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Meet Team Critical Mass

POSTED: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 6:55 PM

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Critical Mass is City Paper's blog for all things arts and entertainment. We cover the weird, wonderful and need-to-know of the Philadelphia art scene. Have a tip for us? Send it to criticalmass@citypaper.net. Your editors: Patrick Rapa has been at City Paper for awhile. At one time or another he's edited the listings, Arts, Movies and Naked City sections and, since 2001, has made Music editor his main gig. He digs the lo-fi and the indie, the sweet girly pop and all eras of Black Sabbath (with varying degrees of sincerity). "Pat" has probably seen They Might Be Giants and the Mountain Goats a combined 50 times, and has made it to an unusual number of Ozzfests. He once found himself on stage with Slayer by accident. In line with what he believes is the primary mission of City Paper, he keeps his ears open to the plentiful and eclectic sounds of Philadelphia. What else? He reads a lot of short stories, drinks cider, loves his bike and thinks ghosts are probably real. Aliens, too. Has a lot of Flyers-related superstitions, too. [pat@citypaper.net] Carolyn Huckabay began her career in the arts as a 5-year-old ballerina with bad balance. She dropped out at 10 when she realized there were more important things than being lithe and graceful (chief among them: candy). She spent the next dozen years engrossed in the equally nerdy worlds of orchestra (where she played a mean French horn) and a cappella (where she may or may not have beat-boxed to such classics as Extreme's 'More than Words'). After an early career as a copy editor who spent her time arguing the merits of the semicolon and the demerits of the dangling modifier, Carolyn has found her calling as City Paper's Arts editor, where she keeps her finger on this city's theater/dance/gallery/opera/weird-experimental-multidisciplinary-thing-at-Studio-34 buzzer. Not to toot her own horn or anything. [carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net] Josh Middleton began his foray in the arts as an actor. In first grade he landed one of his first lead roles, Queen Isabella in Ms. Gibson's First Grade Class Presents: Christopher Columbus. Everyone was puzzled as to why he adamantly wanted to play a girl's part, but in third grade he came out of the closet and everything started to make sense. After a series of flops in several community theater productions he took a flyswatter to that acting bug and set out on a journey across the country in search of other pursuits. He squatted with trannies in San Francisco and a couple of club kids in L.A. before heading back east to begin life anew in Philadelphia. He is the current Editorial Assistant & Listings Editor at City Paper, where he scours the Internet to insure not one single Philadelphia event goes unnoticed. If you're looking for something to do, this cat's the one to hit up. [joshua.middleton@citypaper.net]

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