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• ALEXANDRA CAVALLO
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  After 10 years battling supernatural creatures, you'd think Harry Potter would be better equipped to deal with the paranormal pests he faces in James Watkins's old-fashioned ghost story.
• BILL RODRIGUEZ
  - Theater - A knee-slapping Lend Me a Tenor at PC
  As hilarious as the race for the Republican presidential nomination is, even that is no competition for Ken Ludwig's Lend Me a Tenor.
• CHRIS CONTI
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  Looking for new music?
• CHRIS FARAONE
  - CD Reviews - J the S | The Last Days
  J the S has been promising The Last Days since he went by Jake the Snake.
• DAN WEISS
  - CD Reviews - Die Antwoord | Ten$ion
  Moreso than any "controversially-lipped" chanteuse (to borrow from one of Lana Del Rey's many observers), South African rap/rave/meme/satire/knuckleheads Die Antwoord beg the question:"Is that all there is?"
• DAVID KISH
  - Hoopleville - Today's hot careers
  Good money, in demand ...
• DAVID SCHARFENBERG
  - Books - Interview: Alice Bag of Stay at Home Bomb
  Alice Bag (nee Armendariz), who shone bright in the Los Angeles punk scene of the late-1970s, will be in town Saturday to read from her book Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage and to play a few tunes at 7 pm at Rochambeau Library.
• GREG COOK
  - Museum And Gallery - ‘Valentined’ showcases geek love at Craftland
  These missives don't have the swooning, steamy, bodice-ripping passion of romance novel covers.
• JOHN LARRABEE
  - This Just In - Taking on payday loans
  State Representative Frank Ferri, owner of a Johnston bowling alley, has seen how the short-term, high-interest loans available at neighborhood payday loan shops can leave customers on a debt treadmill.
• JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ
  - Restaurant Reviews - Review: Mill's Tavern
  When a restaurant has survived eight-plus years on the Providence scene, you know it must be doing something (or several things) right.
• LOU PAPINEAU
  - Beer - 60 bottles and 1 can: Great samplers, and a gloriously sticky beer
  In the gift guide a few columns back, I recommended variety packs as an ideal present, a gateway to craft brew exploration, a great deal, and a way to avoid mix-a-six anxiety.
• MADDY MYERS
  - Videogames - Review: Soul Calibur V
  It's time to make some new friends.
• MALCOLM BURNLEY
  - This Just In - Reel-to-reel: A long-lost Malcolm X speech recovered
  I was born just two years before Spike Lee's 1992 biopic about Malcolm X and starting in kindergarten, I have faced the question in an almost endless loop: are you named after him?
• MATT JONES
  - Puzzles - Crossword: ''I Oh You One''
  Or four, actually.
• MICHAEL C. WALSH
  - CD Reviews - Ital | Hive Mind
  If there was a broken-record knock against electronic music in the last decade, it's that it all sounded the same.
• MITCH KRPATA
  - Videogames - Review: Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition
  You have to wonder why anybody bothers buying new games these days.
• PEG ALOI
  - Reviews - Review: The Innkeepers
  Ti West's spook show is atmospheric (thanks to the terrific hotel setting) and frequently funny; but the plot line is choppy, the dialogue often unnecessary, and the scares too sparse.
• PHILIP EIL
  - This Just In - The Providence Postcard Project: Love letters to a city
  The Big Blue Bug is here.
• PHILLIPE AND JORGE
  - Phillipe And Jorge - Bowing to Amalur; Karl vs. Clint; Mitt the nitwit; local color
  OK, P&J have found a solution to that nasty little dispute about whether or not to include "Providence Plantations" in Vo Dilun's formal name — State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
• PROVIDENCE PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF
  - New England Music News - Cram it all in!
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• RYAN REED
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  Denver's Tennis, the husband/wife duo of Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley, are back with another slab of dreamy, feather-light pop.
• STEPHEN BEALE
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  One team turns a glowing tube of epoxy into a prototype for the next generation of lava lamps. Another rewires a Home Depot doorbell to send tweets, rather than ring. A third team wants to use Xbox to create a virtual dance floor.
• WAYNE MARSHALL
  - News Features - Mega Up Yours
  This week, some 50 million users may begin to permanently lose whatever it is that they stored on Megaupload.
• ZETH LUNDY
  - CD Reviews - The Punch Brothers | Who's Feeling Young Now?
  For a group full of virtuosos, the Punch Brothers refuse to dole out prodigious string-murdering sessions.

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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

Creative Group
Director of Creative Operations: Travis Ritch
Creative Director: Kristen Goodfriend
Corporate Design Director: Kevin Banks
Design Manager, STUFF Magazine: Janice Checchio
Creative Manager, Providence Phoenix: Stacy Congdon
Senior Designer: Janet Taylor
Junior Editorial Designer, Boston Phoenix: Taylor Argenzio
Graphic Designer, El Planeta: Jhosmer Garcia

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 Executive: Melissa Bornmann
Retail Account Executive: Nathaniel Andrews, Christopher Gibbs, Kevin Suttle

Circulation
Circulation Director: James Dorgan
Circulation Manager: Michael Johnson
Distribution Generalist: Nick Gemelli

Operations
IT Director: Bill Ovoian
Senior Help Desk Support: Jim Russell
Senior Infrastructure Manager: Curtis Bennett
IT Administrator: Michael Rikeman
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: Jody DiBella, 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
Account Executives: Joseph Baum, Erin Elizabeth, Eric Kenney, Kelly Collins

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