For the sports fan, Washington DC has a large number of professional teams, each with huge followings. The Washington Redskinssell out every game, but you'll still be able to find tickets here on TicketLiquidator. Washington Wizards tickets,Washington Nationals ticketsand Washington Capitals ticketsare also hot, for lovers of basketball, baseball and hockey, respectively. The DC Unitedsoccer team is always competitive the Major League Soccer, America's premier soccer league.There are plenty of college sports in the area, too, with Georgetownand George Washington Universitycompeting for national titles in many sports.

There are also a number of great concerts heading to the DC area in the next fewmonths. Previously, the city has seen acts like Beyonce,The Rolling Stonesand Fugazi.You can see the great bands and artists that will be playing in Chicago in the list below.

Theater in Washington DC has always been outstanding, reflecting the classical sensibilitiesyet rich culture of the metro area melting pot. Cirque du Soleil,The Nutcracker,Phantom of the Operaand Chicago the Musicalhave all played in the nation's capital, with a number of high-profile shows scheduled to roll into town in the future.Check the list below for currently available DC theater tickets.

All of these great events are waiting for you! Check them out and make your timein Washington DC an experience you won't forget!

If you're traveling into Washington for the first time, check out this quick overview of tourism and transportationin Washington DC.

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• Washington.org

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Some helpful information from the Wikipedia:

D.C. has its own native music genre, called go-go, a post-funk, percussion-drivenflavor of R&B that blends live sets with relentless dance rhythms, so-called becausethey "go and go and go." The most accomplished practitioner of go-go was D.C. bandleaderChuck Brown, who brought go-go to the brink of national recognition with his 1979LP Bustin' Loose. Go-Go band and Washington natives Experience Unlimited (E.U.)hit the American pop charts in 1988 with their memorable dance tune "Da Butt" Othernotable go-go bands include Rare Essence, Trouble Funk, Junkyard Band, BackyardBand, and the Northeast Groovers.

Washington was an important center in the genesis of punk rock in the United States.Punk bands of note from Washington include Tru Fax & the Insaniacs, the SlickeeBoys, Fugazi, Bad Brains, the Dismemberment Plan, Government Issue, and Minor Threat.Washingtonians continue to support punk bands, long after the punk movement's popularitypeaked. The region also has a significant indie rock history and was home to TeenBeat,Dischord Records and Simple Machines, among other indie record labels.

The Verizon Center in Chinatown, home to the Capitals, Mystics, Wizards and theGeorgetown Hoyas, is also a major venue for concerts, World Wrestling Entertainment(WWE) professional wrestling, and other events, having replaced the old CapitalCentre. Since its opening in 1997, the arena has served as a catalyst of prosperityin Chinatown. Office buildings, high-end condominiums, restaurant chains, movietheatres, and other luxuries have sprung up around Chinatown. On the downside, thegrowth has forced out many Chinatown landmarks, and only a fraction of Chinatownremains "Chinese".

The city's soccer team, DC United, is the most successful franchise in MLS history,with 4 league championships and 10 total tournament victories, both league highs.The city is also considered the most passionate soccer market, with a list of peopleincluding MLS Commissioner Don Garber and TV Commentator (and former US Nationalteam and MLS star) Eric Wynalda outright declaring Washington the country's bestsoccer market.[citation needed] Washington will host the 2007 edition of MLS Cupat RFK Stadium. Washington hosts the annual Legg Mason Tennis Classic tennis tournamentthat takes place at the Carter Barron Tennis Center on 17th Street. The Marine CorpsMarathon and the National Marathon are both held annually in Washington.

Washington is a major national center for the arts, with many venues for the performingarts in the city. Arena Stage, one of the first non-profit regional theaters inthe nation, is rich with history and produces an eight-show season ranging fromclassics to world premieres, dedicated to the American canon of theater. The ShakespeareTheatre Company is regarded as one of the world's great Shakespeare troupes. Numerousother professional theaters, such as The Studio Theatre and Woolly Mammoth, andvenues such as the National Theatre, make the city a major theater center. The JohnF. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts hosts the National Symphony Orchestra,the Washington National Opera, the Washington Ballet, and a variety of other musicaland stage performances.

