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Island Grill: A popular concept reborn
By Jim Ayres  Remember Miami Subs? In its 1990s heyday, its South Beach-inspired pastels and pink and blue neon lights and interiors were seemingly everywhere. Miami Subs did, indeed, serve submarine
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Today’s Headlines Reveal a Distorted set of Morals
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: Before getting to the actual topic of this column, please allow me a little time to gloat. In September of last year, this writer made predictions
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Eat, Drink and Love on Valentine’s Day
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) Hello again, readers. I trust everyone is keeping their New Year’s resolutions. I am watching those vodka calories, glass by glass.  And here we
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Sticks and stones and what a word is story headline
By Nancy Ford My parents, rest their much-missed souls, had some pretty stringent rules my siblings and I were expected to follow as we were growing up. “Don’t torment your
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A star is born in sneakers: Kitty West
By Johnny Trlica Lana Turner was discovered when she was a junior at Hollywood High School, skipped a typing class and bought a Coca-Cola at the Top Hat Malt Shop.
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Jennifer Lopez to star in “Kiss of the Spider Woman”
Romeo San Vicente Jennifer Lopez will star in the new musical feature film “Kiss of the Spider Woman†from gay director Bill Condon (“Dreamgirls,†“Beauty and The Beastâ€), in what
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Playboy Magazine Was a Model of Reporting on HIV/AIDS in the 1980s
By Amy Fletcher In an analog era, newspapers and magazines provided much of the essential HIV/AIDS reporting in the United States by disseminating updates on the evolving medical consensus that
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Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?
| Letters of Love and Lust from the White House  By Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler Four bills, a political flier, a request for a charity and a magazine. That’s
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Nikki Haley’s and the entire Republican field’s missed opportunities
By Colby Etherton With the 2024 presidential election season officially underway, the field has narrowed to two candidates on the Republican side: former President Donald Trump and former U.N. Ambassador
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Black Trans Activist Raquel Willis on Why Stories Like Hers Need to Be Heard
| ‘The Risk It Takes to Bloom’ author on living a life of ‘discomfort’ and how she hopes to change that for others By Sarah Bricker Hunt When Raquel Willis
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It’s Trump that is poisoning our nation’s blood
By Johnny Trlica Opinion: Several years ago, I was asked, “Are you ready to switch?†That request came from a friend I’ll call Lisa, and was not concerning my sexual
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Presidential race starts year with hefty Trump lead
By Colby Etherton Time is running out for GOP presidential candidates. Then again, is there ever enough time? On January 15, 2024, the Iowa caucuses will officially kick off 2024’s