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BY DREW GAINESContributing Writer
T h e D e nt on C ou nt y Transportation Authority saw record ridership in March, and more riders are expected to board the public buses in the months and years to come.
“Since the two years I have been driving with DCTA, I can see nothing but growth,” bus driver Danny Brinkley said.
Brinkley and his fellow drivers are transporting more students and commuters than ever before.
Last month, Denton Connect provided 29,289 passenger trips, enough to break the previous record set in September 2009 by 346 trips.
“Basically the cost of parking, the cost of fuel, it’s just getting to be more economical, especially during the tough economic times right now,” Brinkley said.
Boris Palchik, senior planner for DCTA, attributes the growth to improved services. The transit service has added more bus stops, routes, shelters, signage and improved schedules that make the service more consistent and accessible, he said.
Most of the improvements have been in Lewisville, where the DCTA reported a 48 percent increase in ridership in March,
compared to the same month last year. However, similar improve-ments are starting to take root in Denton.
“We routed more service through the campus areas at both [TWU and UNT],” Palchik said. “There are more frequent service, decreased wait time and more buses to more destinations.”
Dow ntow n Da l las has become a popular destination for commuters as well, with the DCTA extending trips to the city’s West End via the Commuter Express line.
Brinkley’s 40-mile trips to and from the Dallas hub have been packed.
“The majority of them are resi-dents or business people that live in Denton or Lewisville and work in downtown Dallas. Then there are UNT students who catch a bus in downtown Dallas and come up here,” Brinkley said.
Those passengers that hitch a ride in Dallas to come to Denton are what the DCTA is calling “reverse commuters.”
Rather than heading into the city for work or school, these commuters are leaving Dallas for Lewisville, Carrolton or Denton. A good proportion of them are students, says Palchik, though all demographics have been increasing.
Denton public transportation hits record high
Shannon Robinson, a social work senior, has used the DCTA Connect line for two years. She boards the Colorado Express route every Tuesday and
Thursday to go between school and her home near the Golden Triangle Mall.
“I love it. It saves me gas, and I don’t have to pay for parking,”
she said. With the arrival of the A-train
to Denton in summer 2011, the DCTA is bracing for more riders and destinations. The rail service
will connect commuters to Carrolton, Lewisville and later to downtown Dallas.
“We do expect more growth,” Palchik said.
PHOTO BY DREW GAINES/PHOTOGRAPHER
DCTA bus driver Danny Brinkley welcomes aboard UNT students and employees on his route to Discovery Park. The transportation authority reported record rider-ship numbers for the month of March and the service is expected to grow, o� cials said.
BY LISA GARZA Senior Staff Writer
T he Tex a s Depa r t ment of Public Safety will halt a major construction project today t hrough Sunday so race fans headed to Texas Motor Speedway may not hit as much traffic.
NorthGate Constructors, the company working with the department on the $1 billion DFW Connector project, will keep all lanes open to accom-modate drivers attending the Samsung Mobile 500 NASCAR double-header weekend.
The project spans 8.4 miles in Grapevine, Southlake and Irving, doubling the size of the existing highway system around the north Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport entrance.
Southbound lanes on State Highway 121 and westbound
lanes on State Highway 114 have been closed on the week-ends since February.state
“We greatly appreciate the cooperat ion of NorthGate
Constructors to suspend the closures to benefit our race fans visiting this week,” Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage said in a press
release. “This move will be extremely valuable in terms of their travel plans.”
The project wil l rebuild portions of four highways,
two interchanges and f ive bridges.
The lanes will remain open beginning Friday for the qual-ifying race for the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing “Sprint Cup Series” and the “Ratt lesnake 150” Automobile Racing Club of America series.
The “O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 Nationwide Series” will be Saturday, fol lowed by the “Samsung Mobile 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series” on Sunday, which is usually “the largest-attended, single-day sporting event in the state of Texas,” according to the Speedway Web site.
“A s a ge st u re of ou r continuing support and part-nership w ith the commu-nit y, we w i l l suspend a l l lane closures on the DFW Connector project to help t he f low of race t ra f f ic,” NorthGate’s deputy project director Jay Knez said in a press release.
Race weekends are known for causing major traffic jams,
so UNT posted a message on the Web site’s calendar of events to notify the commu-nity, news manager Buddy Price said.
“The reminder that it is race weekend is regularly posted when major races are scheduled at Texas Motor Speedway,” Price said. “It is posted to remind students, staff and faculty that traffic is expected to be heavier than normal and to plan accord-ingly when commuting to class, to a job, to home or weekend events, especially bet ween Denton and Fort Worth.”
