{"id":71708,"date":"2025-12-01T18:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/71708\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:07:10","slug":"what-to-expect-this-december-in-lubbock-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/71708\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Expect This December In Lubbock, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

December in Lubbock <\/a>always hits a little different. Sure, the rest of the world is talking bowl games, holiday movies, and Christmas cookies–but here on the South Plains, we\u2019ve also got parades, concerts, lights, and more! Here are four things to look forward to in December in West Texas.<\/p>\n

\"93.1Sports Season Is Packed\u2014And Lubbock Gets in on the Fun<\/p>\n

College football bowl season kicks off December 13th, and ALL of us will be screaming ‘RAIDER POWER!!!!’ for our Red Raiders. The NFL and NHL are rolling all month, the MLS Cup Final hits this Saturday, and the third annual NBA Cup runs through December 16th.<\/p>\n

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And right here at home? Texas Tech basketball is in full swing, with big matchups at the USA throughout the month. Plus, high school basketball tournaments pop up all over the region.<\/p>\n

Big Movies, Big Screens, and Lubbock\u2019s Cozy Theaters<\/p>\n

Hollywood is dropping heavy hitters this month. \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d and \u201cThe SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants\u201d both arrive December 19th. Meanwhile, \u201cFive Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2\u201d opens this Thursday, and both \u201cKill Bill\u201d movies return in one massive 4-hour-and-35-minute marathon.<\/p>\n

Christmas Day gets even busier with Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet playing a professional ping-ponger in Marty Supreme, and Jack Black and Paul Rudd battling a giant snake in a new \u201cAnaconda\u201d.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re staying local, Lubbock theaters are running holiday classics, too–so expect your annual \u201cElf,\u201d \u201cHome Alone,\u201d and \u201cChristmas Vacation\u201d showings to be packed with people quoting lines out loud. (And no one minds.)<\/p>\n

Big TV Moments\u2014Perfect for Lubbock\u2019s Cold NightsThe Rockefeller Tree Lighting airs Wednesday on NBC\u201cTaylor Swift: The End of an Era\u201d hits Disney+ on the 12th\u201cFallout\u201d Season 2 drops the 17thThe second half of \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5 arrives Christmas Day, with the series finale dropping December 31st<\/p>\n

Translation: plenty to binge while the wind knocks over your trash cans.<\/p>\n

Holiday Events All Across the South Plains<\/p>\n

Beyond Christmas, Hanukkah (starting December 14th), and Kwanzaa (December 26th), December is FULL of events across Lubbock:<\/p>\n

Santa Land at Mackenzie Park<\/p>\n

Lights at Vintage Township<\/p>\n

Ballet Lubbock\u2019s \u201cThe Nutcracker\u201d<\/p>\n

Carol of Lights on the Tech campus<\/p>\n

Lubbock Moonlight Musicals\u2019 holiday performances<\/p>\n

The Lubbock Lake Landmark Torchlight Tour<\/p>\n

Plus, quirky holidays:<\/p>\n

Giving Tuesday (the 2nd)National Ice Cream Day (the 13th)Answer the Phone Like Buddy the Elf Day (18th)Ugly Sweater Day (20th)the first day of winter (21st)Festivus (23rd)New Year\u2019s Eve closes out 2025<\/p>\n

December\u2019s loaded, Lubbock–bundle up, get out there, and enjoy it.<\/p>\n

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Gallery Credit: Dairy Queen<\/p>\n

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Gallery Credit: Landon King<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December in Lubbock always hits a little different. Sure, the rest of the world is talking bowl games,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-71708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}