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• ALICIA POTTER
  - Reviews - Review: Leaving
  Kristin Scott Thomas doffs her native language, a recent tendency toward shrewishness, and a couple of sundresses to play an elegant South-of-France housewife hot for an ex-con builder.
• BARRY THOMPSON
  - Music Features - Down in the folk trenches with the Old Edison
  In a messy Allston kitchen, in unison, a mob of about 20 or 30 persons start screaming at the Old Edison. And as is their custom, the Old Edison shout right back. Welcome to a typical Old Edison performance, but please watch your step.
• BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS
  - Letters - Generation X: Letters to the Boston Phoenix Editor, January 7, 2011
  Your article, “ Gen X Goes to Washington ” (November 26, 2010) was great. I’m glad this topic is finally being discussed.
• BRETT MICHEL
  - Reviews - Review: Country Strong
  Too-soon-out-of-rehab country star Kelly Canter (a bronzed Gwyneth Paltrow) attempts to twang her way back from a drunken stage dive in Dallas that resulted in a miscarriage.
• BRIAN MCFADDEN
  - Big Fat Whale - Boehner's Agenda
  Big Fat Whale
• CAMILLE DODERO
  - Television - Interview: Chloë Sevigny
  For the record, Chloë Sevigny is not dating Jersey Shore 's Pauly D.
• CAROLYN CLAY
  - Theater - Jokes and the unconscious spar in Hysteria
  We're given the Freudian slip early on in Hysteria, or Fragments of an Analysis of an Obsessional Neurosis - and it comes with several other silky undergarments summarily discarded by a nubile visitor to the London study of the Father of Modern Psychoanalysis in Brit writer Terry Johnson's Olivier Award-winning 1992 comedy.
• CHRIS FARAONE
  - Lifestyle Features - How To Be Good at the Future
  One of these days, when the Doc Brown and McFly jokes dry up, you'll have no choice but to start thinking seriously about the future. Not just tomorrow, and the day after, but the next several hundred years, since lifespans are on track to skyrocket.
• CLIF GARBODEN
  - Television - PBS looks at the darker side of changing the world
  Sometimes you want to give PBS a big grateful kiss just for staying the course while most of TV, losing ground to the interweb age, hovers between cultural hemorrhage and commercial death.
• DANIEL BROCKMAN
  - Music Features - The Varsity Girls aim for pop stardom
  By the time I arrive at their Lowell recording studio to talk to the teenage pop/R&B dynamos Varsity Girls, it's almost 10 pm, and I'm expecting to encounter an exhausted group of studio-tanned kids burned out after a full day of singing and more singing.
• DAVID KISH
  - Hoopleville - MLK's ghost visits the ghost of Detroit
  Martin Luther King, Jr.'s posthumous return to Motown.
• DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
  - Talking Politics - Desert Storm: How the GOP and the Sunset State nurture the lunatic fringe
  Two days before Saturday's horrific shooting in Tucson, Arizona, which gravely wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and left six people dead, a woman disrupted the reading of the US Constitution on the floor of the US House of Representatives by loudly appealing to Jesus to intercede against the foreign-born usurper of the presidency, Barack Obama.
• DAVID SIPRESS
  - Reality Check - What gap?
  Reality check
• DAVID THORPE
  - Music Features - The Big Hurt: Biebs's babe
  Biebs's babe, Bach's split, Thude's Justin, Blu in Seattle, and Muse in space
• DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN
  - Lifestyle Features - Photos: No Pants Subway Ride Boston 2011
  The  No Pants flash mob  prank returns to Boston public transit once again.
• EDITORIAL
  - The Editorial Page - American psycho
  It will be unclear for some time whether alleged Arizona shooter Jared Lee Loughner will qualify for an insanity defense. But one need not be a practicing psychiatrist to see that the 22 year old is a disturbed individual.
• EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
  - Television - HBO's Big Love shows us the inequalities in every marriage, writ large
  For four seasons and five years, HBO's Big Love has dominated the edgy-soap-opera niche once inhabited by Six Feet Under .
• GERALD PEARY
  - Reviews - Review: Blue Valentine
  Look to the sky above Scranton, Pennsylvania. There's a rainbow nestling among the downtown buildings as, below, a city bus crosses in traffic. Can we assume it's conferring a benediction on the young man and woman who, moments later, meet adorably on that very bus and, despite her suspicions, embark on a torrid romance?
• HARVEY SILVERGLATE AND KYLE SMEALLIE
  - News Features - Beyond espionage: Four ways the United States can still prosecute WikiLeaks's Julian Assange
  Not long after WikiLeaks entered the international lexicon, the question became not whether the United States government would prosecute founder Julian Assange, but how .
• JAMES K. GALBRAITH
  - News Features - Attack on the middle class!
  The remarkable thing about the American middle class is that we still have one, given the job losses, housing bust, and 401(k) wipeout of the past three years — and considering that for 35 years, politicians (and the bankers who own them) have been hammering away at middle-class institutions.
• JEFFREY GANTZ
  - Flashbacks - Review: It's no joke: Grant Wood is truly a great artist
  Even if the name isn't instantly familiar, the painting will be. You've seen it on billboards, on magazine covers from Mad to Time , in Charles Addams cartoons, on Johnny Carson and Saturday Night Live.
• JON GARELICK
  - CD Reviews - Joe Lovano Us Five | Bird Songs
  It's worth taking Lovano's word that this is not a Charlie Parker "tribute" album.
• KARL STEVENS
  - Failure - What do you think it all means?
  Failure
• KELSEY MARIE BELL
  - Lifestyle Features - Photos: Michele McPhee hosts book signing party for A Date With Death
  Michele McPhee meets fans and signs copies of her book about the Craigslist killer, A Date With Death , at Jerry Remy's Sports Bar & Grill on January 3, 2011.
• LINDSAY CRUDELE
  - On The Cheap - Monumental Cupcakes
  "Cupcakes are the opiate of the masses," writes "Ruth Bourdain," the Twitter-based amalgam of hypersensual food critic Ruth Reichl and offally crass chef Anthony Bourdain.
• LUKE O’NEIL
  - CD Reviews - Tapes ’N Tapes | Outside
  Disentangling themselves from larger-label involvement seems to have lightened some of the load on this highly touted blog-band forerunner’s shoulders.
• MARCELA GARCIA
  - Talking Politics - Governor Patrick offers hope for undocumented-immigrant drivers and college students
  In the candid interview, Governor Patrick seemed to be genuinely open to finding a way to identifying every person that drives a car in the Commonwealth, whether he is in the country illegally or not.
• MARCIA B. SIEGEL
  - Dance - Live! — sort of
  The success of the Metropolitan Opera's "Live in HD" experiment augurs well for dance on the big screen. Simulcast at select theaters, with tickets priced higher than for a movie but much cheaper than for a live opera, these events generate a sense of anticipation.
• MATT BORS
  - Idiot Box - Panhandling
  Idiot box
• MATT PARISH
  - Music Features - Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker display their indie artifacts
  It was on a whim roughly 25 years ago that a young David Lowery called up a friend at SST Records to see how SST had been promoting records that year. "He just said, 'Hey, we've been sending a lot of our stuff to college radio stations, and they seem to be playing them a lot.' I mean, this is literally like how this all started."

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The Masthead

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Executive Editor: Peter Kadzis
Editor: Carly Carioli

BOSTON
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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
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Contributing Editors: Lloyd Schwartz (classical), Carolyn Clay (theater), Vanessa Czarnecki
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