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2012 Stories by Jef With One F

• Which Video Game World Has the Strongest Currencyr

  published Dec 21, 2012

  Money is a weird thing. You can throw it at people and they'll give you just about anything if you throw enough of it at them. On the other hand, you can go to different places in the world and that m... More >>

• Reviews for the Lazy Gamer Flashback Edition: The Hobbit

  published Dec 20, 2012

  With the new Hobbit movie out, I thought I'd look back on a classic that never got its due. Still easily available for $1.50 and up! Game: The Hobbit Platform: PS2, Game Boy Advance, Windows, Gam... More >>

• Best of New York International Children's Film Festival

  published June 14, 2012

  When talking about modern children's classics, it always seems like The Gruffalo series gets left off the list. Expose your munchkin to... More >>

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  Buyer's Guide to Steampunk Christmas Ornaments

  published Dec 19, 2012

  If you're like me you've waited till the last minute to put up the tree, but in case you were thinking about having a very steampunk yule then there are plenty of ornaments to help take your tree in a... More >>

• Fitz Navidad's Bands Lay Out Their Favorite Christmas Tunes

  published Dec 19, 2012

  Thursday night, a heavenly host of Houston's brightest and best musicians will spend a night playing Christmas music to celebrate the holiday season at Fitzgerald's. We decided to catch up with some o... More >>

• Video Game Atlas: Sanctuary

  published Dec 19, 2012

  Once a week Art Attack will offer you a handy little travel guide to the fictional worlds of video games. Name: Sanctuary, Borderlands series Population: 320 Government: Anarchy Pandora is a bit ... More >>

• E.S.P.: Animal Totems in the Machine in "627"

  published Dec 19, 2012

  L.A.'s E.S.P. only have a single and an EP to their name, but they've already managed to build something pretty amazing in their short time together. The Matsumiya siblings and their friend Bobby Evan... More >>

• ''Eighth Annual Open Call Exhibition: GOD''

  published June 14, 2012

  Getting your art shown in a museum is never easier than at the Art Car Museum’s annual open-call show. The museum sets a theme (this year... More >>

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  Is Funding Your Album on Kickstarter Insulting and Wrongr

  published Dec 18, 2012

  CORRECTION (12/21, 1:15 p.m.): Kickstarter uses Amazon's payment system to process its transactions, but it is a privately owned company, not a division of the publicly held Amazon. I do a monthly Ki... More >>

• Top 5 Portal Fan Films

  published Dec 18, 2012

  I have a confession to make. Much as I love Doctor Who and obsessively talk about it here in the art blog, it's honestly just a cover for the fact that I am not getting another Portal game anytime soo... More >>

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  7 Songs About Hobbits NOT By Leonard Nimoy

  published Dec 18, 2012

  I'm keen to catch The Hobbit soon. If nothing else, the Seventh Doctor apparently goes full-on wizard battle against the Witch-King in it, and I would have paid just to see that scene alone. The rest ... More >>

• The Rocks Off 100: Dremaceo Giles, Lotus Effect's Bad Rudolph

  published Dec 18, 2012

  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 >>

• A Geek Answers Your Children's Questions About Santa Claus

  published Dec 18, 2012

  Editor's note: First published on December 11, 2011, we return this reader favorite. If there is any one aspect of being a parent we have been avidly preparing for for years, it's how to explain t... More >>

• LitFuse Reading Series

  published June 14, 2012

  Musician Chance Hunter is no stranger to combining art forms to create unique experiences. He plays in the Psychedelic Blues Collective, which is... More >>

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  Fake Apocalypse Slap Fight: Ronald Reagan vs. Australia's Julia Gillard

  published Dec 17, 2012

  Two heads of state have pulled off some shenanigans when it comes to the end of the world. On the one hand we have the recent video put out by Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard telling her con... More >>

• Happy Saturnalia! 5 Songs for the Original Holidays

  published Dec 17, 2012

  Why do we celebrate the birth of Christ in Decemberr There's no solid date on the actual birth date of Jesus, but you have to pick a day. Why that oner Well, a lot of it has to do with the festival o... More >>

• 10 Most Skippable Doctor Who Episodes

  published Dec 17, 2012

  Between the Christmas Special, the second half of Series 7 including the return of Neil Gaiman and the Cybermen, and all the magic of the 50th Anniversary special(s) that I can dream about, Doctor Who... More >>

• Come See My Dead Person LP Whistles Past the Boneyard

  published Dec 14, 2012

  Come See My Dead Person is one of those bands people have constantly tried to get me into over the years, but the time never seemed right. Well, the release of their new self-titled album should be a ... More >>

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  Top 10 Creepiest Pokemon

  published Dec 14, 2012

  There's a lot of popular things I just don't get... things like pro football, the genius of Led Zeppelin or why a person of any age would watch My Little Pony. Even in the realm of video games where I... More >>

• The Top 25 Music Videos of 2012, Nos. 5-1

  published Dec 14, 2012

  Never before have I agonized so hard over the picks for best music video of the year because never before have I had the kind of selection that 2012 offered. The art form is alive and well like never ... More >>

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  Jamie Foxx Playing a White Supervillain Isn't New, But Racists Tend to Forget Such Things

  published Dec 14, 2012

  It's been confirmed that Jamie Foxx will be taking on Spider-Man in the Amazing Spider-Man sequel that starts filming in February. Foxx told his daughter, a big fan of Spidey (You're raising that one ... More >>

• American Horror Story: Asylum: The Rabbit Died

  published Dec 13, 2012

  I sat on the floor of my living room watching this week's Asylum, the last until January 2. I'd checked on my three-year-old daughter before beginning to make sure she was sound asleep and wouldn't ov... More >>

• Video Game Atlas: Monstro Town

  published Dec 13, 2012

  Once a week Art Attack will offer you a handy little travel guide to the fictional worlds of video games. Name: Monstro Town, Super Mario series Population: 42 Government: Collective run by an elde... More >>

• The Rocks Off 100: Breye "7x" Kiser, Pillar of Houston Electrogoth

  published Dec 13, 2012

  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 >>

• The Top 25 Music Videos of 2012, Nos. 10-6

  published Dec 13, 2012

  Now we're getting into the real works of incredible genius that hit the Web this year, including one of the few major acts I deign to include on these lists (The art of mainstream music video producti... More >>