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President Biden’s SOTU speech foreshadows likely 2024 reelection bid
By Colby Etherton Last month, on February 7, 2023, President Joe Biden gave his second State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. His address largely centered
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ETC Theatre delivers a dazzling ‘La Cage Aux Folles’ with plenty of fabulousness
By Johnny Trlica It’s a bright, loud, romantic, outrageous, and defiant celebration of living your life as you are, and not what others say you should be. And given today’s
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Welcome Spring with quick and tasty recipes
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) Hello, hungry MONTROSE STAR readers. Well, Spring is almost upon us and I can’t wait. And what a year it has already been. We have just
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With Uzo Aduba & Amy Warren |This World is Not My Own is a feature-length documentary film by Opendox.
Chewing gum sculptures, a wealthy gallerist, a firebrand wrestler, a notorious murder case, and the segregated south—it’s all part of Nellie Mae Rowe’s boundless universe. This World is Not My
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Th-th-th-th-that’s all, folks!
By Nancy Ford Not sure what the deal is, but an onslaught of wadding is afflicting the panties of an inordinate number of Texas’s state legislators this year. Beyond attacking
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Galveston soup for the soul
By Forest Riggs I have always enjoyed telling stories and tales. Many a time, while telling a good one, I will say, “…to make a long story short….†Some long-winded,
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Weekend in Savannah
By Andrew Collins The dignified city that General James Oglethorpe put on the map in 1733 has weathered the vagaries of time in fine fashion. Savannah has survived devastating fires
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Queer-ish Valentine’s Gifts for the Queers You Love-ish: 2023 Ed-ish
By Mikey Rox Spread the love this Valentine’s Day with these festive, fun and sometimes frisky gifts to fill all your special someones’ (hey, we don’t judge) hearts with happiness
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Meet George Santos and Alexandra Mealer
The new faces of the GOP By Johnny Trlica Commentary: If silence is complicity, one of our nation’s political parties seems to have had its lips sewn together. When a
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Just happy to be here
‘Please Baby Please’ star Cole Escola loves a good, wacky role and a sassy line By Chris Azzopardi On Cole Escola’s Instagram page, the 36-year-old nonbinary comedian and actor describes