My Target Town: Dallas-Fort Worth

MY TARGET TOWN: DALLAS-FORT WORTH FIND YOUR INNER DOWNWARD DOG: If the Texas heat isn't enough to break a sweat, stretch your legs and mind at the first and largest heated yoga studio – Bikram Yoga Dallas. Fun for all levels, the heated classes willI help you discover physical strength, balance, and, of course, your perfect eagle pose. NOSH ON AUTHENTIC TEXAS FARE: Sliced at double the thickness of typical breads, the ever-popular Texas Toast is claimed to hail from a Dallas restaurant in the early 1920s. Scarf some down as a side to southern-style cuisine like chicken fried steak, fried catfish or BBQ. SPOT A REAL COWBOY: At the Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District. Feel free to shop, dine, lodge, catch a rodeo or simply soak up the rich history of the livestock industry in Texas. SPEND THE DAY AL FRESCO: Home to a 10,000-square foot indoor gallery STOCKYARDS STATION of modern art, the Nasher Sculpture Center also features a one and a half acre outdoor garden with contemporary works. Relax by cedar elms, live oaks, weeping willows, magnolias, stone paths and fountains for a peaceful outdoor haven. Note: first Saturdays of the month are free! CATCH A GAME: Named after a prominent Forth Worth businessman and publisher, Amon G. Carter Stadium has been home to the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs since 1930. In 2009, a crowd of 50,307 set the stadium attendance record when the fourth-ranked Frogs defeated the fourteenth-ranked Runnin' Utes. GET YOUR AFTER-HOURS ART FIX: Founded in 1903, the 370,000-square foot Dallas Museum of Art is home to over 24,000 works of ancient American, African, Indonesian, South Asian and European art. Night owls flock to the Late Night program, where the museum remains open until midnight on the third Friday of each month. DALLAS MUSEUM O AN DID YOU KNOW ... ? Dallas native Lamar Hunt, founder of the American Football IN CONGRESS. Iny a League, coined the phrase "Super Bowl." FomanimoIAdantion States fXmerica. • The Dallas Arts District is the largest urban arts district in the United States. • The nation's first convenience store, 7-Eleven, started in Dallas in 1922. • The J. Erik Jonsson Central Library of the Dallas Public Library displays one of the original copies of the Declaration of Independence, printed on July 4, 1776. • The entire Statue of Liberty can fit into the new Cowboys stadium with the roof closed.