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4 Nov 2009, 12:00 am
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Finding a hot third: The problems of having him pick her out for you both
4 Nov 2009, 12:00 am
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by Dan Savage. Q: I'm a 20-year-old girl, and I've been dating my boyfriend, who is 23, for two years. From the get-go, he has known that I am bi, and like most straight guys, he's happy to be with a girl who likes girls.
The thing is, I am too shy to go out and hit on a girl. Getting a man was the easy part, but...


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Released after 8 years: Detroit man out of prison after his conviction is overturned
4 Nov 2009, 12:00 am
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by Sandra Svoboda. Hours after a judge on Tuesday ordered a new trial for Dwayne Provience — imprisoned eight years for a murder that prosecutors at points have said he didn't commit — he emerged from custody to the embraces and tears of family and supporters.
"This is a load off of my back. I want t...


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Night and Day
4 Nov 2009, 12:00 am
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by Megan O'Neil. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5
Ann Arbor Film Festival Screening
STOP IN THE NAME OF TIME
The Ann Arbor Film Festival takes its 47th annual show on the road, conducting screenings at universities, galleries and art house cinemas across the country, including this stop in Detroit's Midtown. AAFF director Don...


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Park art: In free speech victory, Grosse Pointe Park decides not to press case against artist
4 Nov 2009, 12:00 am
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by News Hits staff. The pictures stay on the lawn.�
That's the upshot as the city of Grosse Pointe Park withdraws its appeal of a lower court ruling that found its sign ordinance unconstitutional.
The Park city fathers had gone after Erica Chappuis, and her husband, Laurent Chappuis, for erecting her paintings in the...


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The Royal 'E': Theater and bowling alley wants to locate in Royal Oak, if the residents will allow it
4 Nov 2009, 12:00 am
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by News Hits staff. For some, downtown Royal Oak's proposed 10-screen theater and bowling alley, with its already-approved liquor license, is the harbinger of suburban ruin. To them it promises parking woes, unwanted traffic and a "big box" operation that will be out of character with the walkable downtown an...


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Letters to the Editor: Why you shouldn't trust Moroun, and Roky's rocky road
4 Nov 2009, 12:00 am
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by Metro Times readers. Don't trust Moroun
I write regarding your News Hit "There goes a secret" (Oct. 21), about the inspection report finding the Ambassador Bridge in "fair" condition.
Matty Moroun, the enigmatic owner of the Detroit International Bridge Company, was hoping you would blindly trust i...


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Getting youth-enized: Organizers exude energey as the 2010 U.S. Social Forum draws nearer
4 Nov 2009, 12:00 am
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by Larry Gabriel. The 2010 United States Social Forum is planned to be really big. Organizers expect 20,000 to 30,000 grassroots progressive activists to converge in Detroit June 22-26 for meetings, demonstrations and get-your-hands-dirty work around town. Members of hundreds of progressive groups around the world ar...


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Dear Gov. Granholm: Jenny nears the disappointing end, a political invertebrate
4 Nov 2009, 12:00 am
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by Jack Lessenberry. Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed off on the last of this year's state budgets last week, avoiding, for now, a government shutdown.
Unfortunately, in the process, she sold out our future, doomed vast numbers of schoolchildren, and betrayed the people who elected her. Then, naturally, in classic fashion...


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Lit up: Area hate-crime murders that caused panic, and a coffee-table tome of shuttered insane asylums
4 Nov 2009, 12:00 am
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by Travis R. Wright. The Slasher Killings: A Canadian Sex Crime Panic, 1945-1946
by Patrick Brode
Wayne State University Press
$22.95, 232 pp.
In the mid-1940s, Windsor, Ontario, was a freewheeling incubator of vice. Troops returning from the war were welcomed home with a bevy of booze, houses in which to play...


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Cheat Code: Brave new worlds: Marvel Ultimate Alliance and Halo 3
4 Nov 2009, 12:00 am
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by Metro Times game reviewers. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
Acclaim
Xbox 360, Ps3, Wii, PSP
Any comic fan will tell you that comics have grown up, and contemporary ones often make allegories of real-life current events. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 takes foreign policies on terror and civil rights and adds superheroes into the m...