David Jagneaux, a polit-ical science freshman, said he is grateful for the lanes remaining open this weekend because he usually doesn’t drive when there are races.
“It’s a very good thing. I take [Interstate Highway] 35 all the time,” Jagneaux said. “I don’t want to be waiting around because of traff ic. They need to keep traffic in check.”
BY KRYSTLE CANTUStaff Writer
T he Nat iona l Hig hway Traffic Safety Administration is seeking the maximum civil penalty of $16.4 million for Toyota Motor Corporation.
T he ad m i n i st rat ion i s accusing Toyota of covering up a defect that caused cars to accelerate unintentionally by failing to notify the auto safety agency of the hazard within an appropriate timeframe.
Toyota waited at least four months to announce and recall the defect despite knowledge of the potential risk to consumers, according to www.nhtsa.dot.gov. About 2.3 million vehicles in the U.S. were recalled in late January, but automakers may have known of the problem as early as late September.
Dane Minor, a manager of Toyota in Hurst, said that most dealers aren’t surprised that Toyota is being levied for the largest fine possible, because of Toyota’s great success as a car manufacturer.
“I think they anticipated it,” he said. “ I don’t think it took anyone by surprise. They’re setting precedence on a bill-forward basis.”
The penalty will be the largest brought against an auto manufacturer by the adminis-tration. The fine could increase if more defects are found in the government’s ongoing investi-gation.
Toyota received notice on April 5 and was given two weeks to contest or accept the proposed penalty.
Cindy Knight, a manager
of Toyota public affairs in Washington, said the company will announce its decision Monday, the deadline for a response. She declined to comment until then.
Minor said he disagrees with the accusation that Toyota was hiding defects.
“I don’t think so personally,” he said. “… Beyond any shadow of doubt, I have no suspicions that that happened in any way, shape or form.”
He said he does think that Toyota might have prolonged its reaction because of inex-perience.
“They were slow to act prob-ably,” he said “They don’t have a lot of experience when it comes to recalls or anything else like a lot of the other manufacturers do.”
Minor said over the last 20 years, Toyota has had fewer than 500 safety recalls, a number he said is lower than the big three — Chrysler, Ford and GM.
“That is a big difference,” he said. “[Manufacturing defects are] not something that we deal with on a daily basis. We’ve had less than other manufacturers. We’ve only just had bad orders recently.”
He trusts Toyota was and will keep making the right decisions for consumers concerning their vehicles, Minor said.
“You have to trust whoever is in power of making those deci-sions and that they’re making the right decisions,” he said.
Drew Elam, a printmaking senior, said he is now suspi-cious of other large car manu-facturers.
The Texas Department of Public Safety will halt a major construction project today through Sunday. Race fans headed to Texas Motor Speedway may not hit as much tra� c for the “O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 Nationwide Series.” The race will be held Saturday, followed by the “Samsung Mobile 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series” on Sunday.
PHOTO COURTESY OF RON JENKINS/FT.WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM/MCT
Construction stops for expected race tra� c
Government seeks maximum penalty for Toyota recall
PHOTO COURTESY OF MARLIN LEVINSON/MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE/MCTThe National Highway Tra� c Safety Administration is seeking the maximum civil penalty of $16.4 million for Toyota Motor Corporation. Toyota waited at least four months to announce and recall the defect despite knowledge of the potential risk to consumers.
“Chances are it’s not just one,” he said. “ Maybe other companies are doing it, too, like
Hyundai, Honda and Nissan. If a lawsuit is that huge, you’d be suspicious about anything.”
Lanes to remain open for Texas
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AUSTIN (A P) — A state boa rd voted Tuesday to place metal detectors and X-ray machines at the public entrances to the Texas Capitol to deter terrorism, despite objections from Gov. Rick Perry that the devices would create a logjam for visitors.
Perry, who serves on the State Preser vat ion Board, said he thinks the public can be protected w ithout the machines. He compared the effect of the new secu-rity measures to long lines at airport security.
“The safety of our citizens is very important, but on the other side ... the access of our Capitol is about to be substan-tially restricted,” Perry said. “I think the public will be disappointed.”
At the start of the meeting,
the board recognized several state troopers who disarmed a man after he fired several shots outside t he Capitol in January. Then they went behind closed doors for more than an hour to discuss the Department of Public Safety’s security plan.
Once they returned, Perry ca st t he lone d issent i ng vote.
