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• ANN LEWINSON
  - Reviews - Review: Bernie
  So beloved was Bernie that when he shot his elderly companion Marjorie Nugent, the meanest — and richest — woman in town, district attorney Danny Buck Davidson had to move the trial nearly 50 miles away.
• ANNIE ZALESKI
  - Music Features - Porcelain Raft eases out of the shadows
  Although Porcelain Raft released their debut full-length, Strange Weekend (Secretly Canadian), earlier this year, the project's mastermind, Mauro Remiddi, is no novice.
• BARRY THOMPSON
  - Live Reviews - Out: An electronic séance with Hooray for Earth and Zambri at Great Scott
  We in Boston enjoy reminding others that Hooray for Earth originally formed here, so we can still call them a Boston band.
• BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS
  - Letters - Gone forever
  Although I could spend this opportunity ranting and raving about the sale of WFNX to Clear Channel, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank WFNX .  
• BRETT MICHEL
  - Reviews - Review: Girl in Progress
  As rites of passage go, Girl in Progress is a step backward for the genre.
• BRIAN MCFADDEN
  - Big Fat Whale - Financial Reform Proposals(1)
  Won't somebody think of the Beanie Baby ladies?
• CARINA MASTROCOLA
  - Live Reviews - Photos: The Fringe at the Boston Conservatory Theater
  The Fringe perform live at the Boston Conservatory Theater on May 12, 2012.
• CAROLYN CLAY
  - Theater - Tir Na’s Lonesome West, A.R.T.’s Woody Sez
  Suffice it to say that Leenane is no city of brotherly love.
• CASSANDRA LANDRY
  - Music Features - Bon Mots
  During a late-night car ride, three friends from Boulder, Colorado, began regaling each other with stories, as people trapped in a car for hours are wont to do.
• CHRIS FARAONE
  - News Features - ON-THE-GROUND UPDATES: Dispatches from NATO-Chicago
  I wasn't even at Daley Plaza for two minutes when I ran into Vermin Supreme ...
• DAN KENNEDY
  - Books - Interview: Rory O’Connor digs social media
  Rory O'Connor has been thinking about trust and the media for a long time.
• DAN WEISS
  - CD Reviews - El-P | Cancer For Cure
  "It's like a fresh start in a new world," El Producto repeats on "Works Every Time," a track on this, his least ambitious record.
• DANIEL BROCKMAN
  - Music Features - Razormaze adds focus to their thrash
  For a kind-of goofy metal dude, Alex Citrone is pretty serious — especially when he talks metal, and especially when he's talking about his band, Boston shred titans Razormaze.
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  - Hoopleville - Hose coiler at large
  Police warning
• DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
  - Talking Politics - From the penitentiary to the presidential race, it’s our annual Memorial Day roast of Massachusetts pols
  Welcome to the fourth annual Boston Phoenix Memorial Day Roast of Massachusetts politicians! I love looking around the room every year, seeing so many familiar faces of elected officials.
• DAVID SCHARFENBERG
  - Books - Interview: Oil Can Boyd on playing the game
  This week, I had an hour long chat with Oil Can Boyd.
• DAVID THORPE
  - Big Hurt - The Big Hurt: This week in technical difficulties
  As a freshly minted connoisseur of dead-guy holograms, I was thrilled when Brian May announced that deceased legend FREDDIE MERCURY would make a special appearance at the 10th anniversary show of Queen's musical, We Will Rock You.
• DEBRA CASH
  - Dance - Boston Ballet struts Robbins, Lander, and Martins
  It's almost enough to make you nostalgic for World War II.
• DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN
  - Live Reviews - Photos: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros at the Orpheum Theatre
  Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros perform live at the Orpheum Theatre on May 12, 2012.
• EDITORIAL
  - The Editorial Page - Wall Street reform that will work
  It is, in the immortal words of Yogi Berra, déjà vu all over again.
• ERIC ANTONIOU
  - Dance - Photos: Boston Ballet's Fancy Free
  Boston Ballet performs "Fancy Free" at the Opera House on May 10-20, 2012.
• EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
  - Music Features - Queering the party with the DJs of Nu Life
  Growing up gay on Long Island, Brian Friedberg went out dancing almost every night: at all-ages clubs, raves, dancehall nights, gay hip-hop nights, gay clubs, straight clubs, and late-night joints. But he couldn't find the party he was looking for.
• EXCERPTED FROM THE BOOK BY DENNIS "OIL CAN" BOYD AND MIKE SHALIN
  - Books - They call me Oil Can
  Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd, a Mississippi native who lives in East Providence with his wife and two children, is one of the most complex, controversial players ever to don a Red Sox uniform.
• GERALD PEARY
  - Reviews - Review: I Wish
  Two elementary school brothers living in southern Japan are forced to live in different cities due to the estrangement of their parents.
• GUNNER SCOTT
  - Lifestyle Features - Trans activist Gunner Scott says, despite increased visibility, it’s still dangerous to be transgender in America
  I don't know why I'm transgender. I just am.
• JAKE MULLIGAN
  - Reviews - What to Expect When You're Expecting
  What should you expect from Hollywood's latest ensemble adaptation of a self-help book? In short, a lot of beautiful starlets — Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth Banks, Cameron Diaz, and Anna Kendrick among them — joking about farting, circumcision, unintentional urination, and any other bodily functions that can be "milked" for a laugh.
• JEREMIAH ROBINSON
  - News Features - PHOTOS: NATO demonstrations in Chicago
  #NoNATO actions in the Windy City
• JON GARELICK
  - Jazz - The Fringe at 40
  "I'm feeling a little light-headed," George Garzone told the audience last Saturday at the Boston Conservatory Theater, closing his eyes and bringing a hand to his brow.
• JONATHAN DONALDSON
  - CD Reviews - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros | Here
  Maybe I'm feeling the ghost of Levon Helm, but it's hard to find many flaws in this new disc from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
• JUSTIN F. FARRAR
  - CD Reviews - Motion Sickness Of Time Travel | Motion Sickness Of Time Travel
  It's long been said that Southerners perceive time differently, that because the industrial clock never crept below the Mason-Dixon Line, time down there is less regimented, more relaxed.

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Editor: Carly Carioli

BOSTON
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Arts Copy Editor: Thomas McBee
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