Email Author Jef With One F

2012 Stories by Jef With One F

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  Top 10 Goth Songs From Houston Ever

  published Mar 15, 2012

  The local goth scene in Houston has been around for quite a while. Though it's never been a dominating force in Houston music, its influence has been felt, and some truly remarkable songs have made th... More >>

• Last Night: John Waters

  published Mar 15, 2012

  Warning: This article contains direct quotes from John Waters. Offense is imminent beyond this point. If there is a Hell, then the doorman has the same grin that John Waters had when he walked onto t... More >>

• 5 Songs For International Day Against Police Brutality

  published Mar 15, 2012

  Police brutality is definitely a real thing. Cases range from synchronized actions by oppressive regimes to curtail the populace to isolated incidents of extremely poor decisions making by rage-based ... More >>

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  UPDATED: Princeless: New Comic Gives Modern Girls the Princess They Deserve

  published Mar 15, 2012

  UPDATE: Princeless has been nominated for two Eisner awards, Best Publication for Kids (ages 8-12), and Best Single Issue (Or One-Shot) for issue #3. The results will be announced on July 13 at Comic-... More >>

• Under Fire: Journalists in Combat

  published March 8, 2012

  Consider this statistic: Only two journalists were killed covering World War I. Almost 900 have been killed covering conflicts in the past two... More >>

• Buffalo Bayou Regatta

  published March 8, 2012

  The Buffalo Bayou Partnership hosts the annual Buffalo Bayou Regatta, Texas’s largest canoe and kayak race. The 15-mile route... More >>

• Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou Dinner

  published March 8, 2012

  Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums) is a brilliant auteur who has delivered some of the greatest dead-pan comedies of the last... More >>

• Gothic Council Sings Your Kids to Sleep

  published Mar 14, 2012

  We hate you, Peter Murphy. Well, OK. Not really. Murphy is a good guy who is a joy to interview and who still puts out amazing music. That being said, we are getting thoroughly sick of his trademark... More >>

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  5 Video Game Movies YouTube Did Better Than Hollywood Ever Could

  published Mar 14, 2012

  Making video game movies is hard, much harder than you think it would be. After all, the marketing research is done for you at the get-go, they're usually full of action and excitement, and the modern... More >>

• Come Back, Africa

  published March 1, 2012

  Apartheid had many enemies. One of them was Lionel Rogosin. Determined to bring the oppression of South African Apartheid to light, Rogosin set... More >>

• Top 5 Video Game Ron Jeremys (NSFW)

  published Mar 13, 2012

  Yesterday was the 59th birthday of legendary pornographic actor Ron Jeremy, affectionately known as the Hedgehog. Jeremy started out a special education teacher (Indeed, he has a master's degree in th... More >>

• Kitty Genovese: 5 Songs For A Girl No One Would Help

  published Mar 13, 2012

  The eyes of Kitty Genovese have haunted us since the first moment we saw this picture. On this day in 1964, she was walking home to her New York apartment when a man named Winston Moseley approached ... More >>

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  4 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About Werewolves

  published Mar 13, 2012

  Anne Rice is coming to Houston on March 21 to do a signing of her new book, The Wolf Gift, at Murder by the Book. We haven't read her latest, non-Jesus book thoroughly, but a brief flip through reveal... More >>

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  Bill & Ted's Alex Winter Examines Napster's Fall In SXSW Doc Downloaded

  published Mar 13, 2012

  Alex Winter (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Idiot Box) has spent the last decade trying to make a movie about Napster, the revolutionary peer-to-peer filesharing site that changed the music ind... More >>

• The Live Lights: Two Is A Synth-Heavy Five Across the Eyes

  published Mar 12, 2012

  We haven't seen the Live Lights perform live, so bear that in mind. Whenever we mentioned that we were going to review the band's recently released five-song EP of synth-heavy rock that's all anyone s... More >>

• John Waters: DiverseWorks Offers a Chance to Win Two Tickets to His Live Show

  published Mar 12, 2012

  As we told you last week, the acclaimed director John Waters (Pink Flamingos, Hairspray) is bringing his incredible one-man show to Houston. This Filthy World: Filthier and Dirtier promises to be an e... More >>

• The Gold Rush

  published March 1, 2012

  Modern silent films like The Artist and Call of Cthulhu have proven that there is still life in the medium, but one man remains the... More >>

• Unknown Mortal Orchestra Debunks Stranger Danger

  published Mar 09, 2012

  We want to move to Oregon, because apparently when you're weird in Oregon they give you money and tell you to go make a music video. Somewhere between the laziest music videos of all time and the Beas... More >>

• A Brand-New Super Nintendo Game Is on Its Way

  published Mar 09, 2012

  The scene is Christmas 1991, and your humble narrator is ten years old. The only packages under the tree we have any interest in are two oddly light square boxes. Money had been tight for many years, ... More >>

• 100 Creatives 2012: Justin Whitney

  published Mar 09, 2012

  What He Does: Justin Whitney has been a part of the goth and metal scenes in Houston for many years. His latest project is the Church of Melkarth, which recently sold out the Alamo Drafthouse playing ... More >>

• The Most "Oh God Whyr" Wikipedia Pages

  published Mar 08, 2012

  Inspired by our fellow Art Attack writer Craig Hlavaty's take on the weirdest entries on Wikipedia, we decided to trot out our own list. Maybe we're jaded from years of Rocky Horror and two days' wor... More >>

• Garth Brooks In Country Music Fall of Fame: Harbinger Of Doom

  published Mar 08, 2012

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

• 5 Video Game Sidekicks That Deserve Their Own Game

  published Mar 08, 2012

  Every hero needs a little help every now and then. Somebody to keep them grounded, to have the antidote to their weakness or just to be quippy in an otherwise quip-poor environment. It's not unheard o... More >>

• Orents Stirner: The Improvised Hall Of Beauty

  published Mar 07, 2012

  Orents Stirner is a local experimental-rock act that has crafted one of the oddest and most ambitious music videos that we've ever come across. "Collect My Sunshine" is a seven-minute journey though... More >>

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  Steampunk Dildos: How We Came to This (NSFW)

  published Mar 07, 2012

  The world of steampunk is under this particular writer's purview because no one else on the Houston Press contributor list accepted Final Fantasy VI as their personal savior in their formative years. ... More >>