Many North Texans diagnosed with severe to profound mental retardation have traveled to Denton to make a new home in the city's State School facility. Since 1960, Denton State School on State School Road has served as an intermediate care facility where people with developmental disabilities can learn and grow with volunteers and others who share similar conditions. (0) comments
Derek Garrison likes to keep things local. Garrison, the owner of Talon Comics and Games, the only locally owned comic book store in Denton, has been providing comic fans with their favorite magazine fixes for 13 years. "The other Fry Street comics store is a Dallas chain and the owner bought out Treasure Isles," Garrison said. (0) comments
Experimental music will fill the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater Monday as students from the College of Music perform works that combine acoustic music processed through computers to create the show's sounds. "Centerpieces," being hosted by the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia, will feature music composed by the students and faculty involved in the program. (0) comments
According to researchers, 15 percent of college students suffer from clinical depression during their college years and 10 percent of incoming students arrive at school with a history of it. Depression is both a disorder of brain chemistry and the result of hormonal influences of adolescence, stress and the demands of college life. (0) comments
For students of the NT College of Music, volunteer work doesn't require wearing an orange vest on the roadside or sporting a hairnet in a soup kitchen. It means using extensive musical training to help an important cause. Nearly 50 students from the College of Music will perform in the first-ever Concert for Hope benefiting the AIDS Services of North Texas at 8 p. (0) comments
More and more student entrepreneurs are finding it easier to attract the virtual market instead of setting up shop. The hardest part of being an entrepreneur is finding something that sells, said Adam Clunn, a Cypress sophomore and entrepreneurship major. (0) comments
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Imitation can be the sincerest form of confusion. So learned a Las Vegas man who alerted the media this week that he thought he had his hands on a rare photo of Marilyn Monroe posing nude as a hitchhiker. Instead, what he had was a famous photo of pop icon Madonna. (0) comments


