Wyoming

Burn It All Down

Buzz looks back on 2012 before the memories go where they belong: up in smoke.

The State Fair Says Big Tex is Recuperating at a Spa, Which is Clearly Not the Case

Yesterday, it would have been hard to imagine the Big Tex saga becoming even more absurd. Just think about it: a 50-foot-tall mechanical cowboy spontaneously bursts into flames and becomes the subject of weepy-eyed morning as if he were a Beatle. Yet today brings evidence that the story actually ca ... More >>

Frackers Are Walking Through Gaping Holes In Texas Chemical Disclosure Law

Last summer, as the Dallas City Council was briefed on the ins and outs of bringing heavy, industrial processes into a densely populated, urban area, industry boosters like Ed Ireland of the Barnett Shale Energy Education Council assured council members we would know in virtually all cases what was ... More >>

Mother Accused of Drowning 1-Year-Old in Bathtub

Yesterday afternoon, police pulled over a man on Singleton Boulevard who told them that he had just gotten a call: his 1-year-old child was dead. Police followed the man to an apartment in the 4300 block of Wyoming where they found the infant's body. This morning, police announced they have charged ... More >>

Driftwood, Chef Omar Flores' Oak Cliff Seafood Joint, Opens Tuesday. Here's a Sneak Peek.

It's been a long time coming for Driftwood (642 W. Davis). The seafood spot in Oak Cliff was supposed to open months ago, but electrical and plumbing issues kept setting them back. Finally, last week, Chef Omar Flores and owner/operator John Baudoin planned a soft opening for family and friends -- ... More >>

The Market Speaks: Texas Coal-Fired Power Officially Unprofitable in January

Coal-fired power plants generated some 30 percent less electricity in January than they did during the same month in 2011 -- a huge drop for a a workhorse fleet that has historically fed this state's sprawling transmission system with a steady supply of baseload power since pretty much forever. Pro ... More >>

Pursuit of Shale Gas May Contaminate Water, Says UT Study, But It's Not Due to Fracking

The University of Texas Energy Institute cast a skeptical eye on the likelihood that the actual act of fracking could result in groundwater contamination. Particularly in the Barnett Shale, where aquifers sit thousands of feet above the shale rock, head researcher Dr. Chip Groat reasoned that the da ... More >>

Rockwall's Rep. Ralph Hall Blasts EPA and Science at Fracking Hearing

Allow us to re-introduce you to the octogenarian congressman who's currently perched atop the catbird seat in the oversight hearings every fracker in America is watching with bated breath. His name is Ralph Hall. He's the chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. One of its s ... More >>

From Lake Highlands, Actor Jim Crump Paints a Living Portrait of Artist Charlie Russell

In his backyard studio, behind a house packed to the rafters with books, photos, sculpture and paintings, Dallas actor-writer James Crump, 65, has re-created the world of early 20th century Western artist Charlie Russell. Crump has built a 30-foot-long wooden stage, which serves as the floor of Russ ... More >>

EPA Report Ties Fracking To Groundwater Contamination in Wyoming. But What Does That Mean For Texas?

Photo by Taryn Walker A gas well in Arlington​For folks in Dallas, where the council-appointed gas drilling task force is running to stand still, or in Southlake, the subject of a recent cover story on towns grappling with urban drilling, this EPA report released today tying fracking to ground ... More >>

This Year's Drought Forced Record Cattle Decline Not Seen in Texas Since the 1930s

Photo by Brandon Thibodeaux​Texas cattle country lost some 600,000 head this year -- a 12-percent reduction in the herd -- driven by a drought that withered grasses and baked river beds and stock ponds. It's the kind of en masse decline the likes of which this state hasn't seen since drought r ... More >>

It's Only Life Sends a Singing November Valentine

Theatre Too romances tunes of John Bucchino; KDT takes dull journey with 26 Miles.

2011 Cowboys Camp Day 2: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. Was it just me and Fox 4's Mike Doocy, or was owner Jerry Jones choking up a bit yesterday when talking about the voyage that was lockout negotiations? "We took the boat out into a perfect storm and got the boat back home." The older he gets, the more sentimental and emotional Jerry get ... More >>

And We're Off ... Cowboys Signing Rookie Free Agents

Lyle Leong, the newest Cowboy​With their first practice in San Antonio's Alamodome in about 48 hours, the Cowboys are scrambling to piece together a roster. The first step in that process is signing undrafted free agents, which can begin today per the post-lockout NFL rules. Who ... More >>

Authority Zero's Jason DeVore: "It's About Staying Alive and Just Surviving."

