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  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    UT-Dallas: Way Less Fun and Way More Expensive than UT-Austin

    It wasn't without some pride that I saw last week that my alma mater, the University of Texas at Dallas, had earned what may be its first superlative. (Okay, maybe its second, but the most-hideous-architecture label was unofficial). The Texas Tribune has helpfully compiled a list of average tuition ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    Heads Up, Zappaphiles: "Zappa Unlocked" Comes To UNT

    Time was when the words "music" and "North Texas State University" (as the University of North Texas was known until 1988), used in the same sentence, invariably conjured the names of pioneering jazz educator Leon Breeden and his famous One O' Clock Lab Band, as well as the sound of Stan Kenton char ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2012

    Council to Get Sneak Peek at Muni Building Redo, Update on UNT's Downtown Law School

    ​Mighty kind of Dallas City Hall to offer all these briefings wrapping up a few loose ends before I get up outta here. First Sylvan Thirty, then the old Dallas High School, then the Cotton Bowl, and now Old Dallas City Hall, which one day should become the University of North Texas at Dallas Colle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    Ex-UNT Prof's "Indecipherable" Discrimination, Retaliation Suit Gets Tossed With Prejudice

    Tiffiney Barfield-Cottledge, formerly a criminal justice professor at UNT Dallas, filed a handwritten, pro se civil rights suit against the University of North Texas in 2010 for discrimination and retaliation after she didn't get picked for a few faculty positions, allegedly because she's black. Ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    UNT Prof's Discrimination Suit Might Get Tossed ... For Going After Wrong School

    ​In a 2010 lawsuit filed in federal court, Dr. Tiffiney Barfield-Cottledge claimed the University of North Texas lobbed her application for a faculty position into the dustbin because she's black. And because they were retaliating against her for allegedly griping to the media. In recompense, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2011

    On Occasion of Downtown Farmers Market's 70th Anniversary, More Old Photos For Viewing

    Courtesy University of North Texas Libraries/Dallas Municipal ArchivesThe Dallas Farmers Market, way back when​Speaking of the downtown farmers market ...When last we looked at that cache of old photos of the market stored in the city's Municipal Archives and posted to the University of North Texa ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 3, 2011

    Park It Here

    Courtesy University of North Texas Libraries/Dallas Municipal ArchivesThe Dallas Farmers Market, way back when​Speaking of the downtown farmers market ...When last we looked at that cache of old photos of the market stored in the city's Municipal Archives and posted to the University of North Texa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    UNT Finds What Jerry Jones Can't: Someone to Spend Mean Green on Stadium Naming Rights

    Do you believe in the mean green? When that green's stacked in $20 million, sure.​Don't tell the bossman, but the University of North Texas done found someone to pony up puh-lenty for the naming rights to the new football stadium. Per a press release just sent out, Apogee will spend $20 million ov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Ah, Here's That Stash of Old Downtown Farmers Market-Area Photos We Almost Forgot About

    Courtesy University of North Texas Libraries/Dallas Municipal Archives​You probably forgot -- I know I did -- but late last year we ran this old photo of the downtown farmers market courtesy City Archivist John Slate, who'd told us about 'em last summer and about how the giant stack was being sent ... More >>

  • News

    March 24, 2011

    A Pro-Guns-On-Campus Buzz! (Someone Else Wrote It)

    Courtesy University of North Texas Libraries/Dallas Municipal Archives​You probably forgot -- I know I did -- but late last year we ran this old photo of the downtown farmers market courtesy City Archivist John Slate, who'd told us about 'em last summer and about how the giant stack was being sent ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 17, 2011

    Barking Up The Right Tree

    Courtesy University of North Texas Libraries/Dallas Municipal Archives​You probably forgot -- I know I did -- but late last year we ran this old photo of the downtown farmers market courtesy City Archivist John Slate, who'd told us about 'em last summer and about how the giant stack was being sent ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 13, 2011

    Another Neiman's Catalog

    Courtesy University of North Texas Libraries/Dallas Municipal Archives​You probably forgot -- I know I did -- but late last year we ran this old photo of the downtown farmers market courtesy City Archivist John Slate, who'd told us about 'em last summer and about how the giant stack was being sent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    Looking To Bolster That Vinyl Collection? UNT's Got Your Back.