More surveillance cameras in the Capitol and on the grounds, more bomb-sniffing dogs, increased police foot and bike patrols, and other measures with a total cost of about $3 million were also included in the plan passed by the board, which includes Lt. Gov. Dav id Dewhurst, House Speaker Joe Straus, Rep. Charlie Geren, R-Fort Worth, Sen. Tommy Williams,
R-The Woodlands, and public member Charlotte Foster.
Dewhurst called the metal detectors and X-ray machines necessary to help prevents acts of violence.
“I don’t wa nt it on my conscience that some inno-cent person v isit i ng t he Capitol got hurt by a nut,” Dewhurst said.
The plan would have the public use the north side entrance, which includes a
disabled-access entrance. Tour groups would be sent to the south side. The east and west entrances would be used by lawmakers, staff and other officials who would use an ID card.
Screening would be similar to airport security. Capitol visitors would walk through t he meta l detectors a nd place any bags on the X-ray machines.
“T i me s h av e c h a nge d
regrettably since 9-11. There are people out there around the world who want to do Americans harm. The state Capitol in Texas is the monu-ment to the people in Texas,” Dewhurst said.
After the 2001 terror attacks, DPS placed metal detectors at the entrances and had troopers conduct bag checks for several months. DPS has a lso used metal detectors outside the House and Senate chambers on occasion.
Dewhurst said if entrance lines back up, such as during leg islat ive sessions when thousands of people come to the Capitol every day, officials can use all four entrances to get the public into the building quickly.
“We don’t wa nt to see lines,” Dewhurst said. “We
don’t wa nt to see people turned away. My objective is to protect people so there’s no diminish of access to the state Capitol.”
One concern is how to screen concealed handgun permit holders.
Permit holders are allowed to bring their weapons to the Capitol and state law keeps i n for m at ion a b out w ho holds a permit confidential. Dewhurst said he didn’t want to make the Capitol a gun-free zone like schools and some businesses.
Cha rles Cotton, execu-t ive director of the Texas State Rif le Association, said he expects permit holders will be allowed to skip the metal detectors once they show their permit to Capitol security.
State capital to install new security measures“I don’t want it on my conscience that some innocent person visiting
the Capitol got hurt by a nut.”—David Dewhurst
Lt. Governor
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Flag-waving tea party activists gath-ered at tax-day rallies around Texas on Thursday, denouncing big government while cheering on former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other poli-ticians.
Gov. Rick Perry wasn’t set to address any of the rallies where thousands were expected from El Paso to Tyler, but he did warn organizers to watch their backs for liberals trying to make them look bad.
About 300 turned out to hear
Gingrich and watch him sign a tea party pledge at an Austin hotel — chanting “Newt!” when a moderator asked about his polit-ical plans. Gingrich dodged the moderator’s question but later told reporters he didn’t know if he’d run for president 2012.
Gingrich, well-known for his support of the Contract With America that helped Republicans recapture Congress in 1994, drew loud applause and hoots when he signed a pledge called the Contract From America, in which tea partyists ask those
Tea Partyists cheer Gingrich, conservative values in Austinseeking elected office to adhere to 10 core conservative prin-ciples.
Gingrich praised the move-ment as crucial to conservatives’ chances of taking back Congess and the White House.
“I would be very concerned if the tea party movement drifted into a third party because if we split our side, we re-elect Pelosi and Obama,” he said to cheers. He drew applause from the crowd when he predicted a balanced budget amend-ment would emerge as a major issue this summer and when he repeatedly called for the repeal of President Barack Obama’s health care legislation.
Gingrich got a rock star greeting at the event, drawing a
prolonged standing ovation and repeated applause throughout his speech. As the event concluded, throngs of people followed him out of the room, seeking his autograph and snap-ping pictures.
Although Republicans are ideological allies of many tea partiers — and GOP operatives are involved in some of the orga-nizations — they are also part of the establishment that many in the movement want to upend.
At other tea party rallies across the country, Republican participation drew opposition. In Wisconsin, a half-dozen tea party groups from around the state decided to boycott Thursday’s rally in Madison because former Republican Gov.
Tommy Thompson was among the speakers.
In an invitation-only call with tea party organizers on Wednesday, Perry said that they need to “continue looking over your shoulder ... for people trying to make the tea party into something that it’s not.”
Perry, a frequent Washington basher who capitalized on the tea party movement to defeat Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the March primary elections, said the movement was certain to be mischaracterized.
“You can bet that every dirty trick is going to get played on tea parties, trying to marginalize them, trying to make them into something that they’re not,” said Perry, who faces Democrat Bill
White in November’s guberna-torial election.
