Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock and friend (courtesy of Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston)

THE CONTEMPORARY ART Museum, Houston has a basketball jones.

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SURE IT'S A bit chilly, but have you noticed the butterflies are back? On Saturday, March 18, beginning at 10am, Houston Botanic Garden celebrates the iconic and endangered monarch butterfly with March for Monarchs, an interactive family-friendly “march” through the Garden that mirrors the over 3,000-mile spring-to-summer migration of monarch butterflies from Mexico to the northern U.S.

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Ricardo Nuila (photo by Jonas Mohr)

ONE MORNING IN March 2020, Stephen Hart, general manager for several profitable locations of a homegrown Houston burger chain, woke up with a fever and a growing lymph node below his left jaw. Like nearly half of all Americans, Hart received health insurance through his employer; but after a CAT scan in an emergency room revealed cancer in his tonsils, and a trip by ambulance to another branch where he waited for several hours for an ENT to confirm the diagnosis, Hart was told bluntly his insurance would not cover the medical care he needed.

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