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STAR OF THE MONTH: Angel Oxl
By Johnny Trlica –– Ever since we started the “Star of the Month” column in January of 2024, all of the featured performers have been drag queens. We’ve profiled legends
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Four more years, renewed fears
By Carly Davin Nation, Special to the MONTROSE STAR –– As of this writing we are three months into Trump’s second term. Every day I wake up to news of
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23rd Street Station’s Sherry Boyett
By Johnny Trlica –– Does a tourist town with over eight million visitors a year have a slow season? For Galveston, the answer is definitely a “yes.” While May through
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GALVESTON IS MARCHING TO THE BEAT: It’s Mardi Gras time on the island
By Forest Riggs –– After a little cold snap that dampened some early festivities, the parades, music and partying for Mardi Gras 2025 kicked off on February 21. Friday evening
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PLUM LOCO MOTIVES: All aboard the Trump train
Trump may have an oceanfront condo in Gaza-Lago he wants to sell you...
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TEX-NEXT
Is Urbe the softer side of Hugo’s? By Jim Ayres –– I’m sick of Tex-Mex. Sick, sick, sick, sick, sick of it. And judging from TABC sales figures, lots of
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‘Wicked’ star Cynthia Erivo joins ‘Blood and Bone’
By Romeo San Vicente –– Queer Academy Award nominee Cynthia Erivo has joined a large ensemble cast for “The Woman King” filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood’s latest, “Children of Blood and Bone.”
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Trump
By D’Anne Witkowski –– It is simply impossible to keep up with the barrage of antiLGBTQ+ news coming out of the Trump Administration. Upontaking office, Trump wasted no time signing
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CONNECTING THE DOTS
By Forest Riggs –– The artistic legacy of Mark L. Watford In January, Galveston Island was treated to a showing of the fantastic art works by long-deceased island resident and
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National debt problem, part 3
By Rick Ehrlich –– In the previous Parts 1 and 2, we discussed the dramatic explosion of the U.S.A.’s national debt, going from $5 trillion to $36 trillion in just