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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, ArtHouse Houston<\/a> Executive Director Maureen McNamara joins us in the show’s first hour to discuss a local effort to preserve the Garden Oaks Theater, one of several neighborhood cinemas built in Houston between the 1930s and 1950s.<\/p>\n Also, in the first hour, we’re joined by Rice University postdoctoral researcher and Houston Texans cheerleader, HTC Kelly<\/a>, who discusses how she balances these two dual roles.<\/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, Jim Morris, Founder, Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of Public Health Watch<\/a>, helps us understand a new report highlighting pollution in Texas and what this continued growth could mean for Texans.<\/p>\n Plus, we also chat with jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and composer, Jumaane Smith<\/a>, who tells us all about his Hobby Center concert LOVE ALWAYS: Celebrating the Romance of Nat King Cole<\/a>, in which he’ll perform renditions of Cole’s most famous songs.<\/p>\n And, as always, Ernie and Frank talk about today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including Houstonians concerned that their wages aren’t keeping up with the cost of living<\/a>, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s heated congressional hearing, Harris County seeking a restraining order against the federal government<\/a> to halt FEMA layoffs, and more.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, ArtHouse Houston Executive Director Maureen McNamara joins us in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1174,2327,66352,2245,4103,56,65849,58,57,66353,66354,66355,66356,66,66357,66358,278,66359,223,12910,4378,154,18624],"class_list":["post-162145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-arts-culture","tag-environment","tag-garden-oaks-theater","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-houston","tag-houston-cost-of-living","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-texans-cheerleaders","tag-htc-kelly","tag-jim-morris","tag-jumaane-smith","tag-local","tag-love-always","tag-maureen-mcnamara","tag-music","tag-nat-king-cole","tag-news","tag-pollution","tag-public-health-watch","tag-sports","tag-theatre-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162145","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=162145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162145\/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=162145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}