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 Than Sex Desserts†from last issue. As Paula once said, “I’ll never move again.â€Â Famous last words! Speaking of moving, it’s that time again. I’ve been sorting
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. Sigh. It was a simpler time. Barack Obama was our president and Russian Federation President Vladimir “Hey, look at my man-boobies!†Putin wasn’t our Obama’s
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 Tuesday. Holding true to the Island tradition of Mardi Gras and keeping with the ideas of hospitality, celebrations, good times and fun, Galveston welcomed visitors
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 the podunk Canadian town the show is named after. And thank him, he who created and developed the series, which premiered in 2015 on Pop TV (and can
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 time to “date†at all – or perhaps you’re so active that you’ve already done everything. Or so you think. Relight the fi re in your hearts by spending
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 will be live music, food trucks, a kid zone, car show vehicles and lots of fun to enjoy. This event strives to preserve and celebrate Creole history and culture,
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 Blackmead Manor, and the fiercely independent female academic community is reluctant to ask for help from outsiders. When Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn into the case, they fi
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 THEATRE presents Unlock’d, a modernish musical romance. It tells the story of Clarissa, a smart, passionate, young woman living in 18th century England who has reached the limit of her frustration
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 attended my first brunch of 2018. It was a small intimate affair with my BFF and regular brunch partner Mychal Bass meeting at our usual location,
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 had been an adult gay person for so long at a time where that wasn’t possible where life was ‘fine’ for me.†—Big Bang actor, Jim Parsons,
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