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Soul food to warm your tummy and spirit
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) Happy Holidays to everyone. This issue, I decided not to feature holiday food, but to feature some of my favorite foods. Soul food! All
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7 Reasons I Love You, Nico Tortorella
By Mikey Rox Dear Nico Tortorella: I’m gonna use your full name, OK? We’re not on a first-name basis, but I hope that’ll change soon. In a good way, Nico
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Fall 2018
By Chris Azzopardi Won’t You Be My Neighbor? For over 30 years, national treasure Fred Rogers welcomed kids who felt different to his “neighborhood.†Maybe you were there, enchanted by
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The holiday merriment continues
By Randall Jobe Final weekend. Obsidian Theater offers a unique holiday experience with A Drag Christmas Carol. A hard-hearted politician experiences a change of heart with the help of some
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A Bing Crosby Christmas, starring Broadway’s Jared Bradshaw arrives at The George Dec 10 & 11!
Tis the season to be jolly, as Broadway baritone Jared Bradshaw celebrates American icon Bing Crosby performing A Bing Crosby Christmas at The George Theater. A mainstay of the “Great White
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Still Here, Queer, and Slaying
| The Girl in the Spider’s Web actress Claire Foy on objecting to a lesbian sex scene and being bi in Unsane By Chris Azzopardi A pansexual man-avenger returns –
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To err is human, a cowboy marries and kissing lesbians
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: There’s a little bit of good and bad in all of us and maybe sometimes we just don’t know any better. What’s important is that we
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‘A Landing on the Bayou’
|A multi-media LGBTQ history experience By Randall Jobe Drag entertainer extraordinaire Naomi Sims stood on stage in a single spotlight at the Old Plantation Disco lip-syncing Diana Ross’ “Theme from
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A trip to the holiday salad bar
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) It looks like the holidays are at our doorstep: Traffic is terrible, people are fighting for that last parking space, little old ladies are
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BB Lemon: Comfort food with a pedigree
By Jim Ayres B & B Butchers, an instant hit with the steakhouse set when it opened in 2015, now has a less pricey, but no less inspired, sister restaurant