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It may still feel like summer in Texas, but the Spirit Halloween stores are officially beginning to defrost. Somewhere, ...
09/01/2026

It may still feel like summer in Texas, but the Spirit Halloween stores are officially beginning to defrost. Somewhere, an empty retail building just felt a cold chill and realized its time has come. šŸŽƒšŸ˜‚

Spooky season is almost here!

Houston is in a race against the clock to save a piece of its history.The Garden Oaks Theater, which opened in 1947, is ...
08/31/2026

Houston is in a race against the clock to save a piece of its history.

The Garden Oaks Theater, which opened in 1947, is facing demolition to make way for a shopping center. The nearly 80-year-old building once welcomed moviegoers and later served as the home of Grace Church for almost two decades. Today, it sits empty, gutted, and under an active demolition permit.

Arthouse Houston has stepped in with a plan to purchase the theater and transform it into a community arts and film center featuring movies, live performances, music, art exhibitions, and film festival premieres.

The organization has raised a little more than $2 million, but it still needs approximately $1 million by 11:59 p.m. Monday, August 31. Organizers say there will be no more extensions. If the deal is not completed, demolition is expected to move forward.

Houston has already lost too many historic landmarks to the wrecking ball. Once a place like this disappears, it cannot be replaced. This is about more than saving an old building. It is about preserving part of Houstonā€™s story and giving it a chance to bring people together again.

The Garden Oaks Theater has only hours left to find out whether this is the end of its story or the beginning of its second act. šŸŽ¬

Across Texas, the Lone Star and American flags are flying at half-staff in honor of Dolly Parton.Governor Greg Abbott or...
08/31/2026

Across Texas, the Lone Star and American flags are flying at half-staff in honor of Dolly Parton.

Governor Greg Abbott ordered Texas flags lowered statewide through sunset on September 1, joining President Donald Trumpā€™s nationwide order for U.S. flags at federal buildings and facilities.

Not everyone agrees with the tribute. Olive Branch, Mississippi Mayor Ken Adams says he does not believe flags should be lowered for Dolly. He argues that the honor should be reserved for military heroes, fallen first responders, presidents, major national leaders, and events that have had a tremendous impact on America.

But Dolly Parton was never just a celebrity.

Her Imagination Library placed hundreds of millions of free books into the hands of children, including families throughout Texas. She supported childrenā€™s hospitals, scholarships, medical research, disaster recovery, and families who had lost everything. Her generosity reached far beyond Tennessee and touched lives across America.

Our military heroes and first responders deserve every honor we can give them. Honoring Dolly does not take anything away from their sacrifice. It simply recognizes a different kind of service.

If the honor is meant for someone who had a tremendous impact on our country, Dolly Parton certainly qualifies.

Rest in peace, Dolly. Texas and America are a little less hopeful and a whole lot less sparkly without you.

08/31/2026

Thereā€™s one Texas game I donā€™t want to play any more

Firefighters are currently battling nine active wildfires that have burned more than 95,000 acres across Texas.The Ross ...
08/31/2026

Firefighters are currently battling nine active wildfires that have burned more than 95,000 acres across Texas.

The Ross Fire remains the biggest concern. It has burned 85,303 acres across Palo Pinto and Jack counties and is only 31% contained. The fire has destroyed 157 structures, including 18 homes, and damaged another 140. Firefighters have successfully saved 453 structures.

Evacuation orders have been lifted, U.S. 180 has reopened, and area schools have resumed normal operations. However, the fire remains active, and residents are being urged to stay alert.

Other major active fires include:

ā€¢ McKee Draw Fire: 4,416 acres, 80% contained
ā€¢ Rio Escondido Fire: 2,713 acres, 95% contained
ā€¢ Sandy Fire: 1,500 acres, 75% contained
ā€¢ West Fork Fire: 961 acres, 90% contained

There is encouraging progress, but the fight is not over. Extremely dry vegetation continues to make it easy for a single spark to start another wildfire.

Please keep the families who have lost homes, affected ranchers and communities, volunteer firefighters, emergency crews, and pilots in your thoughts and prayers. May the winds remain calm, may everyone stay protected, and may every firefighter return home safely.

Good morning, Texas. Monday is here, and we have officially made it to the last day of August. Somebody might want to te...
08/31/2026

Good morning, Texas. Monday is here, and we have officially made it to the last day of August. Somebody might want to tell the weather.

North Texas could see a few afternoon storms, East Texas is keeping the humidity thick, Central Texas gets another round of sunshine and heat, South Texas continues treating shade like reserved seating, and West Texas stays mostly hot and dry.

