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Just another Sunday morning at Walmart
By Nancy Ford It’s a rough world out there. As this issue of MONTROSE STAR goes to press, idiots on four-wheelers are chainsawing their way through the Joshua Tree National
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More info about life-enhancing terpenes
By Rena McCain Happy Weedsday to all of you lovely people! I hope today finds you doing fine. So it’s 2019, and the country is moving toward legalizing cannabis in
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Best Albums of 2018
By Chris Azzopardi 10. Jussie Smollett, Sum of My Music No way Empire star Jussie Smollett was about to let a label – in his case, not just any label
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Home invasion in Midtown, ‘Believe’ in Adam Lambert and other top stories
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: Each New Year holds the promise of hope and excitement but 2019 will also bring us cause to reflect. It was 50 years ago, that police
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Creep of the Year: Donald Trump
By D’Anne Witkowski Hello there. Congratulations. If you’re reading this that means you lived through another year of President Donald Trump. As I write this there are so many scandals
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10 Best Queer Pop Culture Moments
By Romeo San Vicente Is it because we’re all swimming together in the toxic Trump pool that makes every new addition to the LGBTQ cultural canon feel like an act
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Main Street Theater presents ‘The Secretary’
By Randall Jobe It’s 2019, the beginning of a new year, but local theaters are in mid-season and are continuing to bring you the best in professionally presented productions. Houston
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Breakfast on-the-run
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) Happy New Year, everyone. What a year 2018 was! So may things got in the way of my pot-and-pan rattling. It interrupted my bi-annual visit
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Even Fried Chicken? Al Aseel’s Mediterranean delights
By Jim Ayres Over the last couple of years, Houston “bear-tender†Aaron LaTour has been pleading with me to try Al Aseel, a Mediterranean restaurant at Richmond and Dunvale. LaTour
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A Year in Review: What the Celebs Said
Interviews by Chris Azzopardi Cher once jumped out of a bathroom window with her gay friend to escape the police. And if you also didn’t know that you mean as