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Couch Trip: Talking Heads make some sense; plus, Snow White gets hotter, Mara Nair rules, and Clone Commandos kick ass
4 Nov 2009, 12:00 am
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by Metro Times film writers. Stop Making Sense (25th Anniversary Blu-ray)
Vivendi
As soon as you wrap your head around the fact it has been a quarter-century since Jonathan Demme and David Byrne teamed up to create Stop Making Sense, you may settle into another realization: Despite the intervening years bestowing a sort of cl...


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Food Stuff: Anthony Bourdain comes to town, and more
4 Nov 2009, 12:00 am
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by Metro Times food staff. TV dinner — Celebrity chef, author and television host Anthony Bourdain will be in our area this Saturday, at Ann Arbor's Michigan Theater. Billed as "An Evening with Anthony Bourdain," the star of No Reservations will take the stage that night. In the grand foyer, ticket-holders wil...


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Electricity kills!: Electric 6 front man Dick Valentine's gritty determination to keep their rock 'n' roll carnival on the road
4 Nov 2009, 12:00 am
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by Brett Callwood. It's been, appropriately enough, six years since Detroit's Electric 6 released their Fire album, capturing worldwide attention with their combination of disco, garage rock and tongue-in-cheek comedy. (The disc was especially well received in this writer's native U.K., where the band's camp theatrics...


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Dylan and Springsteen: Live at a Kroger near you!: How 'the spokesman for a generation' and 'the voice of the American working class' really feel about the things you actually care about
4 Nov 2009, 12:00 am
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by Serene Dominic. Recently, I got a chance to see Bob Dylan bring his "never-ending tour" to a state fair. The real show, however, was watching the simple folk who gorged on Indian fry bread, cotton candy and turkey legs (that were only slightly juicier than a 2-by-4) getting to wander into a Dylan concert...


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Pick a winner: This week, our staff selects its favorite spots
4 Nov 2009, 12:00 am
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by Metro Times food staff. Al Sultan 425 N. Inkster Rd., Garden City; 734-522-1500: We think this place is a contender for "Best Hidden Gem of Middle Eastern Food," given its generous servings, excellent quality and off-the-beaten-path location. Generous vegetarian plates (falafel, moujadara, and veggie gallaba) don...


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Censored!: The top 10 stories not brought to you by mainstream news media in 2008 and 2009
4 Nov 2009, 12:00 am
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by Rebecca Bowe. Peter Phillips, director of Project Censored for 13 years, says he's finished with reform. It's impossible, he said in a recent interview, to try to get major news media outlets to deliver relevant news stories that serve to strengthen democracy.
"I really think we're beyond reforming corporat...


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Groovy!: A musical version of Sam Raimi's sidesplitting horror flick bathes Ferndale in blood
28 Oct 2009, 1:00 am
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by Corey Hall. Be advised, things get messy in Evil Dead: The Musical, a wild night of theatrical chills and subversive musical thrills where the laughs are as plentiful as the gore. If the front three rows of patrons decked in plastic ponchos weren't a strong enough clue, several signs taped up in the Ringwald Th...


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Night and Day
28 Oct 2009, 1:00 am
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by Megan O'Neil. THURSDAY-FRIDAY OCTOBER 29-30
Damned II
THE ART OF DEPRAVITY
Local and international artists — 140 of them — including Swiss surrealist HR Giger and Marilyn Manson are featured in Damned II: An Exhibition of Enlightened Darkness. More than 200 works explore the depraved and disturbing...


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Make them fix it
28 Oct 2009, 1:00 am
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by Jack Lessenberry. Everybody's sick of the state budget crisis, and for good reason. The idiots in Lansing have not only screwed us over, they have bored us to death. We've had pretty much all we can take of droning Andy Dillon, the caveman-like Mike Bishop and our governor.
Probably the nicest thing you can say abou...


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