Coming soon. I hear it will be up and running in time for Dune Part 3.

Tomorrow the ISS will fly over Houston beginning at 5:36 in the morning. It will be travelling southwest to northeast.

However the coolest thing is that a SpaceX cargo dragon will be on approach to dock with the ISS later that morning! This is an extremely rare chance to see two spacecraft illuminated overheard with your bare eyes. They will appear as one small dot next to a giant dot.

This is extremely rare, don't miss it if you are up. Plenty of apps out there that can tell you where exactly to look

I’ve gotten dozens of these in the last few weeks, and it doesn’t stop no matter how many times I reply STOP or report them as spam. Anyone else getting this BS daily?

I guess the rebranding has been complete. Is there any other area that had the same fate?

Hey y'all! I introduced myself in the comments a few days ago...but wanted to take a chance to say hi in a full post. My name is Trevor Birchett and I'm one of the newest meteorologists at KHOU 11, and I'm new to Houston. Anyway...I was always active in r/memphis and we had some great discussions/Q&A about weather there. I'd love to continue that here especially when the weather gets more active. So...hi!

Take a chance now to make some plans this weekend, a cold front will knock us to the 70s for highs and 50s for lows with sunshine and low humidity. It'll be a 5 star weekend to be outside before we warm up a bit more next week.

From https://www.uh.edu/hobby/harris2026

The Houston Chronicle editorial board endorsed Democratic candidate Dexter McCoy in the race for Fort Bend County Judge, noting the scandal around the incumbent interim county judge Daniel Wong. Here's a key quote:

Wong insisted he’s keeping politics out of the office. But his actions suggest otherwise. He took the oath of office and quickly got to work putting partisan staffers in place, including Bobby Eberle, the former chair of the county’s Republican party. 

It was the best he could do, Wong told us. “Will you be my communication director for just a short time, knowing that I may be out after the election? Nobody is going to sign up for my position except my friends,” he said.

He fired the head of the human relations department and gutted the duties of the county attorney’s office, substituting it with his own new legal department under his control. 

“It’s been all about exacting retaliation,” McCoy told us.

Four friends. One buried mystery. And a history their hometown almost forgot.

Charles, Irene, Grace, and Ravi are thirteen-year-olds trying to survive middle school in Sugar Land, Texas: detention, demanding parents, friendship drama, and one spectacularly disastrous band concert.

Then they stumble onto something far bigger than themselves.

A forgotten grave. A Civil War-era button. Old blues songs that seem to point toward the past. And beneath the neighborhoods, schools, and highways of modern Sugar Land lies the true history of the Sugar Land 95; African American prisoners forced to labor in Texas’s brutal convict-leasing system after the Civil War.

As the four friends follow the clues, the music becomes part of the mystery. Songs associated with legendary blues and folk musician Lead Belly lead them deeper into the history beneath their own community, and force them to ask who gets remembered, who gets forgotten, and what it means to belong to a place.

Shine a Light on Me is a story about friendship, music, memory, and the unexpected ways the past survives in the present. Funny in places, painful in others, it follows ordinary kids as they discover that history is not something locked inside a textbook.

Sometimes it is buried beneath your feet.

Sometimes it is carried in a song.

Readers who enjoyed the historical mystery of The Parker Inheritance, the humor and humanity of The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963, or the way music carries memory through Echo will find something familiar here—but Shine a Light on Me tells a distinctly Sugar Land story, shaped by the young people growing up there today.

Inspired by the true history of the Sugar Land 95 and the music of Lead Belly, Shine a Light on Me was written collaboratively by five students from Sugar Land who began the project while they were in middle school. Their story brings together historical mystery, school life, blues music, Asian American family life, and the changing face of the American South.

It is a story about learning to hear the voices that came before us, and about discovering that you do not have to be born to a history to care enough to carry it forward.

Twenty percent of royalties from the book will be donated to the Friends of the Sugar Land 95 Memorial Fund, supporting efforts to preserve and honor the memory of the 95 individuals whose graves were discovered in Sugar Land.

For young readers age 10 to 14, parents, teachers, and anyone who believes the stories we inherit still have something to teach us.

Went to get a coffee today the place was shut down with this notice on the door.

Notice says this:

Pursuant to that Retail Lease dated July 16, 2018, as amended by the First Amendment to Retail Lease dated October 14, 2019, the Second Amendment to Retail Lease dated June 8, 2021, the Third Amendment to Retail Lease dated March 2, 2024, the Fourth Amendment to Retail Lease dated April 14, 2026, and the Fifth Amendment to Retail Lease dated June 9, 2026 (collectively, the "Lease") between AP Houston Heights III, LP ("Landlord") and Forth and Nomad, LLC ("Tenant") for 727 and 731 Yale Street, Houston, Texas 77007 (the "Premises"), Landlord hereby gives notice pursuant to the terms of the Lease that the locks to the Premises have been changed. Tenant's right to possession is terminated, effectively immediately.
Although the locks have been changed and the Tenant's right of possession has been terminated, this notice shall not be deemed or construed to constitute a termination of the Lease.
Landlord expressly reserves all rights and remedies available under the Lease
and any other applicable documents as well as under Texas law.

