zinn memorabilia from the archives of the  Phoenix 's David Bieber
• RAYMOND MUNGO
  - This Just In - Howard Zinn: 1922-2010
  Howard Zinn was a fearless revolutionary, but also a father-figure and family man.
• ROBERT NADEAU
  - Restaurant Reviews - Skara Grill
  Having longed for an all-out Greek dining room in metro Boston since, well, almost since the Phoenix was reviewing plays by Euripides and protesting the Peloponnesian War, I finally hit Dionysos in Cambridge about a year before it closed in 2007.

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THE PHOENIX MEDIA/COMMUNICATIONS GROUP
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The Phoenix Media/Communications Group is a family of companies that work together to reach people who share a similar lifestyle. Cooperatively, they create a unique atmosphere for our readers. Our company reflects a commitment to new ideas rooted in a solid and broadly cooperative business model. Put simply, we think this is the way new media works.

The Phoenix and thePhoenix.com
The Boston Phoenix was started in 1966 as a four-page arts-and-entertainment alternative newsweekly. Today, it is one of the largest publications of its kind in the country. The Phoenix is nationally known for its award-winning, incisive journalism and publishes the most comprehensive arts-and-entertainment listings of any paper in New England.

Over the years, the Phoenix has received many awards for excellence in journalism, including honors from the New England Press Association, the Penny-Missouri Newspaper Awards, the American Bar Association Gavel Awards, and the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards. In 1994, Phoenix classical-music writer Lloyd Schwartz was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism.

In 1988, the Phoenix got into expansionist gear by acquiring the NewPaper in Rhode Island. In 1993, the NewPaper was re-christened the Providence Phoenix. In September of 1999, the paper extended its reach into Maine and Southern New Hampshire with the publication of the Portland Phoenix. Today, total Phoenix circulation is 253,000.

The Phoenix Web site features 90% of the paper's content posted online every week, and it is searchable and archived. We've won a host of critical awards for both our layout and content.

El Planeta Newspaper
Since its inception in May 2004, El Planeta has become the leading publication for the Hispanic market in Massachusetts. El Planeta is the only audited newspaper in Spanish in the Massachusetts and Greater Boston DMA. It is a newspaper with editorial integrity and a real mission: to inform, educate and unite the Hispanic community with other communities in the region. Read El Planeta on the web: http://npaper-wehaa.com/elplaneta

FNX Radio Network
In 1983, 101.7 WFNX signed on the air in Boston to provide listeners with the best in new music and comprehensive coverage of arts and entertainment. People quickly took notice and tuned in, and the fledgling station was soon recognized nationally as a pioneer in the alternative music format. Broadcasting worldwide at fnxradio.com and over the airwaves of 92.1 FNX in Maine and New Hampshire. FNX has expanded its reach and vision even farther to its broad, yet eclectic alternative audience. Visit FNX Radio on the web:www.fnxradio.com

STUFF Boston
Showcasing the best that life in Boston has to offer, our bi-weekly magazine provides a must-have guide for the city's trendsetters and tastemakers. From nightlife and dining, to fashion and interior design, to culture and green living, STUFF covers the people and places that make this town extraordinary. Our readers are industry insiders, purveyors of cool, and life-long enemies of the status quo. We understand them because we are them. Visit STUFF on the web at www.stuffboston.com.

TuBoston.com
The most popular Hispanic-focused local web portal in Massachusetts, TuBoston is a bilingual Web site that offers advertisers a unique opportunity to reach Greater Boston's online Spanish speakers and those who love the Hispanic community. Dynamic, easy to read, promotion and user-friendly, TuBoston includes the complete weekly editions of El Planeta Newspaper and other special El Planeta related publications. Visit TuBoston: www.tuboston.com


Phoenix Media Ventures
The sports magazine and music program magazine division of PM/CG. PMV publishes the official yearbooks of the Boston Celtics, Boston Bruins, and the Boston Marathon Official Program. PMV also publishes the official program guides for the Tweeter Center, Bank of America Pavilion Summer Music Series, and World Music/Crash Arts. Tele-publishing, Inc./People2People.com is the world's largest provider of voice personals to the publishing industry, and the web's most advanced online personals site. Visit Tele-publishing on the web:www.tpigroup.com and www.people2people.com

MassWeb Printing is a state-of-the art four-color web offset printing facility which prints all of our own products, plus many other regional newspapers. Visit MassWeb on the web: www.masswebprinting.com

The Masthead

Publisher & Chairman: Stephen M. Mindich
President: Bradley Mindich
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer: Richard Gallagher
Executive Editor: Peter Kadzis
Editor: Lance Gould

