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LEGG MASON TENNIS CLASSIC: August 9-17, 2008
Get 2008 Legg Mason Tennis Classic Tickets - Finals Professional tennis action comes to the District in this annual tournament. Past winners include Andy Roddick, Mike and Bob Bryan, along with five-time champion Andre Agassi. Located in Rock Creek Park, the host facility is the William H.G. Fitzgerald Tennis Center– a top-flight stadium with permanent seating for 7,500 spectators. leggmasontennisclassic.com
RESTAURANT WEEK : August 2008
This bi-annual tradition encourages visitors and locals alike to sample some of the region’s top restaurants with special three-course, fixed-price meals. To correspond with the year, lunches are priced and $20.08 and dinners at $30.08. restaurantweekdc.com
KENNEDY CENTER PRELUDE FESTIVAL : September 2008
For the fifth consecutive year, the Kennedy Center drums up the fall season with a multi-week festival full of dazzling performances and free events that celebrate the best of the arts in Washington. The festival includes local theatre companies, dance and music including the Washington Ballet and the National Symphony Orchestra. kennedy-center.org
MARINE CORPS MARATHON: October 26, 2008
The 26 mile, 385 yard, USATF certified course is relatively flat, winding through Arlington, Georgetown and the District of Columbia. The "Marathon of the Monuments” course passes many of the area's attractions including the Capitol, Union Station, the Jefferson, Lincoln and FDR Memorials, the Pentagon, the Smithsonian museums and the Kennedy Center. marinemarathon.com
NATIONAL CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING AND PAGEANT OF PEACE: December 2008
For 85 years, the American tradition of lighting a national Christmas Tree has continued, interrupted only briefly in its history during moments of great national travail. Every year, the Christmas Pageant of Peace officially begins when the wife of the Vice President places the topmost ornament on the National Christmas Tree, usually a few days before the opening night lighting ceremony. The tree itself is a live 40-foot Colorado blue spruce transplanted from York, Pennsylvania to its present site on the Ellipse in 1978. The Pageant of Peace includes live performances and the lighting of the National Christmas Tree. Each night during December, musical groups perform free concerts for the entertainment of visitors to the Ellipse. pageantofpeace.org
