Daniel Rodrigue

The Sonoran Desert stretches a little more than 100,000 square miles across the hardscrabble terrain of California, Arizona and northwestern Mexico. It’s what’s known as a “hot desert”  — defined as one of the hottest, largest deserts in Nort...

Readers of the Tyler Morning Telegraph are demanding to know how and why the East Texas newspaper published an Associated Press photo of rioters at the U.S. Capitol last week with a caption describing them as leftists posing as supporters of Presi...

If keeping the family indoors during a pandemic wasn’t excuse enough to start introducing your kids to good music, maybe the scorching summer heat will be. It’s July, live music is all but canceled (again) and most of our kids are likely feeling a...

First, the bad news: "I find it hard to tell you, 'cause I find it hard to take," but Mad World Records is no more. At least not as regulars know and love. The literal mom-and-pop record shop's storefront is already closed to customers — ...

Wavers, rejoice: It’s time to show our kids that being a little weird isn’t a bad thing. In fact, it’s pretty cool. If your child shows interest in the experimental or the obscure and prefers to march to the beat of his or her own synthesizer, thi...

With the rest of the school year canceled, many parents will be at home with the kids indefinitely. Home schooling is already hard enough, but teaching music doesn't have to be, especially the type of music education they likely won't get when the...