Beginning today and running through Sunday - the party is ON in Galveston! It is time for the Lone Star Rally, one of the largest AMA sanctioned events anywhere. Where to start? There will be a humongous amount of activities going on, and stuff. We'll highlight a few and let you bang the link to the website for the full list. First, there will be the Leather and Lace Ball and Halloween Costume Party at...
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Artist Boat, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is dedication to promoting awareness and conservation of coastal margins and marine environment through arts and sciences, is hosting a boat adventure this Saturday on West Bay in Galveston from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.. This is a kayaking/canoeing adventure, during which you get to create a water color picture to keep! Paddling and safety instructions are included, for those who have not kayaked, or just need a...
Looking for something to do one night this week or this weekend? Enjoy the theater and some good "chick humor"? Head on down Galveston way, er, to The Island, and take in the limited run of Menopause The Musical at the Grand 1894 Opera House from March 6 - 11. Written and produced by Jeanie Linders, this is a hilarious celebration of the most dreaded event in any woman's life (except the news that she...
The Chronicle reported yesterday on a proposal to revive passenger train service between Houston and Galveston — an idea that could become reality in five years, according to a study group. A commuter rail line alongside the Gulf Freeway would (theoretically, at least) become popular with commuters, cut down on freeway traffic and provide a vital evacuation link in case a hurricane threatened Galveston. "It has all the elements that would make it eminently...
You may remember that last month our fair neighbor Galveston was in the news because of the perceived need to hire a marketing firm to revamp the city's image. North Star Destination Strategies out of Nashville, Tennessee was hired to try and persuade a few more folks to head south to the island. After conducting a few surveys and finding out that most thought of Galveston beaches as dirty, stinky cesspools of sorts, North Star...
So it was pretty foggy around here this morning — so much so, in fact, that a lot of flights into and out of Hobby and Bush Intercontinental airports were delayed or canceled. At Hobby, delays were running about 40 minutes the last we heard, and planes weren't allowed to leave Bush at all until 10 a.m.
Police in Galveston are looking for a guy who cut some customers' cable lines. No big deal, right? Well, yeah, in this case it is: The suspect used a backhoe to destroy fiber-optic lines, disrupting cable and Internet service to about 23,000 customers in Galveston, Jamaica Beach and Tiki Island on Sunday. Houstonist sees we're not the only ones fed up with Lifetime's parade of crappy Christmas movies. According to The Galveston County Daily News,...
A couple of weeks ago, we talked about how a marketing firm suggested that adding "Island" to the city of Galveston's name would make tourists flock to the island. Presumably, tourists would then realize that it actually is an island, and everyone knows islands = fun (well, OK, there are some exceptions). But if you got excited about the possibility of the City of Galveston Island, simmer down: The Galveston City Council pretty much shot...
Earlier this year, the City of Galveston hired outside marketing firm North Star Destination Strategies to help build a campaign that would attract more tourists and residents to the island. After months and months of research, the firm has now delivered campaign ideas and a suggestion to the city: change “Galveston” to “Galveston Island.” Man, that’s going to make singing Glen Campbell’s old hit a lot tougher. Along with the name change (something Missouri City...
Remember Jim Stevenson, the bird expert accused of shooting a cat to death at San Luis Pass last week? He hasn't admitted that he shot the cat, but the Chronicle reports today that the incident apparently wouldn't be that unusual for Stevenson, who claims to have shot dozens of cats after building his home on Galveston Island in the late 1990s. The anti-cat manifesto came in a 1999 Internet posting:
A man who caused a Gulf Freeway traffic accident that killed three will face charges of intoxication manslaughter Ex-TSU President Priscilla Slade appeared in court this morning, but her case was reset for Sept. 14 Autopsies were performed this morning on the bodies of two men found on the west end of Galveston Island yesterday morning City Councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs will seek Tom DeLay's seat in Congress, she announced today Capital murder charges have been...
All week, have you been longing for some little something that would gross you out just a little bit? Well, then, you're in luck, because we've got it: fecal bacteria at the beach. Yep, that's right: KHOU reports that this week's rains have washed all sorts of waste into the Gulf, and it's just hanging around out there, waiting for swimmers. The increased levels of fecal bacteria in coastal waters is caused by waste washing...
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