Email Author ABBY KOENIG

2012 Stories by ABBY KOENIG

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  The Hess Truck's Back!

  published Oct 12, 2012

  The Hess Truck's back and it's better than ever...Christmas is here, the Hess Truck's back! It is way too early to be thinking about the holiday season (sorry, Houston Ballet Nutcracker commercials),... More >>

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  Hooray! There's a New Website That Lets You Track Your Relationship Failings Online

  published Oct 11, 2012

  If you are familiar with the classic Cameron Crowe film Say Anything, you may recall the scene in which Lloyd Dobler "crowdsources" some breakup advice from a group of dudes who hang out outside a con... More >>

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  15 Is the New 30: Childrens Hospital Is Changing Sitcoms

  published Oct 10, 2012

  Adult Swim, the Cartoon network's late night block of risque grown-up programming, which has been amusing stoned college students for over a decade now, recently hit a milestone. One of their short-fo... More >>

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  666 Park Avenue Only Getting Crazier and More Awesome

  published Oct 08, 2012

  The sophomore episode of the creepy-crawly 666 Park Avenue aired last night and if our own Craig Hlavaty didn't nail this puppy on the head or what: this show may be the greatest thing to happen to pr... More >>

• Embracing DIY Culture: Zine Fest 2012

  published Oct 08, 2012

  It's amazing what a person can do with a pen, a piece of a paper and a copier machine. For a zine creator, these pieces of equipment are necessary items. Despite technology basically eliminating the n... More >>

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  Gimmicky Television or Creative Brilliancer

  published Oct 05, 2012

  The new season of the FX comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia premieres October 11, and to promote the season opener they have been running gag ads all over the place. The catch is that the entire... More >>

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  Apparently, Church and State Are Still Not Separated: ACLU of Texas Reports

  published Oct 02, 2012

  The ACLU of Texas filed a report today stating that many of our good state's public schools seemed to have forgotten that little document called the Constitution. The report states that the American C... More >>

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  Still Haven't Updated Your iPhoner You Are Not Alone.

  published Oct 02, 2012

  I was out with a few friends the other day making future plans to meet, when I opened the calendar on my iPhone to find that I was really, incredibly busy. "I was busy," as in I had something to do ev... More >>

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  7 Movie Endings We Would Change For the Hell Of It

  published Oct 01, 2012

  A few weeks ago there was a completely pointless brouhaha on the Internet over whether the ending to James Cameron's epic film Titanic was plausible. Not that the Titanic sinking wasn't factual, but w... More >>

• The New Movement Houston Is Now the Station Theater

  published Sep 28, 2012

  It's undeniable that Houston's comedy scene has been on the rise. You can catch a cheap comedy show just about any day of the week, and a lot of it is really good. Some of this is due in part to the i... More >>

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  Get Into the Fall Season With These 9 Movies

  published Sep 28, 2012

  Whether it feels that way or not, it's been autumn now for several days. You would never know it, however, from the 90-degree temperatures we are sweating through. How can you think about hot apple ci... More >>

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  Obesity Ads Targeting Fat People and Pissing Them Off

  published Sep 27, 2012

  There's been quite a ruckus over a series of new PSA's by the Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Minnesota asking overweight parents to set a better example for their overweight children. In the ads, parents s... More >>

• The Mindy Project Premiere: Off to a Good Start

  published Sep 26, 2012

  The Mindy Project, the new show created by and starring The Office's best one-lining customer service rep Mindy Kaling, premiered last night on Fox. The show has gotten a ridiculous amount of hype and... More >>

• 100 Creatives 2012: Tom Stell, Actor, Writer, Director, Obsidian Art Space's Head Honcho

  published Sep 26, 2012

  What He Does: Tom Stell does a lot of creative things; most of them are specifically related to theater, but not all. He is a writer, director, actor and he also paints. Stell is also one of the reas... More >>

• Revolution: And...We're Done

  published Sep 25, 2012

  I went into this week's episode of Revolution, the NBC drama about the postapocalyptic, electricity-free world, with much apprehension. Last week's premiere left a bad taste and it was decided that if... More >>

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  Dear Hollywood, Get Some New Ideas: Heathers

  published Sep 21, 2012

  Last week it was announced that the Bravo network would be producing a scripted series based on the 1988 cult classic film Heathers. According to Entertainment Weekly: The show will take place in the ... More >>

• Visual Artist Felipe Lopez Gets Chaotic in His New Exhibition

  published Sep 20, 2012

  The relationship between science and art has long left scholars and artists in a quandary. If the scientific field is factually based, does this leave any room for creativityr Ask multimedia artist Fe... More >>

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  10 Anchormen We Want to Make Out with

  published Sep 19, 2012

  Tonight, the Alamo Drafthouse, the place you can drink a lot and watch a movie, is bringing its "Rolling Roadshow" to downtown Houston's Market Square for a movie under the stars. The movie du jour of... More >>

• NBC's Revolution: Nothing Revolutionary

  published Sep 18, 2012

  With the amount of advertising dollars NBC has plunked down for its new postapocalyptic series Revolution, in addition to the high-quality names attached to the project -- executive producer and Lost... More >>

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  The Holocaust Museum's New Exhibit Tells a Beautiful Story

  published Sep 17, 2012

  Last week the Holocaust Museum opened two exhibits that brought to life the painful memories shared by first and second-generation families of the Holocaust. The two collections, "Inheritance: Stories... More >>

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  I Fought Google's "Bacon Search" and Google Won

  published Sep 17, 2012

  Like every other person in the country, I was quite charmed with Google's new "Bacon number" search tool. If you didn't read the Internet this weekend, you may have missed the landslide of blog posts,... More >>

• 100 Creatives 2012: Lupe Mendez, Poet and Poem Pusher

  published Sep 14, 2012

  Whoever said poetry was a dying art has never met Lupe Mendez. Mendez has found a way to weave this form of the written word into his every day. Whether it is his work as a teacher, his association wi... More >>

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  TV Teens Who Could Use Some Safe-Sex Product Placement

  published Sep 13, 2012

  Product placement is being taken to an entirely new level, and I'm not talking about the obvious shot of the updated VW Beetle in the new Bond trailer. Now, in addition to the plethora of product plac... More >>

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  Watch This: The Hollywood Reporter's Emmy Campaign Is Really Funny

  published Sep 11, 2012

  The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards are just around the corner. If you are a highfalutin TV junkie, than Emmy night is your night! Emmy snobs have a certain air of pompous victory when their favorite shows... More >>

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  8 Rousing Speeches Politicians Can Learn From

  published Sep 10, 2012

  There have been some pretty serious "we can do it" type of sermons going on over the past two weeks. Starting with the Republican's "We Built It" (not this city on rock and roll, mind you) to the DNC'... More >>