Monday morning. Time to look at photos and work and stuff. Here's a collection of photos from the past seven days in Denton, TX. As always, some are of breakfast pastries, some are of music, and the rest are of cats/booze. Read on and avoid getting to work for another ten minutes. Tag your photos with #WDDI for the next week and we'll see you again Monday, February 10th.
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Mentor Denton is an ambitious endeavor put on by several local organizations whose goal is to put 10,000 mentors in Denton ISD schools by 2015. So far, they have over 700 volunteers that have been placed in the program, but they need more!
If you've been holding off from signing up and going through the training because of whatever reason, now is the time to go through with it. There are thousands of kids out there currently without mentors who need the guidance and assistance that they can only get through this program. Be a part of what drives Denton forward.
One kid, one hour a week, for one year. Sign up now to help be a part of the change.
As we kick off a new year, DIME met up with the ever-inspirational Ari Jones of Project 4.30. Not only will this gal’s impressive line of bags motivate you to travel more in 2014, but she’s got a pretty unique story to boot. How many people do you know have moved back to Denton FROM Austin because our creative community is a better fit for them? Yeah, that’s what we thought.
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Is it Spring? Is it Winter? Who cares, we’re in Denton and as usual, there are too many things to get into if you’re surviving the worst allergy season in recorded history. Benadryl is your friend and we are just here to help you out and point you in the right direction this week. Saturday is going to be a pretty big day and we’re excited because we got fancy and got some pairs of box tickets to the Murchison for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra performance. It’s looking forward to these things that make the week and the allergies bearable.
Questions or answers? Email glen@wedentondoit.com
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Did you know that you can now advertise with WDDI? We view our role in Denton as not only a primary source for all things local and fun, but as a great way to showcase the incredible talent and work coming out of Denton.
We do our best to help promote the best local businesses, artists, musicians and events. We do our best to be real about stuff, though, and believe our readership trusts our opinion on matters. We want to be a place where small businesses can find advertising that fits their budget and make an actual difference to their bottom line.
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We'll be honest. This column can sometimes be a pain. We try not to halfass it and fill it full of tunes that we’re just highlighting for the sake of taking up blog space. Heck, we didn’t even run this column last month because we couldn’t find enough good tuneage (oh no - was that kid from Central Track right?!). That being said, we want to showcase songs that we actually like, and sometimes it takes a while to accrue three of ‘em. It’s mid-to-late January, though, and we’ve got a batch. They’re pretty darn good, too. Click through to find tunes from Criminal Birds, The Infamists and SpoOky Folk.
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What the hell, Dentonites? Two days in which the temperature gauge goes above 70 and y'all turn into a bunch of drunks? I guess that's cool. We had margaritas, too. And I think there's a Denton stereotype about our collective penchant for booze and abnormally high alcohol-tolerance (we've seen some friends go five old(er) fashioneds deep at Paschall and not bat an eye (bye the way, that's approximately thirty minutes of drink prep for those five drinks if our math is correct). That said, there's a lot of pictures of booze below. So, if you're reading this on a Monday morning, you might get a bit jealous. Thanks again for tagging your weekend good times with #WDDI and we'll see you again next Monday with your Denton weekend adventures.
Read MoreDudes, it's Friday again. This sure seemed like a long week for one that started off on a holiday. Oh well, the weekend is here and 5pm is only eight and a half hours away. You can do it. We can help. Below are three WDDI hand-picked videos for your viewing amusement. We've got Midlake's new video for "The Old & the Young," a video from Denton's first Help-Portrait the other week, and some sort of weird mood setting video for this year's "Denton Mafia" thingamajig that we had not heard of until this year (but are now extremely excited about).
We love this new video for Midlake's new single, "The Old and The Young," from their new(ish) album, Antiphon.
Above is the Behind the Scenes video from January 11th's Help-Portrait: Denton. The next event will be held December 6th, 2014, but you can follow along and find out how you can help by following them on their Facebook page. The video was shot and edited by the always awesome Ryan Polly. You can check out more of his work on his website.
We're still not exactly sure what Mafia 2014 is, but we loved watching this video featuring parts of Denton as a scenic backdrop and we now know that if we happen to see people dressed in mafia regalia between January 27th - February 1st, that we shouldn't freak out. That's about it. You can find out more at this website.
Welcome back to Mr. Farris Goes to City Hall, our monthly look into the business developments happening in the city of Denton. Earlier this month, we highlighted our most anticipated things of 2014. We're only a few weeks into the year and a lot of 'em are pretty close to happening. Let's go ahead and jump into it.
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