Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor txtamz who gives us this night view of Main Street Square in downtown Houston. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining over 420 of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group. If Houstonist uses your photo for Photo Of The Day, submit it here. For more great photography check out the Houston Photobloggers....
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The Chronicle's Rad Sallee talked last week about something we've halfway wondered about for a while: the quotation on Michael Davis's "Water Screen," the thing at Main Street Square that's supposed to be a frame containing a waterfall on which images are projected (we say "supposed to be" because we've only seen it working a handful of times). Across the top of the frame is the inscription "As we build our city, let us think...
If you've missed the fountains at Main Street Square, which have been turned off since a hard freeze six weeks ago screwed up a seal between two pipes, there's good news: The fountains are back. We'll give you a few minutes to celebrate. Honestly — and Houstonist goes past Main Street Square pretty frequently — we hadn't even realized anything was wrong. It's been windy the last few weeks, so we figured the fountains were...
Wow, we guess Houston really does have a big-city mass transit system after all: Monday afternoon, a fight that began on the Main Street Square MetroRail platform led to a man slashing another man in the throat with a box cutter. In the middle of the afternoon. In the middle of downtown.
The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Slight Clutter.
Metro's been talking for a while about a downtown transit hub that would tie a bunch of bus lines, the MetroRail network and future bus rapid transit and commuter rail lines together, much like South Station in Boston, Union Station in D.C. and Grand Central Terminal in NYC. And now the idea is a step closer to reality, maybe — the Metro board has asked for a preliminary design for a huge transit station on...
Houstonist loves a good party. But sometimes as we're sprawled on the couch, hangover in full swing, we wonder: What's the point? You can imagine, then, our excitement at learning about a hip downtown party with a purpose. Okay, maybe "hip" isn't the right word, and it might be a stretch to call it a "party," but it's definitely downtown. And there is a purpose. The shindig in question is a lunchtime get-together today to...
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