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DARK DAYS OF DINING
Dine out while staying in By Jim Ayres What’s a dining writer to do when there’s nowhere to dine? These are tough times, and the hospitality industry is taking the
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Easy spring recipes
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) Folks, spring is here and so is that crappy yellow pollen — not to mention the coronavirus. This closing of our watering holes has really put
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Coronavirus brings Galveston to a halt
By Forest Riggs If Rod Serling, TV legend and creator of The Twilight Zone, were alive today, he would have a lot of new material upon which to spin his
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6 Productive Ways to Spend Your Time During the Coronavirus Crisis
By Mikey Rox As we all hunker down to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus, here are a few ways you can cope and stay productive for sanity’s –
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Gaston and LeFou are back
By Romeo San Vicente Think back to that flash of a moment in 2017’s live-action remake of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, the one where it seemed that Gaston’s (Luke
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Lou Weaver to discuss + vocabulary via podcast
By Janice Anderson PFLAG Houston will not hold our general meeting nor small group meetings until after the CDC guidelines for the COVID-19 pandemic say it’s safe. Instead of the
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Social reprogramming and the country’s landscape
By Colby Etherton Friends, what a strange time we’re living in. A Stay Home–Work Safe order was issued on March 24 for Houston and Harris County residents, going into effect
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TODAY, Thursday, March 26, 2020, at 4:30pm
Houston Mayor Turner will provide a COVID-19 update on the City of Houston’s Test Site;The Mayor will also be joined by local businessman Farouk Shami to accept a donation on
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Wilson Cruz Knows the Power in Storytelling
Visible exec producer talks new LGBTQ docuseries, his groundbreaking gay teen role and what he’d tell his younger self By Chris Azzopardi The first openly gay actor to play an
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In times of crisis, find comfort at a home bar
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: In times of crisis, people often resort to what feels comfortable. While some will argue that this country has been in an eternal crisis state since
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Back on Top: Tanya Tucker brings a lifetime of performing to the Heights Theatre
By Johnny Trlica She’s been called Country’s Wild Child, the Texas Tornado, the Madonna of Country music, and a country outlaw and legend. Tanya Tucker has a couple of new
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Tears, fears, and downright craziness
By Randall Jobe The Alley Theatre presents 1984. A modern retelling of George Orwell’s futuristic novel, 1984, brings us the story of Winston Smith and a stark vision of a