Adventures in Dining is back this year with a dynamic lineup of two-for-one offers at 64 area restaurants and more than a dozen attractions.

I’ve been asked to provide a side dish for Thanksgiving dinner.

Good morning, thankful readers.

Girls Inc.’s Blast Off

When pastry chef Denise Ware of Virginia's Southside Cafe makes pumpkin pie she sticks with tradition.

* Where: The English Rose, 1401 Market St.

Steve Keene creates 60 to 80 paintings a day in his Brooklyn, N.Y. studio. Prices for his acrylic artworks, which he paints in an assembly-line fashion, range from $1 to $25.

December 4 Mistletoe Ball, Chattanooga Golf and Country Club, 7 p.m., dinner-dance to benefit Chattanooga Room in the Inn with silent auction and dancing to Convertibull. 624-6144. 5-6 Mainx24, 8 a.m. Dec. 5 to 10:15 a.m. Dec. 6, block party on Main Stree

Below is a list of area art exhibitions and events for the week of Nov. 22-28. Anyone with information to be included may contact Ann Nichols at Chattanooga Times Free Press, 400 E. 11th St., Chattanooga, TN 37403 or e-mail annsnichols@aol.com.

Seven local artists will exhibit in Hanover Gallery's annual "Local Color." The show opens Dec. 3 and includes porcelain vessels by Dana Terry, clay tiles by Fang Ling Lee, paintings by Skip Lyons, Katherine Tate, Jo Ann Bracey and Melissa Peirano and collage pieces by Susan Doubleday.