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Dive into this chocolate extravaganza
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) Hello, guys and gals. I hope everyone had a great Valentine’s Day with the sweetie of your choice, and you got to try the “Better
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The Olympic trials of Mike Pence
By Nancy Ford It’s hard to believe it’s already been four years since the last time the world’s top athletes gathered to compete in the Olympics in Sochi in Russia.
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Galveston is giving it up for Lent
Mardi Gras has come and gone, the last strings of beads have been thrown, the balls and parties are over and done and, hopefully, everyone survived the madness of Fat
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DAN LEVY Is Doing Us All a Big Favor
By Chris Azzopardi Next time you see Dan Levy, thank him. Thank him for Schitt’s Creek, his superbingeable comedic riff on a once-affluent family forced to live like fish out of Perrier in
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9 ‘New’ date-night ideas to spend QT with your OG
By Mikey Rox If you’ve been with your partner a while, it can be hard to come up with exciting date ideas. Maybe you’re stuck in a dinner-and-a-movie rut – if you’re making
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Houston Creole Heritage Festival celebration Saturday, February 24
This family-friendly Houston Creole Heritage Festival gets underway February 24, 2018 from 12 Noon until 7 p.m. Saturday, February 24th at the Budweiser Brewery off I-10 at 775 Gellhorn Drive in Houston, Texas 77029. There
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Regional premiere of ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Spinsters of Blackmead’
Theatre Suburbia presents the regional premiere of C. P. Stancich’s Sherlock Holmes and the Spinsters of Blackmead, an exciting new look at Sherlock, his compatriots and all with a twist. Someone is murdering the women of
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Classical Theatre Company presents ‘An Enemy of the People’
By Randall Jobe CLASSICAL THEATRE COMPANY presents An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 examination of the media and government corruption. John Johnston directs. Through February 25. 4617 Montrose Blvd. #100 Houston, 77006. Tickets: ClassicalTheatre.org. QUEENSBURY
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Schools shootings, a new Montrose eatery and other top stories
By Johnny Trlica Brunch is an important part of gay life and, as such, I was close to having to turn in my gay card. It took until February 11 before I
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The Adorable Queer Valentines Edition
By Nancy Ford “It was so much more meaningful in the moment for me than I predicted, and it’s been resonantly much more meaningful than for me afterward than I ever saw coming,â€Â he said. “You know, I