    The University of North Texas is having an auction -- and, ​if you're in the market for a crap load of old vinyl, well, you're in luck! Same goes, I guess, if you're looking for some new gear -- like, say a sousaphone.Or a toilet. Or some TVs. Or, hey, a new (used) car!

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    This Week in Dallas Music History: Our First Music Awards Ceremony, Yay!

    ​This summer, we'll celebrate the 22nd year of our annual Dallas Observer Music Awards. And we've come a long way from the first ceremony taking up only one venue.The April 28, 1988 edition of the Observer had Brad Bailey reviewing our first annual Dallas Observer Music Awards ceremony on April 21 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 25, 2010

    Michael Minus Michael

    ​This summer, we'll celebrate the 22nd year of our annual Dallas Observer Music Awards. And we've come a long way from the first ceremony taking up only one venue.The April 28, 1988 edition of the Observer had Brad Bailey reviewing our first annual Dallas Observer Music Awards ceremony on April 21 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2010

    Yes, North Texas, There Will Be Madness in March!

    ​While SMU and disappointing head coach Matt Doherty look for their first Conference USA tournament win tonight at 8:30, the Metroplex last night was assured of a dog in the hunt during next week's March Madness when the University of North Texas captured the Sun Belt Championship. Saw t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    UNT Libraries Sorts Through City's Official John F. Kennedy Archives, Then Reposts

    University of North Texas Libraries/Dallas Municipal ArchivesIf you ever wondered what it looked like during a night in Jack Ruby's Carousel Club, wonder no longer.​Dallas's official John F. Kennedy Collection has always been on the city's Web site -- a little hidden on the City Secretary's Offic ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 9, 2009

    Art Rehab

    University of North Texas Libraries/Dallas Municipal ArchivesIf you ever wondered what it looked like during a night in Jack Ruby's Carousel Club, wonder no longer.​Dallas's official John F. Kennedy Collection has always been on the city's Web site -- a little hidden on the City Secretary's Offic ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 2, 2009

    The Horror, The Horror!

    UNT gets a dose of Rocky

  • Calendar

    March 19, 2009

    Animal Talk

    UNT gets a dose of Rocky

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    Spaceballs, or: You Can Stop Looking for Meteors. But a UNT Prof Is Giving Some Away.

    They've stopped looking for pieces of the "fireball" down in West, where, apparently, it's plowin' season. And once the plows start turning up the fields, the samples, which already look like regular old rocks, are going to be difficult to spot. Furthermore, the landowners down there have gotten gre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    A Downtown Law School is Good for Downtown. But is it Good for America?

    How UNT imagines the old City Hall will look once it becomes a law schoolA Friend of Unfair Park whose name does not rhyme with "Patt Mulle" sends us this Texas Watchdog story concerning the downtown law school the University of North Texas System is hoping to squeeze into the old Municipal Building ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    Guillermo Arriaga on Cinema, Art and How "Masturbation is a Metaphor for Isolation"

    Megan FeldmanGuillermo Arriaga at the University of North Texas on SaturdayAs he took the podium before more than 100 fans and aspiring writers at the University of North Texas on Saturday, the author of Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel was surprised by the turnout. "Wow," said Guillermo Arriaga, s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2009

    UNT Wants to Make Sure Municipal Building Still Standing By 2010

    The Dallas Municipal Building on Harwood and Main streets is a historic heap o' mess -- one short short of a full-blown catastrophe, according to this story and friends who work out of the building. And it has the University of North Texas, which hopes to turn the former Dallas City Hall into the si ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2008

    Back To School

    North Texas Daily A friend of mine swears that he ate at Mr. Chopsticks in Denton at least five times a week during his tenure as a student at the University of North Texas during the late '90s. He still makes a half-hour trip to the place a couple times a month. I could never understand this obses ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2008

    Hey UNT Alums: Need An Excuse To Attend Homecoming This Weekend?

