Thanksgiving

What restaurants will be open on Thanksgiving here in Lafayette/Acadiana area?

I'm a fan of Thanksgiving. Every year it seems Thanksgiving gets pushed further and further to back of the Holiday line though. Maybe all it needs is more songs?

If you take a quick look at the calendar, you'll notice that Thanksgiving is still over two weeks away, yet that hasn't stopped two California women from lining up for Best Buy's Thanksgiving Day sale.

Tony Rohr, former manager of an Indiana Pizza Hut claims he has been fired for refusing to open on Thanksgiving day.

Allied Waste and the Recycling Foundation will not collect garbage or recycling in Lafayette Parish on Thanksgiving Day.

If you decide all that cooking is just too much work, or your family is too big, or you're alone on Thanksgiving day or just decide to do something different this year, you have lots of options if you live in Acadiana.  Lots of restaurants will be open and ready to serve you a delicious meal, no matter what you're hungry for...

Thanksgiving is almost here, which means we start seeing turkeys everywhere—on TV, in our children's school drawings, running through our dreams every single night while we sleep ... you get the idea. And eventually these poor turkeys will be inside many of our overstuffed stomachs as well.

Who’s really being punished here? Valerie Rodgers, or the cops she’s cooking for? It depends on good she is in the kitchen, we guess. Rodgers was sentenced to cooking Thanksgiving dinner for three cops and a year of probation for reckless driving that resulted in felony charges...

Thanksgiving is almost here and while Thanksgiving doesn't have the carols or claymation specials of Christmas but that doesn't mean that Turkey Day is without its traditions. There's turkey and wine and football and bickering with your family and the classic 'SNL' sketches. We've compiled the best Thanksgiving skits 'SNL' has aired over the years for your viewing pleasure.

Baskin-Robbins is bringing back the Turkey Cake, which was first introduced in 1976. It’s a turkey-shaped caked stuffed with something “ice” cold for dessert this Thanksgiving. Back by popular demand, filled with ice cream and glazed in caramel, this cake is one of a kind...

Even though the price of holiday travel is on the rise, nearly 24 million people will still be shuttling across the friendly skies this Thanksgiving weekend.

There's one thing that slips most of our minds for Thanksgiving, and that's our beloved troops overseas or stationed in various spots around the US.

Luke and I decided to share one of our "best" thanksgiving stories with you.

I know what you're thinking.... "Slippery... WHAT?" This is one of the funkiest videos, but Luke and I promise that you'll get a huge laugh out of this!

The  Contra Costa Times has an article about how to eat fewer calories on Thanksgiving!  That's great news for me!  So there is hope for me not to gain 5 pounds from Thanksgiving feasting...  Here's a list of the 5:

I realize it's important to get great deals on gifts and gadgets you really want....but honestly