By Forest Riggs It is almost hard to believe that the month of February has arrived. It seems that only yesterday we were preparing wonderful Thanksgiving meals, decorating Christmas trees and watching New Year’s ball drop in New York City. As the old saying goes, Tempus Fugit, and indeed it does, for time passes so
By Jim Ayres  Remember Miami Subs? In its 1990s heyday, its South Beach-inspired pastels and pink and blue neon lights and interiors were seemingly everywhere. Miami Subs did, indeed, serve submarine sandwiches, but also cheesesteaks, burgers, chicken, wraps, and salads. But after a disastrous merger with Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips in 1998, Miami Subs’ quality
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: Before getting to the actual topic of this column, please allow me a little time to gloat. In September of last year, this writer made predictions about the upcoming NFL season.  In that issue, I wrote, “The Bayou City’s NFL team begins play this month. They will not win too many
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) Hello again, readers. I trust everyone is keeping their New Year’s resolutions. I am watching those vodka calories, glass by glass.  And here we are at Valentine’s Day again. Instead of fighting the restaurant lines and reservations, you have decided to just stay home with your honey (or honeys,
By Nancy Ford My parents, rest their much-missed souls, had some pretty stringent rules my siblings and I were expected to follow as we were growing up. “Don’t torment your sister!“ was one I heard a lot. Torment my sisters? I would never! Would I pretend to touch my younger sister’s food? Sure, but, pretend.
By Johnny Trlica Lana Turner was discovered when she was a junior at Hollywood High School, skipped a typing class and bought a Coca-Cola at the Top Hat Malt Shop. Charlize Theron got her big break when completely broke, she was trying to cash an out-of-state check at a bank. An agent in line, hearing
Romeo San Vicente Jennifer Lopez will star in the new musical feature film “Kiss of the Spider Woman†from gay director Bill Condon (“Dreamgirls,†“Beauty and The Beastâ€), in what is the next step in a long journey from its original incarnation as a novel. Manuel Puig’s book was turned into an Academy Award-winning 1985
By Amy Fletcher In an analog era, newspapers and magazines provided much of the essential HIV/AIDS reporting in the United States by disseminating updates on the evolving medical consensus that shaped an emergent pandemic politics. Among the popular magazines of the 1980s, Playboy had a unique vantage point on the crisis. The AIDS epidemic ―
| Letters of Love and Lust from the White House  By Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler Four bills, a political flier, a request for a charity and a magazine. That’s what came in the mail yesterday, which is about average. If you get a letter, man, that’s unusual because almost nobody does that anymore. Imagine
By Colby Etherton With the 2024 presidential election season officially underway, the field has narrowed to two candidates on the Republican side: former President Donald Trump and former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. Haley needed a strong showing in New Hampshire’s January 23 primary, coming in second to Trump and losing by
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