From the archives: Outside the chapel, dusk had hit the humid city. Inside, the crowd sat, prayed, and cried. The occasion was an event titled โ€œA Time of Remembrance.โ€ Fifty or so visitors contemplated cycles of life and death in one short hour ... https://www.texasobserver.org/mark-rothko-chapel-houston/

#art #Houston #history #culture

Where Train Dreams Meet Reality in Texas ๐Ÿš† ๐Ÿš‚ ๐Ÿค 

Dallas and Houston are 250 miles apart. But if you want to take a train between them, prepare for a 23-hour odyssey that says a lot about where US passenger rail is heading.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-11-20/dallas-to-houston-via-train-is-not-exactly-high-speed-rail

#Texas #Rail #Trains #PassengerRail #Dallas #Houston

Interesting trains what I rode in 2025:

Trams of Houston, March. Houston's light rail network is tiny, and goes through a city that is downright hostile to pedestrians, but still provides a core of what could eventually become a useful network.
#transit #houston

Todayโ€™s walk is taking place in airports. Yuck. I will spare you. And me.

#TodaysWalk #Walking #Nashville #Houston

He survived 12 years in a Chinese prison. Coming home was the hard part.

https://thelemmy.club/post/41066296

He survived 12 years in a Chinese prison. Coming home was the hard part. - The Lemmy Club

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Appeals court rules in favor of upstream homeowners in Hurricane Harvey flooding case | Houston Public Media

https://thelemmy.club/post/41066031

Appeals court rules in favor of upstream homeowners in Hurricane Harvey flooding case | Houston Public Media - The Lemmy Club

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Third Ward neighbors say building permit was issued in error to questionable builder

https://thelemmy.club/post/41065304

Third Ward neighbors say building permit was issued in error to questionable builder - The Lemmy Club

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"โ€˜#Houston, we need your helpโ€™
What you can do:
The City Wide Club is asking others to bring food donations to suffice for as much of the discarded food as possible. That includes things such as turkey, rice, vegetables, dry goods, and non-perishable foods.

From 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, people can bring donations to Exhibit Hall D at the George R. Brown Convention Center." https://www.fox26houston.com/news/houston-super-feast-food-trashed-christmas-eve-2025 Theyre also seeking cooks to help and need them to register asap. Link in story. #Volunteers

'Significant amount of food' dumped ahead of Houston Super Feast

City Wide Club of America says a "significant amount of food" was thrown out ahead of the club's Christmas Eve Super Feast in Houston.

FOX 26 Houston

#Houston: ONE DEGREE short of the record three days in a row. #MerryXmas ๐ŸŽ„

(Note that the prior records were set in three DIFFERENT years. This year we climb just shy of 3 records all in the same year.) #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming