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The End of an Affair: Goodbye, Tex-Mex!
By Jim Ayres So long my dear, caseoso, borracho, caliente friend. It looks like our 50+ year refried kind of love affair is ending. It’s your fault, of course. I’m
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Galveston: A Beacon of Light
| “You can’t be a beacon if your light don’t shine… By Forest Riggs How true, how true! Indeed, there is a light in all of us and we must
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‘Brilliant’, ‘Hard’, and free on stage
By Randall Jobe Theatre Suburbia presents Murderous Crossroad, an interactive comic Agatha-Christie style interactive mystery by David Landau. The year is 1923 and the unsuspecting audience members are passengers on
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A rosendorn by any other name
By Nancy Ford First, a mea culpa. I want to apologize to you, dear readers, for my preoccupation with writing about dicks for the last couple of years. As a
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Alleviating suffering with cannabis
By Rena McCain Hello! Happy Weedsday, everyone! Every day I hear stories from people from all walks of life about how cannabis has changed their lives — and for the
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K. Flay, Here to Slay (and Stay)
| The out wordplayer wasn’t serious about pursuing songwriting but then, three albums later, it ‘obviously struck a chord’ By Chris Azzopardi Ask genre criss-crosser K. Flay about all the
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Decency loses to quest for notoriety and shamelessness
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: Licking ice cream and returning it to the store shelf, gargling with mouthwash and spitting it back in the bottle, and urinating on potatoes on a
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Luxury apartments bring new life to vintage Montrose complex
By Johnny Trlica Montrose residents have a new affordable housing option in a locality that has been a much-desired location for decades: An apartment complex whose heyday was when guys
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The pie’s the limit
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) Hello, guys! Hope you have a sweet tooth this publication, because after trying these recipes you are sure to want more (just like me and
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Viral Control
| The Office of HIV and AIDS Malignancy at the National Cancer Institute coordinates cancer and HIV research. By Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. Robert Yarchoan, MD, is the director of