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Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tHello Houston: Where Houston Talks!<\/p>\n
On today’s Hello Houston, we begin the show by talking with Houston Public Media reporter Michael Adkison<\/a>, who gives us the latest on the Artemis II mission and the crew quarantining in preparation<\/a> for a possible February launch to the moon.<\/p>\n Then, Khori Dastoor<\/a>, the General Director and CEO of Houston Grand Opera<\/a>, tells us all about the much-anticipated HGO production of Hansel and Gretel<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n In the second hour of the show, we hear Ernie, Frank, and Celeste’s conversation with Texas State Representative James Talarico<\/a>, who discusses his run for Senate as he squares off against U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett<\/a> for the Democratic nomination.<\/p>\n Plus, our hosts and listeners discuss the things that are currently taking over all their free time, as part of our regular Thursday feature, Current Obsessions.<\/p>\n And, as always, Ernie and Celeste discuss today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including Gov. Abbott directing state agencies and public universities to stop filing H-1B visa petitions, the Texas State Board of Education postponing a vote on a proposed list of books for K-12 students, and more.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, we begin the show by talking with Houston Public…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[58631,1174,6983,58199,60062,2245,4103,56,11001,58,57,2135,23756,66,59016,1911,223,5547,287,1175,3951,27,292,18112,2134],"class_list":["post-143191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-artemis-ii","tag-arts-culture","tag-current-obsessions","tag-democratic-u-s-senate-candidate","tag-hansel-and-gretel","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-houston","tag-houston-grand-opera","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-james-talarico","tag-khori-dastoor","tag-local","tag-moon-mission","tag-nasa","tag-news","tag-opera-musical-theater","tag-politics","tag-pop-culture","tag-space","tag-texas","tag-texas-politics","tag-texas-u-s-senate-race","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143191","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=143191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}