Weather
We’ve seen way too many weather disasters this spring in Texas and Oklahoma. None have hit too close to home yet, but here’s how you can stay updated on your Dallas ISD[...]
21 May 2013
This story about Twelve Hills Nature Center in the April Advocate was written by former associate editor Lauri Valerio, who is now a Fullbright Scholar in Argentina. We miss her so[...]
28 Mar 2013
Advocate photographer Danny Fulgencio, who lives in Oak Cliff, captured these images of the snow day.[...]
15 Jan 2013
Admission to the Dallas Zoo is just $5 during “Penguin Days,” that is, every day in January and February. There are sure to be some pleasant days between now and March,[...]
04 Jan 2013
One of the items on our list of how to do Oak Cliff like a tourist is feeding the ducks at Kidd Springs Park. Here’s what we wrote about them: “These are urban ducks. T[...]
28 Dec 2012
Remember those record-setting temperatures at the beginning of the month? Get ready for a chance for a couple more, when the high is expected to be near 80 tomorrow and Wednesday –[...]
17 Dec 2012
This is not an old man cranky rant about how warm it has been lately, though I will note that we were 15 degrees above average through the first three days of the month and&#[...]
05 Nov 2012
The high temperatures over the last week may have been pushing 100, and it may seem like we’ve settled into July weather six weeks early. But this hot spell, as unpleasant as it ha[...]
24 May 2012
(Warning: Mute the video. It’s cool, but the sound is horrendous.) It isn’t that uncommon to hear sirens, have bad storms or even hear of weather-related tree fallings, power[...]
05 Apr 2012
I don’t know how the rest of you are spending the afternoon, but I’m continuing to watch the television news coverage in our office, alternating between believing IR[...]
03 Apr 2012
Neighbor Katrina Whatley shared these pictures of the 100-foot palm tree in her front yard, on Zang near Beckley. High winds Monday morning ripped off the top of the tree.[...]
20 Mar 2012
Thanks to the ongoing Texas drought, the City of Dallas begins restricting landscape watering today (Dec. 12). Home or businesses with addresses ending in odd numbers can water law[...]
11 Dec 2011
