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07/02/2009

Let the fun unfurl

There won’t be any shortage of patriotic fun this weekend. The Denton area has three fireworks displays planned and enough pageantry to stir up a season’s worth of national pride. Denton stages its annual Fourth of July Jubilee, starting with its early-bird offering: the 11th annual Liberty 5K Run and 1-Mile Walk, which will get red-blooded hearts pumping at 7:30 a.m.

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July brings two exhibits
Two art exhibits open this month in Denton. Oxide Gallery opened “The Four Elements: Earth, Air, Fire & Water” Wednesday and will have its monthly gallery night from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the downtown gallery, 501 W. Hickory St.

American King

Without the sea

Denton independents
Dan’s Silverleaf dedicates its stage this weekend to Denton-based bands.

Spoof and magic
Denton stages are dark this weekend, but both the Campus Theatre and the Denton Civic Center will be busy later this month.

‘Public Enemies’ lacks pulse

Universal Studios
Johnny Depp stars as legendary Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger, whose lightning raids made him the No. 1 target of J. Edgar Hoover’s fledgling FBI, in Public Enemies.

It’s tough to watch Johnny Depp these days when he’s not wearing eyeliner, a do-rag and a monkey on his shoulder. After gooping up Finding Neverland, glowering vacantly through Sweeney Todd and annihilating every sprinkle of dignity in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, how can he be trusted with another larger-than-life character defined by a complicated past?


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06/25/2009

Back on the boards

Last summer, when Denton Community Theatre staged Encore, director Bill Kirkley got a few questions about the upright piano on the stage. “A bunch of people asked me, ‘Why are you using an upright piano, of all things?’ And some people asked me why we weren’t using the perfectly good Steinway in the Campus Theatre,” Kirkley said. “I just told everybody, ‘How many auditions have you gone to where they used a concert grand to accompany people?’”

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Combo kicks off anniversary season in Dallas
This fall, Denton’s polka innovators Brave Combo will hit a milestone. The band celebrates its 30th anniversary with a tour.

Galleries show teachers’ art
The Greater Denton Arts Council has filled its galleries with work by artists who teach.

The two Joes
You’ve seen him at the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival, and Friday night, you can see Joe Ely in a much more intimate setting.

‘Cats’ slinks back for one more weekend
The North Central Texas College Department of Drama and Dance closes its run of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats with performances at 7:30 p.m. today through Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the First State Bank Center for the Performing Arts at NCTC’s Gainesville campus. For reservations, call 940-668-3355.

Oh boy

Uver ends Twilight Tunes’ run tonight
The popular Thursday Twilight Tunes wraps up its 16th year with tonight’s performance by rootsy, swampy blues-rock band Uver. It’s the Denton band’s first Twilight Tunes performance.

Give her a shot

Vehicle needs a tune-up

Paramount Pictures
Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf make a run for it in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Machines have feelings too. In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the follow-up to the lucrative original, which grossed nearly $800 million worldwide, director Michael Bay gives us the soft side of those delicate Autobots, the giant heaps of bolts who came to Earth only to have their rear-ends kicked and sent back to their home planet Cybertron in shame and tears.


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