A Tex's-Eye View

KERA's Rick Holter shines a light on his town. (Thx for Justin Turveen's photo and Tom Pribyl's Tex!)

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#ThinkinDC: Stephen Becker interviews Mike Owen a Navy veteran of the Vietnam War

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A memo from 20 years ago, today.

Key quote: “The internet is a collection of computer networks that is connected around the world…A code of ‘netiquette’ exists among users and within user groups, but otherwise, you pay your money, find your niche and take your chances.”

via Johnny Kauffman at NPR 

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The really funny thing? This memo is only 20 years old.

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Rhett Miller + guitar + KXT mic = 'Time Bomb"

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Stunning image of #bloodmoon by Jay Janner of the Austin American Statesman.

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NPR's Wade Goodwyn looks at the town of West -- and the lack of regulation of similar plants -- a year later.  (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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It's Not A Sled Anymore: Remaking A Cinematic Classic

Movie critic Bob Mondello reviews a remake of a cinema classic about a boy who rises from poverty to head a media conglomerate — but who dies longing for the simple joys of his long-lost childhood.

Mondello & Co. (once again) nail the 4/1 special...

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Look up in the sky… It’s a Texas word cloud! We reached out to our Facebook followers and asked them what words came to mind when they thought of Dallas. Here are the results. (Word cloud 101 = the more times a word was mentioned, the bigger the word in the cloud.)

No surprise, “cowboys” topped the list, followed by “big.”  Words like “art” and “arts” turn up too, but as you can see, are teeny tiny in the cloud. Don’t tell that though to Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. In today’s program, he tells Melissa that Dallas has become an exciting place to live and work. And from what I’ve seen so far, it’s hard to deny. OK, the warm weather helps too!

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Cool word cloud shows how America (or at least the America of NPR users) sees Dallas...

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Can't quite believe this: A 56-year-old farmer with a 22-year-old hand, transplanted from a 22-year-old who died in a car accident. Doualy Xaykaothao tells the tale: http://kerane.ws/PiXd3S

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We open the show tonight with a chat with Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings — and then NPR Dallas Correspondent Wade Goodwyn gives us a big Texas welcome in Klyde Warren Park — an urban park built over a freeway in downtown Dallas. Big beautiful open space, as you can see. We were there in the morning, so not many folks around — but it’s usually PACKED. (lots of taco trucks!) And it was a bit chilly, so Wade lent Melissa his suit jacket. 

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That Wade Goodwyn has a large coat!

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Hi everyone — ATC Senior Producer Matt Martinez here. For the past few months we’ve been listening to Texas, and tomorrow we’ll start broadcasting what we’ve heard. Melissa Block will be talking to you from this studio at KERA in Dallas, and you can follow along here with me, Melissa, and ATC Producers Greg Dixon and Viet Le. And if you’re in Dallas and see a couple of folks running around with microphones, well, it’s probably us. Feel free to ‘Howdy!’ at us along the way.

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A Melissa's eye view of the KERA studios.

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Those lyrics from the old Jimmie Dale Gilmore song have been rattling around my mind these last few weeks ahead of our trip. “Well, Dallas is a jewel, oh yeah, Dallas is a beautiful sight…”

Tonight I saw Dallas from the aisle seat of a 737, and it was of course glittering like a jewel and...

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Well hi, Kai! A life size cardboard @kairyssdal greets us in our workspace at KERA.

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Actually, it's Howdy! ;)