BOSTON
Assistant Managing Editor: Vanessa Czarnecki
Design Director: Kristen Goodfriend
Associate Design Director: Kevin Banks
Editorial Designer: Christine Atturio
Production Artist: Nicole Mercado, Jennifer LePore
Arts Editor: Jeffrey Gantz
Associate Arts Editor: Jon Garelick
Contributing Editor (Theater): Carolyn Clay
Arts Editor (Film): Peter Keough
Arts Editor (Music): Michael Brodeur
Staff Editor: Sean Kerrigan
Staff Writers: David S. Bernstein, Adam Reilly, Chris Faraone
Events Editor: Ian Sands
Listing Coordinators: Maddy Myers, Ashley Rigazio
Assistant to the Editor: Marianna Faynshteyn
Contributing Editor: Lloyd Schwartz (classical), Carolyn Clay (theater)
Contributing Writers: Greg Cook, William Corbett, Amy Finch, Michael Freedberg, Kris Frieswick, Dan Kennedy, Brett Milano, Christopher Millis, Robert Nadeau, Alan Olifson, James Parker, Gerald Peary, Alicia Potter, Marcia B. Siegel, Harvey Silverglate, Gary Susman, Charles Taylor, Jason Vest, Steve Vineberg, Caitlin E. Curran, Clif Garboden
Cartoonist: David Sipress
Astrologer: Symboline Dai

New Media
Web Editor: Carly Carioli
Web Managing Editor: Lisa Spinelli
Assistant Web Editor: Ryan Stewart, Shaula Clark
Senior Web Developers: Gavin Storey
Web Developer: TJ Miller
Web Designer: Alex Slater
Interactive Media/Traffic Manager: Elizabeth Witte

Advertising Sales
Senior Vice President, Client Development: A. William Risteen
Vice President, Integrated Media Sales: Mame Conroy
Vice President, Integrated Media Sales: Everett Finkelstein
Vice President, Integrated Media Sales: Joe Charves 
Sales Directors, Integrated Media Sales: Sean Weymouth, Peter Lawley, Michelle Benfer
Account Manager, Integrated Media Sales: Huntley Rainville
Senior Account Executives, Integrated Media Sales: Matthew Segien, Charles Dannison,Margo Dowlearn
Sales Coordinator, Integrated Media: Adam Oppenheimer
Vice President, Media Sales: Jordi Chapdelaine
Vice President of Print Media Sales: Marc Shepard
General Sales Manager: Brian Russell
Senior Account Executive: Howard Temkin,
Retail Account Executive: David Carona, Amanda Saunders, Jessica Smyth, Kathleen Grenier, Greg Shellock
Traffic Manager: Kevin Lawrence
Classified Sales Manager: Matt King
Classified Lines Account Executive: Ashley Lundgren

Marketing
Vice President of Marketing and Business Development: Michael C.Bornhorst
Director of Promotions: Brian Appel
Interactive Marketing Manager: Isabel Aller
Senior Marketing Graphic Designer: Janet Smith
Marketing Coordinator: Leah O'Brien

Advertising Art Department
Creative Director: Mike Diskin
Production Director: Travis Ritch
Senior Graphic Designer: Angelina Berardi

Circulation
Circulation Director: James Dorgan
Circulation Manager: Michael Johnson

Operations
Vice President of Operations: David Dinnage
IT Director: Bill Ovoian
IT Administrator: Michael Rikeman
Senior Project Manager: David Hosker
Senior Infrastructure Manager: Curtis Bennett
Network Administrator: Hack Warrensford
Facilities Manager: John Nunziato

Finance
Corporate Controller: Michael Notkin
Assistant Corporate Controller: Chris Crandall
Print Controller: Scotty Cole
Corporate Credit Manager: Michael Tosi
Corporate Staff Accountant: Diane Harney-Buderman
Trade Administrator: Kristina Weljkovic
Payroll: Juli Zhu
Cash Analyst: Mark Meltzer

Human Resources
Human Resources Director: Kathleen Parrish
HR Administrator/Generalist: Stephen Rose
Receptionist/Administrative Assistant: Kimberlee Mullaney

PROVIDENCE
Associate Publisher: Stephen L. Brown
News Editor: David Scharfenberg
Managing Editor: Lou Papineau
Contributing Editor: Jim Macnie
Contributing Writers: Rudy Cheeks, Bob Gulla, Brian C. Jones, Phillipe & Jorge, Bill Rodriguez, Johnette Rodriguez, Pam Steager, Steven Stycos, Chip Young
Contributing Illustrators: Steve Brosnihan, Elizabeth Rock
Contributing Photographer: Richard McCaffrey
Contributing Graphic Artist: Collen Boisvert, Lisa Beauregard
Credit/ Collections Supervisor: Anita Anderson
Production Manager: Stacy Congdon
Retail Account Executive: Jennifer Dyson, Andrea Mark, Bruce Allen, Jennifer Alarie, Dayna Mancini

PORTLAND
General Manager: John Marshall
Managing Editor: Jeff Inglis
Listings Coordinator: Christopher Gray
Staff Writer: Deirdre Fulton
Contributing Writers: Al Diamon, Brian Duff, Tony Giampetruzzi, Megan Grumbling, David Kish, Amelia Labreck, Ian Paige, Sam Pfeifle, Todd Richard, Lindsay Sterling, Shay Stewart-Bouley, Lance Tapley, Rick Wormwood


Account Executives: Eric Kenney, Erin Frederick
Classified Account Executive: Nicole Elwell
Creative Director: Janice Checchio
Traffic/Credit Coordinator: Sonya Tomlinson

OFFICES

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Providence:
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Portland:
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Tel: (207) 773-8900; Fax: (207) 773-8905

National Sales Office:
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Tel: (401) 273-6397 x232; Fax: (401) 272-8712

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