When “The Wendy Williams Show” returns for a sizzling second season on Monday, September 6 (nationally syndicated, check your local listings), viewers will be treated to another round of laughter and fun, provided by a talk show host who has brought new life to daytime.

“I have been truly inspired by all of the amazing guests and fans that I have had the chance to meet over the last year,” Williams said. “I look forward to what I’m sure will be a fun-filled season. My focus is to provide an entertaining hour of television everyday with new celebrity news and compelling conversation with those celebrities. You will also see a lot more regular people with amazing stories and talents. I can’t wait to get started—we spent the summer coming up with great new ideas that I want to share!.”

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. (AKA), Omicron Tau Omega Chapter and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Spring/Woodlands/Huntsville Chapter donated school supplies to Harris Academy an elementary school located in Houston’s historic Acres Homes community.

“Houston’s North community has a great need. As National organizations we are charged with supporting our local schools.” says Kelly Hodges, Chairman of the School Supply Drive. Harris Academy is just one of many schools. Unfortunately we can’t support all of the schools but it we can start with one!”

Lindsay Lohan is speaking out in her first interview after serving time in jail. Vanity Fair posted clips from their upcoming issue with Lindsay Lohan on the cover and my jaw dropped at some of the horrors Lindsay Lohan speaks. She speaks on being led down a path of destruction which we saw unfold daily on blogs, tabloids and this very site on an almost daily basis. Now for the first time Lindsay Lohan is speaking out on how her life ended up the way it did.

Nicki Minaj has a lot to be excited about these days. Not only is the Young Money MC gearing up for the release of her debut album in November, she’s also featured on a new track with Jay-Z and Kanye West and celebrated a Twitter marriage (and divorce) with Drake.

But while the animated rapper remains busy, she is also anticipating Lil Wayne’s release from prison. In a recent radio interview, Minaj spoke about her mentor and why she feels the need to make Pink Friday a success.

With a passion for education and community involvement popular actor Idris Elba encouraged TSU students to “stay true to their goal of obtaining a college education.” Elba recently spoke at the historically black Texas Southern University. He told students to stay in school and take advantage of every opportunity given to them to succeed.

“As scripted.” That’s a phrase one of our television producers barks (or gently intones) in our ears when everything is to proceed as planned. It hardly ever happens on a college football Saturday. It would never happen every Saturday. But the 2009 season largely went “as scripted.”

Did you know that from the AP poll on Sept. 20 through the poll just before conference championship weekend that the same three teams occupied the top three spots? Alabama, Texas and Florida were the dominant trio pretty much wire to wire.

Automaker General Motors Co plans to begin courting investors for its initial public offering immediately after the November 2 U.S. midterm congressional elections, two sources familiar with the plans said on Wednesday.

GM’s roadshow is set to begin on November 3 and will last two weeks, the sources said. The IPO is expected to price on November 17 and debut on November 18, the sources said.

The Italian carmaker said Thursday it wants to replace an adhesive that in some circumstances can melt due to overheating and possibly ignite.

Fires in the car that sells for €197,000 ($253,000) have been reported in California, Switzerland, China and France

Mike Johnston looks at his surroundings and considers some of the good things he has at Houston Christian.

There’s the prime location — the school sits just inside the Sam Houston Tollway on the northwest portion of town nestled between Cy-Fair ISD and Spring Branch ISD.

Police are investigating the death of an 18-year-old man found by his father at a home in southeast Houston on Wednesday.

The body of Patrick Russell Carver was discovered in a home in the 9900 block of Southport near Fuqua about 10:40 a.m., police said.

Police said he had apparent blunt force trauma on his head and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Just 375 square feet, the walk-up cafe will offer a pared down menu including breakfast selections such as the Greek Link Sausage Pita with potatoes, grilled onions and peppers and a sunny side up egg ($3.95) and Greek yogurt and honey ($3). Soup, traditional appetizers (hummus, tabuli salad), salads and pita sandwiches (among them souvlaki and chicken kebab) round out the menu. Beer, wine and Nikorita’s are available, as well as soft drinks.