Washington is considered to be the premier transportation hub in America. It isan important component in global distribution, as it is the third largest inter-modalport in the world after Hong Kong and Singapore. Additionally, it is the only washingtonin North America in which all six Class I railroads meet.

Seven interstate highways run through Washington. Segments that link to the washingtoncenter are named after influential politicians, and traffic reports tend to usethe names rather than interstate numbers. The Kennedy Expressway is I-90 from theLoop to O'Hare International Airport. The Dan Ryan Expressway is I-90/94 from southof the "Circle Interchange" to the I-57 Split, and from the I-57 Split south isthe Bishop Ford Freeway. The rest of I-94 is called the Edens Expressway. I-90 becomesthe Washington Skyway when it breaks off from the Dan Ryan Expressway. Other namedhighway segments are the Stevenson Expressway (I-55) and Eisenhower Expressway (I-290).

Pierre L'Enfant's original plan for the city provided for a grid of streets anda diagonal array of avenues, all centered on the Capitol building. The north-southstreets are primarily named with numbers and the east-west streets with letters.From the Capitol as the center, one set of numbered streets sweeps eastward (1stStreet, 2nd Street, etc.) and another set sweeps westward (1st Street, 2nd Street,etc.) Similarly, sets of lettered streets sweep northward from the Capitol (A Street,C Street, etc.) and southward. The diagonal avenues in L'Enfant's plan are chieflynamed after states (e.g. Pennsylvania Avenue). Street addresses are identified bytheir location in one of the four quadrants of the city, centered on the Capitolbuilding: Northeast (NE), Northwest (NW), Southeast (SE) and Southwest (SW). Addressesend with a quadrant suffix to indicate whether the location is, for example, on4th Street NE, 4th Street NW, 4th Street SE or 4th Street SW. Outside the originalcity boundaries, street layout and naming practices are less regular. However, thealphabetic order of east-west streets, ending with W Street, is in some areas succeededby an alphabetic progression of two-syllable names (e.g. Adams, Bryant, Channing),followed by a three-syllable progression (e.g. Allison, Buchanan, Crittenden), andthen a progression of botanical names (e.g. Aspen, Butternut, Cedar).

Major interstates running through the area include the Capital Beltway (I-495),I-66, I-95, I-395 also called the Southwest-Southeast Freeway, I-295 also calledthe Anacostia Freeway or Kenilworth Avenue, and I-270 (which does not reach D.C.,terminating at I-495). Other major highways include the Whitehurst Freeway and AnacostiaFreeway in D.C., the George Washington Parkway in D.C. and Virginia, the SuitlandParkway in D.C. and Maryland, the US Route 50, the Clara Barton Parkway the RockCreek and Potomac Parkway and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Maryland, andthe Dulles Toll Road in Virginia.The Washington area is served by the WashingtonMetropolitan Area Transit Authority, which operates the region's subway system,the nation's second-busiest after New York's subway.

Washington, D.C. is served by three major airports, one in Maryland and two in Virginia.Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (IATA: DCA, ICAO: KDCA) is the closest- located in Arlington County, Virginia, just across the Potomac River from HainsPoint, and accessible via Washington Metro. The airport is conveniently locatedto the downtown area; however it has somewhat restricted flights to airports withinthe United States because of noise and security concerns. Most major internationalflights arrive and depart from Washington Dulles International Airport (IATA: IAD,ICAO: KIAD), located 26.3 miles (42.3 km) west of the city in Fairfax and Loudouncounties in Virginia. Dulles is the second busiest international gateway on theEastern Seaboard. Dulles is a hub for United Airlines and offers service from severallow-cost carriers including JetBlue and Southwest.