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Stories published on: November 16, 2010

  • Texas Commission on the Arts invests $57,900 in Senator Estes' district

    November 16, 2010 -- ( View the original North Texas e-News article )

    Senator Craig Estes is pleased to announce that the Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) invested $57,900 in grants to arts organizations in District 30 for fiscal year 2011. TCA approved a budget investing approximately $5.7 million in grants to arts and cultural organizations statewide. 

    The organizations that received grants within District 30 include the UNT Art Gallery. 

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  • Denton High band to accompany dancers

    November 16, 2010 -- ( View the original DentonRC.com article )

    A Denton High School band will accompany a New York dance company with Dallas-Fort Worth roots for a show this week. 
    Denton High Lab Band 1 will join Bodyart Dance Company in "Transposing Silence" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. 

    The performance will be in the auditorium at the school, 1007 Fulton St. The two ensembles will weave stories with music and dance. 

    This school year, the band will entertain audiences around the Dallas-Fort Worth area, collaborating with the University of North Texas One O'clock Lab Band. Additionally, the band will perform with Grammy-winner Dave Sanborn through the AT&T Performing Arts Center Jazz Roots Series. 

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  • Softball: UNT college of choice for Wagner

    November 16, 2010 -- ( View the original Star Community Newspapers article )

    The University of North Texas will be able to look forward to the fielding, hitting and base stealing skills of Haley Wagner in the coming years, as the McKinney North senior outfielder signed a national letter of intent with the college on Thursday. 

    Sedgwick described Wagner as a powerful hitter who is deceptively fast and able to get to first base in about 2.5 seconds, adding that nothing gets past her in the outfield. 

    Athletics

  • Guest artists join UNT One OClock Lab Band for music of Rolling Stones

    November 16, 2010 -- ( View the original Star Community Newspapers article )

    Saxophonist Tim Ries and vocalist Bernard Fowler will join the Grammy-nominated University of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band to perform the music of the Rolling Stones in the One O'Clock's 50th Annual Fall Concert. 

    Ries, a UNT alumnus who has performed with numerous well-known jazz artists as well as the Rolling Stones, and Fowler, a back-up vocalist for the Rolling Stones as well as lead vocalist for numerous other groups, will perform with the One O'Clock in a concert at 8 p.m. Nov. 23 in the Murchison Performing Arts Center's Winspear Performance Hall.

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  • Men's basketball: Mean Green sees huge opportunity

    November 16, 2010 -- ( View the original DentonRC.com article )

    The last time North Texas was in a position like the one it will encounter today, Josh White ended up being carried off the Super Pit floor. 

    White was a freshman back in the fall of 2007, but not just any freshman. He was on his way to becoming one of the best to play for UNT. 

    White showed the first signs when he scored 25 points in an 82-73 win over Oklahoma State, a victory that ranks among the biggest for the Mean Green in nonconference play in recent years. 

    Athletics

  • Fort Worth district asks businesses' help in starting new career programs

    November 16, 2010 -- ( View the original star-telegram.com article )

    Superintendent Melody Johnson pitched the Fort Worth school district's new "gold seal" programs to business leaders Monday in an effort to gain new partnerships in the community. 

    Next year, the district plans to launch career-oriented programs of choice at each high school, where students could earn college credit -- and be certified and licensed in certain fields -- by graduation. 

    Some businesses and organizations have already signed on to help. The Sid W. Richardson Foundation has pledged money to help open the district's new Texas Academy of Biomedical Sciences high school that will be at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. 

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