Today’s issue of Science features a study by U.S. Geological Survey ecologists Nathan L. Stephenson and Phillip van Mantgem about how trees in the Western U.S. are dying twice as fast as they did a couple of decades ago. Reached by phone in his California office, Stephenson said there are…
A welcome touch of class this morning courtesy the Dallas Opera, which tonight bows its production of Gaetano Donizetti’s lyric tragedy in three acts, Roberto Devereux. (Had plans to go, but, well, for those about rock and so forth.) Yet again, the Opera has smartly used YouTube to offer myriad…
It was 13 years ago. Feels like 103. In January 1996 I was a 31-year-old Mavericks beat writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram trying to make sense of The Three J’s. You?…
As it’s never too early to sneak a peek at the city council’s agenda, as evidenced by this morning’s wake-up, do take a look at Item No. 42 when you have a chance. It has to do with proposed alignment of Central Expressway between Commerce Street and Live Oak Street…
In 1961, while compiling the Robert Johnson collection King of the Delta Blues Singers, producer Frank Driggs sent Don Law a letter with a few questions concerning the bluesman and his sessions in San Antonio and in Dallas in November 1936 and June 1937, respectively. Law — who worked for…
From the same team that lost Adam Eaton in spring training 2006 just hours after general manager Jon Daniels announced his starting rotation comes news that top pitching prospect Eric Hurley has undergone rotator cuff surgery and is out for the 2009 season. In news that will surprise no one: Rangers…
Well, this story at least shows I wasn’t alone this month when I nearly had a coronary while opening my electric bill. Said the study cited in the News piece that might have gone overlooked post-Obama Day, Dallas’s average monthly bill for all utilities in ’08 was $378.27, compared to…
Well, actually, that’d be San Francisco-based Mother Jones writer Josh Harkinson, a Preston Hollow native (his parents still live here) who today posted an essay about what it’s like to grow up in the neighborhood populated by the likes of Ross Perot, Tom Hicks, AT&T CEO Rayford Wilkins Jr. and,…
Last night, the missus wondered why we received a postcard from the city’s Sanitation Services Department inviting us to a “community meeting” with our city council member this Saturday to discuss garbage collection. “Um,” I told her, “probably because they want to tell us that starting in February, the city’s…
Talibah Newman, David “Fathead” Newman’s granddaughter, tells Unfair Park today that on Sunday at 2 p.m., there will be a memorial service in honor of the saxophone great, who died Tuesday night in New York following a long bout with pancreatic cancer. The service will take place at the Warren…
This is why I’m sticking to sports. Because if I show up to, say, a Mavs game or the Super Bowl or a Green-White Scrimmage, the event actually occurs. Not so with Russ Martin’s supposed trial in Fort Worth this morning. The media – myself, a reporter from Dallas’ Only…
Because, look, your ride just ain’t safe. KXAS-Channel 5 has the story of the “brick-wielding vandals” targeting cars in East Dallas. In all, more than 24 folks had their cars smashed up late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning — without anything being stolen. Alas, this no-really? note at the…
It’s not exactly Calvin Watkins’ expose in Dallas’ Only Daily featuring five sources detailing the Cowboys’ anarchy at Valley Ranch, but NBA.com’s Art Garcia – formerly of your Fort Worth Star-Telegram – stirs your Mavericks’ pot a bit this morning. Garcia writes that Dirk Nowitzki hasn’t exactly “connected” with head…
Will Dallas’s convention center hotel get a Bob’s Steak and Chop House? Fair question this morning, as Irving-based Omni Hotels — which the city council tapped to operate the convention center hotel — announced this morning that it has acquired a 50-percent stake in the brand name, with plans to…
Jeremy Gerard, a theater critic for The Dallas Morning News some two decades ago, is now a New York-based editor for Bloomberg News, the first media outlet to which George Steel denied he was leaving his new Dallas Opera gig for an opening in New York. This morning, Gerard weighs…
While thumbing through the final agenda for next Wednesday’s city council meeting, I came across Agenda Item No. 53 — which, to be honest, I thought had been ditched altogether, till Merten reminded me this morning it had merely been deferred. So, say hello to this ghost of Christmas past:…
Both have more money than Sri Lanka, wealthy enough to buy this blog with the change in their car’s ash tray. They are each passionate, energetic, innovative, way smarter than me and absolutely consumed, dare I say obsessed, with bringing a championship to Dallas. In the last couple years their teams coughed up No…
Robert Wilonsky BUZZ Switch and bait: OK, before any of you fine weapons-owning people out there in Internet-land get all huffy and write in to tell Buzz that we’re an idiot, let’s be clear on one thing: Buzz knows we’re an idiot. Thank you. We say this because the last…
I”Going green” used to be considered a luxury, especially in a faltering economy. But as the Legislature convened last week amid a budget squeeze, a determined coalition of lawmakers and lobbyists acted on the premise that conserving energy is nothing less than an absolute necessity, especially in rough financial times…
It stands at the end of a short, out-of-the-way dead-end street a few blocks from City Hall: 508 Park Ave., where a man and a guitar more or less invented rock and roll 72 years ago. The building is vacant and decaying, but not alone. On a recent Saturday afternoon,…
“The Prodigal Son Returns,” by Jim Schutze, January 8 Call Him Ishmael It appears that Jim Schutze may be going a bit over the deep end on W’s return to Dallas, like Wile E. Coyote chasing the Roadrunner. Jim, channel your good mother, breathe deeply and remember every mother’s good…
Just when you think Mark Cuban has mellowed, he shows a pulse. And just when you think he has tired of his tribulations, he shows some heart. The Dallas Mavericks’ owner—hip-deep in stock controversy and baseball snubbing and a fresh fine from the NBA—struggles these days to give his basketball…
