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re: Houston is the cultural capital of the South
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:06 pm to RedRifle
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:06 pm to RedRifle
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just ask the James Beard Foundation, which announced its finalists from Houston this year—H-Town is enjoying what many locals are touting as its Golden Era.
Pay enough money to the JBF and you too can cook for them. Gotta have pockets to cook for the foundation. Lot’s of phenomenal chefs will never sniff an opportunity to cook for JBF because of the lack of pockets.
No points awarded for culture. No points awarded for food city. HEAVY points awarded for BIG money in Houston.
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Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:07 pm to RedRifle
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:09 pm to Mike da Tigah
Cool. But that isn’t what they were talking about.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:10 pm to RedRifle
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The Houston Theater 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, Theatre Under the Stars and The Alley Theatre.
Houston is recognized as an important city for contemporary visual arts. The city is a prime stop for touring companies from Broadway; concerts and shows, from The Rolling Stones to Cirque du Soleil; and exhibitions for a variety of interests, ranging from the nation's largest quilting show to auto, boat, and home shows.
The Houston Grand Opera is the only opera company in the U.S. to win a Grammy, a Tony, and an Emmy. In 2007, Da Camera of Houston was awarded the CMAcclaim Award from Chamber Music America, for significant contribution to the cultural life of its region.
The Tony Award winning Alley Theatre, founded in 1947, is Texas’ oldest professional theatre company. The Alley is the third oldest continually operating theatre in the United States. It is considered to be one of the foremost theatre company in the United States outside of New York City and was a pioneering company of the regional theatre movement.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:12 pm to FightnBobLafollette
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Cool. But that isn’t what they were talking about.
Funny, because I seemed to have quoted it.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:14 pm to Smart Post
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With more than seven million annual visits, the Houston Museum District is one of the top cultural districts in the country. Nineteen institutions make up the Houston Museum District, and 11 are free all the time.
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This post was edited on 7/21/19 at 10:15 pm
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:14 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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Is Houston famous for anything? Does it have any real landmark or event?
Only thing unique that comes to mind (and I live there) is the Houston Rodeo.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:18 pm to Smart Post
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Houston is where the world comes for treatment
The Texas Medical Center is the largest life sciences destination in the world. With 106,000 employees, 54 institutions, and thousands of volunteers and patient visits, over 160,000 people visit Texas Medical Center each day. Over the course of the year, the campus welcomes more than 7.2 million visitors.
Today, people come from across the country and all over the world to receive care from the best doctors in their field at Texas Medical Center. Incredible breakthroughs in diagnosis and treatment happen at the campus' eight different academic and research institutions, not to mention the 21 different hospitals.
The TMC is home to the renowned M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, the No. 1 cancer hospital in the world. Other major institutions include Texas Children's Hospital, the No. 4 children's hospital in the nation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, St. Luke's Health, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, The Texas Heart Institute and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, just to name a few.
Did you know that more heart surgeries are performed in the TMC than anywhere else on the globe?
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This post was edited on 7/21/19 at 10:19 pm
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:22 pm to Jim Rockford
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Houston is being overrun with Indians
Fify
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:25 pm to RedRifle
I remember the first time that I flew over Houston. Reminded me of Murmansk.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:27 pm to RedRifle
Houston is a nice city and a great place to work and raise a family (well at least in the burbs)
But to be A cultural capital, you have to have your own culture. They have some nice museums and theater but its all generic.
But to be A cultural capital, you have to have your own culture. They have some nice museums and theater but its all generic.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:28 pm to Smart Post
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William Marsh Rice University, commonly known as Rice University, is a private research university in Houston, Texas. The university is situated on a 300-acre (121 ha) campus near the Houston Museum District and is adjacent to the Texas Medical Center.
Opened in 1912 after the murder of its namesake William Marsh Rice, Rice is now a research university with an undergraduate focus. Its emphasis on education is demonstrated by a small student body and 6:1 student-faculty ratio, and it has been nationally recognized as a leading university for undergraduate teaching. The university has a very high level of research activity, with $140.2 million in sponsored research funding in 2016. Rice is noted for its applied science programs in the fields of artificial heart research, structural chemical analysis, signal processing, space science, and nanotechnology. It was ranked first in the world in materials science research by the Times Higher Education (THE) in 2010. Rice is a member of the Association of American Universities.
The university is organized into eleven residential colleges and eight schools of academic study, including the Wiess School of Natural Sciences, the George R. Brown School of Engineering, the School of Social Sciences, School of Architecture, Shepherd School of Music and the School of Humanities. Undergraduates select from more than fifty majors and two dozen minors, and have a high level of flexibility in pursuing multiple degree programs. Additional graduate programs are offered through the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and the Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies. Rice students are bound by the strict Honor Code, which is enforced by a student-run Honor Council.
Rice competes in 14 NCAA Division I varsity sports and is a part of Conference USA, often competing with its cross-town rival the University of Houston. Intramural and club sports are offered in a wide variety of activities such as jiu jitsu, water polo, and crew. The university has produced numerous prominent alumni, including more than two dozen Marshall Scholars and a dozen Rhodes Scholars. Given the university's close links to NASA, it has produced a disproportionate number of astronauts and space scientists. In business, Rice graduates have become CEOs and founders of Fortune 500 companies; in politics, alumni have won positions as congressmen, cabinet secretaries, judges, and mayors. Two alumni have won the Nobel Prize, and numerous others are leading researchers in science, technology, and engineering.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:28 pm to RedRifle
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Houston is the cultural capital of the South
There's this
...and what else exactly?
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:32 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
quote:weird question to ask on the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing, IMO
Is Houston famous for anything? Does it have any real landmark or event?
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:34 pm to Smart Post
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Smart Post
You blasting all this Texas shite on a Louisiana board goes a long way in understanding why people really don’t like Texas people all that much. You’re alway bragging, and have very little to no humility in you, and so people really don’t want to hear from people like that. It really doesn’t matter if it’s factual or not. People just don’t want to hear all that shite. Nobody likes that guy, and we all know that guy too. He’s in everyone’s group.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:36 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Houston is a nice city and a great place to work and raise a family (well at least in the burbs) But to be A cultural capital, you have to have your own culture. They have some nice museums and theater but its all generic.
I lived in Houston for several years, and it’s about as generic as it gets.. there’s absolutely nothing unique about it, it might as well be Cleveland.. People would ask me for recommendations of things to do there, and i’d really struggle .. you could go out to NASA i guess if you wanted to drive almost an hour.. other than that, nothing really.. maybe a couple of decent restaurants.. but that’s all i got.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:36 pm to RedRifle
I was there this weekend and I was surprised at how every corner had a homeless person begging.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:36 pm to Amadeo
Gilley's was in Pasadena, not Houston.
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:38 pm to Sweltering Chill
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I lived in Houston for several years, and it’s about as generic as it gets.. there’s absolutely nothing unique about it, it might as well be Cleveland.. People would ask me for recommendations of things to do there, and i’d really struggle
It's like the 5th biggest metro in the country, that's no one's fault but your own that you are that lame
Posted on 7/21/19 at 10:39 pm to Sweltering Chill
There is no shortage of things to do in Houston. Just not much that is unique to just Houston.
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