TORONTO, January 15, 2007 - Staff and reader picks for the Best of 2006, as well as interviews with Pete Townshend of The Who, the director and stars of the recent film Monkey Warfare and Canadian singer-songwriter Veda Hille are featured in the January/February issue of Being There magazine (www.beingtheremag.com).  Our first issue of the New Year is also loaded with new material and additional goodies, including:

• Reviews of new albums by artists including Jill Barber, Billy Bragg, Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3, Anne McCue, Peter Murray, Joanna Newsom and Sparklehorse
• Film reviews, including The Good German, Pan's Labyrinth and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
• A close look at recently issued DVDs of Pandora's Box and Snakes On A Plane, as well as a dazzling live performance from Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint 

In addition, Russell Bartholomee looks at a few releases that remain "Under The Radar," Zayne Reeves offers his country music expertise once again in a special "alt. country" edition of "Getting To Know," and with Mike Alves offers more weirdness from the country music capital of the world with the latest edition of "I Wanna See the Nashville Lights." Meanwhile, Natalia Manzocco takes a close look at The Replacements' Pleased To Meet Me and our staff shares their monthly Top 5s in BT's "9x5" column. 

Readers should also be sure to check out the BT blog, updated almost daily with fresh content (www.beingtheremag.com/blog), or get involved by dropping by the BT MySpace page (www.myspace.com/beingtheremag).