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• ANDREW MCFARLAND
  - Lifestyle Features - Nicole Freedman’s legacy
  After a five-year reign as Boston's first unofficial "Bike Czar," Boston Bikes director Nicole Freedman will be abdicating her throne to direct Maine's Huts and Trails program.
• ANNIE ZALESKI
  - Music Features - The Feelies look back by moving forward
  Legendary New Jersey underground rockers the Feelies have always existed outside genre boundaries.
• BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS
  - Letters - The future -- for some
  I think Amanda Palmer missed the reason she has such a broad, wide, and fervent fan base is because she was on Roadrunner in the first place.
• BOSTON PHOENIX STAFF
  - Lifestyle Features - Serious ROFLcon is serious
  Zawinski's law of software envelopment holds that all programs continue to expand until they can read email.
• BRIAN MCFADDEN
  - Big Fat Whale - Modern Majors
  Kids these days.
• CASSANDRA LANDRY
  - On The Cheap - On the Cheap: Nyan Cat Ice Cream from Toscanini’s
  Gus Rancatore, co-founder and proprietor of Toscanini's Ice Cream in Central Square, isn't afraid of a good challenge.
• CHRIS FARAONE
  - Lifestyle Features - Rolling Thick with Ben Lashes, Scumbag Steve, and the Bad Boys of ROFLCon
  There's a jovial shit-mouthed wise-ass standing in an outdoor foyer at MIT, chain-smoking Newports and hitting on every girl who walks by.
• CLEA SIMON
  - Books - Hilary Mantel's power play
  Endings, perhaps more than beginnings, set the tone in historical fiction.
• DAVID KISH
  - Hoopleville - Blimp Elf Gangs?
  Portland Crime Wave
• DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
  - Talking Politics - Mitt & the GOP Boys’ Club
  Last week, Barack Obama's re-election campaign launched a Web slide show, "The Life of Julia," depicting a woman helped throughout her years by Obama policies, and warning that — if elected — Mitt Romney would undo all of them.
• DAVID THORPE
  - Big Hurt - The Big Hurt: This week in strategic promotional partnerships
  Art can't reach its full purity until it's been smelted in the crucible of commerce.
• DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN
  - Live Reviews - Photos: Videodrome Discothèque presents The Price & The Protégés Party
  Crowds came with flair for The Price & The Protégés Party on April 27 -- hosted by Videodrome Discothèque, voted Boston's best dance night in our 2012 reader's poll.
• ED SYMKUS
  - Features - Interview: Seth Grahame-Smith emerges from the Shadows
  He lingers in the shadows behind Dark Shadows, in the cobwebby abysses of AbrahamLincoln: Vampire Hunter, secretly writing the words that summon the horror — and spark the comedy.
• EDITORIAL
  - The Editorial Page - Brown bags it
  Republican Senator Scott Brown's vote to allow the interest on college loans to double illustrates perfectly why Brown is a clever politician, but a rotten senator.
• EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
  - Lifestyle Features - Lizzie Stark explores the worlds of live-action storytelling
  For the uninitiated, the word "LARP" conjures burly beardos hitting each other with foam swords in the woods and corseted women in capes flouncing around hotel ballrooms, all for entirely inexplicable reasons.
• JEAN HANGARTER
  - Live Reviews - Photos: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2012
  New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, from April 27–May 6, 2012.
• JEREMIAH ROBINSON AND DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN
  - Lifestyle Features - Photos: Run For Your Lives Zombie 5K
  Run For Your Lives participants braved a 5K obstacle course while being chased by zombies through Amesbury Sports Park on May 5-6, 2012.
• KARL STEVENS
  - Failure - ''I know what you're doing in there ... ''
  Uh, what's going on?
• LINDSAY CRUDELE
  - On The Cheap - On the Cheap: Grass Fed Beef
  If you, like me, have ever found yourself pressing your nose winsomely against the window of the itty bitty "TT Bar" at Jamaica Plain's Ten Tables, you will appreciate the newly easy access to the restaurant's prize cheeseburger at its new adjunct spot, Grass Fed.
• LIZ PELLY
  - Lifestyle Features - Josh Zisson fights for your bike rights
  Bike lawyer Josh Zisson started printing up pocket-size "Bicyclist's Accident Report" cards last October in Cambridge.
• LLOYD SCHWARTZ
  - Classical - Haitink and the BSO, Zander and the BPO, the Emerson Quartet, the Vores Violin Concerto, and Donald Teeters’s farewell to Boston Cecilia
  Sometimes you know it the minute you hear it, sometimes it takes a while, sometimes it never happens at all.
• LUKE O'NEIL
  - Music Features - Active Child is preaching from the choir
  Since the invention of music, dudes have been harnessing their natural singing talents for one specific purpose: to pick up babes.
• MADDY MYERS
  - Videogames - Interview: Indie game designer Edmund McMillen defends his most controversial work
  The C Word
• MARCIA B. SIEGEL
  - Dance - Joffrey Ballet gets its due
  New York has two great ballet companies, New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater. Any other ballet troupe that wants to put down roots there has to develop a personality that's distinct from those two.
• MATT JONES
  - Puzzles - Crossword: Stretch Those Quads!
  A hardcore freestyle workout.
• MIKE MILIARD
  - Comedy - Interview: Aziz Ansari is on the fly
  It's been a good few months for Aziz Ansari.
• P. NICK CURRAN
  - News Features - Photos: Occupy Boston's May Day rally
  Occupy Boston participates in Occupy Wall Street's nation-wide May Day rally on May 1, 2012.
• PATRICK Z. MCGAVIN
  - Reviews - Review: Goodbye First Love
  The autobiographical third feature from French director Mia Hansen-Løve limns the ecstasy and tumult of youthful, sometimes self-destructive passion.
• PERRY EATON
  - CD Reviews - Father John Misty | Fear Fun
  J. Tillman's new solo outfit, Father John Misty wastes no time taking chances.
• PETER KEOUGH
  - Reviews - Review: Sound of My Voice
  You've got to hand it to Brit Marling when it comes to audacious premises, both in Another Earth (in which she starred and co-wrote with director Mike Cahill), and in this high concept sci-fi head-scratcher, in which she also stars and co-wrote with director Zal Batmanglij.