Authority Zero​Arizona's Authority Zero has been making music for going on 20 years -- but not without some roadblocks. Various battles with record companies and management types have resulted in lineup changes that would have permanently crippled most bands. Somehow, though, singer Jason DeVore h ... More >>

If You've Ever Wanted to Own a Complete Dinosaur Skeleton, or Four, Now's Your Chance

Heritage expects the Allosaurus and Stegosaurus skeletons will go for upwards of $3 million. But that's for the pair. A bargain.​I've taken the almost-8-year-old who lives in my house to several of 'cross-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries' dinosaur auction previews, because, right, ki ... More >>

Fracking Chemical Disclosure Bill Blasts Through Texas House, Enviros Unimpressed

From the rapidly spreading "Fracking Song" from ProPublica and Studio 20 NYU.​In these final days of the 82nd Texas Legislature, lawmakers in Austin are throwing support behind Eastlake Rep. Jim Keffer's bill that'd require drillers to report the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing at each of t ... More >>

Proulx's Rules

Fight To The Dino Death

Teenage Bottlerocket, Bannter Pilot, Stymie, No Heroes

Thursday, July 22, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, Denton

An Innovative Court Offers New Tricks to Turn Ex-Prostitutes into Real Working Girls

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

Fake Local Attorney Looking at Real Federal Prison Time For Securities Fraud

In July 2008, federal authorities arrested a Carrollton man named Joseph Kelly Lara, whom the feds had accused of creating a phony name (Nick DeAngelis Mancuso) and a fake job (securities attorney and investment professional), which he then used to sell securities (including Google stock) he claimed ... More >>

Weekend Roundup: The Derek Trucks Band, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Cut Copy, Matt and Kim and White Tie Affair

Ready to take your weekly trip into the rockin' world of this past weekend's music? Bust out those headphones and let's do it! Remember, all videos come courtesy of your friends and mine, those camera-wielding folks at the front of the club. They press on, despite tired arms, so that you can I can e ... More >>

Never Thought I'd See a Day Without a Western Warehouse or Boot Town

One week into November, Dallas- and Wyoming-based BTWW Retail, L.P. -- owner of, among other cowboy-wear outlets, Western Warehouse and Boot Town -- filed for bankruptcy protection in the Dallas federal courthouse. Two weeks later, BTWW has decided to shut 'er down entirely: Beginning tomorrow, ever ... More >>

Flashback: When Dick Cheney's Heart Attack Was a Political Positive

No Blacks Allowed, But Dicks Welcome

Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs

Monday, October 15, at the Palladium Loft

Spike ’Em, Cowboy

Killing Hate

Matthew's mother speaks

En Guard, Castleguard

ET Phone Home

Coal Fired Up!

Go Flush

Ex-Go Fish chef feeling sagacious

Mike Rhyner's Penis | Butt-Rock Beating

Homo on the Range

Ledger and Gyllenhaal are cowboys in love in Ang Lee's wrenching Brokeback Mountain

Grizzly Man

Redford grows old gracefully in An Unfinished Life

Almost Legal

Conduit Gallery gets older and better

Painful With Drawl

Just OK, Tulsa Lovechild sags under TV gimmicks; DTC's Glass Menagerie goes limp with Southern angst

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Like a Phoenix

Judy Shepard describes the good that came from tragedy

Food Foolery

Shenanigans' sleight of hand is all thumbs

Skip It

Why the best teen movie of the year, based on a beloved novel, won't be in theaters

Help Wanted

Tired of poor service? You can thank the booming economy.

Angel, Low To The Ground

Fox hits another iceberg

Buzz

Now you don't see it...Rumor patrol; Signing off; Flicked up; Study hall; Wyoming, we think

Even punks get the blues

Reliving not-so-happy days in Salt Lake City, 1985

Boonies kitsch

Theme-soaked La Hacienda Ranch is worth the drive to Frisco

Breaking all the rules

At the Flying Burro, ignorance leads to good food

Moncrief Family Values

A wealthy Fort Worth oil clan's court battle isn't just about millions. It's about pride. Miriam Rozen tells a tale of favored sons