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• ASHLEY RIGAZIO
  - News Features - Missing Persons singer Dale Bozzio jailed
  Missing Persons singer Dale Bozzio is sitting in an Ossipee, New Hampshire, jail after dropping her appeal of a March animal-cruelty conviction.
• BARRY THOMPSON
  - Music Features - Group effort
  If you're inclined to play punk rock, chances are you've got a self-esteem problem. It's not an æsthetic that attracts the well-adjusted. Exhibit A: Mark Lind. As bassist and frontman of the Ducky Boys, he's opened for Rancid, U.S. Bombs, and Flogging Molly.
• BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS
  - Letters - Suspect principles
  I was disappointed that the Phoenix chose to describe Attorney General Martha Coakley’s stand against the health-care bill recently passed by the House of Representatives as “principled.”
• BRETT MICHEL
  - Features - Interview: Gabourey Sidibe
  "While reading the book, I realized that I knew this girl in so many different people. Not just girls but boys, and not just black people but white and Asian and Indian."
• BRIAN MCFADDEN
  - Big Fat Whale - Stimulus II: The Restimulating
  Cash for Vistas
• CAROLYN CLAY
  - Theater - Dodging death
  Even the sweetest life can shatter in an instant, sending you through the looking glass like Alice. For the euphoric heroine of Craig Lucas's 1988 fable of holiday festivity and arbitrary mayhem, Reckless the moment of reckoning comes when her husband tearfully confesses, on Christmas Eve, that he has taken out a contract on her life.
• CARRIE BATTAN
  - Live Reviews - Review: Suzanne Vega at Sanders Theatre
  At the request of former Czech President Vaclav Havel, folk/alt-rock legend Suzanne Vega performed in Prague on Saturday with the likes of Lou Reed and Joan Baez to honor the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.
• CATHERINE LEE
  - Live Reviews - Photos: Brand New at House of Blues
  Photos from Brand New's Boston stop on their Daisy tour
• CHRIS FARAONE
  - Reviews - Review: The Blind Side
  It’s tough for any self-respecting critic to refrain from joyously tackling a Sandra Bullock movie — so it’s a good thing The Blind Side isn’t one.
• CLEA SIMON
  - Lifestyle Features - Get into gear
  A new season brings new toys, and snow sports fanatics are nothing if not gearheads.
• DANIEL BROCKMAN
  - Music Features - Take it to the limit
  When asked to describe their own music, most bands get it horribly wrong. UK electro-noisesters Fuck Buttons, however, are not most bands.
• DAVID KISH
  - Hoopleville - Native Art
  Heap Big Outrage
• DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
  - Talking Politics - Ladies' man
  Early last week, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government announced suddenly that Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, would speak at a forum that Friday afternoon.
• DAVID SCHARFENBERG
  - News Features - Kennedy, Catholic Church, and Politics of Compromise
  US Representative Patrick Kennedy's confrontation with Providence Bishop Thomas J. Tobin over abortion and health-care reform has soaked up quite a bit of ink.
• DAVID THORPE
  - Music Features - The end that could have been
  For a few wonderful days, it seemed that Aerosmith were finally kaput.
• DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN
  - Live Reviews - Photos: Ballet mécanique
  BMOP performs Ballet mécanique, live at Jordan Hall on November 13, 2009
• DR. LOVEMONKEY
  - Dr Love Monkey - A kiddie-diddling riddle
  I have been dating a wonderful man for the last three months ...
• ED SIEGEL
  - Books - Magic tricks
  You have to give a seventysomething writer credit for daring to begin a book with “He’d lost his magic.”
• EDITORIAL
  - The Editorial Page - Taxing Catholics
  Should the Roman Catholic Church, and the various subsidiary groups and organizations that exist under its umbrella and operate at its direction, be entitled to state- and federal-tax exemptions?
• GERALD PEARY
  - Reviews - Review: William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
  “Bill” Kunstler was the flamboyant, contentious, proudly revolutionary lawyer for the Chicago Eight, a handsome man with an unruly mane of black-and-white that was as impressive and iconic as the head of hair on Susan Sontag.
• JASON O'BRYAN
  - Lifestyle Features - Don't do it
  So, I heard that you want to trade in your skis for a snowboard this year. Maybe it'll be fun? Well, maybe, but there are a few things I'd like you to consider before you make that leap.
• JEFF TAMARKIN
  - CD Reviews - Tom Waits | Glitter and Doom Live
  Arriving five years after his last release of new material, and two after the three-disc Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards box of outtakes and oddities, this live set culled from assorted 2008 gigs could be seen as a time marker.
• JEFFREY GANTZ
  - Theater - Play by play: November 20, 2009
  Boston's weekly theater listings
• JEROME ENO
  - Live Reviews - Photos: The Jesus Lizard at Paradise Rock Club
  The Jesus Lizard, live at the Paradise Rock Club, November 14, 2009
• JON GARELICK
  - Music Features - Mixed media
  Film noir has been a running theme in composer/pianist Ran Blake's work since the beginning of his career — his very first album, The Newest Sound Around (RCA, 1962), with singer Jeanne Lee, began with David Raskin's theme to Otto Preminger's Laura .
• KARL STEVENS
  - Failure - Does the beagle want my bagel?
  Wow, that's a crazy story
• KYLE SMEALLIE AND HARVEY SILVERGLATE
  - News Features - Critical Mass
  If free speech is what gives value to the campus "marketplace of ideas," UMass Amherst would long ago have gone bankrupt.
• LLOYD SCHWARTZ
  - Classical - Creationists
  Simon Rattle and the BPO, Fabio Luisi and the BSO, John Harbison and Emmanuel Music
• MADDY MYERS
  - Lifestyle Features - Photos: New England Fan Experience 2009
  Photos of fans and more at the New England Fan Experience 2009
• MARIANNA FAYNSHTEYN
  - Reviews - Review: The Maid
  Sebastián Silva’s film follows the routine of Raquel (Catalina Saavedra), a maid for a wealthy Chilean family who’s passed her 20th year of service.

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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.

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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


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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

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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, Mike Miliard, Adam Reilly, Chris Faraone
Events Editor: Jason O'Bryan
Listing Coordinators: Maddy Myers, Ashley Rigazio
Assistant to the Editor: Ian Sands
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, Jess Colombo, 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/Executive Assistant: 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
General Sales Manager: Bridget Benedetti
Production Manager: Stacy Congdon
Retail Account Executive: Jennifer Dyson, Andrea Mark, Bruce Allen, Jennifer Alarie

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
Vice President of National Sales: Everett Finkelstein

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

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