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Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor pixeltopia.

It's baaaaaack! No, not Poltergeist. Time Warner Cable revises it's "Movies in the Park" this weekend in Downtown's Sesquicentennial Park. The four-week movie series features outdoor films, concessions, and entertainment. So pull out the blankets and pack the picnic baskets. It's fun for the whole family. 6 p.m. - Concessions Open 7 p.m. - Pre-movie Entertainment 8 p.m. or dusk - Movie Screening Movie Schedule Saturday, April 14 – Bend it Like Beckham Saturday,...

Spend the Night on Blue Bayou Join the Buffalo Bayou Partnership tonight as they kick-off a year long series of stargazing, boat rides, storytelling and more along the Sabine-to-Bagby Promenade. The newest addition (and possibly our favorite) to the Buffalo Bayou hike and bike and trails, gives Houstonians multiple access points to bayou canoeing. The awarding-winning, and might we add, spectacular-looking, unique blue lighting creates a much needed outdoor friendly environment for nearby downtown,...

A Houstonist reader recently wrote to ask about an art installation along Buffalo Bayou:

So here's a civic project to get excited about: Tonight, Buffalo Bayou Partnership will host "Blue Bayou," a party to celebrate the opening of the Sabine to Bagby Promenade, a new park along Buffalo Bayou from downtown to the Sabine Street Bridge. The $15 million park — which doubles as a flood-control project — includes 2 miles of hike and bike trails linking the Allen Parkway/Memorial Drive trails with Sesquicentennial Park, 12 new street-to-bayou stairways...

Houstonist loves Thanksgiving. That said, we'll be the first to admit that Thanksgiving can get pretty boring. Face it: Once you have dinner and the family settles into a tryptophan-and-football-induced coma, all you can do is look forward to leftover turkey sandwiches. So why not get into the holiday spirit this Thanksgiving with a trip to the Buffalo Bayou ArtPark's 2005 Xmas Tree Show? Twenty-one artists and groups decorate trees however they want, and the results are usually pretty crazy. This year, the entries include a 25-layer tree cake, an inverted tree and a tree decorated with traffic lights. If that doesn't make you feel Christmasy, we don't know what will.