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First Posted: 11/28/2012 I think almost everyone has a love/hate relationship with the holidays. It's great to see family and friends, share gifts and laughs and all that, but it's also a lot of planning, shopping, and drama, too. The newspaper business doesn't slow down for this process &amp;#8211; in fact, it speeds up with early deadlines, odd availability of interview subjects, and a whole lot of events to write about. I'm admittedly tired, but I haven't let it slow me down.
Our whole staff hasn't, really &amp;#8211; as you can see, this issue is packed with original articles, photos, and online extras, even more so than we have been in the past few months. I've made it my goal as the editor to deliver as much content to readers as possible every week, and we've certainly made good on that promise this time, giving you everything from live reviews to local band interviews to artist profiles like our feature on Murray Tinkelman, whose work you see here. We're listening to what you want, too &amp;#8211; a new beer review column starts this week in response to popular demand.
But on top of everything that we've had going on, our staff volunteered to go out on Black Friday and deliver coffee and donuts to shoppers waiting in line at Bratty Natty's and Old Navy. I mention this not to receive kudos, but to simply remind myself, and everyone reading, that there's always time to think of others, no matter how busy you are. If it truly is always better to give than to receive, then you can be sure that we're always in high spirits around here.
-Rich Howells, Weekender Editor

I think almost everyone has a love/hate relationship with the holidays. It's great to see family and friends, share gifts and laughs and all that, but it's also a lot of planning, shopping, and drama, too. The newspaper business doesn't