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WINTER FUN IN FLORIDA SUN
| Your Fort Lauderdale/Wilton Manors holiday awaits. By Bill Malcolm Consider a winter getaway to Fort Lauderdale and Wilton Manors (The Island City which is surrounded by Fort Lauderdale, Florida).
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RESOLVE, BUT RELAX | Galveston welcomes 2024 with early Mardi Gras
By Forest Riggs With Christmas just days behind, December 31 at midnight was quite the celebration. From one end of the island to the other, church bells rang, fireworks exploded
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A TikTok Chef Cooks Up Sizzling Success
There’s more to Jon Kung than meets the eye — and the taste buds. By Chris Azzopardi If you’re one of the 1.7 million people following nonbinary chef Jon Kung
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We’ve Got Her, Babe
| Cher talks new Christmas album, anti-LGBTQ+ ‘insanity’ and why she never took credit for co-writing ‘Believe’  By Chris Azzopardi After being introduced to Cher on the phone as her
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An open letter to Santa
By Johnny Trlica Opinion: Dear Santa, Little Johnny here. I bet you are surprised to get a letter from me since it has been a long time since I have
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John Whitmire for Houston Mayor
By Johnny Trlica OPINION: As expected, the race to replace Sylvester Turner to become the next mayor of Houston will be decided in a runoff. The two leading vote getters
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Where do things stand in the 2024 presidential race?
By Colby Etherton It’s official: the 2024 presidential election is less than one year away. More likely than not, 2024 is shaping up to be a redux of the 2020
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Gus Kenworthy’s Christmas ‘Sacrifice’
By Romeo San Vicente  The holiday slasher genre is giving gory gifts all over this season, with the grindhouse-steeped “Thanksgiving†and “It’s a Wonderful Knife†turning the memory of a
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Apples are the eye of these recipes
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) Holiday greetings to everyone! Wow, what a year this has been! And where did the time go? Here we are into the holidays already. Hopefully you
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HUGO’S | My ultra, ultra birthday dinner
By Jim Ayres I always thought, and still do, that Hugo’s on Westheimer has the most decadent weekend brunch in town. Buffet tables surround the vibrant dining room, overflowing with