Email Author ABBY KOENIG

2013 Stories by ABBY KOENIG

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  National High Five Day: The Houston Arts Deserve a High Five

  published Apr 18, 2013

  Thursday, April 18, is National High Five Day. Allegedly, in 2002 a group of students at the University of Virginia thought it would be a good idea to stand in the middle of campus and give out high f... More >>

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  "The History Channel" Is Being (Poorly) Written By the Victors

  published Apr 16, 2013

  For the past few weeks, I have been examining the evolution of cable television channels. Some channels have amped up their game, while others have fallen into the depths of despair. But no channel th... More >>

• Community: Muppets Take Greendale

  published Apr 12, 2013

  Thanks, Pete, for covering last week while I got that Ted Nugent song out of my head. Sometimes there are concepts so brilliant they are destined to fail. In a way, you have to give the idea-makers... More >>

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  TruTV Was Court TV; Now It's TruTV But Should Be Court TV

  published Apr 12, 2013

  My mother has been calling me every day to keep me up to date on the ongoing Jodi Arias murder trial. The court proceedings have been airing live and she is totally sucked in; she won't answer the pho... More >>

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  Room 237 and Three Conspiracy Theories About Back to the Future

  published Apr 11, 2013

  This Thursday, April 11, the MFAH will premiere the new documentary Room 237. The movie, which has gotten great reviews thus far, is about three of the conspiracy theories behind Stanley Kubrick's 198... More >>

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  Houston Ranks #18 Among Places to Find a Sugar Daddy. Go Us!

  published Apr 10, 2013

  It is amazing how life has changed over the past few years. In just five short years we've seen an African American in the White House, several states recognizing gay marriage, the first Latin-America... More >>

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  Annette Funicello and Other Boobs I Wish I Had

  published Apr 10, 2013

  This week penned a very sad chapter in the book of awesome women who made their marks. First we lost the "Iron Lady," former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who will go down in history as fo... More >>

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  AMC Is Trying to Do "Something More"

  published Apr 04, 2013

  Once upon a time, in a decade far far away, the AMC network stood for something; that something was "American Movie Classics". With this week's release of its new slogan, the network stands for someth... More >>

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  Is Matt Lauer Really That Badr

  published Apr 03, 2013

  Despite my vehement hatred toward the programming decisions that NBC has made over the past few years, I am a diehard Today Show fan and a Matt Lauer enthusiast. Therefore, I have been taken aback by ... More >>

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  War'Hous's Adventure Time Exhibition Hits Highs and Lows

  published Apr 01, 2013

  Check out our Glob/WarHous slideshow. One might think that fans of Cartoon Network's postapocalyptic show Adventure Time would generally range in the five-to-ten-year-old age group, but then one w... More >>

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  FX Network Is Taking Over and It's Going to Be Awesome

  published Apr 01, 2013

  AMC, HBO and Showtime, turn around, please, and meet your competition; its name is FX and it's gunning to be the most talked about network on television. Very slowly over the past few years, the Fox s... More >>

• Dance Salad Festival's Opening Night Ranges From Lighthearted to Perplexing to Poignant

  published Mar 29, 2013

  For 21 years now Nancy Henderek has curated the renowned Dance Salad Festival, with 18 of those taking place here in Houston. The weekend-long festival is a celebration of domestic and international d... More >>

• NBC and The Tonight Show Debacle

  published Mar 28, 2013

  Leave it to NBC to potentially screw up The Tonight Show, a television institution that has been around since 1954, again. Earlier this month, it was "leaked" that Jimmy Fallon would be taking over th... More >>

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  Happy Birthday, Quentin Tarantino -- The Top 5 Music Scenes from His Movies

  published Mar 27, 2013

  On Wednesday, March 27, the one and only Mr. Quentin indie-filmmaker-turned-Oscar-winner Tarantino turns the big 5-0. It's funny to think that Tarantino has been making films for more than 21 years! H... More >>

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  Miley Cyrus Wants You to Think She Is Crazy, Which Means She Is Not

  published Mar 26, 2013

  Remember a decade ago, when if young starlets wanted to lose it they went to clubs in Las Vegas, got wasted and flashed their panties (or lack thereof). Britney, Paris, Lindsay and other young ladies ... More >>

• Thornwood's March Madness! Standard Beauty

  published Mar 25, 2013

  Saturday night the Thornwood Gallery pulled out all the stops with a new collection of more than 25 artists on display. The March Madness! Group Show features a wide variety of different mediums rangi... More >>

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  Hey Feminists! Can't We All Just Get Alongr

  published Mar 25, 2013

  There has been a lot of hubbub on the feminism front as of late. While it is wonderful that the ladies are getting their voices out there, there seems to be some disagreement on what those voices sho... More >>

• Community: Pop Pop!

  published Mar 22, 2013

  I asked for more Greendale-based Community episodes and my wish was granted. Last night's episode took its time to get to the funny, though; it started with a slow rolling boil and found its way to a ... More >>

• CORE Performance Company Fits in with the Dan Flavin Installation Just Fine

  published Mar 22, 2013

  Dan Flavin, the minimalist artist best known for his work with fluorescent light, is quoted with saying that "light" is "as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find." In many ways dance ... More >>

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  MTV's The Real World Season One Re-airs; No Hot Tubs Necessary

  published Mar 21, 2013

  For reasons that can only be chalked up to complete lack of any other programming or a weird dare, MTV will be airing three old seasons of its hit reality show The Real World. Beginning March 22, the ... More >>

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  So, Are Miniseries the New Thing Nowr

  published Mar 20, 2013

  A few weeks ago I wrote an article about television binge watching and attempted to counter the popular sentiment from television critics that this was a bad habit. One of the arguments against binge ... More >>

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  How To Make Clerks 3 Not Suck

  published Mar 18, 2013

  Last week, writer/director Kevin Smith posted on Facebook that he had begun writing what he claims will be his magnum opus, Clerks 3. The director came to fame with the original Clerks, which will soo... More >>

• Community: Changnesia and the MacGuffin

  published Mar 15, 2013

  It's back! And all of you doubting Debbies out there didn't want to think it could happen, but it did. With this week's episode, Community has (pretty much) returned to form. The plot was right out of... More >>

• Your Own Custom Book of the Month: Brazos Bookstore's Inu-chan

  published Mar 14, 2013

  It's called Inu-chan and it is a program, now in its second year, brought to the community by Brazos Bookstore. Inu-chan is a very customized book club, more or less, where customers sign up to receiv... More >>

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  Houston Facial Hair Club Is Growing and Fighting "Facial Hair Discrimination"

  published Mar 11, 2013

  Check out our slideshow of magnificent beards and mustaches. When you think about fads in hair, you usually associate them with the female gender. It is women who fluff and style and buy expensiv... More >>