Houston Zoo Lights (above) are just one of the outings that City Cast correspondent Antréchelle Dorsey recommends.

🥀 At a shooting victim's vigil, more shooting: One person was killed and 13 more injured by gunfire in Baytown as mourners released balloons to honor shooting victim Jamal Narcisse. The assailants are unknown. (Houston Chronicle)

🤠 No, not that Rick Perry: The Rick Perry who filed to run for Texas governor is not the “oops” Rick Perry – which is to say, not the former presidential candidate, former energy secretary and former governor of Texas. Political observers suspect that the new candidate Rick Perry, a Springtown man who usually goes by “Ricky,” is a political spoiler whose run has been engineered to help one of Gov. Greg Abbott’s primary opponents. (Texas Tribune)

⛈ Rising waters, rising premiums: 91% of Houston homeowners can expect their flood-insurance premiums to increase this year. By law, existing policies can only rise 20% per year. But new ones can cost twice or three times what they did previously. (Houston Chronicle)

Snowy egrets (Egretta thula), which live in Houston year-round, are elegant, medium-sized waterbirds that look like fashion models dressed by an architect. Their bright-white feathers are set off by long black beaks and long black legs – but it’s their yellow feet, and the matching yellow patch of skin near their beaks, that make the ensemble pop. 

📕 🎧 CHATTER: ELIZABETH HOLMES' HOUSTON DAYS

Closing arguments begin Thursday in the riveting fraud trial of Elizabeth Holmes, once hailed as the girl-genius founder of the blood-testing tech darling Theranos.

Susan Farb writes that with the juicy trial in full swing, she’s been reading “Bad Blood,” John Carreyrou’s definitive book on the Theranos scandal. (There are also not one but two podcasts devoted to the Theranos trial: Carreyrou’s “Bad Blood: The Final Chapter,” and  ABC’s “The Dropout.”)  

“I hadn’t remembered that Elizabeth Holmes and her family lived in Houston when she was in high school,” writes Farb. “Her dad worked a little while for Enron.” 

For those immersed in the Theranos saga, details from Holmes’ Houston days are riveting. In “The Dropout,” one St. John’s School classmate, Megan Long, remembers that Holmes, a distance runner, always placed last in her track races, but also always finished them, no matter that people were laughing or crossing the field.

Holmes’ voice was nasal and varied in pitch then. Long says that when she saw a video of her old classmate, speaking in her now famously deep voice, “I was like, ‘Wow, her voice got really low.’” 

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