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.
Features

‘How to Survive a Plague’

Rich Arenschieldt talks with activist (and high school friend) Peter Staley and director David France about their new film chronicling…

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Arts & Entertainment

The Most Famous ‘Neighborhood’ Museum Turns 25

Longtime Houstonians remember the changes—all the little gray “artist” bungalows on a large plot of land bounded by Mandell and…

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Arts & Entertainment

Houston’s Best-Kept Summer Musical Secret

Alan Austin leads the Texas Music Festival

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Local News

The Center for AIDS and Legacy Community Health Services to Merge

In an era of increased competition for HIV funding, many AIDS service organizations are finding it necessary to cooperate, collaborate,…

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Arts & Entertainment

From Loogootee to Houston

With the somewhat unexpected resignation of Houston Grand Opera’s general director Anthony Freud last spring, HGO’s board wisely promoted their…

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Arts & Entertainment

Houston Grand Opera Debuts The Rape of Lucretia Directed by innovator Arin Arbus

Houston Grand Opera presents the latest installment in the work of Benjamin Britten, the 20th century’s most important operatic composer,…

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Blog

Cornelius Baker to be Honored at Nov. 17 Annual Awards Lecture

Activist, educator, and senior policy advisor for the National Black Gay Men’s Advocacy Coalition, Cornelius Baker will present Protest and…

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Local News

Bering Support Network Celebrates Silver Anniversary

Visitors enter a rather nondescript church meeting hall. There is food, people chatter and laugh. Some participants are actively engaged,…

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Books

Woman of (a) Mystery

Author and lifelong Texas resident Binnie Fisher draws on her 30-year career of crime reporting to bring readers She Saw…

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Arts & Entertainment

Music, Mozart and The Man Who Loves Them Both

American bass-baritone Patrick Carfizzi stars in the title role of Houston Grand Opera’s upcoming production of Mozart’s comic masterpiece, The…

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