By afternoon, much of Texas will be well into the 90s. A/C units will be finishing August on overtime, dogs will be handling outdoor business with impressive efficiency, and somebody will see pumpkin decorations at the store, walk outside into the heat, and feel personally lied to.

Tomorrow is September 1st. The fall decorations are out. Pumpkin spice is back. Football is starting.

Meanwhile, Texas summer is standing at the door saying, ā€œYā€™all thought I was leaving?ā€ šŸ¤ ā˜€ļøšŸŽƒšŸ„µ

A $5 THRIFT STORE FIND TURNED OUT TO BE AN ICE AGE TREASURE šŸ¦£When Wendy Wight spotted a shelf labeled ā€œRocks $5 eachā€ in...
08/31/2026

A $5 THRIFT STORE FIND TURNED OUT TO BE AN ICE AGE TREASURE šŸ¦£

When Wendy Wight spotted a shelf labeled ā€œRocks $5 eachā€ inside The Cottage Shop in Houston, she figured she had found a few interesting objects for her art students.

One of those ā€œrocksā€ turned out to be a fossilized mammoth tooth that could be between 25,000 and 100,000 years old.

After a friend noticed its unusual ridges and ran a reverse image search, photographs were sent to experts. Texas paleontologist Andre Lujan confirmed that it was most likely a tooth from a Columbian mammoth, the massive species that once roamed Texas during the Ice Age.

Experts cannot determine its exact age or where it originally came from because no one knows where it was first discovered. It may have once belonged to a geologist or fossil collector before eventually being donated with an ordinary box of rocks.

Wight has no plans to sell it or lock it away. Instead, she is keeping it in her studio so children can actually hold a genuine piece of the Ice Age.

Not bad for five bucks. You never know what piece of Texas history might be waiting on the next thrift-store shelf.

Some people dream of a pool. Some want a new truck. Me? I just want Big Tex standing in my front yard, lowering the prop...
08/30/2026

Some people dream of a pool. Some want a new truck. Me? I just want Big Tex standing in my front yard, lowering the property values and welcoming Amazon drivers. šŸ˜‚šŸ¤ 

THE WOODLANDS JUST TOOK A MAJOR STEP TOWARD KEEPING HOUSTON OUT FOR GOOD.The Woodlands Township Board unanimously approv...
08/30/2026

THE WOODLANDS JUST TOOK A MAJOR STEP TOWARD KEEPING HOUSTON OUT FOR GOOD.

The Woodlands Township Board unanimously approved a proposed agreement that would provide Houston with roughly $50 million in exchange for permanently giving up any future attempt to annex the community.

The agreement would replace a 2007 deal that only protected The Woodlands from annexation through 2057. Houston would receive $27.4 million over the next three years, along with access to $22.6 million already accumulated in a regional fund.

Beginning in 2030, The Woodlands would also keep an estimated $4.5 million in sales tax revenue each year that previously went into that fund.

The community would remain within Houstonā€™s extraterritorial jurisdiction, but residents would still have the option to consider incorporation in the future.

The deal is not final just yet. Houston City Council must still approve it after postponing its vote.

For The Woodlands, this could bring an end to decades of uncertainty while allowing more locally generated money to remain in the community.

Deep in the East Texas woods, thereā€™s a lonely stretch of road where people have been searching for a mysterious light f...
08/30/2026

Deep in the East Texas woods, thereā€™s a lonely stretch of road where people have been searching for a mysterious light for generations.

Itā€™s known as the Bragg Road Ghost Light.

Bragg Road runs through the Big Thicket near Saratoga, following the route of an old railroad line. After dark, visitors have long reported seeing a strange glowing light appear far down the road.

Some describe it as a small white or yellow light hovering in the distance. Others say it seems to move toward them, disappear, then suddenly reappear somewhere else.

Naturally, East Texas came up with a story to explain it.

One of the best-known versions says the light is the lantern of a railroad worker who was killed along the tracks. According to the legend, his head was separated from his body, and his spirit still wanders the old railroad route carrying a lantern as he searches for it.

Other versions connect the light to lost travelers, railroad tragedies, or spirits wandering through the Big Thicket.

There may be a much less supernatural explanation.

Researchers and skeptics have suggested that distant vehicle headlights, atmospheric conditions, and the unusually straight road can combine to create strange-looking lights in the distance.

But knowing that hasnā€™t stopped people from driving Bragg Road after dark.

More than a century after trains traveled through these East Texas woods, people still park along the old route, turn off their headlights and stare into the darknessā€¦

waiting for the Bragg Road Ghost Light to appear.

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