Following its grand re-opening in 2010, the theater offers the best bang-for-your-buck programming in town. To the rest of the country, the Texas Theatre will always be associated with Lee Harvey Oswald, but for most folks in Dallas, the theater, located in the heart of Oak Cliff, surrounded by coffee shops, restaurants and bars, is considered a staple for nights of good drinks, music and film. Ultimately, it's an atmosphere that feels more like family than retail: Everyone is part of the pop-culture conversation at Zeus.
Like his Birds of Prose Women's Book Club, which meets the first Wednesday of every month over cocktails and crafts and often features Skype sessions with authors like Brian Michael Bendis of "Jessica Jones" or Jen Van Meter of "Hopeless Savages." Zeus offers a Girl Scout badge program in the spring that fills up in seconds and has hosted lively LGBTQ mixers for years.
It's an inclusive atmosphere, honed by owner Richard Neal, whose smiling face has greeted almost every customer over the past 18 years - and in countless conversations about storylines and superhero deaths, he's been able to key in on what fulfills his customers. Zeus does, in fact, have an amazing range of books and collectibles, but it's more than that: In a realm of pop culture that has largely been dominated by straight white male points-of-view, Zeus creates experiences that amplify the voices and speak to the interests of female, LGBTQ and young comic book fans. In the air, Luck threw for 23,671 yards and posted 1,590 rushing yards and 14 rushing touchdowns.We like just about any comic book store, but we love Zeus.
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In his professional career, Luck threw 171 touchdown passes and had an overall completion rate of 60.8 percent. In his first three seasons, he led the team to three straight NFL playoff appearances and two AFC South division titles. Luck was the number one pick in the 2012 NFL Draft and began his career as the Colts' play-caller. "I might be as stupid as so many of you tell me I am, but I have never been that stupid." "Football fans who will cheer the player who beats up a woman or drives drunk and kills people, who will cheer the player who uses illegal drugs, and who will cheer the player who cheats to win will boo a 29-year-old man who has been in constant pain for four years because he chooses his life over money," he said. Hansen, who has been a fixture at WFAA since 1983, also panned the NFL's issues with domestic violence and drug use. "But a lot of them go to football games everywhere too." "Some people are just too stupid to breathe the same air we breathe, and a lot of them live in Indiana," Hansen added later. and fans at the Colts game Saturday night actually booed him as he walked off the field." So he decides to walk away while he still can. Hansen referred to some of those in his segment, saying, "Luck has a long list of injuries from playing this game: a concussion, a lacerated kidney, torn cartilage in a shoulder that kept him out a year, rib and ankle injuries too. The list of injuries are significant for Luck, including a concussion, a lacerated kidney and a shoulder injury that required surgery in the offseason and prevented him from playing in 2017. the only way forward for me is to remove myself from football," Luck said. "I haven't been able to live the life I want to live. In a post-game press conference, Luck told reporters that he didn't make the decision lightly, but felt it was the best choice given a career riddled with injuries. "How stupid do you have to be? How bad does your life have to be that you think booing Andrew Luck or even criticizing him, as some guy on FOX did, is somehow the right response?," Hansen asked during the segment, just a portion of his monologue that supported Luck's decision. Luck announced his retirement from the NFL on August 25. Andrew Luck #12 of the Indianapolis Colts in action during the Colts training camp at Grand Park on Augin Westfield, Indiana.
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