10 DALLAS SECRETS YOU DIDN’T KNOW EXISTED
I actually knew about all but three of these, but an interesting list anyway.
Grave of Clyde Barrow and his brother, Buck.
When I was nothing more than a sprout (or in this case, an offshoot) and lived in the Canal Zone, I was fascinated by the bananas that grew everywhere. Although everyone grew a little tired of eating them all the time, it was really cool to watch them grow and develop – and to realize that there are many types of bananas – most superior to the Cavendish that we buy in our supermarkets.
But now, disaster. Something else to worry about.
Has The End Of The Banana Arrived?
Did you know that all bananas are slightly radioactive?
I stayed up too late last night to watch most of what is one of the best movies ever made.
I’ve always found this to be one of the most frightening scenes in any movie. Starting with Lundegaard hoplessly struggling with the list of VIN numbers and then having Marge figure out that something is very wrong – you see the end of a person’s life right here. It’s awful – even if it’s somebody as reprehesible as Lundegaard. Ya, Darn tootin’.
An oh ya, this scene. I actually Googled Normandale Community College (seems like a nice enough place) after I watched it. It must be a short path from Juco to turning tricks in a snow-bound truck stop. Go Bears.
The 60 Best Action Movies on Netflix
If you were to ask me (But why would you do something like that?) I would tell you I’m not a particular fan of action movies. However, looking at this list, I’ve seen all but about five of them. The others I liked (mostly) – so maybe I should try and finish it off.
If we do see all of them, or if we want more (I’ve been thinking I should write in first person plural more often) there there is always this:
The 101 Best Movies Streaming on Netflix 2014
29 Clever License Plates That Slipped Past The DMV
The start of the Denton Katy trail off of Swisher Road, in Lake Dallas.
If you build bike paths, cyclists will come
The new bridge from the Santa Fe trail into The Lot
Check out plans for the taproom with skyline views at Dallas’ Alamo Drafthouse
This is truly the best of all possible worlds.
Richardson’s first brewery, Four Bullets, bets on opening before end of 2014
How Long To Nap For The Biggest Brain Benefits
Stylish bike rider, French Quarter, New Orleans
When Wins Aren’t Wins; When Sharing is Renting
Magazine Street, New Orleans
Klyde Warren Park,
Dallas, Texas
Texas, 3 Ways
I ate lunch at a splashy new dining spot at the edge of Klyde Warren, Lark on the Park, and chatted with the owner, the longtime Dallas restaurateur Shannon Wynne. When he commented, “Dallas has matured more in the last five years than in the past 25,” I asked him why this was. He guffawed in reply, “Well, it certainly can’t be the locals.” He added that the city had benefited greatly from new blood, and that they in turn had emboldened establishment Dallasites to reconsider the city’s possibilities.
While Mr. Wynne talked, I looked over his shoulder at the restaurant’s walls, which were covered with intricate chalk drawings that rotate quarterly: one by a local tattoo artist, another by a medical illustrator, a third depicting the University of Texas at Dallas’s top-ranked chess team. Meanwhile, outside, dozens of residents were tossing Frisbees, or ice skating. It occurred to me that while Dallas has always exhibited the capacity to surprise others, it had now succeeded in surprising itself.
Abby Magill, of
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Klyde Warren Park
Dallas, Texas
Milk Crate Bike in the reading area in Klyde Warren Park.