    North Texas Daily A friend of mine swears that he ate at Mr. Chopsticks in Denton at least five times a week during his tenure as a student at the University of North Texas during the late '90s. He still makes a half-hour trip to the place a couple times a month. I could never understand this obses ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2008

    UNT to Offer Grad-Level Course Dorkdom, Geekness Come Fall

    North Texas Daily A friend of mine swears that he ate at Mr. Chopsticks in Denton at least five times a week during his tenure as a student at the University of North Texas during the late '90s. He still makes a half-hour trip to the place a couple times a month. I could never understand this obses ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 27, 2008

    Assemble for the Ensembles

    North Texas Daily A friend of mine swears that he ate at Mr. Chopsticks in Denton at least five times a week during his tenure as a student at the University of North Texas during the late '90s. He still makes a half-hour trip to the place a couple times a month. I could never understand this obses ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 28, 2008

    Oh, Just You Wait

    North Texas Daily A friend of mine swears that he ate at Mr. Chopsticks in Denton at least five times a week during his tenure as a student at the University of North Texas during the late '90s. He still makes a half-hour trip to the place a couple times a month. I could never understand this obses ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2007

    Better to Be Fat and Fit? Thanks, Doc!

    North Texas Daily A friend of mine swears that he ate at Mr. Chopsticks in Denton at least five times a week during his tenure as a student at the University of North Texas during the late '90s. He still makes a half-hour trip to the place a couple times a month. I could never understand this obses ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2007

    Cotton Pickin’ Crazy

    North Texas Daily A friend of mine swears that he ate at Mr. Chopsticks in Denton at least five times a week during his tenure as a student at the University of North Texas during the late '90s. He still makes a half-hour trip to the place a couple times a month. I could never understand this obses ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 30, 2007

    Extra Credit

    North Texas Daily A friend of mine swears that he ate at Mr. Chopsticks in Denton at least five times a week during his tenure as a student at the University of North Texas during the late '90s. He still makes a half-hour trip to the place a couple times a month. I could never understand this obses ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 29, 2007

    Jazz It Up

    The North Texas Jazz Festival kicks out the sweet jams

  • Calendar

    March 29, 2007

    Eat Those Words

    The Edible Book Festival returns

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2007

    The Lean Green

    The Edible Book Festival returns

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2007

    Green Means Go

    The Edible Book Festival returns

  • Calendar

    February 15, 2007

    Mean Green Talent

    UNT votes for its idols

  • Calendar

    August 18, 2005

    Hot Air

    UNT votes for its idols

  • Calendar

    April 28, 2005

    The Swing of Things

    Combos--Brave, jazz and local--play Denton Arts & Jazz Festival

  • News

    March 17, 2005

    Play Nice or Else

    Plus: Unripe Banana Case

  • News

    April 29, 2004

    Right Thinking

    Young conservatives put their professors on notice--they're being watched

  • Calendar

    April 1, 2004

    Jazz Hands

    Stars and students take the stage

  • Resolution Guide

    January 15, 2004

    To Get Smart

    Stars and students take the stage

  • Calendar

    July 17, 2003

    Photos Already Bent

    The kids are alright

  • Best of Dallas

    September 20, 2001
  • Calendar

    April 1, 1999

    Night & Day

    April 1-7, 1999

  • Calendar

    February 4, 1999

    Night & Day

    February 4 - 10, 1999

  • News

    July 3, 1997

    Musician, heal thyself

    A Denton shrink plumbs the murky psyches of self-destructive rock artists and concludes they don't have to die young, drunk, and depressed

  • Music

    July 11, 1996

    Girls school

    DIVA's learned a lot about prejudice and potential

  • Film

    February 9, 1995

    Rushes

    DIVA's learned a lot about prejudice and potential

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