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Taste Bar + Kitchen | Houston’s Most Decadent Restaurant
By Jim Ayres Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not at Waffle House anymore! Well, if you, Dorothy, Toto or anyone else stumbles upon Taste Bar + Kitchen, a new restaurant in
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4 Powerful LGBTQ Exhibits to Catch This Spring
By Mikey Rox Punch up your post-brunch weekend activities with these exhibits of cultural and LGBTQ significance. 1. Superfine! Art Fair, New York, N.Y. Superfine! NYC moves this year’s everyman
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Britney’s back One More Time
By Romeo San Vicente We are always rooting for Britney Spears. We know that right now, as of this column, her personal life has hit a bit of a rough
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Hunkering down once again
By Forest Riggs With the onset of summer, which so far has been beautiful, comes the annual threat and fear of the “big one.†Yes, it’s hurricane season and for
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In praise of wine, women, and dessert
By Nancy Ford It was a grey, rainy Friday afternoon (surprise!) in Houston. All of my mundane obligations for the week had been met, so I decided to treat myself
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Sword play, fancy footwork, and stranger sex
By Randall Jobe Main Street Theater presents Alan Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking. Ginny and Greg are in love and despite the awkward moment of unexplained flowers and chocolates oddly filling her
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Red Dinner 4 raises funds for LGBTQ UH students in need
Eureka O’Hara. Photo via Instagram Imagine you are a college student coming out or are outed to your parents. Their reaction is not what you had hoped for and they
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Melissa Etheridge Has Your Medicine
| Returning with The Medicine Show, the legendary LGBTQ icon talks inspiration in world crises and her new ‘totally fueled by cannabis’ album By Chris Azzopardi Ain’t it heavy? Ain’t
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Bunnies on the Bayou at 40: As wild and outrageous as ever
By Johnny Trlica “You can’t help getting older but you don’t have to get old.†That line by George Burns, who lived to be 100, speaks to staying young, no
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Burger Mania: Burgers from the most unexpected places
By Jim Ayres Occasionally, I crave a burger. Imagine that! Most of the time, I head to Houston’s well-known burger joints such as Mia’s, Rodeo Goat, Bellaire Broiler Burger or,