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Dallas was George W. Bush’s first choice for a retirement destination but it gets low approval ratings elsewhere. A recent poll of readers of American Style magazine rated Dallas only 24th out of 25 large American cities as an arts destination. It came in immediately behind those well-known cultural magnets Milwaukee and Las Vegas, and ahead of only Jacksonville FL, even though it dwarfs all three places in terms of population, arts institutions and urban amenities. An apparently typical assessment residing in the blogosphere states flatly “God I hate Dallas. Everything about it. Especially the airport. Which is the only part of Dallas I’ve ever been in.”
Dallas was George W. Bush’s first choice for a retirement destination but it gets low approval ratings elsewhere. A recent poll of readers of American Style magazine rated Dallas only 24th out of 25 large American cities as an arts destination. It came in immediately behind those well-known cultural magnets Milwaukee and Las Vegas, and ahead of only Jacksonville FL, even though it dwarfs all three places in terms of population, arts institutions and urban amenities. An apparently typical assessment residing in the blogosphere states flatly “God I hate Dallas. Everything about it. Especially the airport. Which is the only part of Dallas I’ve ever been in.”
Maybe I should go to one of these Texas cities, it's so expensive here in NYC...
I love living in Texas, but I would not be swayed by Bush's choices if I were you. He isn't that bright and has made some very questionable choices
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The creative class thesis suggests that, like high school, there is cool and there is un-cool. This gets complicated when the nerds decide the cool places are. Cities that are designated as cool, like Portland, also tend to be among the least ethnically diverse.
I would say the same thing about Austin. It is the "cool' city of Texas, but the lack of diversity there throws it off for me.
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The district, with 12,948 seats for live performances and 1,580 movie seats, ranks second in the United States for the number of theater seats in a concentrated downtown area and is one of only five cities with permanent professional resident companies in all of the major performing arts disciplines (the Houston Grand Opera, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Ballet, and The Alley Theatre).
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More than two million people visit the Houston Theater District annually.
The Houston Grand Opera is the only opera company in the U.S. to win a Grammy, a Tony, and an Emmy.
The Houston Museum District currently comprises 18 museums that recorded a collective attendance of over 8.7 million in 2007
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The museum is one of the most popular in the United States and ranks second only to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in attendance amongst non-Smithsonian museums. Much of the museum's popularity is attributed to its large number of special or guest exhibits.
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the largest art museum in America south
of Chicago, west of Washington, D.C., and east of Los Angeles.
There is no way I would Rank Albuquerque as number 5 arts destination in the US, and Phoenix as number 14, both ahead of Houston.
Location: The land of sugar... previously Houston and Austin
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The creative class thesis suggests that, like high school, there is cool and there is un-cool. This gets complicated when the nerds decide the cool places are. Cities that are designated as cool, like Portland, also tend to be among the least ethnically diverse.
I would say the same thing about Austin. It is the "cool' city of Texas, but the lack of diversity there throws it off for me.
The other problem with these "cool" cities lists is that some of this is just unquantifiable, and many of these cities become overhyped (IMO) poser-magnets after enough of these lists.
Special Section: Houston (http://magazine.continental.com/201011-ss-houston - broken link)
Houston, this "uncool" city, is a cultural capital
awesome article man
I learned a couple of things
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