Downtown News

The traditional Thanksgiving dinner provides comfort and good company. For those who are willing to venture outside of a homemade butter-basted turkey, cranberries and potatoes, check out the following restaurants for a creative approach to the Thanksgiving feast.

QuikTrip's latest Wichita project is coming to downtown. The Tulsa-based convenience store chain has scheduled a "scrape and build" project at Douglas and Washington, the latest move to renovate and modernize its Wichita stores.

St Louis Mo, one of the oldest cities in the nation, celebrates Thanksgiving with the annual Thanksgiving Day parade.

This season's Christmas tree displays include trees made from feathers at a historic home in Indianapolis, a thank-you tree in Boston sent from Nova Scotia, and the Obamas' first National Christmas Tree ceremony in Washington.

With or without the inevitable snow, the holiday season is officially here. And with that, comes a schedule of events that's bursting with concerts, plays, musicals, dance and more.

The First Congregational Church United Church of Christ and development partner Skanska have begun developing a 10-story, 200,000 s.f. mixed use building in downtown Washington DC where a Church has sat since 1865, and which PN Hoffman had previously attempted first a condo then an office project .

The seventh presentation of the Big Sur Half Marathon on Monterey Bay will be held in both Monterey and Pacific Grove on Sunday, November 15, 2009.

Ask anyone what first comes to mind when they think of Los Angeles, and he or she will mention the glitz and the glam, the celebrity tabloids, Hollywood mansions and palm tree-lined freeways.

And The Milwaukee World Hound Dog Team [The one-acre, privately owned 154-spot parking lot at 500 N. Broadway occupies the west half of the block bounded by E. Michigan and E. Clybourn streets.

* Uwem Akpan signs Say You're One of Them, 5 p.m. at The Oprah Store, 37 N. Carpenter.

The next time you get a dollar, check to see if it is funny; and we don't mean counterfeit.

A* Southern Indiana Restaurants offering vets free meals Applebee's will offer free meals to veterans and active military showing military ID, photo or uniform all day Wednesday, and Golden Corral will offer a free meal to veterans and active military on the honor system from 5 to 9 p.m. Nov.

A master class taught by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa FREE Thursday, November 12 at Noon District of Columbia Downtown Center for the Arts The Lansburgh Theatre 450 7th Street NW Washington, D.C. "The Shakespeare Theatre Company and Washington Performing Arts Society present Happenings at the Harman: A master class taught by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa featuring ...

The front entrance and lobby of Carlsbad Medical Center are closed for remodeling.

Anxious eyes peered out the windows of homes as a tour bus rolled slowly down Bellefontaine Street, where boarded-up homes, barren fields and pea-shake houses plague a Near-Northside neighborhood.

A new flea market to the area called the Baltimore Big Flea will take place Saturday-Sunday, Oct.

We arrived in Washington D.C. on a perfect October day to begin Hilltop on the Hill.

Clark Construction has began work on one of Washington DC's most visible corners - 1000 Connecticut Avenue, at the corner of K Street NW.

An estimated 100,000 people attended Sunday's march. They want President Obama to push for civil rights protections from the federal government.

Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria, let's do this. SNAP SNAP The Americans and Beat Poetry What: One-day intensive poetry writing workshop inspired by Robert Frank's legendary portfolio and the literary cats of the time.