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CREEP OF THE WEEK

Creep of the Week: Mike Huckabee

By D’Anne Witkowski I don’t listen to a lot of country music. In fact, since Trump’s “election†I haven’t listened to anything other than heavy metal (it’s honestly the only music that makes sense right now). Still, I do love me some Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton. So, when I heard that former Arkansas governor

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Positive Thoughts

We Are Family

Finding family when you don’t think you can make your own By Jeff Berry One of the first disco albums I ever owned, We Are Family by Sister Sledge, I didn’t actually buy, but I won in a radio call-in contest in the spring of 1979. I was living at home at the time and

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CommunitySpotlight

The Love Must Go On: Carl Han moves forward

By Randall Jobe It will take more than a devastating fire that destroyed the home he shares with Gary Giddings to keep Carl Han from the cause that has been dear to his and Giddings’s heart for over a decade. Even though he lost one, possible two, of his beloved cats, and all clothing and

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ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY

Find your golden egg in Galveston

By Forest Riggs Now that the chill of winter has passed and the “big†holidays and celebrations are behind us, it is time for Spring to arrive and bring with it sunshine, blossoms, new beginnings and fun times — both in and out of doors. All over Galveston, gardens are being re-dressed, damaged foliage from

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Spotlight

Find community through queer-affirming music

Singer-songwriter moves on from Christian-rock roots and discovers ‘silver horizon’ in pop music By ChrisAzzopardi Trey Pearson is living the out gay life he never thought he could. After 20 years as frontman of Christian rock band Everyday Sunday, Pearson, who was married for seven of those years to Lauren, with whom he has two

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FOODIE DIARIES

Emmaline brings beauty, charm and style

By Jim Ayres But what about the food? I’ll tell you about it. In a bit. I must tell you first, however — my lord, Emmaline’s a beauty. Open and serene, the restaurant is one of the most stunning in the city. Light fills the dining room, giving the rattan café chairs, and barstools and

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WHAT A WORLD

Survey Says: Register to vote!

By Nancy Ford First, let me explain. I am not a member of the Republican Party, although I was born into a Republican family. A super-Republican family. In fact, a now-deceased uncle proudly proclaimed each and every election season that “he never smoked a cigarette, never took a drink of alcohol and never voted for

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The Frivolist

6 things I’d like to see on the ‘Roseanne’ revival

By Mikey Rox Roseanne Barr knows how to keep tongues wagging. From her infamous bungling of The Star-Spangled Banner and my-way-or-the-highway tyranny on the set of her groundbreaking sitcom to her failed presidential bid and accusation that Ireland (yes, the whole darn country) is anti-Semitic, the self-proclaimed domestic goddess has been a controversial pop-culture mainstay

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Uncategorized

Love, politics, gossip and sex

By Randall Jobe Dirt Dog Theatre Company’s production of The Exonerated is something different. Based on the true stories of six criminally convicted survivors of death row, interwoven stories move through first-person narrative and scenes set in courtrooms, bars and prisons. All reflect the criminal justice system and the inspiration that helped them survive, and

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