Subdude Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 Stumbled on to this old album today: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 It looks unfinished, right? The top of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 It looks unfinished, right? The top of it Can't tell but I suppose it could be. The album came out in 1971, the same year the chapel opened. This from today's Guardian: Houston, do we have problem? This night time image shows the lit-up 60-mile wide Texas city. Houston is home to five million people and is the largest area in the US without formal zoning restrictions on where and how people can build. This freedom has led to a highly diverse pattern of land use. The city has been called the energy capital of the world due to its role as a major hub of oil and power industries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 Do you have a link? What does it say is our problem? This from today's Guardian: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 Do you have a link? What does it say is our problem?Here's the link, but it's not an article on Houston, it's just a series of satellite photos.Guardian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Just saw a Rosacea commercial that zoomed in to a few cities n the US. They zoomed in to Houston on the map to talk about someone with Rosacea and they showed the Bank of America Center looking down from the sky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 Business Week visits HoustonA Free Day in Houston TexasAmerica's fourth-largest city has more than sprawl and humidity. A guide to the good stuffBy Lisa GrayBW MagazinePetrochem capital of the Americas, sprawl capital of the universe: Houston can seem like a city you can't escape fast enough. That's because you don't really know it. Start your crash course with a visit to sculptor David Adickes' studio—actually to his studio's parking lot, jammed with 18-foot busts of all 43 U.S. Presidents. The giant heads of state were intended for a $600 million suburban redevelopment project that tanked with the economy; in April, Adickes repossessed the busts he'd already delivered. Reunited, the heady crew embodies Houston itself: oversized, earnest, subject to wild financial swings, and peculiar as all get-out. If the Lone Star spirit carries you away, Texan POTUSes Lyndon Johnson and George W. Bush are available for $50,000 apiece. Business Week link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porchman Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 Mayor Parker is in The 2010 TIME 100 - The World's Most Influential People . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted June 9, 2010 Share Posted June 9, 2010 The History Channel (I know, I know) was showing a program called "Life After People", about how cities would decay over time if people suddenly vanished. Part of the episode was about Houston, particularly the Chase Tower and Astrodome, the latter of which was forecast to become a giant bat sanctuary. Graphics from the show: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Very late to the game, but that Jack in the Box commercial looks like UCLA's campus to me. The trees scream West Coast and the bldgs look like Westwood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted June 28, 2010 Share Posted June 28, 2010 Chevy commercial. Saw this on ESPN - MLB just nowhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTXHTtAmW04http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTXHTtAmW04 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shasta Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 ^^^^^Can't ask for more of a 'money shot of downtown' than what is shown in that commercial. Good find Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 This past weekend COPS broadcast two incidents filmed in Houston. The first was a traffic stop (W Dallas - Taft area) in which a motorist had been observed buying drugs nearby. The second was also a drug bust, Spur 527 at W Alabama (Skylane Apartments) - just two blocks from da Mayor's house. There's a couple of nice, if typical, ariel shots of downtown."Cops" Season 22 Ep:32 can be viewed at Hulu.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLWM8609 Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 The History Channel (I know, I know) was showing a program called "Life After People", about how cities would decay over time if people suddenly vanished. Part of the episode was about Houston, particularly the Chase Tower and Astrodome, the latter of which was forecast to become a giant bat sanctuary. Graphics from the show: I know I'm a month late with this reply, but that sounds like the best idea for the dome yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricco67 Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 This past weekend COPS broadcast two incidents filmed in Houston. The first was a traffic stop (W Dallas - Taft area) in which a motorist had been observed buying drugs nearby. The second was also a drug bust, Spur 527 at W Alabama (Skylane Apartments) - just two blocks from da Mayor's house. There's a couple of nice, if typical, ariel shots of downtown."Cops" Season 22 Ep:32 can be viewed at Hulu.comOn the first arrest, I just like how they simply refer to "Freedmen's town" as "The Neighborhood." Don't know if that was intentional or not, but interesting. I wish they'd just raid the