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Finally, after nearly five months of very loud debate in the media, Murphy Brown is going to respond to Dan Quayle tonight, with probably 35 million viewers watching.The sad thing is that, despite all the TV talk and newspaper analysis, we aren't much smarter about TV and politics, TV and role models, TV and the American family, than we were when all of this started in May. It's mainly been a shouting match of sound bites and fury signifying only how thoroughly we have become a TV culture.

Kevin Frazier's latest gig starts this evening, Sept. 9, as he takes over as co-anchor of the syndicated entertainment news show “Entertainment Tonight.” Formerly of TV's “The Insider,” Frazier, 50, will share hosting duties with "ET" veteran Nancy O'Dell. He replaces Rob Marciano, who left the show in July to join ABC News and “Good Morning America.” “Kevin lives and breathes entertainment news; he is the ultimate professional and has a phenomenal relationship with Nancy,” Brad Bessey, executive producer of “Entertainment Tonight,” says in a story that ran in Variety when Frazier's arrival was announced.

The Baltimore City Council's executive nominations committee will hold a confirmation hearing tonight for Anthony W. Batts, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's pick to be the city's next police commissioner. Tonight's hearing begins at 5 p.m. and will air on the city's public access cable channel, TV 25.  Batts' contract has been signed, and he's been on the job for a few weeks. He spent 27 years with the Long Beach Police Department, before leading the Oakland Police Department for two years.

Shortstop J.J. Hardy, who missed one game and part of another with lower back spasms, is back in the starting lineup Wednesday against the Cincinnati Reds at Camden Yards. Hardy is batting sixth, one spot ahead of Kelly Johnson, who will be playing third base and making his first start with the Orioles. Johnson made his club debut Tuesday as a defensive replacement at third base. David Lough, who has been hitting better in limited action recently, has been moved up to the second spot in the lineup versus Reds right-hander Dylan Axelrod.

The Maryland Crab Bowl, a senior football all-star game that was snowed out Saturday, is scheduled for 7 tonight at Towson's Johnny Unitas Stadium. The Baltimore regional team will consist of players from Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Baltimore Howard, Frederick, Washington, Allegany, Cecil, Harford, Carroll and Garrett counties and the Eastern Shore. The Washington regional team will consist of players from Montgomery, Prince George's, Calvert, St. Mary's and Charles counties. A youth game will be played at 5:30 p.m. For information, call 301-346-4035.

Tonight, people in neighborhoods throughout Baltimore will be marching against crime. Citizens on Patrol walks have become a staple of the city Police Department's community outreach, but the idea tonight is to have a simultaneous showing from Brooklyn to Homeland. It's part of a weeklong nationwide mayors' initiative called Volunteers in Action, and Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III has made his signature COP walks his contribution to the effort. At least two dozen community groups around the city are asking for people to come out about 6:30 p.m. Mayor Sheila Dixon plans to walk in her neighborhood, Hunting Ridge.

Skywatchers in Maryland and across the Northeast will get a glimpse of a partial lunar eclipse tonight as the Full Harvest Moon rises. It will be most visible at about 7:50 p.m., which is just 12 minutes after the moon reaches its "full" stage, at 7:38 p.m. The moon will actually spend about 4 hours partially behind the edge of Earth's shadow. To see the eclipse, you can look directly at the moon, unlike in a solar eclipse. But this one could be difficult to see because it's only a partial eclipse.

Western Maryland residents may see snow overnight, as forecasters are calling for a possibility of snow mixed with rain. The National Weather Service forecast is calling for a possibility of snow in higher elevations in Garrett County. Temperatures were hovering just above freezing. Although the chance of precipitation was 100 percent, little to no accumulation of snow was expected. Andrea.siegel@baltsun.com

Soyombo Grille is opening tonight at The Can Company. The restaurant, which features build-your-own noodle bowls and rice bowls and an a la carte menu of entrees and small plates like sizzling kabobs, hoisin-glazed salmon and Asian-style crab cake, is a reboot of BangBang Mongolian Grill, which was a franchise operation. Take a look at Soyombo, and other recently opened restaurants in and around Baltimore here .  

