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2011 Stories by Jef With One F

• Max Bemis

  published December 8, 2011

  Things are going well for Max Bemis and his most famous project Say Anything. Bemis recently announced that the band had signed to Equal Vision... More >>

• Verbal Abuse

  published December 8, 2011

  Verbal Abuse is a band rooted in Houston's storied punk scene, and tales of Nicki Sicki's music career still echo up almost three decades after... More >>

• All The Gothic Council Wants for Christmas is Its Two Front Fangs... And Monster High Dolls

  published Dec 06, 2011

  "Yo," hollered Ramon Medina at us from his El Camino as we were quietly walking down the street listening to Iggy Pop's Preliminaries. "Is there such a thing as a goth Christmas treer" Then he laughed... More >>

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  Top 10 NES Games We're Buying This Year

  published Dec 06, 2011

  Art Attack went on and on and on about the new Game Over store, a haven where you can pick up pretty much any system, any game, any thing to do with video games regardless of how old it is. This yea... More >>

• Playlist for the Missing: 5 Songs for the Bermuda Triangle

  published Dec 05, 2011

  66 years ago five U.S. torpedo bombers dubbed Flight 19 disappeared during a navigation training exercise in the area known as the Bermuda Triangle, claiming the lives of 14 airmen. It is commonly ass... More >>

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  Top 10 Gifts For Your Gamer

  published Dec 05, 2011

  Hey there parents, significant others, coworkers, and friends. As Houston Press's resident video game expert, equity deputy, and boil lancer, we thought we'd pass along some gift suggestions to help y... More >>

• Cinema Bomar: Drugs in the Tenderloin

  published November 24, 2011

  November’s Cinema Bomar showcase will feature Drugs in the Tenderloin, which is about the connection between the drug scene... More >>

• 30 Seconds With Rachael Yamagata

  published Dec 02, 2011

  If there is a sexier sound in the world than Rachael Yamagata singing "Starlight" then we haven't heard it. We fired off an email to her awesomeness to see what drops of illumination we could collect ... More >>

• The Man Who Fell to Earth

  published November 24, 2011

  Thomas Jerome Seabrook’s incredible David Bowie biography, Bowie in Berlin, begins its gripping look at one of the most productive... More >>

• Jeremiah Clarke: Why You Shouldn't Play "Trumpet Voluntary" at Your Wedding

  published Dec 01, 2011

  Today is the 337th birthday of composer and organist Jeremiah Clarke. You have heard his most famous work dozens of times in your life and never really thought about it. Clarke composed the "Prince of... More >>

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  American Horror Story: Have the Maid Prepare the Shark

  published Dec 01, 2011

  "Is that the sound of someone jumping a shark I hearr" said the Wife With One F after this week's episode of American Horror Story, and though we don't think the show is airborne just yet, they are ap... More >>

• “Cartography of the Spirit: Virgil Grotfeldt’s Explorations on the Mystical, the Magical, and the Sublime”

  published November 10, 2011

  It was only two years ago that Houston lost one of its most critically acclaimed and beloved painters, Virgil Grotfeldt, to cancer. Even in his... More >>

• Gothic Council Mutinies Over "This Corrosion" Cover

  published Nov 30, 2011

  We still haven't gotten around to setting up our iTunes account on the new phone yet. Since we mostly listen to the NPR live stream in the car anyway it's not a big deal, but every once and a while we... More >>

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  Best Comics of November: Including Mutants & an Ex-Slave Girl

  published Nov 30, 2011

  Once a month the amazing staff at 8th Dimension Comics selects a pile of the best new releases for us to peruse and judge. Unfortunately, we're just barely missing the release of the KISS/Archie Comic... More >>

• "Drawn Out Death"

  published November 17, 2011

  Talento Bilingüe de Houston will be gathering together work by more than 70 different artists as part of its Día de los Muertos... More >>

• Wyclef Jean Squanders Relief Funds, Heralds Apocalypse

  published Nov 29, 2011

  Mason Lankford said, "There will come a day when we forget the Rapture ever even happened," but Rocks Off is keeping an eye out for signs of our impending Armageddon. We were wrong last time, but we'r... More >>

• TXU Energy Turkey Trot

  published November 24, 2011

  You’ll have to get up early if you want to participate in the third largest footrace in the city, the TXU Energy Turkey Trot (the... More >>

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  Pop Quiz: William Shakespeare or Legacy of Kainr

  published Nov 28, 2011

  Awhile back when we were talking about actors who are never going to get their due, we mentioned the incredible work that was done by the writers and voice cast of the Legacy of Kain series of video g... More >>

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  Hey Pookie: Top 5 Cheesy Love Songs

  published Nov 28, 2011

  We recently started getting fan mail in addition to the more... creatively worded correspondence that we've always gotten in response to our articles. The accolades are worth almost as much as the pay... More >>

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  Skyward Sword: Zelda's Perfect Silver Anniversary Gift

  published Nov 25, 2011

  We apologize for being a little late this week on this. We weren't aware that we had to upgrade to the Wii Motion Plus controller to play Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. We picked ours up for $20 at T... More >>

• Houston Via Colori ® The Street Painting Festival

  published November 17, 2011

  Nine of the country’s best street painters will be among the 200-plus artists gathering at Sam Houston Park to produce pastel chalk... More >>

• American Horror Story: Who Is the Rubber Manr

  published Nov 24, 2011

  Up until now, we would have said that each episode of American Horror Story served, in and of itself, as a separate and specific type of horror film. This week, we feel as if for the first time the se... More >>

• National Novel Writing Month Goes Gothic

  published Nov 24, 2011

  National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 with just 21 participants. Since then it's grown to more than 200,000, including two regular members of Houston Press's Gothic Council, Sarah Fanning and Car... More >>

• Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre: My Cold Dead Fingers

  published November 10, 2011

  The latest deadline for the Rapture has come and gone, and the post-apocalypse world looks much the same as it did pre-apocalypse. That... More >>

• Killer/Killer: Mike Terror's Making Dick Jokes and No More Kemo for Emor

  published Nov 23, 2011

  We got a note from Larry Fenix, formerly of Kemo for Emo and now serving in Mike Terror's band that he and Terror were tackling a new side project called Killer/Killer. We got a chance to check out th... More >>