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Getting the Bird

West Nile keeps animal control officers hopping to collect dead birds

By Cheryl Smith
Oct 2, 2003

Ever since a dead bird in Dallas tested positive for West Nile virus in the early summer of 2002, local animal control offices and health departments have been in bird-call hell, especially during the warmer, mosquito-breeding months. Residents all over the place apparently have been calling their respective dead-animal handlers...
Latin Lessons

"Ran Kan Kan" to Tito Puente Jr.

By Cheryl Smith
Sep 11, 2003

Now that it's finally cooling down outside, there's really no good excuse to not shake it to Tito Puente Jr. and other Latin musicians all day Saturday at Festival del Centro, the final leg of the Latino Cultural Center's five-day grand opening celebration. Puente Jr.'s music--a pop, Latin jazz and...
Vintage TV

Seniors take to cable with a simple message: Old is grand

By Cheryl Smith
Jun 5, 2003

The elderly women high-kicking like Rockettes in skimpy, sequined outfits and fishnet hose likely were enough to open the eyes of any Saturday-morning cable wanderers who recently happened to stumble across Dallas public access channel 13 B. Senior Moments, Dallas' own Oprah for older people, is quite a departure from...
The Nutria Are Here

The scourge of Louisiana has found a happy home in Dallas' man-made lakes

By Cheryl Smith
Apr 17, 2003

You know it's springtime in Dallas when the crepe myrtles begin to bloom, native wildflowers start their sprouting and the nutria waddle from their drainage pipes and sewers to frolic like kittens in the warm air. With their native land of Argentina too far away for swimming or travel by...
Feelin’ Saxy

Addison hosts the best in local jazz

By Thomas Korosec, Cheryl Smith, Mark Stuertz, Charles Siderius, Patrick Williams, Merritt Martin and Matt Hursh
Apr 3, 2003

4/4 North Texas' reputation as a hothouse for budding jazz talent blossoms a little wider this weekend at the Third Annual North Texas Jazz Festival in Addison, a three-day event mixing established national artists with the best of the next generation. Focused around the renowned jazz program at the University...

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