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::Dame Julie Andrews to speak at Hobby Center:: "The Hobby Center's alive, with the sound of Juuuu-lieeee." Yeppers, Marry Poppins herself makes an arrival at the Hobby Center tonight, as part of the Brilliant Lecture Series. The voice, the music the memories.... The Brilliant Lecture Series presents A Conversation… with Golden Globe, Emmy and Academy Award winner, Dame Julie Andrews. Join us for a rare and candid conversation with the legend. Andrews has rebuilt her...

Good morning, Houston. Did you watch last night's Emmy Awards show with bated breath? Yeah, neither did we. If you want to check out the winners, the Chron has a nice cheat sheet that will bring you up to speed for today's water cooler conversation. We did get to wondering where the name "Emmy" came from though, and turned to Wikipedia to ease our minds. Turns out it's a feminization of the word "immy,"...

No, not that Pelosi, but her daughter, Alexandra Pelosi, will stop through Houston tomorrow as part of theThe Texas Freedom Network 2007 Faith & Freedom Speaker Series. At Downtown's Christ Church Cathedral [1117 Texas Ave.], the producer will screen her award-winning film Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi followed by a conversation with Pelosi as she gives a firsthand account of her memorable encounters with prominent leaders of the religious right. The...

You too, savvy reader, are asking the age-old question: do we REALLY need another "crime procedural"? At this point, with the possible exception of usually-creative Law and Order: SVU, they're all alike. After all, if you've seen the telltale DNA evidence of one mad muderer, you've seen 'em all, right? TNT's The Closer, now in its sophomore season, may not aspire to change all that. Nevertheless, it manages to be entertaining television, anchored by a...

It's hot. No, really, like....hot. So what better way to spend your day--or at least part of it--than with some summer TV? You may be thinking reruns, but the days of being stuck on the couch in front of interminable Brady Bunch marathons (or, worse, The Brady Bunch Movie) are over. In fact, far from being re-run central, summer's become the time that network and cable channels test out their new series ideas, so lots...