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Jef Rouner

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Author of STRANGER WORDS, writer for Houston Press/Houston Chronicle/Reform Austin/SF Chronicle. HWA member. Not cis, but he/him will do.

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Jef is a contributing writer who covers politics, pop culture, social justice, video games, and online behavior. He is often a professional annoyance to the ignorant and hurtful.

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Opinion: Would It Kill Them to Cast a Fat Actress as Carrie?

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By Jef Rouner Verified
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Nobody in Hollywood knows Stephen King’s work like Mike Flanagan, and yet here we are again with another adaptation of King’s 1974 novel Carrie that doesn’t have the stones to cast a fat actress that resembles the character in the book. The upcoming Prime Video miniseries Carrie sounds fantastic. Showrunner Mike Flanagan did a good job directing Doctor Sleep and an outstanding one with Gerald’s Game.
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Downtown San Antonio hotel fine tunes new high-tech recording studio

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How family-owned grocery stores in Houston helped communities thrive

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By Jef Rouner Verified
| Yahoo Life Verified
Houston was once full of family-owned grocery stores. Henke & Pillot started all the way back in 1872. German immigrant Henry Henke opened what could be called the first modern grocery store in Houston, providing a city with goods and services they would usually have to travel down to Galveston to obtain. It remained a powerful name in the local grocery industry until Kroger bought the company and slowly phased out the Henke & Pillot brand in the 1950s.
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