There was plenty of f lag waving and shouts opposing the federal government and health care at a lunchtime rally Thursday on the south steps of the Capitol in Austin. One woman held an anti-tax sign that said, “Even my God only asks for 10 percent.” Others held flags showing a picture of a cannon and the Texas Revolution slogan “Come and Take It.”
One man at the ral ly, Jim Dillon, approached the crowd carrying an AK-47 on his shoulder that he said was unloaded and legal. A state trooper stopped the man, exam-ined the weapon and then left him alone.
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Friday, April 16, 2010
BY BEN BABYStaff Writer
Junior Jermaine Jamison steps up to his mark with a clear mind, shaking off all baggage that could weigh him down during his flight.
Competing in the high jump, he gazes at the bar, the only thing separating him from accomplishing his task.
Taking three to four deep breaths, Jamison leaps into the air, flying over the bar and above the competition.
In his third year at UNT, Jamison has proved to be a standout athlete, but the trans-formation from a raw talent to a polished veteran is still in progress.
“Most athletes would do anything to have his level of talent,” assistant coach Laurie McElroy said. “My biggest job right now is figuring out a way to get as much out of that as possible, and utilizing him in not just limiting himself to the high jump, but hopefully seeing [him] be able to step up and do things in the conference meet, at least, in multiple events.”
Discovering his talentCarolyn Foreman, Jamison’s
mother, attributes his leaping abilities to an unusual activity, something kids don’t do if they are not running away from anybody.
“We had a six-foot privacy wooden fence, and it all started with that,” Foreman said.
Jamison did not truly discover his gift of jumping until his eyes were opened by fellow teammate and Harker Heights alumni, junior Brittani Simmons. Jamison credits Simmons for where he is today.
“I got recruited to do long
jump … and I talked to [coach McElroy] about him, and then I told him to talk to [coach McElroy],” Simmons said. “I guess she called him, and I guess that’s how he got here.”
Jamison did not discover his knack for jumping until he stumbled upon it during a lazy day.
“It was my sophomore year in high school, right after basket-ball season,” Jamison said. “I didn’t have [anything] to do — just came out there and jumped 6-[feet]-6-[inches] with regular shoes on. They told me I was a high jumper.”
A different battleWhile Jamison is fighting the
rest of the competition to be the top of his sport, his mother fights a different battle against breast cancer.
Jamison makes sure his mother drinks plenty of water and helps her research different ways to deal with the disease. However, Foreman’s struggles have not stopped her son from chasing his goals.
“Through it all, he’s still going on through,” Foreman said. “He’s progressing. I’m very proud of Jermaine.”
Jamison, the youngest of four
siblings, comes from an athletic family. His sister, Pamela Batiste, was also a high jumper growing up, something her brother learned to mimic.
“It’s like one day he was a kid, and then it’s like I turned around and he was taller, and the next thing I know, he’s taller than me,” Batiste said.
The talent that Jamison’s family possesses is something that most would boast about. With his potential, added respon-sibilities are placed on the junior’s shoulders.
“I got a lot of pressure on me, because I’m... the only one who got a scholarship to do a sport,” Jamison said. “Both my sisters were able to, but outside influ-ences got them. I hear their mouths all the time, just them talking motivation to me too.”
The high school standout has had his share of struggles this season. Jamison sustained a knee injury in November and under-went surgery in January.
“One of the primary things that I want to do this year is that he has his best performances at the end of the season, when it’s time to compete at conference, at the NCAA qualifiers and the NCAA meet,” McElroy said.
On top of the competitionJamison is coming off of a
stellar career year, where he tied the school’s high jump record of 7-feet-1/2-inches on two occa-sions. Jamison won the gold medal for the second year in a row at the Sun Belt Conference Championships.
From there he went on to finish 10th at the NCAA Midwest Regionals. Overall, Jamison domi-nated his competition, winning first place in the jump at four different meets, earning him the
Jamison overcomes obstacles to succeed
Jamison is coming o� of a career year, where he tied the school’s high jump record of 7-feet-1/2-inches on two occasions and won the gold medal for the second year in a row at the Sun Belt Conference Championships.
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Sun Belt Conference Men’s Field Performer of the Week on two occasions.
Personal developmentAlthough still a coach, McElroy
has helped Jamison not only in jumping higher but also in growing as an adult.
“As a person … there’s been some dark days,” Jamison said. “She basically progressed me from being a kid into being a man, and that’s from a conversation I’ve had with her. That’s what the ulti-mate college experience is about — converting you from being a kid into a respectable adult.”
Compared to his previous performances, the recovery has been slow and steady. This outdoor season, Jamison finished second at the Bobby Lane Track and Field Invitational at UT-Arlington, and he earned ninth at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays.
