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• AL DIAMON
  - Talking Politics - Not your kind of people
  If you're an independent, you know that one of the advantages of not belonging to a political party is that you don't have to help choose the US Senate nominees for the Republicans and Democrats from a list of retreads, reactionaries, rejects, and rectums.
• AMY ANDERSON
  - Features - Casco Bay’s restaurants, bars, + markets
  The islands of Casco Bay may seem remote (especially in the winter), but some are as close as a 20-minute ferry ride. As summer approaches, take a break from Portland's busy foodie scene and treat yourself to the tastes of the islands — after a breezy, salty boat ride across the ocean.
• BARRY THOMPSON
  - CD Reviews - Scott Lucas & The Married Men | Blood Half Moon
  The good ol' days of 1996 — the year Local H's "Bound for the Floor" played once every half hour on modern-rock radio — was a long-ass time ago.
• CHELSEA COOK AND JEFF INGLIS
  - This Just In - In post-drinking death, is anyone responsible?
  Conflicting reports about why exactly Nathan Bihlmaier was asked to leave RiRa on the night of May 19 — whether he was drunk, whether he was behaving inappropriately toward another patron, or whether he stumbled over some musical equipment — leave questions about responsibility on nights out in the Old Port.
• CHRISTOPHER GRAY
  - Reviews - Review: The Color Wheel
  By my (admittedly jaded) count, there are two shocking moments in Alex Ross Perry's startlingly original comedy, The Color Wheel .
• DAN WEISS
  - CD Reviews - The Hives | Lex Hives
  If there was ever a worry of the Hives maturing— or simply becoming less like the Hives — there isn't anymore.
• DAVID KISH
  - Hoopleville - Bibs are back!
  Bibs: they're not just for babies anymore.
• DEIRDRE FULTON
  - Music Features - Dar Williams goes Greek
  Like the spinners of ancient myth, singer-songwriter Dar Williams has long used storytelling as a way to interpret the world around her.
• JAKE MULLIGAN
  - Reviews - Review: Chernobyl Diaries
  More akin to a meander through a haunted house than a fulfilling feature film, the latest work from Paranormal Activity auteur Oren Peli (he produces, Bradley Parker directs) relies on his tried-and-true formula of favoring atmospheric terror over visceral scares.
• JEFF INGLIS
  - News Features - GOP runners for federal office get squirrely; Dems and independents share answers
  This year's candidate questionnaire was little different from past years.
• JONATHAN DONALDSON
  - CD Reviews - Pomegranates | Heaven
  Although the songs on Heaven might not be uniformly good, the Cincinnati-based Pomegranates bring the charm via killer guitar sounds, creative keyboards, and the girlish vocals of twin tenors Isaac Karns and Joey Cook (whose lighter-than-air musings buoy this collection).
• LANCE TAPLEY
  - News Features - Lawmakers mostly stand up against environmental assault
  Republican state Senator Thomas Saviello, at one point widely considered a foe of Maine's environment, may have just saved it. At the least, he was a leader in saving a good part of it.
• LINDSAY STERLING
  - Features - We see fish cakes in your future
  We love our fish cakes in Maine. They're usually a mixture of breadcrumbs, egg, seafood, and parsley, formed into cylinders and deep-fried.
• MADDY MYERS
  - Videogames - Review: Diablo 3
  Where is your copy of Diablo 3 ? It's not on your computer. It never will be. It is in the cloud, with all its virtual spoils streaming live over the Internet.
• MATT BORS
  - This Just In - Drone update!
  Get pumped.
• MATT JONES
  - Puzzles - Crossword: ''Metal on Metal''
  What's that sound?
• MEGAN GRUMBLING
  - Theater - Wit at the Players’ Ring honors life and death
  An array of disciplines have taken on the puzzle of life and death.
• 
  - This Just In - Lemonade: it’s not just a lark anymore
  If you remember when a lemonade stand involved a folding table, pitcher, lemons, and a parent who was tired of hearing "I'm bored!" you'll find those lazy summer days are over.
• NICHOLAS SCHROEDER
  - Museum And Gallery - Meeting ‘Strangers’ at Fryeburg’s Pace Galleries
  Fittingly set in Fryeburg Academy's still relatively unknown Pace Galleries — a lovely showroom built on the annex of the school's Performing Arts Center in 2009 — "Strangers and Others" is a complex, mysterious, and densely packed assembly of figurative works.
• NICK A. ZAINO II
  - CD Reviews - Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Americana
  The track listing for Americana, the first new release from Neil Young & Crazy Horse since 2003's Greendale, may make some fans skeptical at first.
• PERRY EATON
  - CD Reviews - King Tuff | King Tuff
  King Tuff keep a low profile, but they're not afraid to talk a mean game.
• PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS
  - Letters - Does saving bureaucracy equal saving the environment?
  Lance Tapley's article, "Lawmakers Mostly Stand Up Against Environmental Assault" (May 25) claims that Natural Resources Committee (NRC) Chair, Senator Tom Saviello, may have saved Maine's environment this session.
• PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF
  - New England Music News - Over the hills and far away
  Old pal MARIE MORESHEAD has since flown on to Los Angeles, but you can hear a five-track document of her travels in a new recording of gently melodic, modern folk-pop.
• RYAN REED
  - CD Reviews - Lemonade | Diver
  Halfway through "Infinite Style," the glossy electro-pop opener from Lemonade's sophomore LP, you'll hear the faint sound of a rhythmic exhale — or possibly two sticks rubbing together.
• SAM PFEIFLE
  - CD Reviews - The soothing sounds of I Am a Tidal Wave
  You could infer a good bit of ego from a title like I Am a Tidal Wave , the debut release from Builder of the House. I am a force of nature. I am a really big deal. Pay attention!
• SHAY STEWART-BOULEY
  - The Editorial Page - A browner shade of pale
  Here in the least racially diverse US state, there isn't much danger of whites becoming a minority anytime soon, given that 94.3 percent of the population is non-Hispanic white.
• ZETH LUNDY
  - CD Reviews - Sun Kil Moon | Among the Leaves
  The first thing you'll notice about Mark Kozelek's fifth LP as Sun Kil Moon are song titles that would give Morrissey a boner.

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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.

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The Masthead

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Executive Editor: Peter Kadzis
Editor: Carly Carioli

BOSTON
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Arts Copy Editor: Thomas McBee
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Staff Editor: SI Rosenbaum
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Events Editor: Alexandra Cavallo
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Contributing Editors: Carolyn Clay (theater), Vanessa Czarnecki, Lloyd Schwartz (classical)
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