Rich Arenschieldt

Rich has written for OutSmart for more than 25 years, chronicling various events impacting Houston’s queer community. His areas of interest and influence include all aspects of HIV treatment and education as well as the milieu of creative endeavors Houston affords its citizenry, including the performing, visual and fine arts. Rich loves interviewing and discovering people, be they living, or, in his capacity as a member of the Society of Professional Obituary Writers, deceased.
Arts & Entertainment

Houston’s early-music Ars Lyrica ‘brings’ the Baroque.

Competing with the Big Boys. Ars Lyrica founder and artistic director Matthew Dirst proves that a small, focused ensemble can…

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Books

Body Counts: A Memoir

Recollections from a time when everybody counted.

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Features

One Last Broadcast

Jimmy Carper, radio voice of Houston’s LGBT community, dies at 66.

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News

One Last Broadcast: Jimmy Carper, radio voice of Houston’s LGBT community, dies at 66

Carper, a regional LGBT broadcasting institution, died on January 27, 2014, after living with HIV for almost 30 years. His…

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News

Obituary Notice: Tim Brookover

Tim Brookover, longtime Houston resident, former editor of OutSmart magazine, past president of the Houston GLBT Community Center, and activist…

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Local News

How to Have Sex without Breaking the Law If You Are HIV-positive

A educational forum sponsored by Houston’s LIVE Consortium. EXPANDED VERSION FOR THE WEB

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Arts & Entertainment

‘Blame It on Valentine, Texas’

Jaston Williams, the man most closely associated with such mythical locales as Tuna, Texas, Didi’s Used Weapons Store (“If we…

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Arts & Entertainment

The ‘Trocks’

For more than thirty years Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo has been giving serious balletomanes heartburn, bringing dance masterworks…

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Features

Back to His Clerical Roots

Troy Plummer Treash, a long-established spiritual leader of the Houston LGBT community, returns to his hometown to shepherd one of…

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Arts & Entertainment

One Hundred and Counting

The Houston Symphony’s openly gay chief development officer talks about the upcoming season

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