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PFLAG Houston resumes in-person meetings
By Janice Anderson The time has come! PFLAG Houston is meeting in person in March. It has been two Marches since our last in-person meeting. The feeling of community we
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The Solution for Trump Addicts: A Twelve-Step Program
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: “Hi. My name is (insert name here), and I’m a Trump addict.†Like an Alcoholics Anonymous, Cocaine Anonymous, or Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a 12-step program for
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‘Build Back Better’ talks on hold
By Colby Etherton For nearly a year, rank and file Democrats in Congress had been negotiating on what would’ve been the largest reimagining of the government’s role in public life
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IN ONE MONTROSE RESTAURANT | Travel the Culinary World
By Jim Ayres I met a friend recently for dinner at Traveler’s Table on lower Westheimer. It’s a restaurant that may not have the PR pull of Houston’s big players,
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PIANO MAN | The fine-tuning of Kirk Hale
By Forest Riggs Galveston, the playland of the South, has long been known to offer a little something for everyone. In fact, Galvestonians will brag, “We have at least one
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Our date with The Godfather
By Nancy Ford So I was in this movie once. It was a small gay indie produced in Dallas called It’s in the Water (1997). In it, residents of a
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How a Dog’s Love Evolved Into a Charity for Kids Living With HIV
| There’s a new charitable angel, and his name is Fred By Christopher Barrett Politan This World AIDS Day, as we continued to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, a historic gift
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A Survivor to Scream About
Neve Campbell on ‘Scream’ queer theories, and how Sidney still inspires the LGBTQ+ community By Chris Azzopardi As Sidney Prescott, fierce fighter of the knife-wielding Ghostface since the mid-1990s, Neve
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Have we lost our sense of humanity?
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: We used to call them Karens. They were usually middle-aged white women policing parks while calling the police on black people, refusing to wear a mask
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Actions speak louder than words
AIDS activist Peter Staley on his memoir ‘Never Silent’ and friend Dr. Fauci By Lawrence Ferber A key member of AIDS activist group ACT UP and a named plaintiff in
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GET READY FOR A LITTLE SPICE |Houston’s hot chicken spots, ranked
By Jim Ayres Trendy Tennessee-style hot chicken shows no sign of cooling down in 2022. So, in the past month, I’ve had a hot chicken adventure, visiting five inner loop
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Where do Democrats go from here?
By Colby Etherton In the wake of President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda failing when Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) come out publicly as a “no†on the historic legislation, Democrats