lockmat 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.Iol...there's no guarantee in Houston.Gesturing at the 20 lanes of highway that stand between his property and the gleaming towers of downtown, Self said, ‘‘It seemed that it was pretty much a guarantee that no one was going to block your view.’’ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 Thanks for sharing that article... I've always hoped Ronnie's house would get published someday so that we could see some interior shots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 That article made me want to dig around to see if Ronnie Self finally had a webpage.. and voila, he now does.http://www.ronnieself.com/ has more photos of that house, for those interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Dogs Posted November 15, 2010 Share Posted November 15, 2010 Highway 6, speaking of Houston sightings, isn't KTRK's Sonia Azad Middle Eastern or Latina ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsanford Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 I stumbled across this on youtube yesterday. Very old, but thought I would share anyway. Tranquility Park, downtown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porchman Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 (edited) Prairie Home Companion is live from the Wortham tonight. The show will be rebroadcast tomorrow afternoon.They had a lot of local references (mostly inner loop) in the opening bits including a painful cover of California Girls ("Houston Girls"). Otherwise, Houston coverage has been a references to our cowboy culture. DBigTex. were you looking for a Houston stereotype? EDIT: The mezzo-soprano, Susan Graham, was great. The rest of the show seemed phoned in. Edited November 21, 2010 by Porchman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Feast was featured on Outrageous Foods on Food Network last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little frau Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Telwink, RDG and Backstreet Cafe were on the "CBS Sunday Morning" show today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 Channel 2 promised that we'd see scenes of Houston in the new series "Chase", so I watched it last night. There was a two-second helicopter shot of the skyline and part of the 4th Ward. If there were other shots identifiably of Houston, I missed them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shasta Posted November 25, 2010 Share Posted November 25, 2010 Channel 2 promised that we'd see scenes of Houston in the new series "Chase", so I watched it last night. There was a two-second helicopter shot of the skyline and part of the 4th Ward. If there were other shots identifiably of Houston, I missed them.It's filmed in Dallas. They show the flyovers over downtown to indicate they are in their Houston office but most of the street scenes are Dallas. They do, however, talk about Houston neighborhoods a bunch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProHouston Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 It seemed like Chase was being really careful to make the show appear to be filmed in Houston. They have a lot of aerial downtown shots, they always venture out to nearby neighborhoods/towns (e.g., The Woodlands, Galveston, Sealy, River Oaks, etc.). However, last night's show clearly showed a downtown Dallas skyscraper in the background of the image. I was a little surprised to see this obvious Dallas evidence in the show that tries so hard to be set in Houston. Oh well, as I said a while back, I'd rather have a show filmed in Dallas and set in Houston than have a show filmed in Houston but set in Dallas. It's like the producers are saying that Dallas isn't cool enough for the setting of the show, they have to pretend to be the cooler city to the south to make a compelling show. A slap in the face to Dallas if you ask me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 Highway 6, speaking of Houston sightings, isn't KTRK's Sonia Azad Middle Eastern or Latina ?Azad is a middle eastern surname it seems. I wonder where she was raised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Funky Winkerbean, Brazos Bookstore on Bissonett Street. Hardly a positive reference, though, it being Funky Winkerbean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Funky Winkerbean, Brazos Bookstore on Bissonett Street. Hardly a positive reference, though, it being Funky Winkerbean. Though I haven't followed Funky in a few years, Funky is still a classic. Considering he could have chosen any bookstore in America, the fact that he enjoyed his visit there enough to include them in the strip this week is a very very positive thing. http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20101207&name=Funky_Winkerbean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Though I haven't followed Funky in a few years, Funky is still a classic. Considering he could have chosen any bookstore in America, the fact that he enjoyed his visit there enough to include them in the strip this week is a very very positive thing.http://www.chron.com...unky_WinkerbeanA few years, eh? Well, what happened is that Les (that guy)'s wife Lisa died of cancer in 2007. A time jump of ten years happened, and now it's mostly a mouthpiece for Batiuk to get his views across all while letting characters decay in an increasingly bleak environment. Here we have author-avatar Les Moore selling his book about his wife's death. His fans are stupid saying things that no actual person would say (like "I respect your opinion too much to argue about it") and all the while he's being smug and acting like, well, a jerk. This quote from Comics Curmudgeon sums it up nicely. "Sorry, Batuik, but your premises undermine each other. Premise #1: Les the literary genius is finally recognized by a respected media outlet for his massive contribution to the world of letters. Premise #2: Les is a misunderstood genius suffering fools who can’t even read a book title from a teleprompter. You see, if #1 were true, #2 wouldn’t happen. If #2 is true, then what value the praise? The only way for both premises to stand is if the lazy assholes are recognizing the smug asshole for achievements in the field of assholery." