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9 Essential Money Tips for New Gay Grads
By Mikey Rox Here’s the good news, new grads: You’re not as financially inept as the media por-trays you. Stash Invest asked grads like you what they plan to do
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All these years later, Bohemeo’s still scores
By Jim Ayres Though the weather has been unseasonably warm, with rainclouds in the distance, I enjoyed my drive down Leeland that day in May. GPS set to avoid freeways,
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Quick and beefy
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) It’s me again, STAR readers! I think we are having an early summer. I can’t wait to see all those hot, greased up bodies
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Gangsters, gamblers and the Rapture
By Randall Jobe The Alley Theatre presents Picasso at the Lapin Agile, comedian, actor and writer Steve Martin’s hilarious imagining of Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein’s meeting in a Parisian
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PFLAG Houston celebrates Pride and T.R.U.T.H.
By Linda Bratsen What an exciting time of year! If you have never experienced the excitement of marching in the Houston LGBT Pride Parade, please consider marching with PFLAG
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Houston LGBT artist Jumper Maybach announces ‘The Pride Collection: INTROSPECTION’, a nationwide art exhibition
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
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Historic wins, last laughs and other top stories
By Johnny Trlica COMMENTARY: Life is about taking risks, or so it’s been said. A few years ago, at 58, I left the psychiatric hospital industry to pursue a career
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Texas Music Festival brings star power to ‘Cosmic Beginnings’
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
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An open letter to Sarah Huckabee Sanders
By Nancy Ford | Dear Sarah, How’s it going, Girl? Forgive my familiarity in addressing you by your first name, but I feel like I know you. I tune in
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Tim’s Story: Breaking the cycle of opioid addiction
By Rena McCain | Happy Weedsday, everyone! I hope everyone is doing well! So…who knows how bad the opioid crisis is here in the United States? Throughout the course of my