Results tagged “christmasday”

Happy Holidays Houston! If you can stand more excitement after all of the festivities this week, we suggest tuning in for a re-airing of Justice's awesome "performance" on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and a brand spanking new Austin City Limits with Bloc Party and Ghostland Observatory.

If you like cold weather, today's your day: Sure, it's 72 degrees out now, but just wait. The temperature will start falling in about an hour; by 10 a.m. it should be in the 50s, by noon it should be in the mid 40s and when you go to bed, the temperature will have dropped well into the 30s. It's the beginning of a few days of genuinely cool weather courtesy of an arctic front...

In one of the most bizarre recent cases of theft, someone stole the Galveston Fire Department's jaws of life on Christmas Day — and since then, the department has been hoping it doesn't have to pull anyone out of a mangled vehicle. The equipment, which will cost nearly $13,000 to replace, was taken from the back of a fire truck on Christmas morning as firefighters responded to an emergency call.

Well, we shouldn't be surpised, but the kid in each one of us can be a little disappointed to hear that snow is not predicted to make another Christmas Eve or Christmas Day appearance this year. Houstonist was really looking forward to making a two-foot-tall snow man. (Would that be a snow little person? A snow dwarf?)

If you're the kind of person who walks around looking at the sky — no, we don't want to know why you do that — you just might see something this week: the International Space Station will be visible from Houston in the coming days. The ISS is passing 220 miles over Houston and will be visible with the naked eye just after dusk or just before dawn, when the sun is below the horizon...