d Nuts || June 21, 2007

Today's Denton Record-Chronicle looks at the decline of the Delta Lodge, creators of the formerly venerable Fry Street Fair. The story seems all too familiar, ringing of the same already-obvious decline that Deep Ellum stories of the past couple of years have reeked of, and anybody who attended this year's FSF can't be surprised by the news that the Fair's a goner.

Unlike Deep Ellum, though, the gentrification of a zone isn't killing off the city's creative juices. Regular readers here know that the infrastructure that fosters and encourages music around Denton has not died but shifted--not a surprise in a college town. It's sad to see the Delta Lodge going through woes and selling off the symbolic house, but the city's overall vibe is nowhere near Jonanna Widner's confused tour through Deep Ellum in this week's Observer. So Denton definitely has that going for it. -SM