Originally, Jamison intended on receiving a football scholar-
ship, with offers coming from places like Texas-El Paso and New Mexico. Jamison, a grad-uate of Harker Heights High School, opted to stay closer to home, accepting a track schol-arship from the only school that offered him one —UNT.
To help Jamison get through his daily struggles is his middle-school sweetheart, Kristy Blurton. The couple first got together in sixth grade, when Blurton slipped Jamison a note that said, “Will you go out with me?”
The two have since been together for nine years, with a break in the middle. During that time, Blurton, a junior at Baylor University, has seen her boyfriend grow outside of the lanes.
“It sounds cliché, that he’s grown into a man, but he’s a lot more disciplined, a lot more responsible,” Blurton said.
“He takes care of his business, and he knows what he has to do.
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By Christina MlynskiStaff Writer
If catchy, rhythmic, danceable singles like “Time to Pretend,” “Kids,” and “Electric Feel” are what listeners expect upon the release of MGMT’s sophomore album “Congratulations,” they shouldn’t bother taking off the CD’s plastic covering.
With the amazing success of the band’s debut album “Oracular Spectacular” — Rolling Stone magazine named it one of the top-20 albums of the decade — they took appealing lyrics and crafted ingenious melodies.
T h i s i s not t he c a se for “Congratulations.” It’s a half-hearted attempt to give any type of melodic understanding.
“It’s Working” opens up the beginning of the Brooklyn duo’s ridicule for producing songs that started their road to fame. The sarcastic track suddenly becomes bombarded with a repetitious overkill of harsh bass lines.
On track three, kaleidoscopic f u n k sta r t s of f “Someone’s Missing.”
A nd rew Va n Wy nga rden’s brooding voca ls fade in and out to create an echoing effect, which introduces what seems to be a promising song. However, this assumption quick ly self-destructs as a frantic mixture
MGMT’s psychedelic album fails to live up to debut
of sounds begins to take on the theme of the album: the preten-tious effort to make “music as art.”
The only impressive track is the 12-minute diversion of “Siberian Breaks,” which intro-duces t he musica l s t y l i n g of s p a c e y chords and sweeping keys, resulting in an upbeat t rack . T he ps ychedel ic at mo-sphere of the song creates a foundation of relaxing under-tones for an explosion of eccen-trically raw lyrics.
Upon t he a n nou ncement of MGMT’s second attempt to continue their musical journey, the band released a statement “apologizing” for their fresh creation, knowing that listeners would not understand their new musical discovery.
The self-titled closing track is the evidence needed to back up the band’s confession.
This track is the ringleader for a directionless, unstructured single. The melodies completely stray away from anything asso-ciated with MGMT.
The song combines a wide variety of clatter ranging from acoustic guitars to deafening
drumbeats a longside lyrical allegations toward those mali-cious sellouts, too kooky for their own good.
In theory, the incorporation of multiple genres, which paved the way for many musical mile-stones, seems like a combina-tion that’s too good to be true.
However, when the music composes a nine-track album, the result is scruffy, messy and scattered noise.
MGMT should be applauded for their attempted musica l v ision, but t he a lbu m was properly titled because if the listener can endure 44 minutes of fuzzy harmonic mockeries, they should be congratulated.
Opinion
[ In theaters today... ]By Kip Mooney / SCENE Editor / OPiniOn
“Kick-Ass”
I haven’t been this excited for a movie in a long time. Aaron Johnson stars as a teenager ready to do some-thing important with his life. Despite a lack of superpowers, he creates his own alter ego and teams up with father-daughter duo Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz).
The film promises to be a violent, foul-mouthed and relentlessly funny send-up of instant-fame culture and comic -book obsession. And any movie that causes advocacy groups to break out into a full-on moral panic is a movie that’s worth seeing.
“Death at a Funeral”
In this shot-by-shot remake of the 2007 British comedy, a funeral for the family’s patri-arch goes disastrously awry with a series of mix-ups involving the wrong body, hallucinogenic drugs and dark family secrets.
I was a big fan of the original, and I can’t see how a remake with the same exact plot and a much less funny cast is a good idea. Plus, the previews and commer-cials give away the f i lm’s big twist. Any movie that shows all its cards before it even comes out is never a good sign.
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BY KATIE GRIVNASenior Staff Writer
Denton native and comedian Tony Stone will perform at 7:30 Tuesday night at the Campus Theatre as part of Just for the Fun(ds) of It, a fund-raiser benefiting the Cumberland Presbyterian Children’s Home.