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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

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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

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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

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
Executive Editor: Peter Kadzis
Editor: Carly Carioli

BOSTON
Managing Editor: Shaula Clark
Arts Editor: Jon Garelick
Arts Copy Editor: Thomas McBee
Film Editor: Peter Keough
Music Editor: Michael Marotta
Senior Editor: Sean Kerrigan
Staff Editor: SI Rosenbaum
Staff Writers: David S. Bernstein, Chris Faraone, Eugenia Williamson
Events Editor: Alexandra Cavallo
Listings Coordinator: Michael C. Walsh
Editorial Assistant: Liz Pelly
Contributing Editors: Carolyn Clay (theater), Vanessa Czarnecki, Lloyd Schwartz (classical)
Contributing Writers: Mark Bazer, Matt Bors, Daniel Brockman, Michael Bronski, William Corbett, Caitlin Curran, Ted Drozdowski, Banning Eyre, Amy Finch, Michael Freedberg, Dan Kennedy, Mitch Krpata, Brian McFadden, MC Slim JB, Tom Meek, Brett Michel, Brett Milano, Mike Miliard, Robert Nadeau, Rob Nelson, James Parker, Gerald Peary, Adam Reilly, Marcia B. Siegel, Harvey Silverglate, Steven Stark, Karl Stevens, Gary Susman, Matt Taibbi, Charles Taylor, David Thorpe, Steve Vineberg, Mikael Wood
Cartoonist: David Sipress
Astrologer: Symboline Dai

New Media
Senior Web Developer: Gavin Storey
Online Content Coordinator: Maddy Myers
Web Producer: Cassandra Landry

Marketing/Promotions
Directors of Marketing and Promotions: Brian Appel, Mike Snow
Interactive Marketing Manager: Lindsey Mathison

Creative Group
Director of Creative Operations: Travis Ritch
Creative Director: Kristen Goodfriend
Corporate Design Director: Kevin Banks
Design Manager, STUFF Magazine: Janice Checchio
Senior Designer: Janet Taylor

Advertising Sales
Senior Vice President of Client Development: A. William Risteen
Vice President of Sales and Business Development: David Garland
Vice President of Print Media Sales: Marc Shepard
Vice President of Integrated Media Sales: Joe Charves, Everett Finkelstein
Sales Director of Integrated Media Sales: Sean Weymouth
Senior Account Executives of Integrated Media Sales: Margo Dowlearn, Howard Temkin
Integrated Media Sales Coordinator: Adam Oppenheimer
Director of Interactive Sales: Brian Russell
Advertising Operations Manager: Kevin Lawrence
Traffic Coordinators: Colleen McCarthy, Jonathan Caruso
Classified Sales Manager: Matt King
Account Executives: Meghan O'Connor, Chelsea Whitton
Retail Account Executive: Nathaniel Andrews, Christopher Gibbs

Circulation
Circulation Director: James Dorgan
Circulation Manager: Michael Johnson

Operations
IT Director: Bill Ovoian
Facilities Manager: John Nunziato

Finance
Director of Finance: Scotty Cole
Credit and Collections Manager: Michael Tosi
Staff Accountants: Peter Lehar, Brian Ambrozavitch
Financial Analyst: Lisy Huerta-Bonilla
Accounting Coordinator: Courtnie-Ann Quinlan
Trade Administrator: Kimberlee Flaherty

Human Resources
HR Administrator/Generalist: Stephen Rose
Receptionist/Administrative Assistant: Lindy Raso

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
Credit/ Collections Supervisor: Anita Anderson
Account Executives: Michael Weber
Retail Account Executive: Andrea Mark, Bruce Allen, Jennifer Alarie, Dayna Mancini
Director of Finance: Scotty Cole

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
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