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• ALEXANDRA CAVALLO
  - Music Features - Ra Ra Riot graduate to the indie elite
  When you listen to Mathieu Santos, you might imagine that Ra Ra Riot have enjoyed a charmed rise to indie fame, everything coming a little too easy for the erstwhile college students.
• ANDREW GRAHAM
  - CD Reviews - Chromatics | Night Drive
  Independent Italo-disco throwback record label Italians Do It Better is rooted as deeply in punk-rock DIY as it is in dance 12-inches from the '70s and drugged-out '80s club-night afterparties.
• BETSY SHERMAN
  - Reviews - Review: Ahead of Time
  The journalist as advocate and activist has rarely been contained in a more compelling package than Ruth Gruber.
• BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS
  - Letters - Bugged
  In her article “Eat Me! Delicious Insects Will Save Us All,” Deirdre Fulton writes that “bugs could be a solution to a host of emerging problems, including world hunger and environmental woes.”
• BOSTON PHOENIX STAFF
  - News Features - #MaHeritage
  The things we're thankful for also tend to be the things that bind us together.
• BRETT MICHEL
  - Reviews - Review: Tangled
  This is Disney, all right
• BRIAN MCFADDEN
  - Big Fat Whale - Franchise opportunities
   Big Fat Whale
• CARLY CARIOLI
  - News Features - Maddow to media: come out of the closet
  Cronkette
• CAROLYN CLAY
  - Theater - Morality play
  The ghosts of Arthur Miller and Sam Shepard hover over Vengeance Is the Lord's in its world premiere by the Huntington Theatre Company.
• DAVID KISH
  - This Just In - The Annual Thanksgiving Squid Maze
  Help Squiddy find his cannibalistic feast.
• DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
  - Talking Politics - Gen X Goes to Washington
  Alex P. Keaton, the self-centered, clean-cut, overachieving young sharpie played by Michael J. Fox on Family Ties is — figuratively speaking — going to Washington.
• DAVID THORPE
  - Music Features - The Big Hurt: Corgan vs. Malkmus: 15-year grudge
  As a child of the '90s, I sure find it heartwarming to see a classic feud of my youth re-form for a big festival appearance.
• EDITORIAL
  - The Editorial Page - Patronage = corrpution
  The Massachusetts legislature is shocked — shocked! — that patronage is rife in the Probation Department! Shocked that it exists anywhere in state government! And it looks as if the both the House and the Senate will be damned if they are going to do anything about it.
• EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
  - Lifestyle Features - Why Bookstores?
  Boston is pocked by vacant storefronts. Businesses don't sell in this economy; they just disappear. But there is one exception: of all things, bookstores are selling like proverbial hotcakes.
• GERALD PEARY
  - Reviews - Review: Waste Land
  Vik Muniz, a well-regarded Brazilian artist living in New York, is a socially conscious individual, and his photography-based œuvre celebrates the forgotten poor of Central and South America, with much of the profits being returned to the impoverished subjects of his artistry.
• GINA SIMONE
  - Live Reviews - Photos: Justin Bieber at TD Garden | November 16, 2010
  Our 2010 Unsexy contender rides his pink heart chariot into the Garden.
• GREG COOK
  - Museum And Gallery - Streetcraft and stagecraft
  Mark Bradford's LA, Triiibe's Eden
• JAMES CHOCA
  - Lifestyle Features - Photos: JP vs. Somerville dance-off
   Civic pride on the line at Fourth Wall Project
• JANICE CHECCHIO
  - Live Reviews - Photos: Man or Astro-man? at the Middle East
   Man or Astroman?, live at the Middle East downstairs, November 14, 2010
• JON GARELICK
  - Music Features - Electronic Havana
  If you were to hear that a group of Berklee students were spending a week in Cuba, you probably wouldn't be too surprised.
• JONATHAN DONALDSON
  - Music Features - The boy with The Thorn in his side
  This could be a fairy tale.
• KARL STEVENS
  - Failure - The new MFA
   Failure
• KELSEY MARIE BELL
  - Museum And Gallery - Photos: The MFA opens its new Art of the Americas wing
  Malcolm Rogers welcomes the public into the new space on November 20, 2010.
• LINDSAY CRUDELE
  - On The Cheap - Cheeseboy
  Nostalgia served up between two slices of bread
• LUKE O'NEIL
  - Music Features - Free Energy stage a live dance party
  Bad news for people who like bad moods: Free Energy are about to ruin your shitty day.
• MADDY MYERS
  - Videogames - Review: Call of Duty: Black Ops
  Like other Call of Duty games, Black Ops is rated M for Mature, but that rating doesn't cut it anymore.
• MARCIA B. SIEGEL
  - Dance - Review: Basil Twist's Petrushka
  Puppetry is as old as theater itself.
• MATT BORS
  - Idiot Box - Refudiate!
    Idiot Box
• MC SLIM JB
  - On The Cheap - Lucy's Ethiopian Café
  While there’s no foolproof formula for judging a budget-priced restaurant by its cover, I have identified some promising markers.
• MITCH KRPATA
  - Videogames - Review: Dance Central
  These are trying times for Harmonix.

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The Masthead

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President: Bradley Mindich
Executive Editor: Peter Kadzis
Editor: Carly Carioli

BOSTON
Senior Editor: Sean Kerrigan
Managing Editor: Shaula Clark
Managing Editor (Arts): Jeffrey Gantz
Arts Editor: Jon Garelick
Arts Editor (Film): Peter Keough
Arts Editor (Music): Michael Marotta
Staff Editor: SI Rosenbaum
Staff Writers: David S. Bernstein, Chris Faraone, Eugenia Williamson
Events Editor: Ashley Rigazio
Listings Coordinators: Alexandra Cavallo, Michael C. Walsh
Assistant to the Editor: Marianna Faynshteyn
Contributing Editors: Lloyd Schwartz (classical), Carolyn Clay (theater), Vanessa Czarnecki
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
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Astrologer: Symboline Dai

New Media
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Online Content Coordinator: Maddy Myers
Senior Web Developer: Gavin Storey
Web Developer: TJ Miller

Advertising Sales
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Vice President of Media Sales: Jordi Chapdelaine
Vice President of Print Media Sales: Marc Shepard
Vice President of Integrated Media Sales: Joe Charves, Everett Finkelstein
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Senior Account Executive: Matt Maalouf
Retail Account Executive: Christopher Gibbs, Brian Joyce
Traffic Manager: Kevin Lawrence
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Classified Sales Manager: Matt King

Marketing
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Interactive Marketing Manager: Isabel Van Wart
Promotions Manager: Leah O'Brien

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Creative Director: Kristen Goodfriend
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Creative Manager, Portland Phoenix: Janice Checchio
Creative Manager, Providence Phoenix: Stacy Congdon
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Senior Editorial Designer: Christine Atturio
Editorial Designer, Boston Phoenix: Nicole Mercado
Graphic Designer, El Planeta: Jhosmer Hernandez
Web Designer: Alex Slater
Graphic and Web Designer: David Delmar
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Circulation
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Circulation Manager: Michael Johnson

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IT Director: Bill Ovoian
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PROVIDENCE
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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
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Managing Editor: Jeff Inglis
Listings Coordinator: Christopher Gray
Staff Writer: Deirdre Fulton
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