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Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor emmiegrn.

After a five-alarm fire that was started by a window air conditioner ravaged a Channelview apartment building last Friday, 100+ tenants are searching for shelter. Although about 20 of the 80 units were untouched by the fire, the entire complex is without running water and electricity, leaving many people wondering what to do and where to go. A temporary shelter was set up after the fire, but was closed on Sunday because it was no...

The Voice Behind Harry Potter Makes Apperance & Tape-Signing So you spent all weekend ravenously getting through the final chapter in the Harry Potter series. Still hungry for more? Jim Dale, the narrator of all seven Harry Potter audiobooks will put on a performance and will be available to sign copies of the audiobook tonight at Memorial Drive United Methodist Church. Jim Dale became "The Toast of Broadway" [NY Times 1981] when he created...

The African Children's Choir, which is made up of children ages 7 - 11 who are all orphans of the AIDS pandemic and civil violence in Uganda and other countries, will be performing at two very prestigious venues tonight and again on Sunday. Tonight's performance is on FOX's American Idol. This is part of a special "Idol Gives Back" episode. During the show, viewers can make their donations to the Charity Projects Entertainment Fund by...

The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor randyman.

Hello, Houstonians. Its that time of year again: the time when the Astros make idiots out of all of those who gave up on them. In-between yelling at the TV during games, though, here's some stuff to get you out of the house (so you can show off your Astros apparel, of course!) Friday, September 29 the Cultural Arts Series of the University of Houston - Clear Lake joins the UHCL Film & History Club...

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It looks like Metro might not have won critics of the proposed University light rail line's Richmond Avenue alignment over last night at the first of three public meetings on the project: KTRK and the Chronicle report that the people who oppose having the rail on Richmond still oppose it, even with a "compromise" unveiled this week that would switch the line from Richmond to Westpark at Greenway Plaza. "None of this is any different from the meetings that we had a year ago," Richmond business owner Daphne Scarbrough told KTRK. "All of it's the same."

There's news today from the Chronicle on Metro's proposed University light rail line: Metro Chairman David Wolff met with the Chron's editorial board this morning and said he could "live with" an alignment that would take the line from Main Street west along Richmond Avenue, then south at Greenway Plaza to Westpark. It's a Metro compromise between keeping part of the line on Richmond and avoiding Afton Oaks and residential areas between Greenway and the...

Thanks to the Chronicle's Shelby Hodge, we have an idea of what Ken Lay's first memorial service was like yesterday. The Lay family barred media from the Aspen, Colo., service, which we suppose is why the AP story was relatively short on details. But Hodge talked to some people who attended, and she got a pretty good idea of what went on. Nearly 200 people attended the service, at which the Rev. Bill Lawson of...

When hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf Coast last fall, churches in Texas made food and shelter available to anyone who needed it. Problem was, few people knew the help was available because the churches didn't have organized disaster response plans that meshed with government efforts. But the churches say they learned from their mistakes, and the next time there's a Gulf Coast disaster, they'll be ready. Among the religious groups planning ahead is...

From Off the Kuff, Metro will hold four public meetings this week on its proposed University light rail line. In case you've forgotten (or have been out of commission after getting hit my a MetroRail train), Metro has suggested building the line, which will connect UH and the Galleria area, mostly along Richmond Avenue. Some Richmond homeowners and businesspeople are objecting to that proposal — loudly — and say Metro should build the line along Westpark instead. The meetings give residents a chance to weigh in on either proposal. All meetings start at 6:30 p.m.:

What is it with Metro buses and danger lately? Last week there was the story about the guy who refused to get off a bus and threatened the driver, and today we have news of a man who shot another man in the head on a bus last night. It happened just before 8 p.m. on a Metro bus near the Gulf Freeway and Broadway; the gunman reportedly pulled out a handgun and shot the...

More than 500 people turned out at Metro's meeting on the proposed University light rail line last night, and most of them said they want the line to be run along Westpark rather than Richmond Avenue. The meeting at St. Luke's United Methodist Church was held to give residents a chance to weigh in on the debate: Though the initial light rail referendum called for a line along Westpark, Metro has started thinking that Richmond...

Planning to attend tonight's meeting on the proposed MetroRail University Line? You just might run into Mayor Bill White, who will be among the city leaders attending the meeting. Metro's called the community meeting to discuss proposals for where to put the University Line, which will connect the University of Houston main campus with the Uptown area. Though the MetroRail referendum called for the line to run along Westpark, Metro now says ridership would suffer under that alignment and the line could lose federal funding. Metro has talked about putting the line, all or in part, along Richmond Avenue, but residents and business owners along Richmond think that's an awful idea.