Well, there are the clichés: cattle and Stetsons and pointy-toe cowboy boots. Oil wells and Willie and barbeque for breakfast. But that’s enough of that because Texas — and Dallas, in particular — is no longer a dusty, tumbleweed theme park. It’s vibrant, complicated, cutting edge, ultra-modern, multi-cultural, multi-everything.

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