Places I've never been, but they sure sound like fun:
- Magnetic Field cocktail lounge
- Bar 4 - all different kinds of live music
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon: Madison, WI from June 20-22 2008! Official website.
Places I've never been, but they sure sound like fun:
2. Salem for Jilli
3. Jilli in Salem for everyone else
Hey, did you guys know that coffee hurts when it hits your sinuses?
squooshes vw tight
This Brooklyn place, sounds interesting.
I've always wanted to go to a burrow.
Are the Weasley's there?
Are the Weasley's there?
Actually, for that you'd want to come to Boston. I know a dead ringer for the Weasley twins, except this one's openly gay.
Did North Carolina already fall out of the running?
Not that I now of. Just noone's mentioned it the past couple of days.
I think we should consider the proposals being for a place AND a weekend... since some weeks are bad for Boston, some might be bad for NC (local festival or whatev).
Since we've got the poll running, I suppose we might as well wait and see what comes of it - if there's one weekend that's a dominant favorite, I think we should go for it. If things are more spread out, considering the cities along with the dates might make sense.
Chapel Hill - Durham NC:
Advantages:
Several localistas (me maybe, amyth, smonster, amych, Calli, and others)
One airport (RDU) with decent rates available; train and bus too.
Lots of hotels, due to RTP and business needs; I'm sure we could find something reasonably priced, though the location might be sort of suburban.
Good food of various kinds, from foreign to down-home.
Chapel Hill and Durham are college towns - there's music scenes, art-house movies, thrift stores, Durham Bulls baseball, etc. I think others would be better pimpers than me on this front - my pimpage tends to be "there's a great museum for kids and a farmer's market with heirloom tomatoes!"
Disadvantages:
Limited public transportation and not very walkable outside the immediate downtowns of Chapel Hill and Durham.
Definitely more limited entertainment options when compared with Boston and NYC.
Date considerations:
Avoid like hell Mother's day weekend, which is graduation for UNC and Duke.
It can easily be in the 90s by May.