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A blog-oriented live bulletin board at GECCO-05 sounds like a wonderful idea. I trust and hope it will be a practical and fun resource for us all. In addition to content-oriented commentary, it might be useful to include a thread of discussions for local information. Washington DC is a wonderful city with a lot to offer, and conference is well-situated in the city.

The hotel is located just a few blocks from the National Mall, literally walking distance to many of the Smithsonian museums, as well as the Capitol Building, the Washington Monument, and several memorials. The hotel is also on one of the most accessible metro stations in the city (L'Enfant Plaza), providing metrorail access to sites throughout the city, including Reagan National airport and the National Zoo, home to over 2,700 animals including four new Cheetah cubs!

For those of you who are on a return visit the city, you may be interested in several newer attractions, such as the International Spy Museum, or the new National World War II memorial.

And last, but not least ... if many of you are like me, you enjoy beer. DC has many great locations to kick back and argue about science over a glass. Indeed, my favorite place to grab a cold one, the Brickskeller, holds a Guinness world record for the most varieties of beer commercially available (several hundred, from all around the world: check their beer list). Brickskeller is in walking distance from the Dupont Circle metro stop, roughly 15 minutes from L'Enfant Plaza by metrorail.

I am looking forward to GECCO-05, and I believe Washington DC will provide an excellent milieu for us. I hope people will attend the conference and, when they do, are able to enjoy the city.
 

Paul had a good idea about using this blog to provide information for GECCO visitors to Washington, D.C.

I thought I'd chime in with a few additional ideas for visitors coming to GECCO 2005.

Washington has many theater and concert opportunities. Although it is a little early for most of these organizations to have established their summer schedule, I thought I'd post the web sites for some of the places of interest, so that attendees can start to consider their options.

For theater, concerts and other events, a good choice is always the Kennedy Center.

A fine place for outside (but covered) shows and plays is Wolftrap.

One of Wahsington's leading performance arts venue's is the Warner Theater.

While the National Symphony Orchestra works out of the Kennedy Center, the National Philharmonic performs in both nearby Bethesda and Rochville and is also always a treat.

For Shakespeare fans, there are two interesting options:
Shakespeare Theater or the
Folger Theater.

A lesser known option is a program where the various embassies in Washington bring in high quality talent from around the world for often smaller and more intimate performances. Their schedule for the summer isn't out yet, either, but it will be posted at the Embassy Series site.

As I think of more items of potential interest for the conference attendees (comedy clubs? jazz clubs? sporting events? ) I'll post them here.
 

Paul had a good idea about using this blog to provide information for GECCO visitors to Washington, D.C.

I thought I'd chime in with a few additional ideas for visitors coming to GECCO 2005.

Washington has many theater and concert opportunities. Although it is a little early for most of these organizations to have established their summer schedule, I thought I'd post the web sites for some of the places of interest, so that attendees can start to consider their options.

For theater, concerts and other events, a good choice is always the Kennedy Center.

A fine place for outside (but covered) shows and plays is Wolftrap.

One of Wahsington's leading performance arts venue's is the Warner Theater.

While the National Symphony Orchestra works out of the Kennedy Center, the National Philharmonic performs in both nearby Bethesda and Rochville and is also always a treat.

For Shakespeare fans, there are two interesting options:
Shakespeare Theater or the
Folger Theater.

A lesser known option is a program where the various embassies in Washington bring in high quality talent from around the world for often smaller and more intimate performances. Their schedule for the summer isn't out yet, either, but it will be posted at the Embassy Series site.

As I think of more items of potential interest for the conference attendees (comedy clubs? jazz clubs? sporting events? ) I'll post them here.
 

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