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 Who cares? It is still a well known comic; Regardless of the storyline above, the Brazos is not portrayed in a negative light. Therefore its a good thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 Oh, okay. It turns out that Brazos Bookstore is fully aware of it anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrLan34 Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 so i was biking around houston on saturday and i noticed some filming going on downtown... The cops had all 4 streets around Jones Hall blocked off. There was a blacked out (lights and everything - black) ML 350 benz with a camera on it hauling ass around the corners with a Hyundai Elantra following closely behind it. At first I thought it could (by some small chance) be a car chase seen for a movie but the guy coordinating the whole thing told me it was just a car commercial. Still, be on the lookout! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb320 Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 (edited) so i was biking around houston on saturday and i noticed some filming going on downtown... The cops had all 4 streets around Jones Hall blocked off. There was a blacked out (lights and everything - black) ML 350 benz with a camera on it hauling ass around the corners with a Hyundai Elantra following closely behind it. At first I thought it could (by some small chance) be a car chase seen for a movie but the guy coordinating the whole thing told me it was just a car commercial. Still, be on the lookout!They are filming something right now on Louisiana around the Alley & Birraporetti's. They would not let me use the sidewalk on the BB's side. I couldn't tell much from what I saw. Edited January 10, 2011 by rsb320 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanith27 Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Canada via Houstonhttp://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7374522.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulldog Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Canada via Houstonhttp://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7374522.htmlYes, it was a Hyundai car commercial. They were filming Saturday and Sunday all day at various locations including Smith Street near the Chevron buildings on Saturday and in front of the new YMCA on Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulldog Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 While we're on the topic, a car commercial for the Ford Ecoboost was filmed on the Sabine Street bridge December 14-15. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 Not exactly a "Houston in the media" sighting, but the OPI cosmetics company has a couple of new colors, allegedly inspired by Texas.One of them is called "Guy meets Gal-veston" http://www.mbeautylounge.com/nailpolish/opi-texas-collection/3113-guy-meets-gal-veston-opi-nail-polish.htmlIt's kind of purply-pink. Perhaps a Galveston sunset? (Though, I think Katy has better sunsets) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trymahjong Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Don't know if anyone else posted this but i watched the A&E series HEAVY and the first episode I recognized an apartment building on corner of Avondale and Mason. I think the entire series was filmed in Houston Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shasta Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Not really a 'Houston Sighting' bur Star Jones, a graduate of UH's Law Program is a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb320 Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Dominique (Ch2) was on "The Event" last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shasta Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Dominique (Ch2) was on "The Event" last night.True -another UH grad. Speaking of UH Cougars, there is Jim Parsons who is on every week on the "Big Bang Theory" and Jim Nance who is on CBS all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Mercedes-Benz Revealed its 3rd-Generation M-Class Today. Houston is in the background in some of the pics.http://www.insideline.com/mercedes-benz/m-class/2012/2012-mercedes-benz-m-class-revealed.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrLan34 Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Houston pulls 448,000 overseas visitors in 2010. From CNNhttp://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/07/08/commentary.evans.us.tourism/index.html?hpt=hp_abar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20thStDad Posted July 10, 2011 Share Posted July 10, 2011 Houston pulls 448,000 overseas visitors in 2010. From CNNhttp://www.cnn.com/2...tml?hpt=hp_abarSo the Mexicans towing cars back and forth count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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