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The quarantine resulting from COVID-19 has led to all kinds of new activities for the housebound, everything from that sourdough bread-making craze to people literally emptying out the exercise equipment stock of the nation. People also adopted pets. L…
Read MoreHave you ever wanted to play as a rich developer in Houston in the 1970s? No, probably not. Two major oil crises did a number on old H-Town, but that didnât stop Groovy Games from publishing a Monopoly knock-off in 1977 that at least let people pretend…
Read MoreWhen the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo closed early last year, thatâs when everyone knew that the pandemic was serious. Now that a vaccine is finally being distributed, it looks like events and gatherings might finally be starting up again, albeit i…
Read MoreâI donât know whatâs happening, but itâs violent and a little hornyâ is certainly an appropriate mood for 2021 so far. Itâs also the thought that ran through my head like a maniac with a chainsaw as I watched director Alister Griersonâs new horror flic…
Read MoreâDemocrats didnât care when cities were burning all summer!â If youâve spent any time online this past week youâve probably seen a variation of this comment on any story related to the storming of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6. Itâs usually ne…
Read MoreItâs a new year, and many of you are running out to buy exercise equipment so you can shed the pounds you put on stress eating at home during the end of the world. The entire fitness industry sees a jump around this time annually, and their marketing m…
Read MoreThe latest COVID stimulus package contains $15 billion earmarked to try to save the independent music venues around the country that have struggled since the pandemic cancelled so many shows, but for the purveyors of underground music there is some war…
Read MoreWould you buy a volatile currency popular with criminals from a convenience store kiosk next to the beer cooler? Especially if it meant putting in a lot of personal information? Thatâs a question Houston is struggling with when it comes to bitcoin ATMs…
Read MoreFor our daughter’s eleventh birthday, my wife and I took the Kid With One F to get her hair colored pink. It was something she asked about for years after watching the way her mom switches up hair colors regularly. Since the birthday weâd planned for h…
Read MoreOne thing that the long quarantine has revealed to us is that a lot of âguyâ things are kind of ancillary to survival. Stripped of the necessity of doing them, where does that leave men who define themselves by those parameters? Toxic masculinity is de…
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