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• The real secret between Batman and Robin?

  Possibly Marvel's first Male on Male kiss. So Superman wears muscle-clinging spandex, Batman covers his face with a dark mask and Wonder Woman runs around in a one piece swimsuit. To say sexuality factors into the comic book industry is an understatement. But despite years of progress, the gays still have [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:28pm EST
  by Aziz Bawany

• Smells like teen comics: Discussing Buffy, high school allegories and self-publishing with Utopian creator Pj Perez

  Is Pj Perez a Renaissance man or just a workaholic? The high quality of his latest effort, the debut issue of The Utopian, a full-color comic book originally serialized online and now available for purchase at better comics shops, suggests the former. Perez has a long history in indie publishing [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:42pm EST
  by Andrew Kiraly

• Help needed for homeless helpers

  Project Homeless Connect, the annual gathering of services for the homeless, is in desperate need of help. Last year, the event offered services such as legal aid, medical checkups and haircuts to approximately 3,400 people. This year, they expect to see between 4,000 and 4,500, according to Larry Lovelett, spokesman [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:42pm EST
  by Amy Kingsley

• Drunk event tonight

  a panel from Ivan Brunetti's comic in Drunk Whoops! An article in this week’s paper includes the wrong information for the book signing party and art opening for Drunk: A Comic About Bar Stories. The event is happening tonight at Frankie’s Tiki Room, which is on Charleston Boulevard near UMC. You [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:55pm EST
  by Amy Kingsley

• The power of nonviolence

  Amos Sawyer, former president of Liberia Here in the United States, we haven’t heard much about the power of nonviolent resistance, at least not since various social movements here used it to such great effect in the 1960s and 1970s. All that changes tonight when UNLV welcomes former Liberian president Amos Sawyer, [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:15am EST
  by Jason Whited

• Screeching to the choir: As the U.K. plans a crackdown on music piracy, new poll results show the biggest music-stealers are also the biggest music buyers

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  ''Get your patchouli-stinking, music-loving, only-reason-my-dying-business-still-clings-to-life ass out of my store!'' Last Sunday, British public policy think-tank Demos announced its findings that those who admit to illegally downloading copyrighted music also happen to pay for a lot more of it than those who say they never download illegally. The poll, conducted by [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:45pm EST
  by Dave Surratt