Tickets may be purchased in advance or at the door for $50, which includes complimentary beer, wine and food.
“Where I grew up on McCormick Street, I could almost see the [ C u m b er l a nd P r e sb y t er i a n Children’s] Home,” he said. “We
knew some kids from there and we played sports with them and things, so I had a little bit of a connection with them to begin with, but it has been years since I have been there.”
The Cumberland Presbyterian Children’s Home provides a safe place to live for kids removed from their home by state Child Protective Services, and offers a transition housing program for single-parent families, and gives parenting classes and premarital educa-tion, said Caroline Lara, director of advancement at the Cumberland Presbyterian Children’s Home.
Stone said although his family moved a lot when he was growing up, he always considered Denton home.
He attended Denton High School and received his Master in Business Administration from UNT in 1971.
Stone had what he described as the “world’s best job” on a Carnival Cruise Line ship doing comedy for eight and a half years, but when it came time to settle back down, he returned to Denton.
During his time on the cruise ships, there were only about 30 Americans out of the 900 employees, and there was always at least one UNT graduate working as a musician.
“I lived in Denton, grew up in Denton, went to North Texas, but I didn’t know anything about the whole music scene and the music culture and how competitive it is until I went out there,” Stone said.
Stand-up teacherStone started doing stand-up
comedy in the ’80s. “My first attempt at a real club
was in New York City at Catch a Rising Star, and I was horrible,” Stone said. “I had already been bitten by the bug of what it was like to perform, so I just kept at it.”
At one point during his career, he won a comedy contest on the
east coast, earning him a spot at a New York City contest.
Although he didn’t win, he performed on the TV series “Caroline’s Comedy Hour,” “Two Drink Minimum” and “An Evening at the Improv,” where he worked with comedian Ray Romano.
Stone works as a substitute teacher at Lewisville Independent School District in addi-tion to stand-up comedy performances.
“It’s always great to see someone get what you’re trying to tell them,” he said. “There is some grat-ification there when they actually learn something.”
Sometimes he tries his jokes on the students to motivate them to behave.
“When substitutes come in, they go a little nuts of course, so I say ‘If you keep relatively quiet, I’ll do some jokes at the end [of class],’ and that always gives them a moti-vation to keep quiet,” he said.
For students interested in becoming a comedian, Stone said he suggests creating five minutes
worth of material to memorize and perform at local open mic nights or for friends.
Lara said she came up with the idea of having a comedy fundraiser because she wanted to do some-thing different to raise money for the organization.
“My goal was to come out with something that no one else in Denton was doing,” she said. “There are a lot of great nonprofits in the area, and a lot of them have all kinds of different events.”
Denton comedian raises money for children’s home
Denton native and comedian Tony Stone will perform at 7:30 Tuesday night at the Cam-pus Theatre as part of the fundraiser Just for the Fun(ds) of It, bene� ting the Cumber-land Presbyterian Children’s Home.
PHOTO COURTESY OF CAROLINE BOOTH LARA
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By Christina Mylinski and Melissa BoughtonStaff Writer and Assigning Editor
The rustic exterior, lined with wooden panels, creates the base for a neon green, red and yellow sign perched on top of a roof, which displays the entrance to a surprisingly authentic Southern feel inside the Cajun-infused Frilly’s Restaurant.
At lunchtime, a line of hungry patrons form from the order window to outside the front doors. The cement floor becomes swarmed as they
eagerly wait their turn to order from the Louisiana cuisines listed on the chalkboards. After ordering, the customers become their own host as they choose a drink and pick up silverware, plates and napkins.
Upon first glance, the prices seem a little steep for a hole-in-the-wall shack, but the portions present a quantity of food that could satisfy the most ravenous appetite.
The Mardi Gras Pasta is recom-mended, with a bowl stuffed with succulent crawfish, sweet and spicy sausage, and a hearty helping of butterfly shrimp. The fettuccini pasta absorbs the vodka sauce and seafood extracts, while the sausage adds just the right amount of kick to complement the palate.
The toasted garlic bread proves to be the best utensil provided as the enticing flavors become absorbed in the crispy treat. The defining attri-bute cooked into the dish is a distinc-tive rosemary flavor, adding a nice contrast of pungency and seafood.
If you aren’t quite in the mood for seafood but still want that deli-cious Cajun flavor, the jambalaya is a perfect choice.
The dish is served with white rice, and both are given in heaping quantities.
The jambalaya is salty with just the right amount of spice. The mixture includes beef sausage, chicken, tomatoes and green peppers cooked to perfection. Patrons will have a hard time finishing the meal, but they can take home the leftovers for a dish that is almost as good the next day.
