On Sept. 13, TWU Student Life will be hosting an open mic night from 6-8 p.m. in the Student Union room 207. This event is open to all TWU students, staff and faculty members. Those attending are encouraged to take on the stage and show the crowd their talents. Talents
Entertainment
“The Happytime Murders” is a big-time flop
With big comedy names like Elizabeth Banks and Maya Rudolph, the storytelling prowess of director Brian Henson, and starring the queen of comedy herself, Melissa McCarthy, "The Happytime Murders" is a blockbuster on paper. All that potential is wasted, however, on the continually raunchy, hauntingly strange, rarely funny 90-minute nightmare.
Waterloo Music Festival rocks Austin
Get back in the grind
Outdoor Adventures Each year, the TWU Fitness and Recreation Center hosts multiple outdoor adventures that are open to students and range from kayaking, hiking, caving and horseback riding. This semester, there will be seven trips available that will cost between $10 and $40 per student. Each student must pre-register to
Owl the rage: Painting at the fountain
TWU Dallas’ Cup of Tea
Classes are starting back up, and students and professors alike are in the process of learning about each other. Professors are learning names, and students are learning teaching styles, but many students forget that their professors are real human beings with real lives outside of the classroom. On Monday, Aug
Cirque Italia: A New Type of Entertainment
Cirque Italia is trying to rejuvenate the love of the circus by incorporating a new watery twist into an outdated tradition. Cirque Italia is described as a “vivid, dramatic, and moving experience under a customized tent...Cirque Italia brings the appreciation of production and circus arts together to create a night to be
Local grill offers competitive games
Joyce Elaine Grant photography
Hanging in the East and West galleries of TWU’s Visual Arts Building, the Joyce Elaine Grant Photography exhibition is on display for the sixteenth year. Since its creation in 2001, TWU graduate students have continued to organize the exhibition named for the mother of TWU professor Susan Kae Grant. The exhibition
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Get a little twisted this Valentine’s Day
Looking for a creative way to spend Valentine’s Day? Surprise your partner with a paint date at Painting with a Twist! Spoiler alert: the twist is PWAT is a chain of art studios hosting BYOB painting classes every week – they provide the art supplies, and you bring your beverage of
Queen of Hearts fashion show
Sweet heart necklines, playing cards, red satin cloth, maroon skirts carefully crafted and a couple Alice and Wonderland references kicked off "The Queen of Hearts" fashion show TWU and UNT students produced for the Denton American Heart Association’s annual fundraising event. TWU students in Dr. Sheri Dragoo’s event planning class have
DBFF: Celebrating Black Culture and Building Community
The Denton Black Film Festival’s aim to “educate, entertain, and inspire” manifested through the vehicles of film, art, culture and conversation the weekend of Jan. 27-29. The third-annual DBFF’s immense variety of artistic showcases mirrored the festival’s vision of diversity and allowed artists across genres and mediums to participate in
Trailblazing Alumni Dance Concert
On Thurs., Jan. 26 and Fri., Jan. 27, the Department of Dance held the first ever TWU Alumni Dance Concert. The concert, which was open to the public, featured works by Dance Alumni and coincided with MA and MFA auditions. Erika Record, Megan Odom, Big Rig, Terrance M. Johnson Dance Project,
Intersectional art and entertainment in DFW
Whether feminism is your jam or you’re just looking to try something new, the following events may be for you. Each of these DFW happenings is centered on intersectional art and entertainment that fosters an environment rich with talent, inclusivity and empowerment. Women of the World Poetry Slam The annual Women of
Moana is Disney’s first realistic female role model
Disney’s latest animated movie “Moana” raised the bar for all of Disney’s future entertainment pieces. The movie centers on a young Polynesian girl who leaves her beautiful, but now endangered, island home to find the demigod Maui. With his help, Moana hopes to save her community. In the past, most Disney
Online secret Santa
In a generation where we date, shop and even order food online, why not add holiday festivities to the list? Traditional Secret Santa The Secret Santa activities usually involve family members, friends or coworkers who draw names and secretely gift their assigned person with favorite foods, candies, drinks and trinkets over the course of