Denton Record Chronicle | News for Denton County, Texas

03/11/2010

The members of Midlake could have gotten wrapped up in anxiety over critical and fan response to its highly anticipated third release, The Courage of Others. They didn’t, guitarist Eric Pulido said. They spent their anxiety on writing the record, and making it “honest.” Being something it isn’t, it turns out, is out of the question for the Denton quintet. While urban styles and noisy electronic stuff hit music consumers of the West like a fire hose, Midlake keeps it quiet, sad and maybe even a little spiritual on Courage.

Denton Time (.pdf)

We have liftoff
What’s new: The Eight Track Museum is nearly ready for audiences. We’ve listened to a bare-bones crew of artists framing walls and installing sheetrock just on the other side of the newsroom wall at the Denton Record-Chronicle.

NX35 Schedule

‘Pirates’ poised to walk the plank
The most tender-hearted of all pirates will sail into a Gilbert and Sullivan sunset this weekend when Music Theatre of Denton closes the comic opera.

Rock him with rock hymns
Eleven Christian rock groups will gather at the Texas Motor Speedway on March 20 for the Forty Fest — Resonate! 2010 concert.

Storytelling fest marks 25th year
What’s the story? Find out this weekend during the Texas Storytelling Festival, which runs today through Sunday at the Denton Civic Center.

Author to sign new book
Relate fundamental geometry to quilting, and what do you get? A fun, hands-on educational activity and book-signing event for third- through sixth-graders at Barnes and Noble Booksellers, 2201 S. Interstate 35E.

Fundraiser benefits UNT Honors College
What do Oscar-nominated screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, Texas Poet Laureate Karla Morton, sculptor Jesus Morales and Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly executive editor, have in common?

Denton Parks & Recreation

Getcha some at Toby Keith’s place
Toby Keith’s fans had a chance to see the country-Western superstar at the grand opening of his latest venue, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill, at Winstar World Casino. The casino, an economic enterprise of the Chickasaw Nation, is about 45 miles north of Denton in Thackerville, Okla.

Forgettable, unforgivable
On its surface, Remember Me looks like little more than a shameless, albeit understandable, attempt to capitalize on the sudden popularity of wooden young actor Robert Pattinson, he of Twilight fame. But, like Caesar, it has greater ambitions.

Events

Movies

Dining

03/04/2010

Love For The Land

Drive north on Bonnie Brae, past University Drive and the Rayzor Ranch construction. Look right, through a small grove. There lies what’s officially known as Soil Conservation Services Hickory Creek Basin Retarding Pond No. 16, orSCS No. 16. To Irene Klaver, University of North Texas professor of philosophy and religion studies, SCS No. 16 is “Little Lake,” part of her everyday existence and a source of her research, unique as an environmental mix of an ecological habitat in an urban setting.

Denton Time (.pdf)

Press this
A bench press contest will be held on Saturday as long as 20 people sign up by noon Friday. The eighth annual “Bench This!” competition held at North Lakes Recreation Center currently has six registrants, while it’s had between 20 and 25 in previous years.

Collected voices
Call the upstart vocal jazz group, The New Collection, Paris Rutherford’s second life.

Folk done up blue
Missing Mary Travers? Maybe Madeline is what you need. The Georgia-based artist comes through Denton next week with the White Flag Band peddling her new album, Tour EP, released today.

Bach the day away
Come Sunday, it’s all Bach for the Denton Bach Society.

One more blog
What’s new: The Denton Record-Chronicle’s Web site has just launched a blog dedicated to the festival. Find it at http://nofoldblog.dentonrc.com/ . Posted to the blog will be updates, festival and conferette coverage as well as highlights of local acts we think you shouldn’t miss when the event revs up on March 11.

Music Theatre of Denton to stage ‘Pirates of Penzance’
Music Theatre of Denton reaches back for one of its favorites to open Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance Friday night at the Campus Theatre.

Poet to read, answer questions
Poet Henri Cole will be hosting a reading and a question-and-answer session at the University of North Texas today to promote a collection of his best poetry.

Poutine, without the trip to Canada
Earlier this week we bid a sad adieu to the 2010 Winter Olympics held in Vancouver, British Columbia. Some of us will miss duking it out with our northern neighbor, but I, for one, found myself rooting for the Canadians as well. Not only did they snag most the gold medals won at any Winter Olympic Games, they were true sportsmen and women, and good-humored, gracious hosts. Canada has lots of reasons to be proud.

Denton Parks & Recreation

Events

Movies

Dining

02/25/2010

A perfect union

Opera lovers are in for a rare treat. Bedrich Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, usually sung in English for American audiences, will be presented by the University of North Texas College of Music in its original language — Czech. This romantic romp, one of the most popular operas of all time, is filled with light, folk-like tunes and a story of true love that prevails.

Denton Time (.pdf)

Poet to visit UNT for reading
Henri Cole looks the human condition full in the face.

Trash bags at the ready locals armed against litter
Last year, about 1,200 volunteers collected 250,000 pounds for Denton’s Great American Cleanup.

Impressionists
Two exhibits focused on printmaking are featured in Texas Woman’s University’s East and West galleries through March 17.

Reel-to-reel time
This just in: The eight-track tape isn’t dead. You heard us. Pull those buds out of your ears and pay a reverent moment to the eight-track. Musician and music historian (at least we think so) Bucks Burnett is bringing his recording antiques to Denton for North by 35 Music Conferette.

Play studies couple divided by abduction
University of North Texas students have produced a drama with real-life relevance, especially after Sept. 11, 2001. Lee Blessing’s Two Rooms finds a married couple strained by the husband’s abduction in Beirut.

Beat keeper
After she was featured on National Public Radio, artist Dessa touched off a hot debate on the NPR Web site about her credibility as a hip-hop artist.

Popcorn concert has family appeal
The Lewisville Lake Symphony is serving up popcorn and a performance of Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf on March 7.

Shadow boxing

Summit Entertainment

Former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan, left) enlists a nameless writer (Ewan McGregor) to write his memoirs in The Ghost Writer.

A GPS device figures prominently into one of many plots found in The Ghost Writer, a thriller from director Roman Polanski. And that’s convenient, because the gadget will also come in handy to keep track of the film’s many twists and turns. The Ghost Writer is based on Robert Harris’ script, adapted from his historical novel. Harris takes fairly current events and weaves a convoluted conspiracy theory, giving the film both an immediacy and a familiarity.

Denton Parks & Recreation

Events

Movies

Dining

	RSS
	E-Mail newsletters

Entertainment

NX35 Schedule

Bands, city ready for NX35

NX35 Schedule

Passion driving Lazy Native’s raucous sound

DRC duo make Oscar picks

More Entertainment