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The Lean Green

Green Means Go

Animal Talk

Cotton Pickin’ Crazy

Better to Be Fat and Fit? Thanks, Doc!

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

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

The Horror, The Horror!

UNT gets a dose of Rocky

To Get Smart

UNT gets a dose of Rocky

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 >>

Rushes

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 >>

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 >>

Girls school

DIVA's learned a lot about prejudice and potential

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

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 >>

Night & Day

February 4 - 10, 1999

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 >>

Night & Day

April 1-7, 1999

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 >>

Best Public Music Radio Station

KNTU-FM 88.1

Assemble for the Ensembles

KNTU-FM 88.1

Oh, Just You Wait

KNTU-FM 88.1

Rudder, Oso Closo, Snarky Puppy

Friday, October 12, at Hailey's, Denton

Extra Credit

Friday, October 12, at Hailey's, Denton

Eat Your Words

No, really, they’re edible

Mean Green Talent

UNT votes for its idols

Jazz It Up

The North Texas Jazz Festival kicks out the sweet jams

Eat Those Words

The Edible Book Festival returns

Hot Air

The Edible Book Festival returns

The Swing of Things

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

Play Nice or Else

Plus: Unripe Banana Case

Right Thinking

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

Jazz Hands

Stars and students take the stage

Photos Already Bent

The kids are alright

Art Rehab

The kids are alright

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 >>

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 >>

Michael Minus Michael

​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 >>

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 >>

Mariachi Quetzal Bucks Tradition

​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 >>

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!

Another Neiman's Catalog

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!

Tour Tomorrow's Municipal Building Annex Today! If, That Is, The City Can Afford It.

A look at the proposed lobby for the Municipal Building Annex redo, whenever that happens​By now you're no doubt aware that the old Municipal Building downtown, otherwise known as the ca.-1914 City Hall, is where the University of North Texas hopes to put the UNT Dallas College of Law, which still ... More >>

Barking Up The Right Tree

A look at the proposed lobby for the Municipal Building Annex redo, whenever that happens​By now you're no doubt aware that the old Municipal Building downtown, otherwise known as the ca.-1914 City Hall, is where the University of North Texas hopes to put the UNT Dallas College of Law, which still ... More >>

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

A look at the proposed lobby for the Municipal Building Annex redo, whenever that happens​By now you're no doubt aware that the old Municipal Building downtown, otherwise known as the ca.-1914 City Hall, is where the University of North Texas hopes to put the UNT Dallas College of Law, which still ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>