University of North Texas

UNT's Edible Book Festival to Be Destroyed by City of Ate

On Monday, The University of North Texas will host its 10th annual Edible Books Festival, a local celebration of the international festival of the same name held. This mass gathering of nerds my fellow academics is perhaps the best excuse in existence to celebrate puns and shove cake down your throa ... More >>

Robert Gomez Talks Poetic Beheadings (Just Don't Ask Him to Make You a Vegas Bomb)

It's impossible to discuss the magnitude of the Denton music scene without including Robert Gomez as one of its pivotal players. Since 1993, Gomez has been everywhere from Denton to Istanbul, and the list of musicians he's played with include Norah Jones, Philip Glass and Tico da Costa. He'll perfor ... More >>

Southern Dallas Gets the Shaft in Bond Proposal While City Hall Waits to Reward Carpetbaggers

The lead editorial on The Dallas Morning News editorial page today is standard fare from the powers-that-be reminding all of us little people to vote in favor of the city's $642 million bond program on the ballot November 6. The editorial ticks off all the stuff in the bond proposal that will be go ... More >>

Major In Survival

Macdaddy's, a Macaroni and Cheese Bar, is Open in Denton (Photos)

For the past few weeks, the University of North Texas campus has been much abuzz with the anticipation of several new restaurants opening on the ground level of the new Fry Street development. Now occupying the former home of the Flying Tomato is a Chipotle with a spaceship-like study hall design, a ... More >>

UNT's Education Dean is the Foremost Expert on Why Girls Throw Like Such Girls

Saying someone throws like a girl is not generally acceptable, at least in the age of Title IX and political correctness. Such pronouncements reek of paternalism; certainly we're sophisticated enough to know that gender differences that seem to be innate are really learned, the product of a lifetime ... More >>

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 >>

Denton Artist's Show Celebrates Hijacked Images

Like most modern romances, Irby Pace fell in love in a Mac store. It happened when he was sliding his way across the photo roll on a demo Ipod, and there she was. He just knew. "I saw this one," said Pace while directing his eyes to the photo exhibition's flagship piece, an image of a girl's fac ... More >>

Funding Issues Block Local Film Students From Screening in France

the whale [trailer] from Jaime Chapin on Vimeo.Back in the fall of 2010, a group of senior film students at the University of North Texas wrote, shot and directed The Whale, a hauntingly beautiful short feature about a little boy, a wretchedly abusive family, and the transcendent power of imaginatio ... More >>

Love In

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: That Night Wilco Just Destroyed the Palladium

Photo by Patrick Michels​Wilco plays Denton tonight, and for those so inclined who don't yet possess ducats for the sold-out occasion, buck up: The band sent word yesterday that at noon today, remaining tickets for the University of North Texas appearance will be released right ... here. Good luck ... More >>

Last Night: The Books at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

The BooksThe Modern Art Museum of Ft. WorthApril 6, 20011Better than: taking a musicology class at the University of North TexasEmily StokerThe Books at the Museum of Modern Art​Augmented by a third, and sometimes a fourth member, the duo known as The Books thrilled a packed and energetic audience ... More >>

Watch: Beware The Wrath of Meat Loaf...

Meat Loaf!​We already knew that he could barely fit his dick in his pants, but on last night's episode of Celebrity Apprentice, Dallas' Own Meat Loaf -- born Marvin Lee Aday and educated at Thomas Jefferson High School and North Texas State University (now the University of North Texas) -- showed ... More >>

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 >>

Tonight, Tonight: Thrift Store Cowboys at Lochrann's, Trey Johnson at The Kessler, Haiti Benefit Concert at The Lyceum and Empress Hotel at Lola's

Pretty busy musical Thursday evening we have here, highlighted by three shows at venues that all begin with the letter "L." What are the odds?

Local Music 'Mericans: Cat Hough Will Give Your Band Legal Advice If You Listen To Her Music Memories From Denton in the '90s.

Welcome to Local Music'Mericans, where we'll be meeting some people behind the local music scene who aren't musicians, but more behind-the-scenes folk.Cat Hough​Cat Hough was a high school kid in Fort Worth when she saw the Toadies perform one of their earliest shows at a place called Maggie's Bea ... More >>

Finger Art

Mariachi Quetzal Bucks Tradition

Two Months After He Cans Faculty at UNT Dallas, School's CEO Changes His Mind

John Ellis Price​Back in March, you may recall, the University of North Texas told 38 faculty members at the school's current Dallas campus that, so sorry, but if they want to work at UNT's new standalone Dallas campus -- scheduled to open in 110 days -- they'd have to reapply ... for their curren ... More >>

Czech Out This Opera

Ice, Ice Baby

My City Of Ruins

UNT Puts Record Collection On Ebay

Got $2,500? Like suprises? Under the plastic wrap and cardboard are 11,900 unsorted vinyl records.Got more than $2,500 to spend on a big, big surprise for yourself? The University of North Texas is selling an unsorted collection of more than 11,900 vinyl records. The only thing the listing fails to ... More >>

Eli Young Band

Friday, March 27, at House of Blues

UNT Professor Earns Top Composition Honor

UNT Professor Cindy McTee Congratulations are in order for University of North Texas professor Cindy McTee this afternoon, as McTee has won this year's Detroit Symphony Orchestra Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award for Female Composers, which each year is dolled out to one living female composer for, wel ... More >>

The New York Times Paints a Portrait of Blind Denton Artist John Bramblitt

"Self Portrait Trio" by John BramblittThere has been no shortage of stories about John Bramblitt in recent years, as evidenced by the "news" page on the Denton artist's Web site. Four years ago, Mika Ferris even made a documentary titled, simply, Bramblitt. After all, his is an extraordinary tale: T ... More >>

For The Ladies

Absolutely Safe takes on chest games

Rudder, Oso Closo, Snarky Puppy

Friday, October 12, at Hailey's, Denton

The Lean Green

The Battle for Metroplex Mediocrity

Of Good or Evil?

Eat Your Words

No, really, they’re edible

Bovine Bliss

Play Nice or Else

Plus: Unripe Banana Case

Heat, No Light

Young Conservatives make a fuss with immigration protest

Modern Times

Plus: School Spirit; Evil Eyes Averted

Old Gold

Best Radio Station

KHYI-FM (95.3), The Range

Best Reason to Book It to Denton

Recycled Books Records CDs

Jazz Hands

Stars and students take the stage

Give Us a "V"

Pussycat to pooki, Quad C and UNT have 'em all

Comfort Food

This tour keeps you in stitches

Like a Phoenix

Judy Shepard describes the good that came from tragedy

Melding through welding

Tony Schraufnagel

Night & Day

April 1-7, 1999

Blowing smoke

Denton residents like Parks and Delores Olmon want to know how a posse of city slickers managed to railroad plans for a lead-belching copper factory in their town

Rapper's delight

Erotic D looks Beyond 2000

Proud papa

A first album is born, among other things

Girls school

DIVA's learned a lot about prejudice and potential

Letters