After four of their utility cabinets caught fire or exploded—two incidents in suburban Houston, and the most recent explosion on Christmas Day in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin—AT&T has finally moved to replace the defective batteries, made by now-bankrupt Avestor....

SFist saw Christmas Day turn tragic after a Siberian tiger escaped from her pen at the San Francisco Zoo, killing a visitor and mauling two others. Phillyist counted down the top ten items on Philadelphia's New Year's wish list. Gothamist looked at the wooden bikes being offered for NYC's first bike share program on Governors Island. LAist received a Christmas present in the form of a drunk Santa Claus in a g-string. Bostonist launched......

The Paramount presents White ChristmasDecember 9th, 11th and 12thParamount Theater (713 Congress Avenue)$7 / $5 Children, Students and Seniors, 7pm-ish, Tickets available at the box office day of show[info]Being that we live in a heat belt where it is not uncommon to see kids raking leaves in tank tops and jorts on Christmas Day (seriously, we've done it...well, not the jorts part), dreaming of a white Christmas is something that we are intimately familiar......

Thanks to massive snow, you might be spared another Christmas Day with your Coors-toting cousin from Golden. YouTube continues its new narkdom. Mt. Hood search called off. Final Harry Potter title announced, via elaborate and cutesy web animation. Rosie calls Donald a snake-oil salesman (from Little House on the Prairie, no less); Donald threatens to have one of his friends seduce Rosie's girlfriend. Our heads spin slowly in boredom.......

Have some shopping money left over and don't yet have a place to eat your holiday meal? Look no further, for these are just some of the many fine restaurants that will be serving up some dining delights: The Driskill Grill will be serving a prix fixe menu starting at 5:30p both Saturday and Sunday as well as a Christmas Day buffet with seating times from 11a to 2:30p. The Driskill Grill. 604 Brazos......

Austinist's chief running resource RunTex and the Salvation Army have teamed up this winter in the hopes of raising $250,000 to help shelter, feed and clothe Central Texas familes. Yesterday, News8 reported that they were at approximately $150,000, pegging the required daily contributions at around $22k through Christmas Day. What broke our hearts was the thought of kids showing up for promised presents, only to be turned away: About 600 needy families will be......