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Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013 11/28/2013 12:36am • 4:10 p.m. Janet Bodnar, editor Kiplinger's Personal Finance Download Tech toys worth shopping for this holiday season 8:10 p.m. - Mike McCarthy, editor-in-chief of DC Magazine Download Weekend events around the region 7:40 - Christian Toto, A Weekend Wakeup: Metro track work and local parades 11/22/2013 04:57pm • WASHINGTON - The weekend before Thanksgiving brings more Metro track work and roadwork. Metro Track Work Single-tracking will slow riders on the Red, Orange and Blue lines this weekend. On the Red Line, there is work again between Dupont Circle and Van Ness stations. Trains will run every 16 minu Off the 8's: Watching dad deliver the news the president had been killed 11/21/2013 05:57pm • Kate Ryan, wtop.com WASHINGTON - "I recall Nov. 22, 1963 as a day of trauma ... shocking, frightening and bewildering. To some degree, those feelings remain." That's how my sister Sheila recalls the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. She was 13 years old. I was 3. Like my sisters Parks Architect Talks What’s Next For Bethesda’s Freeland Park 11/21/2013 02:35pm • Creating balance in Caroline Freeland Park — between its use as a buffer to downtown Bethesda and its potential for more lively uses — is in large part the job of Lucas Bonney, the Montgomery Parks project manager and landscape architect in charge of the park’s renovation process. Morning Notes 11/21/2013 09:15am • Bethesda Topics At The Planning Board Today — The developer of a proposed 14-story, 225-unit apartment 7340 Wisconsin Ave., site of the long shuttered Exxon station, will seek an extension from the Planning Board today to work out public space and sector plan conformance issues. Planning Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 11/21/2013 03:38am • 3:10 p.m. - Janet Bodnar, Editor of Kiplinger Personal Finance Download Be clear on store return policies this holiday saeason Read more at Kiplinger: Stores Get Stingy About Returns 8:10 p.m. - Mike McCarthy, editor-in-chief, DC Magazine Download Fun we Big Train Hosts Annual Auction 11/20/2013 02:35pm • The Bethesda Big Train last weekend held its annual charity auction at the DoubleTree Bethesda. Special guests included Washington Nationals pitcher Drew Storen and frequent ESPN baseball analyst Tim Kurkjian, a Bethesda native and frequent supporter of the Big Train. The event rais Friday, Nov. 15, 2013 11/15/2013 02:22am • WASHINGTON - It's a fundraiser for a police officer who was hurt during the Washington Navy Yard shooting. Officer Scott Williams, a 23-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department, was shot Sept. 16 while responding to the shooting at the Navy Yard. Williams was one of the first to res Free Spielberg screenings at the National Archives 11/14/2013 03:21pm • What's your favorite Steven Spielberg film -- there are so many! You can join the conversation on our Facebook page or tweet your thoughts using #WTOP. WASHINGTON - Is there a more famous filmmaker than Steven Spielberg? Surely, other names come to mind for their greatness -- Welles, Ford, H A Look Inside ‘Water & Wall’ Restaurant 11/14/2013 09:30am • Having launched Maple Ave in Vienna nearly five years ago, husband and wife team Tim Ma and Joey Hernandez are not new to the restaurant scene. Yet with the opening of Water & Wall (3811 N. Fairfax Drive) in Virginia Square almost two weeks ago, they found new challenges to contend wit Morning Notes 11/14/2013 09:15am • Dance Bethesda Deadline — The deadline to apply for Bethesda’s annual weekend of dance performances and concerts is coming up. Dance Bethesda, from the Bethesda Urban Partnership, is a two-day schedule of dance events, including free lessons, parties and a professional concert, tha Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013 11/14/2013 12:39am • Dan Rather discusses covering the JFK assassination. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for The Weinstein Company/Getty Images Entertainment) Dan Rather says reporting on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy nearly 50 years ago helped launch his career, but came with Exposing the cover-ups, chaos of the Kennedy assassination investigation 11/12/2013 03:38pm • WASHINGTON - In 2008, Philip Shenon was at his desk at The New York Times' Washington bureau when his phone rang. On the other line was a prominent American lawyer with an intriguing request for the investigative journalist. The man on the other end was a former staffer on the Warren Commission, Veterans Day road closures and Metro changes 11/08/2013 11:58am • WASHINGTON -- Veterans Day weekend means an early getaway for some federal workers trying to get a jump on the long weekend, but it does not mean a reprieve from traffic and transit issues, as Metro shuts down Red Line stations for three days. Expect motorcades and large crowds around the Nation Veterans Day Closings, Events 11/06/2013 09:40am • Most government offices will be closed Monday for Veterans Day. The county will also mark the day on Monday morning in Woodmont Triangle. County Executive Isiah Leggett, a Vietnam veteran, will join the Kiwanis Club of Bethesda, Councilmember Roger Berliner, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, military officials