By Forest Riggs The calendar tells us that summer has gone and fall has arrived. For island dwellers and southeast Texans, we beg to differ. Locals jokingly say, “Sure, we have four season, summer, summer, summer and summer!†In truth, we do get a little change, maybe from summer to a “cooler summer†and historically,
By Nancy Ford I have a problem and I need your help. Much as I wish I could, I can’t stop thinking about U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and his alleged Twitter endorsement of a porn site. By now, we’re all familiar with the story. It all happened as Texas’ Gulf Coast was still soaked to
By Johnny Trlica Finally, some good news! The Houston Astros have clinched their first division title in 16 years, the team’s first as a member of the American League. With a strong push in their final few games, the boys of summer could head into the playoffs with a 100-win season, a remarkable turnaround from
By Jim Ayres It’s funny how a simple fact about my life can change in the blink of an eye. I started the last edition of Foodie Diaries by saying I rarely venture downtown. After Hurricane Harvey, that changed. I’ve been downtown a lot lately, mostly dropping off donations and offering a comforting word or
By Forest Riggs Lately it seems that everywhere we look there is some cataclysmic event or catastrophic threat that is wreaking havoc upon the earth and we, the inhabitants. To put it bluntly, these are scary times and many people are asking a lot of questions. Some are offering all sorts of answers. Back in
Cara Delevingne lines up Carnival Row She’s still less known as an actress than as a model – we just saw her in the pages of the new September issue of Vogue_ over our morning tea, honestly – but really that’s not Cara Delevingne’s fault. The bisexual actress was a charming presence in the indie
By D’Anne Witkowski Houston’s under water right now, but don’t worry, Donald Trump is feverishly working to ferret out transgender service members. I’m going to guess that when National Guard members arrive to rescue people from flooded homes nobody’s cares about whether or not their rescuer is trans. And yet Trump, who has never served
By Nancy Ford “‘We’re less threatening, I think,’ Annise Parker, the mayor of Houston from 2010 to 2016, told me in a recent telephone interview. She said lesbians don’t deal with anything precisely like ‘the long-dispelled shibboleths about gay men being sexual predators.’†—Frank Bruni, noting Victory Fund’s analysis that LGBT women who run for
By Johnny Trlica The biggest story of the past two weeks is, by far, Hurricane Harvey, and the most read column at Houston Rainbow Herald involves the aftermath of the storm of the century. If you read any bar’s Facebook post informing you that they were open for business and it included a reference to
By Jim Ayres I rarely go downtown. Pride—of course, I’m there. Otherwise, it takes a very special event to put me among the skyscrapers, where I invariably get lost. Sometimes, though, curiosity gets the best of me. A few years ago, I took a tour of the newly (and still) trendy Market Square area for
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