area more often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little frau Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Ouch! The very first apartment I ever lived in was at 219 W. Alabama. I don't think they were called Skylane at that time but might have been. At any rate, I had a little efficiency with twin 'daybeds' which served as living room during the day and bedroom at night. Small kitchen, under counter fridge and two burner stove. Bathroom and closet. Still, the apartments were about 10 years old then (about 1966) and rented for $99 month furnished and all bills paid. I worked at Gulf Oil downtown and could almost roll out of bed and to the bus stop.Of course, there was no Spur 527 then and if memory serves me, Travis ended about there and fed onto 59 south.They were actually pretty nice back then and suited me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 From Autoblog! That's a 1955 Maserati. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 The Clark's shoe store chain is using assorted pictures of Houston, with shoes and models in front, for their in-store displays, shop window decoration, and website. One poster features my old favorite the Sheraton-Lincoln building. The windows have been thoughtfully photoshopicly darkened so you can't tell the building is just a shell. Take a look - Clark's website Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 That new ipad commercial shows Houston twice. Once when it shows the baseball game, that's the Astros. And when they show the video game, it's the Colts vs. the Texans at Reliant Stadium ;P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLWM8609 Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 I was watching the season premiere of "Fringe" and noticed that they used an exterior shot of the UHD Commerce St. building as the Department of Defense Hospital. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 Pelli ex-Enron building on cover of this AutoCAD book Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted September 25, 2010 Author Share Posted September 25, 2010 Only tangentially a Houston sighting, but yesterday I heard an ad on LBC radio in London for Continental's London to Newark business class service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 (edited) Chef Bryan Caswell is on The Next Iron Chef premiere tonight on Food Network, and will continue through the season until eliminated. It's on right now, 8 PM. Edited October 4, 2010 by kylejack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shasta Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 LCD Soundsystem music video filmed in Houstonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5gQidrzojU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted October 5, 2010 Author Share Posted October 5, 2010 LCD Soundsystem music video filmed in Houstonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5gQidrzojUThat was very cool. And it's always nice to hear good music from a band I've never heard of before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted October 5, 2010 Share Posted October 5, 2010 I linked that one and another from The Ride Home called Girls in another thread. Some cool shots of Montrose, House of Pies, Sabine Street Bridge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porchman Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Profile piece on Mayor Parker in Business Week.http://www.businessw...98096799595.htm When I was sworn in as mayor of Houston, the media attention worldwide was overwhelming. "Houston elected a lesbian? Houston?"...It has given me a fantastic opportunity to change how people think about my city. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Dogs Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 Porchman, it appears Sibilia Vargas has left Fox 26 and heading back to Los Angeles to be working at KCBS, the CBS affiliate in that area. I wonder if she ever intended to end her career in Houston because ever since Linda Cheek-Heinrich retired in 2002, the co-anchor spot in the mornings are cursed:1. Taslin Alfonso (2002-2005): co-anchored the mornings with Jose Grinan and was domoted to the 12 Noon newscasts once Jan Jeffcoat took the morning slot and Taslin eventually went back to New Orleans, her hometown to work at the NBC affiliate WSDU.2. Jan Jeffcoat (2004-2007): bailed on Houston and never looked back, she's currently at WFLD-TV Fox 32 in Chicago.3. Sibilia Vargas (2007-2010): lasted only 3 years and went back to LA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porchman Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 An article about Architect Ronnie Self's 3rd Ward house in the NYT Magazine today. Link.If you’re going to build your dream house in a city that revolves around cars, why not plant it right on the side of a freeway? Ronnie Self, an architect, has done just that on a plot of land in a gritty but art-filled neighborhood with unobstructed views of the downtown skyline in Houston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 (edited) Bryan Caswell of Reef continues to excel on this season of The Next Iron Chef. It airs every Sunday at 8. He talks about Houston every chance he gets.http://www.foodnetwork.com/chefs/bryan-caswell/index.html Edited November 7, 2010 by kylejack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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