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When Jeremy Thomas heard the news Friday that he had won the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, he couldn’t run out to tell his family immediately, because in true 2020 fashion he was stuck on a Zoom video call with the scholarship’s regional selection committee. As he sat and listened to the...
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José Garcia came in to Battle Royale Tattoo in East Downtown on Wednesday afternoon to have his trusted ink-master Gabriel Massey add a nice new mandala pattern to his forearm. This visit was just a tad different from his past stops at the shop — both client and artist were...
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Every presidential election is obviously A Very Big Deal, but this year’s contest in Harris County made way more headlines than usual, due in large part to outgoing County Clerk Chris Hollins’s tireless efforts to make it easier and safer to vote during the pandemic and the deluge of Republican...
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Before dubbing her a genius, the MacArthur Foundation had Cristina Rivera Garza fooled. When the acclaimed Spanish-language fiction writer and University of Houston professor was first contacted by the nonprofit group, she was told her help was needed to evaluate a candidate for the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. Nicknamed “Genius Grants,”...
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As this coronavirus crisis continues, we continue to support our local restaurant industry any way we can, including by ordering takeout. Over in the East End just off Harrisburg sits a takeout spot you’ll want to get to know asap, the sizzling new Thai concept Street to Kitchen. It comes...
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Sometimes, stereotypes exist for a reason. Among the Europeans, the Italian culture is very much a touchy-feely one. There are a lot of hugs and kisses and embraces and talking loudly and closely with operatic hand gestures. So in the Age of Coronavirus with its masking and social distancing and...
