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							  Crap-ass Valentines
							  Lifespan CEO George Vecchione's compensation is tops in the region
							  Recent elections, as you may have heard, have been about change.
							  Jason Voorhees's bloody hands have developed green thumbs.
							  The Massachusetts-bred street artist Shepard Fairey returned to his home-turf this month to "bomb" the Phoenix offices, conduct interviews, and unveil his latest work at the ICA.
							  It's no secret that daily-newspaper journalism is in huge trouble.
							  I travel to Manhattan a lot, and since 9/11 have found Amtrak's Acela service out of Back Bay Station a far more pleasant and hassle-free way to get there than flying.
							  In April 1999, two weeks after I started on the job at the  Providence Phoenix , the FBI raided City Hall, formally unveiling the federal investigation that would land Vincent A. "Buddy" Cianci Jr., Rhode Island's rascal king, behind bars.
							  You know what I haven't done in a while, for plenty of very good reasons? Listened to the whole cotton-pickin'  Billboard  Hot Country chart! Yee-haw!
							  Boston's Irepress weren't supposed to be an instrumental band. What they've evolved into just happens to be too stylishly sinuous to lend itself to lots of words.
 
				
					
					
							
							  Lifespan CEO George Vecchione's compensation is tops in the region
							  Recent elections, as you may have heard, have been about change.
							  Incredible, but true: until this past Friday, America was on a fast track to outlaw grandmothers selling children's sweaters for charity.
							  Imagine if you scouted Boston's pre-eminent hip-hop artists — from the grimiest coke-slinging corner cats to the roughest coke-sniffing bar rats — and teamed them up with virtually every underground MC who's made noise in the past three years.
							  A list of hospital CEOs' compensation
							  The Portland Symphony is in trouble. The unresolved dominant-seventh chord — a $2 million loss over the past eight years, and a possible shortfall of $220,000 this year alone — would be a setback for any company. But for the symphony, this is more than that.
							  It's what's on the outside that counts.
							  Shepard Fairey and his show "Supply and Demand" arrive at the Institute of Contemporary Art like a guerrilla general emerging from the jungle after his forces have taken the capital.
							  Their name sort of gives them away.
							  Whatever your race — and whatever you think of his résumé, or his politics, or his yen for tax-cheating cabinet nominees — Barack Obama's arrival in the Oval Office is something to celebrate.
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