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>They say Dallas is a good conference city. I say nay nay.. It is big, and has good food. For its size however, not a lot goes on there.

John, I'll step in on this one.

The Dallas/Fort Worth area has *many* activities that would lend themselves well to DevCon attendees (all within about an hour's ride):
- The West End Marketplace in downtown Dallas, which contains many unique clubs and shops in addition to the JFK Museum;
- the Deep Ellum area just outside downtown Dallas, hangout for all the trendy bars and dance clubs;
- the movie/TV studios in the Las Colinas area of Irving, home to many motion pictures and television shows (including "Walker, Texas Ranger");
- Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, one of the better theme amusement parks;
- The Ballpark in Arlington, home of the Texas Rangers baseball club, and one of the nicest ballyards in the country (and I've been to most of them);
- The Fort Worth Stockyards area, including Billy Bob's Texas, the largest honky tonk in the country;
- The Mesquite Rodeo, with National Rodeo Cowboys Association competitions regularly during the year;
- The Meyerson Center for the Performing Arts, home of the top-rated Dallas Symphony Orchestra and one of the few "tunable" performing halls in the world;
- The Texas Motor Speedway, a "super speedway" that hosts NASCAR, Busch, IROC and CART races year-round;
- Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, a beautiful *brand-new* thoroughbred horse racing track with parimutuel tie-ins to other tracks;
- Texas MotorPlex in Ennis, a top-rated quarter-mile for drag-racing fans;
- Fair Park, the home of the State Fair of Texas (largest in the country) and the outdoor concert venue StarPlex Amphitheater;
- OH, and (of course) the Dallas Cowboys and their home, Texas Stadium.

By 2001, the Grapevine area just north of D/FW Airport will also have a large Opryland Hotel and Resort in addition to the existing Grapevine Mills Mall (one of the largest outlet malls in the country), and downtown Dallas will have finished the brand-new American Airlines Center, the new home of the Mavericks basketball and (NHL champion) Stars hockey teams.

And YES, the food's *excellent* (g).

Evan