Email Author Jef With One F

2013 Stories by Jef With One F

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  Doctor Who: A Look Back on Series 7

  published May 22, 2013

  If there's any sentiment I've heard consistently since last fall it's that this has been the worst season of Doctor Who since the 2005 reboot. Now that we've all had our brains thoroughly exploded wit... More >>

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  Comicpalooza: The Shadow Casts Come Out at Night

  published May 22, 2013

  Your humble narrator was part of a Rocky Horror Picture Show shadow cast for the better part of a decade. I spent every Saturday night in Frank-n-Furter's fishnets singing "Sweet Transvestite" and soa... More >>

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  Tesla Coils to Unsettling Steampunk: The Music of Comicpalooza

  published May 22, 2013

  All kinds of things are happening this weekend when the annual Comicpalooza convention rolls around, but one thing you may not know is that you can see some truly exceptional concerts there as well. ... More >>

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  Top 10 Things Not to Miss at Comicpalooza

  published May 21, 2013

  Comicpalooza this year is bigger than ever before, with more stars and more than 300 hours worth of programming to keep you busy. Just to give you a heads up, here are the ten things you absolutely do... More >>

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  Doctor Who: The Man Between Heaven and Hell, the Roses in The Tardis

  published May 20, 2013

  I have watched hundreds of episodes of Doctor Who, both classic and new. I have read dozens of books and comics, heard a similar number of audio stories, and pored over Tardis Wiki daily. I have engro... More >>

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  I Really Hope Damian Wayne Stays Dead

  published May 20, 2013

  It's just months since Grant Morrison killed off the latest Robin, Damian Wayne, in the pages of Batman: Incorporated. Wayne was an artificially aged clone birth from Talia al Ghul from Batman's DNA, ... More >>

• The Five Most Disappointing Goth Albums: Sisters of Mercy, Vision Thing

  published May 17, 2013

  All this week we're going to look back over albums from undeniable goth icons and talk about their failures. I have a feeling this one is going to get me into trouble, but hear me out, OKr Both mus... More >>

• The 5 Most Disappointing Goth Albums: Nine Inch Nails, With Teeth

  published May 16, 2013

  All this week we're going to look back over albums from undeniable goth icons and talk about their failures. In 1999, Trent Reznor released The Fragile, which if not his greatest album... nah, you k... More >>

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  Disney Drops "Sexy-Merida," But You Should Still Be Mad

  published May 16, 2013

  Earlier this week public pressure managed to convince Disney to drop its make-over of Merida from the Pixar release Brave as she was being prepared for induction into the official 11 princesses in the... More >>

• May Kickstarter Round-Up: Caveman Chow and Ayn Rand Games

  published May 16, 2013

  I have to be honest with you, I almost killed this column. That's how little I like the cut of Zach Braff's jib. Then I thought, "Screw him, I'm still going to showcase the Houstonians crowdfunding aw... More >>

• The Five Most Disappointing Goth Albums: Bauhaus, Go Away White

  published May 15, 2013

  All this week we're going to look back over albums from undeniable goth icons and talk about their failures. Thus far I've been focusing on endings, what with Siouxsie and the Banshees' last album a... More >>

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  The Case for Neil Gaiman as Showrunner of Doctor Who

  published May 15, 2013

  Though there are no definite plans in the works that we've been made aware of, Steven Moffat has said in recent interviews that he is probably closer to the end of his time as head of Doctor Who than ... More >>

• The Five Most Disappointing Goth Albums: The Cure, Wild Mood Swings

  published May 14, 2013

  All this week we're looking back over albums by undeniable goth icons and talk about their failures. As we proved in Monday's entry in the series, the mid-'90s wasn't an easy time for the pioneers of... More >>

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  Doctor Who: The Cybermen Get Upgraded

  published May 14, 2013

  I am legitimately one of those people that would read Neil Gaiman's shopping list if it were published in book form, so you'll pardon the lack of objectivity in this week's review. Gaiman returns us t... More >>

• The Five Most Disappointing Goth Albums: Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Rapture

  published May 13, 2013

  All this week we're going to look back over albums from undeniable goth icons and talk about their failures. By the time Siouxsie and the Banshees released The Rapture in 1995, they had been together... More >>

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  The Parade of Bad, Bad Baby Names on Mother's Day from PBS Sprout

  published May 13, 2013

  When the Daughter With One F insists on watching PBS Sprout in our house, I have something I do to maintain my sanity. I watch the various birthday wishes that you can send in to The Birthday Show fla... More >>

• The 10 Most Hilariously Awful Wrestling Entrance Themes

  published May 13, 2013

  Last Friday was the 46th birthday of one of my absolute favorite wrestlers, William Regal aka Steve Regal before the WWE instituted its rather bizarre No-More-Steves rule. Not that it matters, his rea... More >>

• Pissed Grave: Let's Pee On American Hitler

  published May 10, 2013

  It's a well-known fact that most band names are essentially gobbledygook, but here at Houston Press we're trying hard to find meaning in the oddest monikers. I live for a band like Dallas' Pissed Gra... More >>

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  Poker Night 2 is Incredible! 10 More Characters I Want to Take My Money

  published May 10, 2013

  So desperate am I for another Portal game that when I heard someone had GLaDOS dealing hands in a poker game I downloaded it even though I hate poker and am objectively awful at it. I didn't care, a... More >>

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  The Rest of the Best: The 10 Most Recognizable People in Houston

  published May 09, 2013

  Houston is one of the most diverse cities in the Unites States, and we can best prove that point by highlighting some of our more unmissable citizens. No matter where you are in Houston there are ten ... More >>

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  10 Most Amazingly Bizarre Paintings of Obama on Etsy

  published May 09, 2013

  As Houston Press' bizarre Etsy art expert, I thought I'd see how a nation of crafty lunatics would portray our commander-in-chief. The answer is somewhere between "awesomely" and "needs medication bad... More >>

• The Babies Braid Their Feelings In "Mess Me Around"

  published May 08, 2013

  It's been awhile since I, the last VJ, had anything of note music video-wise to share with you fine folks, but my inbox has been flooded lately with extremely quality work. Today we're getting the bal... More >>

• Carl Stamitz: Music, Failure and Alchemy

  published May 08, 2013

  Today is the baptismal anniversary of composer Carl Stamitz, who would have been 268 years old and a day today if he had succeeded in the last act of his amazingly productive but wholly disappointin... More >>

• 100 Creatives: Josh Montoute, Mobile Gaming Specialist

  published May 08, 2013

  What He Does: You may not know it, but Houston actually does have a little bit of a video game design scene. Josh Montoute is one of the people in it. He founded Thinksquirrel in 2011, with an eye tow... More >>

• The Rocks Off 100: Sloan Robley, The Last Houstonian Banshee

  published May 07, 2013

  Welcome to the Rocks Off 100, our portrait gallery of the most compelling profiles and personalities in the far-flung Houston music community -- a lot more than just musicians, but of course they're i... More >>