James Raxter
sales manager, '94-'96 After abandoning a promising career in cellular phone and FM radio sales, James joined the staff as a sales rep in '92. He and his hair managed to work their way up the Metro Pulse ladder--and into an office all their own, where James became possibly the only sales manager in the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies to use the phrase "golly gee" on a regular basis. James was the sunny-side-up yin to the editiorial and art staffs' grouchy, eye-rolling yang. Besides cheerfully lording over a seemingly revolving door of account execs, he also had the thankless job of making nice with clients after the editorial staff pissed them off.