If you dare to venture onto dessert after the monstrous entrée, Frilly’s is ready to offer more delicious food.
The Voodoo Chocolate Cake is delightfully plentiful closing to a successful meal.
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With only four weeks of school standing between students and summertime, many people are already dreaming of backyard barbe-cues and sunshine. You can’t have a backyard barbecue without a classic American dessert. This no-brainer recipe for banana pudding can be made for less than $6, perfect for a college student on a budget. Refrigerate leftovers, if you have any. For a chunkier pudding, cut the banana into bigger pieces. No matter how you slice it, this banana pudding will make a dessert perfect for cooling off from the summer-time heat.
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BY GRACIELA RAZOSenior Staff Writer
With business on Industrial Street booming, a group of local business owners are bringing people together in their area to show them how friendly their side of Denton is.
The Industrial Street Guild, a group of business owners on the blue-collar side of the Square, are organizing the third-annual Industrial Street Bash at 11 a.m. Saturday.
Chris Hawley, co-owner of Little Guys Moving Systems and Dan’s Silver Leaf music venue, said the guild wanted to show how the area is growing rapidly.
“Our underlying priority is to bring awareness to the area,” Hawley said. “You might not normally go over there, so we’re trying to educate people that we’re there.”
Bands Slobberbone, Carolyn Wonderland, Matthew and the Arrogant Sea, Final Club, and
Sundress, formerly known as Odyssey, will provide the music while professional skateboarder Mike Crum will build a halfpipe on-site to do skateboarding demon-strations.
Vendors, spray tattoos, face painting and a bounce house will also provide entertainment for guests. The festival is free to attend.
The guild is made up of owners from Little Guys Moving Systems, Dan’s Silver Leaf, Seniors in Motion, Rooster’s Roadhouse and Fuzzy’s Taco Shop. Hot Box Pizza will also sponsor the event.
The owners came together to brainstorm how to make their busi-nesses grow, and how to put on fund-raisers and events for the Denton community.
Eventually the owners want the Industrial Street Bash to get big enough to donate money to local charities, Hawley said.
“We want to give something back to the community that gives us busi-ness in the form of entertainment, music and art,” Hawley said.
Leslea Bushager, a Fuzzy’s Taco Shop manager, said Industrial Street is a part of town that often goes unnoticed although businesses there are an important part of Denton.
“There didn’t really used to be anything on this street before, but now it’s a really big growing part of this city,” Bushager said. “We’re pretty neighborly on this street when it comes to other businesses, too.”
Ryan McAdams, lead singer and guitarist of Sundress and an adver-tising senior, said the band decided to play the festival to show support for Denton businesses. The band will also be performing new music from their EP, set for release next week.
“I think it is a great way for people just to get out of their houses, meet
one another and see what music Denton is capable of,” McAdams
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Street festival brings attention to local businesses
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BY LORI LEEStaff Writer
A special production of Dallas Summer Musicals, “The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber,” opens Tuesday at the Music Hall at Fair Park.
The show, planned by Webber, will bring a full orchestra to the stage along with six soloists, who will re-create scenes from his most celebrated musicals.
“One of my favorite things to do is to close my eyes and listen to the music,” said Michael Jenkins, presi-dent and managing director of Dallas Summer Musicals. “It’s really quite phenomenal.”
With no elaborate plots, sets or costumes, the show will allow viewers to simply take in the music.
In this setting, songs like “Memory,” “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina,” “The Music of the Night” and “I Don’t Know How to Love Him,” can be appreci-ated in their own right.
The concert will showcase Webber’s most famous compositions from “Cats,” “Evita,” “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Sunset Boulevard,” “Jesus Christ Superstar” and other celebrated works.
One of the most critically acclaimed composers of all time, Webber has won seven Tonys, three Grammys and many other awards. Webber was even knighted in 1992.
The show brings soloists from Broadway productions like “Wicked,” “Les Misérables” and “A Chorus Line.”
One of the soloists, Laurie Stephenson, grew up in Dallas and made her Broadway debut as Lily in “The Secret Garden.”
She was unavailable for comment, but Jo Ann Holt, publicist for Dallas Summer Musicals, said Stephenson is excited to be involved in the produc-tion and to have the opportunity to perform for her hometown friends and family.
The new version of the show, by Jeffrey Finn Productions, brings back the creative force behind the 2004 production.
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BY KIP MOONEYSCENE Editor
Having finally witnessed the sheer mind-blowing experience of “Shutter Island” this week, I’ve realized that I love movies where the audience can’t fully explain what happened once the credits roll.
