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tower over you, with Houston’s skyline towering over them in the background. It’s a bizarre sight that’s made even more so by the 40-foot statues of The Beatles behind the presidents. You snap a photo of your favorite commander in chief, and move along. After a Texas dinner last night and a Mexican lunch today, you decide to split the diff erence for tonight’s meal and hit up the Tex-Mex institution Ninfa’s on Navigation (8). Ninfa’s opened in 1973 as a 10-seat taco shop a ached to a tortilla factory on a quiet street not far from downtown, and quickly grew into one of the state’s most popular restaurants. It’s bigger now, but the atmosphere is as homey and unpretentious as ever. Legend says the fajita was invented here, and, a er digging into hearty strips of steak grilled to perfection with a bacon, tomato and jalapeño topping, you’re a believer. From one of Houston’s most iconic restaurants you head to one of its most iconic performance spaces, the Orange Show (9). 98 APRIL <strong>2012</strong> • HEMISPHERESMAGAZINE.COM THREE PERFECT DAYS HOUSTON COLORFUL PRESENCE Performance artist Tina McPherson rehearses at the Orange Show Built by a postman named Jeff McKissack, this oddity is a gaudy, over-the-top outdoor tribute to the orange, a fruit McKissack thought so perfect he spent 24 years building a shrine to it. When he died in 1980, art patron Marilyn Lubetkin saved the place and turned it into an eclectic performance space for groups like Los Skarnales, a local Latino ska band you’ve caught in the middle of a set. You realize you’ve stumbled into a sweet spot between Houston’s rural roots and its urban sophistication: Here, in the middle of this bizarre folk-art masterpiece, are tamales alongside cupcakes, cowboy boots alongside Converse sneakers, natives alongside transplants. But those superfi cial diff erences belie a common love for dancing. And as you notice that you’re the only one still parked in a chair, you rise up and join in. Hemispheres contributing writer ADAM K. RAYMOND dreams of building an art car that honors the banana. A REAL BLAST Getting ready for launch (and lunch) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center Every year more than half a million people make the 35-minute trek from Houston to NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Only a handful, though, get to experience the exclusive, behind-the-scenes Level 9 tour. Limited to 12 people a day, the tour allows visitors a glimpse of what it’s really like to be an astronaut. In addition to the attractions seen by all visitors, Level 9ers get to view the neutral buoyancy lab, where astronauts get low-gravity training in the world’s largest indoor swimming pool; the space environment simulation lab, an enormous vacuum chamber used to test full-scale fl ight hardware; and the mission control center, from which human space fl ight is monitored. Potentially the biggest treat of the Level 9 tour, though, is the NASA cafeteria, where savvy tour-goers might spot astronauts like Alvin Drew munching on a sandwich just a few tables over. The presence of gravity may dampen the eff ect slightly, but use your imagination. And go easy on the Tang jokes. NASA/GETTY IMAGES (ASTRONAUT)
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