BOSTON - The Orioles will play tonight in the third game of their four-game series against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in front of a national television audience on ESPN. Orioles right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez will try to reverse his fortunes after starting 0-3 with a 7.31 ERA in his first three Orioles starts. Here are tonight's starting lineups: Orioles Nick Markakis RF Nelson Cruz DH Chris Davis 1B Adam Jones CF Matt Wieters C J.J. Hardy SS David Lough LF Jonathan Schoop 2B Ryan Flaherty 3B Ubaldo Jimenez RHP Red Sox Grady Sizemore CF Dustin Pedroia 2B David Ortiz DH Mike Napoli 1B Jonny Gomes LF Daniel Nava RF Xavier Bogaerts SS A.J. Pierzynski C Brock Holt 3B Jake Peavy RHP

Commuters entering Baltimore from the south on Monday morning found themselves in a massive traffic jam amid widespread confusion about how to navigate a new construction pattern, in part due to a failure by the Maryland Transportation Authority to update signage about the change. "It was way, way, way beyond anything I have seen," said Tamory Winfield, a MdTA spokesman, of the traffic problems on northbound Interstate 95. Crews are rushing to fix the issues before the afternoon rush hour, which will include a northbound influx of fans headed to tonight's Orioles game, he said.

Ocean City's planning and zoning commission is scheduled to meet tonight about the possibility of banning short-term rental properties in some residential neighborhoods. The meeting was prompted by complaints from year-round residents in Mallard Island, an upscale community of single-family homes on the bay. The idea has also generated concern that a change will hurt investment by other property owners, who rely on rental income to subsidize maintenance and other costs. The commission is looking at the possibility of changing the rules for property owners in single-family neighborhoods considered R-1, including Mallard Island, Caine Woods, Montego Bay and Little Salisbury.

In an emergency, left-hander Wei-Yin Chen could pitch out of the bullpen for the Orioles tonight against the Washington Nationals at Camden Yards, manager Buck Showalter said in his pregame news conference. Right-hander Bud Norris will make his first start for the club tonight since returning from the 15-day disabled list, but if the appearance is cut short, the Orioles could turn to Chen in order to preserve their bullpen. Chen hasn't started since Thursday against the Texas Rangers, when he went six innings and gave up two earned runs.

Orioles right-hander Bud Norris, on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right groin, is “still in play” to start Monday against the Washington Nationals, manager Buck Showalter said in his news conference before Thursday's game against the Texas Rangers. Norris will take pitcher's fielding practice this afternoon and will toss either a bullpen session or a simulated game Friday. The right-hander said he hasn't had any further setbacks to his injury, and that he anticipates feeling healthy enough to start Monday, the earliest he can return from the disabled list.

A candlelight vigil will be held Monday night for a man who was fatally shot outside his mother's Windsor Mill home last week. Residents in the Barkley Woods townhomes plan to meet at 7:30 p.m. in the 3600 block of Derby Shire Circle, where police said Danard George Norris, 25, was shot multiple times outside his mother's home shortly after midnight early Friday. "Our neighborhood is still pretty shaken up so that's why we are all coming together," said vigil organizer Alethea Watkins.

For the first two months of her Western High gym class, special education teacher LaDonna Schemm didn't notice. Then a freshman, the ever-bubbly Joy Keene-El would get out of her wheelchair and do everything thrown her way, from tennis to baseball to swimming. One day, when the physical fitness test came around, she did 61 pushups. But eventually an activity came that Keene-El said she couldn't do. And so an incredulous Schemm asked why not. "Look," Keene-El said, hoisting a pant leg. "I don't have any knees.

After a three-week hiatus during the Olympic games, or as I like to call them, "Planet Earth's Got Talent," the seventh season of "America's Got Talent" returns tonight. From here on out, I will be your recapper. And who am I? Well, I'm a Baltimore-based writer who mostly writes about rap music for SPIN , and I've also contributed to places like Pitchfork, The Village Voice , as well as b and City Paper . I'm also a pretty big Howard Stern fan and Howard joining judges Sharon Osbourne and Howie Mandel, is what got me watching.

Opponent:Duquesne Site:Comcast Center, College Park Time:8 TV/Radio:Ch. 54/WBAL (1090 AM)

The three Democratic candidates for governor will all meet for their second televised debate Monday night on Maryland Public Television and WBAL-TV, giving voters their final opportunity to see them confront each other on television. Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler and Del. Heather R. Mizeur will go on at 7 p.m. in a debate hosted by MPT's Jeff Salkin. The three met last month in a televised debate at the University of Maryland College Park in an exchange that included lively confrontations between Brown and Gansler while Mizeur largely stayed above the fray.

Et cetera Love Unsung Hero winners to be announced at tonight's Bayhawks game The One Love Foundation, a national organization dedicated to ending relationship violence and named after former Notre Dame Prep and Virginia player Yeardley Reynolds Love , will announce the winners of its Unsung Hero Award tonight at the Major League Lacrosse game between the Chesapeake Bayhawks (1-3) and Ohio Machine (1-3) in Annapolis. The award celebrates selfless acts of initiative and commitment performed by Division I lacrosse players.