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Finding Love in the Time of Coronavirus
By Charles Sanchez Our first date was on a Tuesday night. I wasn’t sure it was a date at first, but I was hopeful. To be dating during a(nother) pandemic
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Stay warm with these steamy dishes
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) Wow! What a ride the year 2020 has given us. With the stay-at-home situation, all I did was watch TV, cook and eat and eat and
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King Ranch Texas Kitchen, New Year, New Restaurant
By Jim Ayres It seems Tilman Fertitta has his hand in everything these days. But I’m particularly happy about his latest project. A collaboration between King Ranch and the Fertitta
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Good-bye, 2020. Thanks for these memories
By Nancy Ford In a year where a previously unknown virus held the globe in a death grip, the economy tanked, and hugging random strangers became a form of assault,
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Not-so-hot Gossip
By Randall Jobe “Remember, rumors you hear about me are as true as the ones I hear about you.†—Anonymous Set off a spark of gossip among a gaggle of
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A most beautiful winter visitor
By Forest Riggs Each year thousands of tourists and visitors descend on tiny Galveston Island and, for the most part, leave having made some wonderful new friends and memories. The
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Gearing up for another legislative year
By Janice Anderson  As we embark on a new year, I can look back at 2020 and see positive things that have occurred. Our weekly support Zoom meetings have
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Neil Patrick Harris meets Nicolas Cage’s ‘Massive Talent’
By Romeo San Vicente There are only so many loony B-movies an Academy Award-winning actor can willingly be in before the idea of satire raises its sarcastic little head. And
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Queering Christmas
Kristen Stewart on what’s personal about playing queer in her gay Christmas rom-com and how ‘the time calls for it’ By Chris Azzopardi Kristen Stewart is waving around what appears
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Yuletide Memories: Empty chairs, 20/20, and the greatest Christmas
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: Before this year, 2020 was synonymous with cheap liquor and bad hangovers. Pandemics were only read about in medical journals and fascism was what we watched
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Fighting For Our Shot
How HIV activists won their fight for inclusion in a major COVID-19 vaccine study by Rick Guasco Victory came in the form of a tweet posted in the middle of
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Apples are the eye of these recipes
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) Holiday greetings to everyone. Wow, what a year this has been! And where did the time go? Here we are into the holidays already. Hopefully you have