In Martin Scorsese’s latest m a s t e r pie c e, L e o n a r d o DiCaprio plays Teddy Daniels, a U.S. Marshal investigating a disappearance at a heav i ly fortified mental hospital off the Massachusetts coast.
But, as these t h i n g s g o , nothing is as it seems.
Between orderlies that won’t talk, conveniently unavailable administrators and power outages, things make less and less sense.
It doesn’t help that Teddy is prone to violent war f lashbacks, nightmares of his dead wife and intense migraines.
This is Scorsese’s most out-of-character movie since “The Age of Innocence.” But it still show-cases his deft balance between commanding the action on-screen and letting the actors roam wild.
It takes a lot of control to portray a person this out-of-control, and Scorsese and DiCaprio pull it off beautifully. During one scene, Teddy has a nearly complete mental breakdown. The lights f lash on-screen, almost unbear-ably, and the audience feels just as overwhelmed.
By the t ime the big t w ist reveals itself and the film comes to a deadly end, it will never be
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‘Island,’ ‘Memento,’ continue to haunt Jenkins notes several
reasons for bringing the production to Dallas, having just had the big final showing of “The Phantom of the Opera” and the recent opening of the Phantom sequel in London, “Love Never Dies.” Of the 88 shows that Jenkins surveyed, he said this has histor-ically been one of the top 10. Many people who saw it loved it and wanted to bring it back, said Jenkins.
Jenkins, who said he tries to see every show four to six times before bringing them to Dallas, said they rely on audi-ence feedback a great deal.
“For seven years, we’ve been bringing the best of Broadway to Dallas,” said Jenkins. “This is a different show. It’s more of a high-end concert, and this appeals to the greatest percentage of our audience.”
A special production of “The Music of Andrew Lloyd Web-ber,” opens Tuesday at the Music Hall at Fair Park. The con-cert will showcase Webber’s most famous compositions, including “The Phantom of the Opera.”
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possible to know exactly what happened.
The huge shock of the ending of “Shutter Island” reminded me of another one of my favorite thrillers: Christopher Nolan’s “Memento.”
Before he revitalized the Batman franchise, the British director’s breakthrough film starred Guy Pearce as a man with no short-term memory
and a murder to solve.
The film’s s t r u c t u r e p l a y s i n reverse, with short scenes i n b l a c k-a n d - w h i t e bridging the main story.
The viewer i s j u s t a s confused as Pearce, with
each scene adding to the chaos. One thing we know for sure is that we’re supposed to root for Pearce. He’s the “good guy.” But we were led to believe that about other characters, and they were downright evil.
By the time Pearce catches up with the “bad guy,” the truth is murky at best. At the end, we want to believe Pearce, but how can you trust someone who doesn’t even remember what happened moments ago?
It’s the same way in “Shutter Island.”
The audience has become so tied to the protagonist, so ready for him to find the answer to this mystery, that we want to believe what he does.
But when he’s not sure of what he sees, neither are we. Still, in both films the audience draws its own conclusion, even if it’s contrary to what really happened.
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Words and Photoby Jessica PaulStaff Writer
This week, I interviewed a student on campus on some of her thoughts and philosophies concerning fashion. Elizabeth Hagar, a literature sopho-more, discusses fashion icons she respects, fashion mistakes she’s made and what she’s most excited to wear for summer.
Q: In three words, how would you describe your style?
A: Retro, floral, fun.
Q: Do you have any fashion icons or designers you look up to?
A: Designers Diane von Furstenberg and Coco Chanel. And I look up to the styles of Grace Kelly, Zooey Deschanel and maybe a little Brigitte Bardot.
Q: Do you have a signature piece that you wear or something that you always try to incorporate into your wardrobe?
A: I try and change it up a little. I always wear something that makes me feel like from a different decade.
Q: What’s the best fashion advice that you follow?
A: My main thing is as long as you’re comfortable and you feel good then roll with it. Because you can just rock it.
Q: What’s the biggest fashion faux pas that you ever made?
A: Probably whenever I was in elementary school and wearing those pants that could, like, zip and become capris or zip and become shorts. Those were awful.
Q: Where are your favorite places to shop? Do you have a favorite place in Denton?
A: I shop at a lot of vintage stores. Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, J. Crew, Forever 21––those are probably my go-to’s. I usually go to Northpark and shop around, or I go to the vintage stores in Austin.
Q: What are you most excited about wearing this summer?
A: I’m really excited about fun dresses. I’m really into the whole sundress thing right now.
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