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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
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DISH SOCIETY | Dishing up some good eats
By Jim Ayres Happy Holidays, MONTROSE STAR readers! I hope you all had a filling Thanksgiving and are looking forward to the year-end observances. We’ll be staying in and away
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Hailing the heroes of 2020
By Nancy Ford Nearly twelve months ago on New Year’s Eve, my partner and I stayed home and quietly toasted the exit of 2019, confident that 2020 would be a
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Part 9 | ‘Secret’ only applies to deodorant
By Randall Jobe Working in any business for 25 plus years, I suppose knowing more dirt on bosses and employees than you need or care to is inevitable. A lot