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The Transition From Wine Lovers to Using Wine as a Business — THE DENTONITE

He didn’t want to retire. He had just lost his job where he did outsourcing for small businesses, a possible hint at what his next step in life would be. Now the owner of Steve’s Wine Bar, Steve Severance, said he “stumbled” upon the wine bar business after talking at a Rotary meeting about the wine nights him and his wife would have. After this one conversation, he was set on the project.

















“’They want me to open a place for wine, I might as well do that now,’” Karen S...
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collective | connection @ DMA — spiderweb salon

Explore the possibilities of curiosity, identity, and community in collective | connection by C3 Visiting Artist Collective, Spiderweb Salon at the Dallas Museum of Art. For our installation in C3 (Center for Creative Connections), fifty poets, writers, actors, and musicians wrote and recorded audio experiences inspired by works of art from the museum’s collection. Join us on a nostalgic interactive adventure in which you may navigate your own experience by connecting piece by piece, puzzling to...
Dallas Observer •

Manifest Destiny’s Child Is a Young POC Female Noise Band That Won’t Be Quiet

Manifest Destiny’s Child takes to the stage, with the letter "X" written on their hands and instruments bigger than their small frames. The group's name is a clever play on words with the beloved R&B trio and the doctrine that justified colonization. Onstage, guitarist and vocalist Carol Gonzalez, 20, bassist and vocalist Sabrina Tionloc, 20, and drummer Kaylin Martinez, 24, evoke the anger, power and the many intersections crossed by womanhood through noisy, experimental and calculated music —
Progress Texas •

The rise of organizing in North Texas: North Texas Dream Team and immigrant rights

In recent elections, North Texans have seen their results trend more and more blue. And when it comes to immigrant rights, there’s a small yet powerful pool of people leading this hefty conversation in Dallas and Fort Worth.

Although there have been countless people advocating in our community, North Texas has been catching up to other metro areas across the state when it comes to organizing.

As we reach the peak of this election cycle, several groups like the North Texas Dream Team have been
Progress Texas •

Explainer: The ongoing impact of SB 4 on Texas immigrants

The era of Donald Trump has created a chain reaction of several bills, motions, and conversations throughout the nation targeting immigrants and impacting Texans of all backgrounds.

Four months after Trump was inaugurated in 2017, Texas’ Senate Bill 4 (SB 4) was put into place targeting Texas immigrants.

SB 4 was the result of Texas’ ongoing anti-immigration policy battle. Sharing the border with Mexico has meant that the Latinx community and Latinx immigrant community are always in a battle f
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Featured Writer: Amelia McBride Echenique

Today, I’m teaming up with Spiderweb Salon to showcase a piece from the The Dentonite’s new collection of Poetry & Prose from the 940, honoring Hispanic Heritage Month (observed from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15): Pertenezco by Amelia McBride Echenique.

Pertenezco means “I belong to” in English and this piece is beautiful ownership of identity and the confusion of it as well. Echenique said the piece stems from her most recent visit with her mother who now lives in Oregon. After not seeing her for sever
Denton Record-Chronicle •

Small business, big sound: Briggs draws musicians to home-based studio from Denton and beyond

Denton audio engineer Michael Briggs sits comfortably at his workspace, a few feet from local singer Chance Coffman. Together, the two men are trying to get a recording just right.

Briggs’ workspace doubles as his living room. He’s not the first to turn a portion of his house in Denton’s “PECAN” neighborhood (located along Panhandle, Egan, Congress and Alice streets) into a recording studio. But his space — walls thickened with foam that enhance the acoustics — has become a popular destination
THE DENTONITE •

UNT Students Work to Save Endangered Language

When she was invited to speak in front of the United Nations about her community and after helping to translate human rights documents from English to her language, Sumshot Khular realized there were many words and larger terms about human rights that her native Lamkang language didn’t have.

“She then saw that part of human rights is also language rights,” said Shobhana Chelliah Linguistic professor at UNT. “Then if you lose your language, you lose your culture, then you lose your way of being.
THE DENTONITE •

Short Film ‘Lioness’ Explores the Psychological Experience of Survivors

CW: This article contains discussion of sexual assault

In the flurry of survivors reclaiming their stories through media and specifically the #MeToo movement, Nicole Lefteau along with her entire crew created Lioness, a compelling experimental short film which further empowered this movement when it went online December 20, 2017.

The film, which over the course of four and a half minutes, shows the physical and psychological experience of one woman (Nicole Rita Sharp) after being sexually assa
North Texas Daily •

The emotional passing of Senate Bill 4

Senate Bill 4, a statewide sanctuary city ban, was passed through the Texas Senate in February. Last Thursday, the bill withstood a 16-hour debate and passed through the House on a 93-54 vote. This legislation, which sparked what is being called one of the most emotional political debates, ended around 3 a.m. that day.

The reason for such a debate comes from the language of the bill, which withholds money from sanctuary cities and makes it a criminal offense if police and government entities do
North Texas Daily •

How internet activism ousted Bill O'Reilly

Fox News’s star player, Bill O’Reilly, was forced out of their organization last Wednesday. The pressure for this move began earlier this month after the New York Times reported that he settled five sexual harassment cases since 2004 with an estimated settlement of about $13 million. Although the Times broke this information, it certainly did not end there.

Fox News was continually supporting O’Reilly during those settlements. This conveys a cycle within Fox to ignore and reward employees who a