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• Pow! Wow! Now!

  Comic-book figures like Superman, Captain America, and Spider-Man are a big part of the American mythology. Blessed with special powers, they defend the weak in the name of justice. But these characters are far from the first superheroes in North America. If you stray from the world of contemporary pop culture and drift into the world of Native American creation stories, you'll find superheroes of a different — but not entirely different — nature. »Story,

• Terrell's Tune-Up

  Notes from a hotel bizarre and other places »Story,

• Lights! Camera! Africa!

  The images won't go away. The scenes of genocidal atrocities in Sudan and Uganda, witnessed while reviewing two documentaries, The Devil Came on Horseback and Uganda Rising, are persistent. Time for something else. »Story,

• Try to make me go to Rehab and I'll say como no, no, no?

  Rehab can be a very funny place, but as Paul Rodriguez sees it, it's still serious business. The Latino comic spearheads the comedy documentary Paul Rodriguez & Friends: Comedy Rehab, which is being filmed in front of an audience at the Lensic Performing Arts Center on May 16 and 17. His "friends" are comics Gene Pompa, Shayla Rivera, and Manny Maldonado. (Improvisational comic Jeff Garcia originally was part of the group, but he had to bow out because of a commitment to Comedy Central, so Maldonado stepped in.) »Story,