Downtown (Brooklyn, New York)

NEW YORK — In a dimly lit room inside Grand Central Station, with a high, ornate, painted wood ceiling and a stone fireplace with a carved, winged lion insignia, a piece of the Connecticut economy came to life. There, in a gathering late Thursday,...

DONATOS FREEDOM BLAST ROAD CLOSURES From 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. on the Fourth of July, the Downtown Donatos Freedom Blast will be taking place at the Indiana War Memorial Grounds. The event will consist of Donatos selling pizza and soft drinks, local...

As we come upon the 11th commemoration of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, there are several notable new and returning documentaries, specials and movies on television recalling the events and their impact on our nation from various perspectives...

New Year’s 2012 looks like a very good one for theme parks. Already, the parks in Orlando have been jammed with holiday visitors. On this year’s edition of Priceline’s top 50 New Year’s destinations, Orlando neighborhoods took 4...

A veteran performing arts programmer has been chosen to guide Allentown’s Mayfair Festival of the Arts in choosing and booking performers as the festival seeks to renew and rejuvenate itself this year. Charles “Chuck” Kalan, who was...

There’s a pixie-shaped specter hovering over the music of Ana Caravelle -- one that looks an awful lot like Joanna Newsom. Such will be the lot of any young woman who roots an experimental, ambitious album around the harp and......

It's the 2nd anniversary of the Downtown Fort Myers Art Walk and to mark the occasion daas Gallery is presenting “Abstract Pop: The Art of Franck de Las Mercedes.” Franck de Las Mercedes is a Nicaraguan born painter raised in New York City....

Downtown New York came to downtown Los Angeles as three composers from the new music collective Bang on a Can took over a Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall Tuesday night. Moreover, there is good......

What do Italy’s Trevi Fountain, India’s Charminar monument, the New York Stock Exchange, and Rotary International World Headquarters in Evanston have in common? During the …...

The Lindsay Lohan theft case has been handed off from the L.A. County district attorney to the L.A. City Attorney's office. A theft charge against Lindsay Lohan was reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor at a hearing in April, resulting in the change of...

It seems appropriate that director Eli Stonberg should answer his cellphone for an interview while standing out in front of his favorite video store. And while Vidiots, a treasure trove of indie video sales and rentals in Santa Monica, seems......

Here's an announcement from the Theatre Development Fund — the folks who run the TKTS discount ticket booth in New York — about its new iPhone app to buy their tickets. In addition, the TDF has a patron-services program to improve the ticket-...