Started 2 months, 4 weeks ago (2008-09-04 15:07:00)
by Paul1956
I apologize if this thread is too old to
reactivate, but I just saw it and it brought back a memory of the Alvin Van Black radio show. There was a very frequent caller named Leonardo who's voice stuck in my memory. Leonardo talked in very short choppy sentences and was hard to understand sometimes, but I remember because he always had some interesting comments on events of the day. Even ...
Started 1 month, 3 weeks ago (2008-10-07 22:47:00)
by marcusfb
QUOTE (musicman @ Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 @ 10:46am) i agree 100%! that's why i've always liked deborah wrigley, melanie lawson, and many of the long-timers at 13. they are houstonians! wasn't
ron franklin at 11 before? I am suprised that no one has mentioned Jan Glenn, I know the story of her and Bob, then she "Tried" a come back and it went splat, where did she go?...
Started 6 months ago (2008-06-01 23:50:00)
by Ptarmigan
I notice most TV stations in Houston do not sign-off, with the exception of channel 11 and 14, which they do on weekends or early Monday morning. I remember channel 8 use to sign-off on early
Monday mornings, which they do not do. The last time I have seen channel 2 sign off was last year on a weekday. As for channel 20 and 26, the last time I saw them sign-off was in the late 1990s. I ...
Started 2 weeks, 1 day ago (2008-11-17 12:32:00)
by editor
A newspaper in New Brunswick did an article over the weekend about Houston: http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/trav.../arti cle/480642 QUOTE Houston loves Canadians. Being the headquarters for numerous
oil and gas companies, Houston has a lot to do with Canada's oil and gas capital, Calgary, and our commerce capital, Toronto. As a result most of Air Canada's three-times-a-day ...
Started 2 years, 3 months ago (2006-08-07 10:44:00)
by editor
I had two Houston sightings today.First, on Apple's web site there's an area which talks about how all thebig cell phone companies use Quicktime for their
streaming video. Well, inthe big banner at the top of the page, does the image in the cell phonelook familiar? It should.IPB ImageIt's Smith Street, looking past 1500 to the Wedge International building.Second sighting -- I didn't have my ...
Started 1 month ago (2008-10-31 15:33:00)
by PuroAztlan
QUOTE Very
tall buildings are a tough sell in Paris. The Parisians don't want their lovely low-rise city looking too much like Houston. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages...18541 49,00.html
Started 1 month, 2 weeks ago (2008-10-14 10:06:00)
by toadfroggy
Those Comcast commercials with the plastic
Sam Houston and the disembodied voice--I don't get the gimmick. Are they supposed to be funny? Why is Sam white? Am I missing something or are they as lame as I think they are?
Started 1 month, 1 week ago (2008-10-20 17:00:00)
by PapillionWyngs
For those of you who remember Don Mahoney and Jeanna Clare, I received the following message in my inbox this morning: I wanted to send you this message and let you know that i just received a phone call from my mom saying that Jeanna Clare passed away this morning. As one of their many fans i know you would have wanted to know. Keep our family in your prayers. I am
withholding the name...
Started 1 month ago (2008-10-28 13:10:00)
by editor
As the Chicago Tribune goes through scandal after scandal in its implosion, it is shedding readers left and right. The latest numbers show the Trib's circulation is down to 516,000 (first six months of 2008). That means that
the Houston Chronicle is poised to take its place as #8. Wikipedia lists the Chron's circulation at 494,131 (2007). It shouldn't be too much longer before the ...
Started 2 months ago (2008-09-28 01:46:00)
by ChannelTwoNews
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6027156. html QUOTE Ray Miller, legendary lover of Texas and a founding father of
television news, died Saturday morning. The creator of the popular television show The Eyes of Texas was 89. This post has been edited by ChannelTwoNews : Today, 01:47 AM
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