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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, with early voting for Houston City Council\u2019s At-Large Position 4 runoff now officially begun, we revisit our interviews with both candidates \u2013 Alejandra Salinas<\/a> and Dwight Boykins<\/a> \u2013 in the first hour of the show.<\/p>\n Then, we learn about Meow Wolf’s new interactive and immersive show experience, Phenomenomaly<\/a>, with creative director Alexandra Renzo and Meow Wolf senior public relations manager Connor Gray, who tell us about what audiences can expect.<\/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 show’s second hour, we talk with the University of Houston’s Dr. Chakema Carmack<\/a>, who discusses a new study<\/a> that shines a spotlight on Houston’s “mental health deserts,” which are neighborhoods where access to counseling and psychological services is severely limited or nonexistent. <\/p>\n Plus, Matthew Loden<\/a>, dean of Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music<\/a>, joins us to reflect on the prestigious music school reaching its 50-year milestone.<\/p>\n And, as always, Ernie, Frank, and Celeste discuss today’s top stories, including the Dell family donating $6.25 billion to investment accounts for millions of children, the City of Houston bringing in crews to help clear the trash that’s been piling up for months, and Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo announcing that she and her husband are separating.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, with early voting for Houston City Council\u2019s At-Large Position…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[17827,37093,1174,37094,3766,37095,17828,288,2245,4103,56,58,57,66,11838,37096,27248,2125,37097,26225,278,223,37098,287,37099],"class_list":["post-74932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-alejandra-salinas","tag-alexandra-renzo","tag-arts-culture","tag-chakema-carmack","tag-city-of-houston","tag-connor-gray","tag-dwight-boykins","tag-elections","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-local-arts","tag-matthew-loden","tag-medicine-wellness","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-health-deserts","tag-meow-wolf","tag-music","tag-news","tag-phenomenomaly","tag-politics","tag-shepherd-school-of-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74932","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=74932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74932\/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=74932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}