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Dallas is a city in Texas, United States.

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The city has historically been predominantly

Jewish
peoples. The Asian communities tend to reside in the northern Dallas suburbs such as Plano, Irving, Carrollton, and Richardson.

Cuisine

Dallas is renowned for

Korean, Vietnamese, African Cuisines, Pakistani, Taiwanese, and Persian Cuisine. Famous products of the Dallas culinary scene include El Fenix, Mi Cocina, the Mansion on Turtle Creek, and the frozen margarita.[2] On average, Dallasites eat out about four times every week, which is the third highest rate in the state, behind only Houston and Austin.[3]

Arts

Dallas is the center of the North Texas region's art scene. Some areas known especially for the local art and culture include:

The

The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center. In 2009, the AT&T Performing Arts Center
was completed, which includes the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, the Annette Strauss Artists Square, and the Elaine D. and Charles A. Sammons Park. Construction of the City Performance Hall was scheduled for completion in September 2012. The Arts District is also home to Dallas Independent School District's Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.

The

Majestic Theatre
is a historic theater in the City Center District that has been restored for use as a performing arts facility.

Arts District
.

art infusion in the area is the city's lax stance on graffiti
, and thus several public ways including tunnels, sides of buildings, sidewalks, and streets are covered in murals.

The

Cedars Station, and locals speculate that he is planning an entertainment complex.[4]

The

Bishop Arts District in Oak Cliff
is home to a growing number of studio artists living in converted warehouses. Walls of buildings along alleyways and streets are painted with murals and the surrounding district is home to many eclectic restaurants and shops.

Media

See also:
Newspapers of Dallas, Texas

Dallas has many local newspapers, magazines, television stations and radio stations that serve the

Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex as a whole, which is one of the largest media markets in the United States
.

Dallas has a daily newspaper,

A. H. Belo and is the company's flagship newspaper. The Dallas Times Herald, started in 1888, was the Morning News's major competitor until Belo purchased the paper on 8 December 1991 and closed the paper down the next day. A. H. Belo also publishes Al Día
, a Spanish-language paper.

Other significant paper-publications include the Dallas Observer, an alternative weekly newspaper, and D Magazine, a monthly magazine about business, life, and entertainment in the metroplex.

The Dallas area has a station from every major television broadcasting network —

UNI), KDAF 33 (The CW) and KXTX 39 (TMD
).

Dallas is served by a large number of radio stations. Because of the city's centrally-located position and lack of nearby mountainous terrain, many high-strength antennae in the city have bands that can broadcast as far off as North Dakota and can be used as emergency broadcasting antennae when broadcasting is down in other major metropolitan areas in the United States.

The Texas Jewish Post serves the Jewish community of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.

Religion

The Dallas Texas Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

There is a large

Baptist churches are prominent in many neighborhoods and anchor the city's two major private universities. The Cathedral of Hope, an LGBT Protestant church, is the largest congregation of its kind in the world.[5]

The

Arts District oversees the second-largest membership in the United States. Dallas is also home to three Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.[6]

The city is also home to a sizable

LDS community. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has fifteen stakes throughout Dallas and surrounding suburbs.[7] The Church built the Dallas Texas Temple, the first temple in Texas, in the city in 1984.[8]

Dallas has a large Jewish community, many of whom reside in

History of the Jews in Dallas, Texas.[10]

Dallas' most significant

Hindu community exists in Irving, Plano
and other northwestern suburbs.

Events

The Cotton Bowl main entrance

The most notable event held in Dallas is the

Red River Showdown (UT-OU) game is held at the Cotton Bowl
each year, during the fair's run.

Other festivals in the area include

Oak Lawn Avenue
.

Architecture

See also: List of tallest buildings in Dallas

Most of the notable architecture in Dallas is

Swiss Avenue, which contains all shades and variants of architecture from Victorian
to neoclassical.

References

  1. ^ Reniqua Allen (July 8, 2017). "Racism Is Everywhere, So Why Not Move South?". The New York Times. Retrieved July 9, 2017.
  2. ^ Dallas Morning News. "One man's invention, forever frozen in time." By Colleen McCain Nelson. Originally published 9 October 2005. Retrieved 20 October 2006.
  3. ^ Zagat Surveys - Dining Out More, For Less. Retrieved 19 October 2006.
  4. ^ DallasNews.com - Mark Cuban snaps up tracts near downtown. Retrieved 20 April 2006.
  5. ^ Cathedralofhope.com - History Archived 2006-04-26 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 17 April 2006.
  6. ^ SuperPages - Orthodox churches in Dallas, Texas. Retrieved 13 October 2006.
  7. ^ Select Location
  8. ^ Dallas Texas LDS (Mormon) Temple
  9. ^ The Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas - Congregations Archived 2007-02-20 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 20 October 2006.
  10. ^ Temple Emanu-El of Dallas Archived November 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 07 November 2007.

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