My group is heading back to Austin for Freaky Deaky at the Travis County Expo Center on October 30 and 31. We're trying to get inside around 3:30 PM Friday instead of rushing in after dark. Parking opens at 2 PM and gates open at 3 PM, so we're thinking about leaving Houston at 8:30 AM. Would you stick with US-290 or take I-10 to 71? Every time we've left after lunch on a Friday, we've gotten stuck on 290 near Elgin.

A friend sent us the dojo freaky bag giveaway post earlier this week, which mentioned an interactive game booth at the festival. That's another thing we'd like to check out if we get there early, along with the vendor village and afternoon sets.

Anyone else driving up from Houston Friday morning? Which route are y'all taking, and are you stopping in Brenham or Bastrop for food?

A few weeks ago I reported a broken streetlight near a METRO bus stop in my neighborhood.

It's a pretty dark stretch of road, and people use that stop early in the morning and after sunset. Seemed like exactly the sort of thing 311 was meant for.

I submitted the location, included a description, and got a case number.

A few days later, I checked the status.

CLOSED.

Nice. That was quick.

Except I drove past the same stop that evening and the light was still out.

I figured maybe the repair had been scheduled but not completed yet, so I looked into what "closed" actually means in Houston's 311 system.

Turns out the city's own website lists several reasons a service request can be closed.

One of them is that the request was referred to an outside agency, such as CenterPoint, Harris County or TxDOT.

Which makes sense administratively. Houston 311 can't personally repair everything, and some problems belong to other agencies.

But here's what bothers me.

If my request has been forwarded to somebody else, it hasn't been resolved. It's been forwarded.

Those are two completely different things.

From the resident's perspective, the streetlight is still broken. The bus stop is still dark. Somebody somewhere might be handling it, but the system is telling me the case is closed.

I'm not even particularly angry about the time it's taking. I understand that streetlights are generally maintained by CenterPoint and that repairs don't happen instantly.

What I don't understand is why the system can't just say "referred to CenterPoint" and show me where to follow up.

Or at least make the distinction between "we finished our part" and "the actual problem has been fixed."

We have separate agencies responsible for city streets, state roads, utility equipment, drainage and all the other infrastructure that makes Houston function.

Residents shouldn't need to know the entire organizational structure of local government to report one broken thing.

And I imagine this gets especially confusing around roads where jurisdiction changes. You report a problem to the city, the city forwards it to someone else, and you're left wondering whether you should submit another complaint or just keep waiting.

Maybe there's a better way to track transferred requests that I'm missing.

But a system that can close a case before the underlying problem is solved seems like it's measuring how efficiently complaints leave somebody's desk rather than how efficiently problems get addressed.

Has anyone here dealt with this? Particularly with requests that were referred to TxDOT or CenterPoint?

I'd genuinely like to know whether the handoff usually works and the status is just misleading, or whether residents are expected to chase down the receiving agency themselves.

Anyone ever use the Park and Ride (Katy Area) to downtown for Jury duty? Debating to drive myself or take Metro downtown.

Memorial & Tully.

Believe it or not there is road behind those cars you see in animal clinic parking lot that you cannot see from here. The left you are trying achieve can be found over there. The theory/design is that the best way to make this left hand turn into the neighborhood is to drive through the entire strip mall parking lot and then exit it by turning left again. You can tell it's a nuisance since they have like 3 or 4 speed bumps in the lot. Who the fuck thought this was logical? You should see it when the strip is busy with customers. Cars just get locked in there waiting forever sometimes just to get though.

Anyone know of any stupider left or right turns in houston?

Hey y'all, I'm looking to connect with some fellow whiskey enthusiasts here in the Houston area. I've slowly accumulated a decent collection over the last few years, including a few harder-to-find allocated bottles.

I’m looking to see if there are any active local clubs, Discord servers, or regular bottle shares around town where people meet up to talk shop

If anyone knows of any good groups or is down to connect, shoot me a PM! I'm located in the Heights area. Cheers!

Hello, I loved the spaghetti and meatballs with the huge meatballs and freshly made pasta and marinara sauce at Paulie’s in Montrose. It was one of my comfort foods, and it reminded me of the animations of spaghetti I saw in the movie Lady and the Tramp as a kid.

I really miss this dish, and wanted to ask if there’s anything like it still available in Houston?