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At UNT, a PUSH to Help Former Foster Care Kids Arrive, and Thrive, on Campus

How many times in college did you call your parents in a panic because you found out you needed a graphing calculator the day before your math final? Or bombed an exam and called your mom to gripe? Or brought a bag full of laundry home for Christmas break? For UNT's PUSH students, these day-to-day ... More >>

No Equality, No Peace

Dallas City Hall's Record Gives South Side Landowners Good Reason to Be Paranoid

We spoke here last week about a large section of the city near the new University of North Texas campus that has never had city sewer service. Newcomers and people unfamiliar with the city's southern hemisphere might find it hard to believe, but we have substantial expanses of unimproved ranch land ... More >>

So Is "Grow South" About Helping the People or Just the Real Estate?

Here's a question about the big initiative to spur development and employment in the city's heavily poor and minority southern hemisphere. Does it really benefit southern Dallas to redevelop it if before you do so you manage to get all the land out of the hands of the people who own it now? We're t ... More >>

It Takes a lot of Nerve to Talk about the Real Causes of Blight. The News Doesn't Have It.

Hey, if you drop by here every once in a while and read this crap, then you may wonder, "What on earth is wrong with this guy?" I just want you to know, I have the same question. Today I finished reading the big editorial in our city's only daily newspaper -- all about "the high cost of blight" -- a ... More >>

See ’Leezza Kegstand

The University of North Texas Banned Alcohol at Frat Parties Yesterday

In the predawn hours on Saturday, January 26, University of North Texas student Dustin Starks, 20, fell from the balcony of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity house. He survived, but just barely. Nearly two weeks later, he remains at Parkland Hospital in serious condition. In the wake of the accident, ... More >>

UNT To Celebrate National Food Day With Sustainable Lecture and Lunch

National Food Day is a nationwide celebration of and attempt to raise awareness for sustainable, healthy food; and it's happening tomorrow. The University of North Texas, up there in Canada Denton and proud owner of the first vegan cafeteria in the nation, is celebrating the foodiest of days via the ... More >>

UNT May Merge its Denton and Fort Worth Schools

The University of North Texas System just announced that it's considering merging its flagship Denton campus with the UNT Health Sciences Center in Fort Worth. The UNT System Board of Regents will decide Monday whether to authorize a study of the merger, which would then require approval by the stat ... More >>

One Woman, Three Tall Boys

John Ellis Price, Founding President of UNT-Dallas, Will Step Down Next Year

The University of North Texas at Dallas has come along way since it was founded in 2000 as a 55-student extension of UNT's Denton campus. In 2007, it moved onto its permanent campus and three years later became a standalone institution that now boasts a shade over 2,000 students. Not long ago, it re ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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

Barking Up The Right Tree

Another Neiman's Catalog

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!

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 >>

Michael Minus Michael

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 >>

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 >>

Art Rehab

The Horror, The Horror!

UNT gets a dose of Rocky

Animal Talk

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 >>

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

A 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. It's been almost five years since then-Mayor Laura Miller and other cit ... More >>

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

As 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, surveying the packed room at UNT's Gateway Center. "When they told me 9 a.m. ... 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 >>

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 obsess ... More >>

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

Assemble for the Ensembles

Better to Be Fat and Fit? Thanks, Doc!

Big medical news out of Dallas, courtesy a University of North Texas professor and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Turns out, from 1979 to 2001 some 2,600 men and women, whose average age was 64, took part in something called the Aerobic Center Longitudinal Study at the Cooper Clini ... More >>

Extra Credit

Jazz It Up

The North Texas Jazz Festival kicks out the sweet jams

Eat Those Words

The Edible Book Festival returns

Mean Green Talent

UNT votes for its idols

Hot Air

The Swing of Things

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

Right Thinking

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

Photos Already Bent

The kids are alright

Best Public Music Radio Station

KNTU-FM 88.1

Night & Day

February 4 - 10, 1999

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

Rushes