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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
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Moving memoir recalls a life with a gay dad
By David-Elijah Nahmod Lisa Lucca has written a moving memoir in which she recalls coming to terms with her gay dad. In Ashes to Ink, Lucca not only learns to
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Soul to Soul’s Ouida, the Cook of cooks
By Forest Riggs In Galveston people come and go, restaurants come and go, and just about everything comes and goes. It is no secret that Galveston is known for its