Hey new kids! Hope you're enjoying UNT and TWU so far. Have you found your coffee shop yet? If you're living on campus, we hope you've already gone ahead and taken some time to drive around Denton to explore. This here post you're reading right now is what we call the Den10. It is our weekly events listing of ten events happening in Denton that we think are worth your time. Sometimes they're festivals, oftentimes we feature live music, but whatever they may be, they will most likely be worth checking out.
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Read MoreIt’s that time of year again, y’all. The school doors are fresh with WD-40 and the cars are accidentally turning north onto Elm St. again. School is back in session and with it, a new crop of Dentonites have flooded our city limits. Will these fresh, young faces become lifelong Dentonites or only commute here, never even taking a step onto our town square? Only time will tell, but we’ve decided to do our part to get them to become a part of the former group, by providing them with some insider knowledge on some cool stuff Denton has to offer that would normally take awhile to figure out. It’s time for Secrets of Denton County V: Secrets Strike back...
Read MoreYou're either reading this in the middle of class, at home exhausted after your first day back, or at your job being a real life human being. Either way, we hope your day is a good one. It's officially Back to School Week at We Denton Do It again and we've got some fun stuff planned (including some more secrets).
What We Did is our weekly roundup of photos that WDDI staff and readers have taken over the past seven days. We've got nineteen of our favorite images from the past week in Denton, TX below. In this group, we've got plenty of scenes from the North Texas State Fair along with plenty of other views of different events in town.
If you'd like to be included in What We Did, tag your images with #WDDI on Instagram, and check back here next Monday. As always, we're limited in the photos we can post, but we encourage you to search the hashtag #WDDI and check out all of the other awesome photos that we were unable to include this week. Click the images below to be led back to the photographer's Instagram page. Have a great week!
Got a question about What We Did? Send it to will@wedentondoit.com.
Read MoreThe only thing that matters this week is Free Week. Go to it. Go to all of it. Shut Rubber Gloves down every single night and you might learn sa thing about what makes this town tick. So here’s our obligatory “welcome back” tips for small adults that don’t live here: watch for one way streets, find the guy who knows where the house party is, find the square, be down for anything, mentor a student through mentordenton.org and get involved in the greatest community on the planet. It’ll fly by and you won’t even know what you were a part of until your sleeping on peoples couches in Brooklyn hoping you got that temp job.
Questions, comments, and what-nots can be directed to glen@wedentondoit.com.
Read MoreLast Friday we had ourselves a spur of the moment contest. We were headed to The Green Zatar for the first column in our upcoming Hole in the Wall series and we were discussing the best way to get there from the square when we decided to pit ride share/transportation services Uber and Wandervan against one another.
Uber is the "world's largest taxi company," and was valued at 18.2 billion by investors a few months ago. They opened up their oft-infamous ride sharing program in Denton earlier this year. Wandervan, the local, vintage-friendly upstart owned and operated by Jason Upshaw, showed up a few months later. The latter is a lot more obvious to spot riding around town. We downloaded both apps, headed out to the sidewalk on the downtown Denton Square and called up some cars. Below is some story from the night accompanied by tweets from our live-tweeting session. You can search the hashtag #WDDIdrives on Twitter for more info. It ended up with a sick PhD getting free ice cream, because that's just how life is. Read on for more.
Read MoreThe end of summer is nearing. The kids are brushing off their backpacks, the teachers are prepping their rooms, the new college freshmen are driving the wrong way down Oak Street, the marching bands can be heard practicing early and late and the days are starting to cool off a little. Okay, well all of that is happening - except for that last part - wishful thinking. Thankfully we have a solution for that.
Read MoreIt is officially the last week until school starts, so that means lots of pool time for many of y'all. That said, there are still plenty of other fun things going on the next couple of weeks. Take a gander at a few of 'em in this edition of Seen and Heard.
Read MoreWhelp, it is officially that time, everyone. The UNT and TWU classes of 2019 are moved in and ready to take Denton by the horns. Watch out for folks driving the wrong way on Elm and for those long lines at Kroger at 10pm. Things are just getting started.
What We Did is our weekly roundup of photos that WDDI staff and readers have taken over the past seven days. We've got nineteen of our favorite images from the past week in Denton, TX below. Within the bunch are images of new restaurants, cactus cats, and some behind the scenes action from our contest between Uber and local upstart, Wandervan (but you can read more about that later, or search #WDDIdrives on Twitter in the meantime). Also, keep your ear to the ground this week, because we'll be announcing a super fun event later today.
If you'd like to be included in What We Did, tag your images with #WDDI on Instagram, and check back here next Monday. As always, we're limited in the photos we can post, but we encourage you to search the hashtag #WDDI and check out all of the other awesome photos that we were unable to include this week (there were tons of great images this week in particular so we highly encourage you to do so today). Click the images below to be led back to the photographer's Instagram page. Have a great week!
Read MoreAlright, we get it. It's hot. Summer is almost over. Getting back to school/work is hard. Well, we've got some good news for you: all your pain and suffering will come to an end now that the long awaited Barley & Board is open on the corner of Locust and Oak Streets. Prepare yourselves for a full rundown of all the glory you can expect from the newest and hottest place on the square. Hashtag your stuff #WDDI and keep doing you.
For more tips and tricks, email glen@wedentondoit.com.
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