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There's something new to see every day at one of the dallas's hundreds of live entertainment venues. Right now, you've got to check out these hot Dallas events and take the time to see the Dallas Cowboys. If Football isn't your thing, then mosey down to the American Airlines Center and see a great Dallas Mavericks basketball game.

Music in Dallas is a tradition, and many superstars have played the city. Top rockers performing in Dallas include Jimmy Buffett, Linkin Park, Rascal Flatts, and BB King.

When in Dallas, you simply must see the Dallas World Aquarium. The main attraction is a 22,000-gallon tunnel with a technicolor exhibition of living underwater reef life featuring a tremendous variety of fish in all their natural splendor. This popular Dallas tourist attraction promotes environmental awareness in the young, with a preservation program for young green sea turtles.

For those who like their history, Dallas is packed with sites and scenes where pivotal events in America's story were acted out. There is one particular site to which many Dallas tourists flock, namely the location of the still-unsolved assassination of John F. Kennedy. On the sixth floor of the former Texas School Book Depository from which Lee Harvey Oswald fired those shots in 1963, this specialty museum tracks the life and death of President John F. Kennedy. Complete with myriad exhibits and stories, you will not be disappointed if this is the type of Dallas attraction you are looking for.

Other historically themed Dallas attractions include "Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park." This is a truly amazing reconstruction of a former way of life which tourists in Dallas can visit and be awestruck by. The city's oldest park, the area is full of lush gardens with recreated Victorian landscaping and architecture. Close to downtown, the 13 acres of sprawling greenspace is studded with an eclectic suite of Victorian-era homes and shops, each one authentic and alive. Each building contains models engaging in the tasks of their day, such as weaving, cooking, blacksmithing and other assorted livelihoods of the Victorian era. The park is a giant history museum and remains under the guidance of the Dallas County Heritage Society. The society hosts Dallas events year-round, such as the annual Candlelight Country Fair and an Old Fashioned Fourth of July celebration. This wonderful monument to a way of life now long gone is not to be missed by those seeking culture and history on a visit to Dallas.

For those who prefer life in the fast lane, the Deep Ellum ("Deep Elm") section of Dallas is the place to be. A 170-acre area of Manhattan-style lofts, nightclubs, one-off restaurants, and groovy bars, Deep Ellum offers a sensational late-night treat to young revellers who don't want to sleep. The area is named for it roots at Deep Elm Street, east of the center of Dallas. Beginning in 1920, Deep Ellum was rightly considered the prime jazz and blues hotbed of the Southern States. World famous jazz and blues artists such as Robert Johnson and Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter played in Deep Ellum clubs like The Harlem and The Palace. Today, the area enjoys a huge amount of recognition as one of the prime sites for innovative underground culture in the nation, and its former image as a place where pickpockets, card sharps, and crap shooters met for skullduggery has boosted its credibility as a place for hip young people to party.

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Dallas is renowned for barbecue, authentic Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine. Famous products of the Dallas culinary scene include the frozen margarita and the restaurants La Calle Doce, Sonny Bryan's Smokehouse, El Fenix, Mi Cocina, Bone Daddy's Barbecue, and The Mansion on Turtle Creek. The French Room at the Hotel Adolphus in downtown Dallas was named the best hotel restaurant in the US by Zagat. Several nationally ranked steak and chop houses can be found in the Dallas area including Bob's Steak & Chop House which is currently ranked Number Three according to the USDA Prime Steakhouses chart. On average, Dallasites eat out about four times every week, which is the third highest rate in the country, behind Houston and Austin, and Dallas has more restaurants per capita than New York City.

The Arts District in downtown is home to several arts venues, both existing and proposed. Notable venues in the district include the Dallas Museum of Art, the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center,The Dallas Contemporary, The Dallas Children's Theatre. Venues under construction or planned include the Winspear Opera House and the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. The district is also home to DISD's Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, which is currently being expanded.

The Bishop Arts District in Oak Cliff is home to a number of studio artists living in converted warehouses. Walls of buildings along alleyways and streets are painted with murals and the surrounding streets contain many eclectic restaurants and shops.

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The primary mode of local transportation in the city is the automobile, though efforts have been made to increase the availability of alternative modes of transit including the construction of light rail lines, biking and walking paths, wider sidewalks, and more efficient public transportation. The city is much like other United States cities developed primarily in the late 20th century—criss-crossed by a vast network of highways which has led to and contributes to Dallas being a very low-density city.

The city of Dallas is at the confluence of a large number of major interstate highways—Interstates 20, 30, 35E, and 45 all run through the city. The city's freeway system, as it has no major geographical inhibitors surrounding it, is set up in the popular hub-and-spoke system, much like a wagon wheel. Starting from downtown Dallas, there is the main downtown freeway loop, the Interstate 635/20 Lyndon B. Johnson loop, and ultimately the tolled President George Bush Turnpike. Inside these freeway loops are other partially-limited-access and parkway-style loops including Loop 12 and Belt Line Road. Another beltway around the city is planned upwards of 45 miles (72 km) from downtown in Collin County. Radiating out of downtown as the spokes of the system are Interstates 30, 35E, and 45, US 75, US 175, SH Spur 366, the tolled Dallas North Tollway, and further out SH 114, US 80 and US 67. Other major highways within the city that do not serve primarily as spokes include SH 183 and SH Spur 408. The recently completed interchange for Interstate 635 and Central Expressway, called the High Five Interchange, contains five stacks and is one of the largest freeway interchanges in the United States.

Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is the Dallas area public transportation authority, providing buses, rail, and HOV lanes. DART began operating the first light rail system in the Southwest United States in 1996 and continues to expand its coverage. Currently, two light rail lines are in service. The Red Line travels through Oak Cliff, South Dallas, downtown, Uptown, north Dallas, Richardson and Plano. The Blue Line goes through south Dallas, downtown, Uptown, east Dallas, Lake Highlands, and Garland. The Red and Blue lines are conjoined in between 8th & Corinth Station in Oak Cliff and Mockingbird Station in north Dallas. The two lines service Cityplace Station, the only subway station in the Southwest. DART has also begun construction on its Green and Orange lines, which will serve DFW Airport, Irving and Las Colinas, Carrollton, Farmers Branch, the Stemmons Corridor, Victory Park, downtown, Deep Ellum, Fair Park, south Dallas and Pleasant Grove. Fort Worth's smaller public transit system, The T, connects with Dallas's via a commuter rail line, the Trinity Railway Express, connecting downtown Dallas's Union Station with downtown Fort Worth's T&P Station and several points in between. The system of light rail transit, especially through downtown, has skyrocketed land values and has led to a flurry of residential and transit-oriented development.

Dallas is served by two commercial airports: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (known as DFW International) and Dallas Love Field. In addition, Dallas Executive Airport (formerly Redbird Airport), is a general aviation airport located within the city limits, and Addison Airport is another general aviation airport located just outside the city limits in the suburb of Addison. Two more general aviation airports are located in the outer suburb of McKinney, and two more general aviation airports are in Fort Worth, on the west side of the Metroplex. DFW International Airport is located in the suburbs north of and equidistant to downtown Fort Worth and downtown Dallas. In terms of size, DFW is the largest airport in the state, the second largest in the United States, and third largest in the world. In terms of traffic, DFW is the busiest in the state, third busiest in the United States, and sixth busiest in the world. The headquarters of American Airlines, the largest air carrier in the world, is located less than a mile from DFW, in Fort Worth. Love Field is located within the city limits of Dallas, 6 miles (10 km) northwest of downtown, and is headquarters to Southwest Airlines.