Zoos and Aquariums

Neighbors Convinced the City Seized a Beloved Flock of Free-Range Oak Cliff Peacocks [Updated]

Update at 1:19 p.m.: No, the peacocks are not being removed. That's the word from city spokesman Frank Librio, whose full explanation follows after the jump. Original post: Last weekend, someone called 911 to report "loose fowl of various kinds running freely in the street in an area very close to ... More >>

Take a Life Lesson from Dallas City Hall: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, Like Money or Audits

Earlier this week Jim Schutze racked his shotgun and unloaded some righteous thunder on City Hall's failure to adopt a whole bunch of auditor's recommendations aimed at helping the city do little things -- like making sure no one is walking off with fistfuls of cash or property or arranging to jail ... More >>

An Englishman Reviews the BBQ of Off the Bone

See also: *An Englishman in BBQ Sauce for more of our efforts to fatten Gavin up Last week my dad emailed me. "As a parent the sheer amount of food you are eating in your food journalism quest is truly frightening. The way that your wife feeds you is slightly reminiscent of foie gras production, bu ... More >>

Yee-haw and Stuff

We Bought a Zoo: Not for Cynical Beasts

Matt Damon needs your love.

Scenes from the Observer's Brew at the Zoo

Alex Scott​Sometime after 8 on Saturday, about two beers into the Observer's first-ever Brew at the Zoo beer fest, I found food critic Scott Reitz standing in line for a sample of Longmont, Colorado's Left Hand Brewery. It'd taken a few minutes to wade through the 3,000-plus people on hand and ... More >>

Finally, KZEW-FM Founder Ira Lipson Will Take His Place in the Texas Radio Hall of Fame

98kzew.comIra Lipson​I was talking to George Gimarc last night (more about that later ... ish) when he mentioned that the Texas Radio Hall of Fame has announced its 2011 class of inductees. Among them is a local great who won't be able to attend the October ceremony: the great Cuzzin' Linnie, who ... More >>

Rock and Roar with Mom

Chugga Chugga Chugga

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Frampton Comes Alive on KZEW on July 4, 1975

​It's perhaps the most common request among the Friends of Unfair Park: Where oh where is Peter Frampton's January Sound Studios sessions, which aired on KZEW back in February of '75? The complete show too -- not just "Do You Feel Like I Do," the version of which hopped to the top of the local pop ... More >>

As Animal Rights Group Condemns Zoos for Elephant Treatment, a Nice Word About Dallas

Kevin Todora​It wasn't so long ago that Lily Tomlin, Bea Arthur, Ruth Buzzi and Emmylou Harris were among those demanding that the city of Dallas move Jenny the Elephant to the elephant sanctuary in Tennessee. But the city resisted, insisting that its then-forthcoming Giants of the Savanna habitat ... More >>

If You Didn't Save Your Old LaBella & Rody Cassettes, Well, Today's Your Lucky Day

Via.LaBella and Rody and Rhyner​Into the wee small hours of Christmas Morning I cued up some Freddie King from January Sound in March '75 -- "Hideaway," to be specific. At which point a caller rang up The Ticket request line with some (rather slurred but very happy) news: The Zewkeeper in charge o ... More >>

If You've Got "Bravado and Wherewithal" to Run Farmers Market, Let Mary Suhm Know ASAP

Patrick Michels​You have some four hours left to submit your proposal to run the Dallas Farmers Market. Might as well -- there's not a lot of competition. I spoke with Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm last night, and despite the fact the deadline's been extended several times, there may be but a sing ... More >>

Take a Dip in the New Children's Aquarium at Fair Park, Which Opens This Friday

Photos by Danny FulgencioOut back, the Stingray Bay at the Children's Aquarium at Fair Park gives visitors the hands-on experience of feeding the rays.​Till Monday afternoon I hadn't been in the Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park since I was, oh, maybe 11, 12 years old. This much I recall of the '36 bui ... More >>

At the Dallas Zoo, Leppert Fund Raises for Educational Program. And, Celebrates Birthday.

Patrick MichelsOn his birthday, Mayor Tom Leppert gets to meet Ernie, an American alligator, at the Dallas Zoo​Even if he'd secretly been hoping for a pony on his birthday, Mayor Tom Leppert was all smiles this morning at the Dallas Zoo, where the formalities of a press conference quickly gave ... More >>

The Roaring And Winged

The New Dallas Zoo Revue Will Be Coming Right at You By No Later Than October 1

​If the discussion at Dallas City Hall today is any indication, that outta-nowhere proposal to privatize the Dallas Zoo and the Aquarium at Fair Park is all but a done deal. Expect the city to turn over the keys to the Dallas Zoological Society by October 1 following a vote next week by the city c ... More >>

Roaring For Mom

Echoes and Reverberations: Our Radio Heads Are Waxing Nostalgic

The staff of the Zoo, as seen on Liles' bedroom wall poster.I was twelve years old and up way past my bedtime. The headphones were on and I was hiding underneath the blankets. The stereo was tuned to a Dallas radio station called "The Zoo". A DJ named JD was playing a track from The Beatles' W ... More >>

Lily Tomlin Ups the Ante in Her Effort to Move Jenny the Elephant Out of the Dallas Zoo

Been a while since we've heard from Lily Tomlin, easily the most famous faces among the concerned citizens for Jenny who refuse to lose their battle to move the elephant to the sanctuary in Tennessee. The city's steadfast refusal to pack the elephant's trunks has Tomlin mighty miffed today in a leng ... More >>

Symphony for the Devil

The PSO plays for children

And Then There's Maude

Meet the new year, same as the old year -- at least when it comes to a certain resident of the Dallas Zoo. I so totally meant to make it out to the zoo this morning for the 11 a.m. Concerned Citizens for Jenny press conference (no kidding, 11 a.m.), but a two-houses-down wedding-slash-New Year's Eve ... More >>

Harold Simmons Hates Barack Obama, But Really Likes the Dallas Zoo

Zoo Looks

Snap some shots of your zoo memories

Fix The Streets Or Build A $500 Million Hotel. Seems Like A No-Brainer

5K Safari

Our, Ahem, Supermodel Says Goodbye

Car Zoo

See D-listers and V8s far from their wilds

Sea Otter on the Loose (New and Improved, with Video)!

Everywhere Daddy, Daddy

Grow it and show it at the TRAC

Papa Was A Rodeo

The Fort Worth Stock Show Winds Down

Charity Showdown

Race around the world in West End

Jungleween

Kids find tails and treats at the zoo

Running Wild

It's open season on Fort Worth streets

The Polyphonic Spree Holiday Extravaganza

Friday, December 16 at Nokia Theatre

You Otter

Best Hands-on Kids Experience

The Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park

Best Kids Attraction

Dallas World Aquarium

Best Use of Humidity

The Dallas World Aquarium

Best Kids Menu

Eighteen-O-One

Take Off

Visit the wild Frontiers

Kingdoms Come

French artist Pierre Huyghe documents the gaps between fact andfiction

Best Scavenger Hunt

Lula B's

Best Gas Station

Fuel City

Best Radio Station

KDBN-FM (93.3), The Bone

I Wanna Rock!

How did The Bone shock the Dallas radio world? With market research, double entendres and hair bands.

Animal-free Farm

Ducks and chicks and geese better scurry from Samuell Farm

The keeper's tale

For the first time, zookeeper Jennifer McClurg recounts her ordeal at the hands of an escaped gorilla

Souled out

After 25 years of Texas' best rock, Q102 bids a tearless farewell

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