Subject: Cairo

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2007
  • Blogs

    December 7, 2007
  • Film

    April 7, 1994
  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    The `80s, As Revealed By Local TV Ads

    As Cairo is to fine Mexican cuisine, so Houston has long been to the fine art of local TV ads.A few more gems from our proud history have popped up in the past few months. (We examined some others here a while back, and since Michael Pollack still reigns as the king, we dedicated a whole post to hi ... More >>

  • Dining

    September 26, 1996

    Gyro-centric

    As Cairo is to fine Mexican cuisine, so Houston has long been to the fine art of local TV ads.A few more gems from our proud history have popped up in the past few months. (We examined some others here a while back, and since Michael Pollack still reigns as the king, we dedicated a whole post to hi ... More >>

  • Film

    November 21, 1996

    Love and War

    As Cairo is to fine Mexican cuisine, so Houston has long been to the fine art of local TV ads.A few more gems from our proud history have popped up in the past few months. (We examined some others here a while back, and since Michael Pollack still reigns as the king, we dedicated a whole post to hi ... More >>

  • Film

    March 26, 2009

    DreamWorks, In Your Face: Monsters vs. Aliens

    In this latest round of effects vs. storytelling, effects win. Big.

  • Calendar

    October 9, 2008

    "American Civil War Field Notes: Sketches from Cairo to Columbia"

    In this latest round of effects vs. storytelling, effects win. Big.

  • Film

    October 14, 2004

    USA-holes

    Team America takes no prisoners and spares no swear words

  • Film

    August 19, 2004

    Deck Heads

    The card game Yu-Gi-Oh! becomes a wild and crazy movie

  • News

    February 12, 2004

    Ship Wrecked

    A Houston firm certified the oil tanker Prestige as good to go. It broke apart in the Atlantic, causing the worst environmental disaster in Spanish history.

  • Calendar

    June 26, 2003

    Big Bang

    The bygone days of the Insurance Man

  • Music

    April 10, 2003

    Weapons of Mass Distraction

    At Miami's Winter Music Conference, P. Diddy blows up dance music while the U.S. blows up Iraq

  • Culture

    June 7, 2001

    The Great Escape

    Baz Luhrmann makes movies--and audiences--in his own image

  • News

    September 7, 2000

    To Sleep with the Fishes

    Citing bike-lane blues, the venerable Aquarium Lounge dries up after 28 years

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