| RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Muscle Queen Shapes Up the City as Part of the Werq The World USA Tour By Tom Tietjen Kameron Michaels’ rise to the top three on this past season’s RuPaul’s Drag Race came as a surprise to many, but to none as much as the muscle queen herself.  While the quiet

Houston Roundup, a local 501(c)(3) in its 37th year, will stage an original drag production titled A Midsummer Night’s Drag: Feuds on Saturday, August 11, 8 p.m. at The Whitehall Hotel in downtown Houston. The event is open to all and is a fundraiser for the all-volunteer grassroots organization. “Our idea was to have a

Rover Oaks Pet Resort just wrapped its eighth annual month-long donation drive, Operation: War Dogs, to help rescue and bring home America’s nation’s War Dogs. The funds raised are going to non-profit organization Mission K9 Rescue, the Houston chapter of the United States War Dogs Association (USWDA). The fundraiser began on Memorial Day and ended on July

International human rights activist Melanie Nathan and her attorney, Lisa Bloom, recently protested the U.S. Navy’s written decision to fire her from an agreed-to Pride Month speaking event based on Ms. Nathan’s anti-Trump tweets. On June 22, 2018, Ms. Bloom sent a letter to the Navy explaining that this was a clear violation of Ms.

By Randall Jobe | A conversation with Houston playwright Gwen Flager This summer, Queensbury Theatre presents Shakin’ the Blue Flamingo, written by Gwen Flager and directed by Claire Hart-Palumbo. In it, five former sorority sisters, who once ran naked across a golf course, ate a lot of greasy fries chicken, survived multiple sorority scandals and

By Randall Jobe | An Interview with ‘Buyer and Cellar’ star, Doug Atkins Main Street Theater presents Buyer and Cellar, in which Alex More (Doug Atkins), a struggling L.A. actor takes a job working in the Malibu basement of mega-star Barbra Streisand. One day the lady herself come downstairs to play. Will this be a

By Randall Jobe | Ron Kerr’s personae Dessie Love-Blake high-heeled her way into drag in bowling league charity shows. He had no intention of turning it into a profession. A year later, in 2012, he reconsidered after winning his first title — Miss EJ’s, during Pride season. The performance part of the job came naturally after

LGBT artist and philanthropist Jumper Maybach is set to unveil a timely and important new series of works celebrating Pride 2018. The series titled The Pride Collection: INTROSPECTION will be on exhibition and available for acquisition at several venerable fine art galleries throughout the United States beginning June 1, 2018. The works in this series were created

The Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival (TMF) brings back the star power this June, from launching its 2018 TMF Orchestra Series with “Cosmic Beginnings,” a space spectacular pairing Strauss and Holst space-themed masterpieces, to presenting Maestro Hans Graf’s first Houston guest conducting appearance since earning the prestigious Grammy Award in January. The 29th

By Juan Ignacio Aguilar |  ¿Ustedes querrán saber cómo se creó La Casa De Todos? Durante el tiempo que tengo asistiendo al servicio dominical de las 11am y hablando con el estimado Rev. Michael Díaz le comenté que era necesario hacer algo por la comunidad. El tiempo pasó y en una ocasión Mark Eggleston me