Certainly in this country, Bob Marley’s dreadlocked shadow is cast over all other reggae. His legend is so vast that there are two separate bands featuring former members of his groups: The Wailers, who have the formidable Aston “Family Man” Barrett, one of the greatest bassists of all time, and the Original Wailers (playing Friday night at Scout Bar), who have a pair of great Marley guitarists in Al Anderson and Junior Murvin.

I’m a vegetable lover. I eat vegetables at least three times a day: sautéed chard stirred into scrambled eggs for breakfast, a big garden-fresh salad for lunch and grilled corn and steamed potatoes as side dishes with dinners in the summer. I don’t have much trouble eating enough vegetables, but I know I’m the exception, not the rule.

Last month, at Tales of the Cocktail, a week-long convention for the spirits industry in New Orleans, Eben Freeman, best known as the creator of smoked Coke and “solid” cocktails at the now-defunct Tailor in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood, gave a seminar on protecting one’s intellectual property as a bartender. The panelists, Sheila Morrison from the Trademark Office, and Riley Lagesen, who has a private business law practice with a niche focus on the restaurant industry, discussed the nature of a bartender’s creative work and who is allowed to use it. After the seminar, I spoke to Freeman, who admitted he came up with the idea for the talk after becoming fed up with other bartenders and establishments taking credit for and profiting from his recipes and techniques. (Fat washing, for example, the process by which a spirit can be infused with, say, bacon, was pioneered in part by Freeman, yet is often attributed to others.) “Someone needs to get sued … to set a precedent,” he told me.

Burger King Holdings Inc., the nation’s perennially No. 2 hamburger chain, said Thursday that it is selling itself to little-known private equity firm 3G Capital in a deal valued at $3.26 billion.

Its shares soared to an 18-month high.

Thursday’s $24-per-share tender offer comes after a day of speculation about the deal that sent shares up more than 15 percent. The offer is a nearly 46 percent premium over the company’s stock price before rumors of a buyout began circulating.

Cincinnati Bengals wide-receiving duo Chad Ochocinco and Terrell Owens refer to themselves as the Batman and Robin of the NFL, but in the hip-hop world, Jay-Z and Eminem are more like the Batman and Superman of music. And just like it’s rare to see the two titans of comics together in the same panel, you know it’s a special occasion when Slim Shady and Jigga team up for a live show.

Donning a traditional U.S. Navy getup with gloves and work boots, the singer was spotted in Hawaii on the set of the Peter Berg-directed science-fiction movie, wearing a nametag with the name “Raikes.” The board-game adaptation is the story of naval officers who use Earth’s ships to fight against alien intruders.

Tameka Raymond needs little introduction, as her career as stylist to Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z and ex-husband, Usher has made a name for her in the fashion and entertainment industries. However, Raymond’s new boutique, Estella, is what merits an introduction. Welcoming Estella to her Atlanta homeland, Raymond created a warm, homey atmosphere where you can find comfy couches, flat screen TV’s, and floral arrangements alongside apparel and accessories by YSL, Missoni, and BCBG. But the best gift of all at Estella is not even for you; Twenty percent of your purchase benefits Raymond’s non-profit organization, the Lost Ones Foundation for at-risk girls between the ages of 12 and 18.

Driven by her hit single ‘Bittersweet’, Fantasia’s Back To Me album has sold over 117,000 copies since its release. The album is at #1 on the Billboard’s R&B Albums chart and #2 on Billboard’s Hot 200.

I come from a small-ish town in Oklahoma where we’ve never met a vegetable we couldn’t fry and the only things more super-sized than our portions are the huge church complexes that alternate with fast-food restaurants along our roads.

So it maybe isn’t such a big surprise that by the time I graduated from high school, I weighed 260 pounds. My prom dress was a size 24, and my mother had to help me zip it up, a five-minute ordeal during which we grunted and cursed at one another.