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A new organization in Denton has emerged with what its founder, Adele Hull, says is a mission of peace, love, and unity for the city. Yesterday evening, about 30 NT students and Denton residents met at the corner of Hickory and Fry streets to march for the group, known as (R)evolution. (3) comments
Grammy Award-winning Stanley Clarke plucks, strums and claws his bass guitar during a solo Friday night at the Denton Arts and Jazz Festival. At least 200,000 people arrive at Quakertown Park each year for the weekend-long music fest and this year event organizers saw massive crowds of families and friends chomping on turkey legs and tapping their feet to more than a hundred bands across five stages, culminating in a performance from Denton band Brave Combo. (1) comment
Arson, corporate ownership and city regulations contribute to what former Voyager's Dream owner Mike Sutton calls "the vanishing of Fry Street." Sutton said the grassy, fenced-off area bears little resemblance to the variety of businesses that inhabited the space two years ago. But many new students have no memory of the old Fry Street and some wish the vacant lot could be replaced with something useful, like a grocery store. "This is my community," said Tommy Simmons, a communications design senior. "And I would like something that would make my life easier." (41) comments
The NT dance department presents UnEven Ground, this year's faculty dance concert that consist of six works that uses the collaborative efforts of NT faculty and dance students. The performance styles varied from abstract and poetic choreography to performances inspire by hip-hop, and evoked several themes that express the dynamics of human emotion such as joy, sorrow and destructive habits toward earth. (0) comments
NT is noted for its arts programs, but one group of students is painting on something other than a canvas, and doing it better than just about everyone else. The NTX paintball team is currently tied for No. 1 in the nation with three other clubs in the National Collegiate Paintball Association rankings. (2) comments
The methodical booming coming from room 734B thunderously rattles the framework of Kerr Hall's seventh floor. This typical occurrence is the sound of Bryson "Big B" Price carving another notch into his beat-making belt. Price, a kinesiology junior, started making his musical patterns in 2005 after a friend introduced him to the process, and he hasn't stopped since. (2) comments
AUSTIN -Standing on stage with a wall of towering amplified subwoofers to my back, something wonderful happened. Bun B, who with his close friend and partner Pimp C pioneered southern hip-hop under the UGK moniker, took his hat off. The familiar bass line and soothing Isley Brothers vocals from the classic, emotionally stirring "One Day" pounded out from the speakers, and Bun was off, showing a crowd, hanging on his every word, respect for his deceased partner in crime that he felt came with the Texan terrain. (1) comment
Towering 20 feet above the racetrack, Lance Oujesky keeps the caution flag in his right hand and his left close to the caution light. The cars roar their engines like rolling thunder as the race begins. As the cars make the fourth turn on the first lap, his flag stand begins shaking as the momentum of the race intensifies, cars flying underneath him. (4) comments
(Left to Right) Sopa and Congo, two members of the Sour Grapes art collective, spray paint on a mural behind the Art Building on Saturday. Originally a graffiti crew, the group of Oak Cliff-based artists works on the temporary double-sided mural as part of its exhibition inside the Art Building. Sour Grapes' graffiti-influenced art will be on display until March 28. (1) comment
In NT's beverage survey course, students learn about wine, beer and liquer from their professor and from quest speakers like Mary Ann Willi, who works for an alcohol distributor. In the slideshow below, Willis teaches the class about the difference between champagne and sparkling wine. (2) comments
The NT Bigs, a branch of the national Big Brothers Big Sisters organization, is hoping to make an impact on the NT campus with a "big change." The student organization hosted "The Big Change," a showcase of dance teams from the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Monday night in the Lyceum. (0) comments
Tenor saxophonist Ashley Hamer doesn't mind a man holding the door open for her, but when it comes to jazz, she doesn't want to be thought of as the girl in a group. Hamer, a jazz studies graduate student, plays in the Five O'Clock Lab Band and repertory ensemble, both of which are marginally dominated by men. (0) comments
The sound of the engine starts, and the four propellers turn, slowly at first and then faster as the B-17 Flying Fortress prepares for takeoff. The World War II bomber took off yesterday at the Denton Municipal Airport as part of the nationwide Wings of Freedom Tour. (3) comments
The NT Criminalistics Club jumped up and cheered, "Go green!" after it won first and second place at the Annual Arlington CSI Competition on Saturday. Members of the club gathered at the Arlington Police Academy to compete in mock crime scene investigations. (0) comments
LONE GROVE, Okla. ญญ- Carl Eanes, a Lone Grove, Okla. resident, fought back tears as he walked through his demolished, roofless house Wednesday morning. Eanes' half-lit cigarette hung from his mouth as he meandered from room to room surveying the wound that a half-mile tornado left on his life. (0) comments
