Discovering Dallas

A chronicle of my Dallas experience.

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What Lies Beneath

Look at that beautiful map. 

And yeah. The tunnels.

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How We Got Tall

Emperor Napoleon I of France lends his name to an insecurity complex that supposedly plagues some short men. But the neurosis is misnamed: At five-foot-six, Napoleon practically towered over the average Frenchman of his day.

Maybe it’s because Hollywood tends to cast strapping hunks in period dramas that we forget that, for most of human history, the world belonged to shorties. It wasn’t until well after the invention of cars and antibiotics that the average European man outgrew today’s average American teenaged girl.

Read more. [Image: Bill Chance/flickr]

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Um, hello there Deep Ellum and Downtown Dallas.

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#poster for @toddbarry: the final crowd work tour by @aaroneiland! Coming to #SonsOfHermann 4/25! #Dallas #dallascomedy #comedy #toddbarry #crowdwork

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Do you have any tips for getting into Shakespeare? I want to enjoy it but I find the language so hard :/

Watch the plays performed!!! That’s what I tell everyone who says they have trouble with Shakespeare - after a good performance (whether live or filmed or recorded) the text is illuminated and clarified in ways that it couldn’t have otherwise been. The plays were written to be performed; the dialogue was written to be spoken. I think a lot of people without lit backgrounds struggle with Shakespeare because in the early learning environments where most people are introduced to him you’re generally just given the text sans context, which is crucially important even for works as timeless as Shakespeare’s because there are so many inflections/jokes/references/etc. best appreciated and understood when spoken or annotated. Shakespeare isn’t the dead stuffy ancient writer so many people think of him as; he’s hilarious & dirty & raw & emotional & thrilling & spectacularly eloquent & still very very VERY much alive in performance. It’s both funny and infuriating to me that there’s so much elitism re: Shakespeare in many academic circles because he’s possibly the most populist writer who ever lived. There is something in his works for you; for everyone. Start by seeing him performed. :)

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I don’t think that I really appreciated Shakespeare until I was assigned to read one of his history plays (Henry VIII), which I hated, and then saw it performed a at the Globe Theatre in London, which I absolutely loved.

But, now I live in Dallas. Luckily, Shakespeare Dallas is very active and incredible. They do frequent stage readings of his plays as a part of a 5 year series to perform every work, unabridged. The next Shakespeare Dallas reading is A Midsummer Nights Dream, March 9th & 10th at 7pm at the Winspear Opera House. The readings are only $10 and totally worth it!!

Go! Do it! It is awesome.

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ISHI @ Trees

This has the potential to be an amazing show. I am jealous of everyone who gets to go, because I am going to be out of town and cannot change my plans (otherwise I would absolutely be there).

So, everyone else should go and have a blast/dance their butts off. 

Home by Hovercraft, Zhora, At Night, and ISHI Trees 2709 Elm Street March 1st (Doors open at 7pm) Tickets $10

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Logan’s Run, Spanish lobby card. 1976

Submitted by videorecord

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Fort Worth water gardens, designed by Phillip Johnson.

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Rocket // Home By Hovercraft

If I die in the summer, I want to be buried If I die in the winter, I want to be burned If I die in your arms, I want to be put inside a rocket and shot up to the sun 

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This song has been going through my head all day.

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So, I just discovered (...discovered doesn't sound right. Researched? Sourced? Found? I don't know...) this graphic designer, Douglas Hale, through his work with On the Eve/Home by Hovercraft. Only to find out, I already own a poster he designed for Ishi's album release party at the Granada Theater last year. I am officially "in like" with his work.

The art/music/theater/urbanism scene here really makes me want to stick around (at least for a bit longer). Hmmm. When can you start to call yourself a Dallasite? I think I might have reached that point.

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On the Eve

On the Eve was absolutely fantastic! I will never doubt the Dallas theater scene again.

It can only be described as Rocky Horror meets Flash Gordon meets Monty Python meets so many other crazy, beautiful, wonderful things. Okay, so I am still basking in its final show glory, but well done, man. Well done.

[culturecollideofficial]

We just got word that #Mogwai is getting their own whisky! Is it weird that we already have our snifters at the ready?

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Mogwai and whiskey, can I haz? 

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It’s gonna be a good one to start the year with. Sarah Jaffe, Zhora, Sam Lao, the bill can’t get any better with these ladies. January 25th.

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#neilhamburger #alvariusb 1/9 at #sonsofhermann #dallas. Poster by Aaron Eiland.

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Lower Greenville Neighborhood during Winter Storm Cleon, Dec 2013

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Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

— Invictus by William Ernest Henry

#nelsonmandela #ripnelsonmandela #dallas #downtowndallas #southafrica (at Omni Dallas Hotel)

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It is apocalyptic ice storm time in Dallas tonight. Stay safe, stay warm. Follow the Dallas Observer's coverage for a good laugh.

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source - http://jcrewaficionada.blogspot.com/2012/07/jcrew-store-location-series-dallas-texas.html