• Globe-trotting Dance King
Whatever Matt Harding's dance is, whatever you want to call it, or however you want to describe it, rest assured it's not taught at the Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire dance studios.

• Waiting to exhume
Sean Payton has made some bone-headed calls this year, but certainly his worst was that stupid jazz funeral he hosted in June at Saints Camp on Airline Drive, wherein he actually hired a local preacher to help him inter the treasures of the 2006 football season.

• TUESDAY'S CALENDAR
SPECIAL EVENTS

• Angus Lind: Globe-trotting Dance King
Whatever Matt Harding's dance is, whatever you want to call it, or however you want to describe it, rest assured it's not taught at the Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire dance studios.

• Nell Nolan: Historic collection of generous donors
Pepper and prefecture set the stage for the history; a stunning home and an organizing society, the present hobnobbing.

• Chris Rose: Waiting to exhume
Sean Payton has made some bone-headed calls this year, but certainly his worst was that stupid jazz funeral he hosted in June at Saints Camp on Airline Drive, wherein he actually hired a local preacher to help him inter the treasures of the 2006 football season.

• The quiet curse
FLUSHING, Mich. -- Cheryl Bigelow is worried that girls are getting missed.

• 'K-Ville' cue card
Last week on "K-Ville": (Spoilers aplenty ahead! DVR users and pirate downloaders, beware!) Boulet and Cobb joined a manhunt after what appeared to be a jailbreak from Orleans Parish Prison. Working their own leads, they found the outlaws at the airport and recaptured two. The one who got away -- a trust-fund-baby Tulane Law School dropout who hit the skids on drink and drugs and ended up a Jackson Square musician before going to jail on a bad rap -- had a musician girlfriend to whom he transmitted secret messages encoded in sheet music. The boys learned that the escapee escaped because he learned of a scam inside Cobb alma mater OPP by which the evil Orleans Parish criminal sheriff -- a Boss Hogg-type named Terrence DeVille portrayed by Wayne Duvall -- was conspiring with an oil company to use prisoners to dump barrels of toxic sludge in the swamp. Acting on a tip from the girlfriend, Cobb and Boulet tracked down the escapee -- who'd only hoped to get free long enough to leak word of the scam "to The Picayune and The New York Times, even" -- to a French Quarter bar, where Cobb loaned him his truck so he could keep escaping some more. Later, Cobb confronted Boss Hogg with his knowledge of the scam, then talked to his dead OPP cellmate, about whom he had several flashbacks during the episode.

• PARENTS & CHILDREN CALENDAR
STUFF FOR KIDS

• Dave Walker: 'K-Ville' cue card
Last week on "K-Ville": (Spoilers aplenty ahead! DVR users and pirate downloaders, beware!) Boulet and Cobb joined a manhunt after what appeared to be a jailbreak from Orleans Parish Prison. Working their own leads, they found the outlaws at the airport and recaptured two. The one who got away -- a trust-fund-baby Tulane Law School dropout who hit the skids on drink and drugs and ended up a Jackson Square musician before going to jail on a bad rap -- had a musician girlfriend to whom he transmitted secret messages encoded in sheet music. The boys learned that the escapee escaped because he learned of a scam inside Cobb alma mater OPP by which the evil Orleans Parish criminal sheriff -- a Boss Hogg-type named Terrence DeVille portrayed by Wayne Duvall -- was conspiring with an oil company to use prisoners to dump barrels of toxic sludge in the swamp. Acting on a tip from the girlfriend, Cobb and Boulet tracked down the escapee -- who'd only hoped to get free long enough to leak word of the scam "to The Picayune and The New York Times, even" -- to a French Quarter bar, where Cobb loaned him his truck so he could keep escaping some more. Later, Cobb confronted Boss Hogg with his knowledge of the scam, then talked to his dead OPP cellmate, about whom he had several flashbacks during the episode.

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STUFF FOR KIDS

• Nell Nolan: Party packs play on their home turf
Bowl and banquet figured into the cornucopia of September social events, thanks to pigskin partying and neighborhood niceties.

• The quiet curse
FLUSHING, Mich. -- Cheryl Bigelow is worried that girls are getting missed.

• A day in Dubrovnik
DUBROVNIK, CROATIA: August, 1993

• A sampling of products and proceeds
Organization or company: Artist George Rodrigue.

• Paper Trails
Many Travel section readers are hitting the roads.

• The road to well
Michael Harris lives in a house built by T-shirts.

• Trip Tips
Passports . . . again!

• From thug to beloved
There was a time, believe it or not, that Morgan Freeman was a thug.

• PICTURES FROM THE PAST
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF JERRY ROMIG

• Racing Katrina
As is the fate of most self-styled inventors, pioneers and visionaries -- those who toil in decades of anonymity, never realize their dreams and eventually die of broken hearts, or worse -- J.T. Nesbitt and Andy Overslaugh's grand scheme never really had a chance in hell.

• A day in Dubrovnik
DUBROVNIK, CROATIA: August, 1993

• Alabama llamas are pets, caddies
GURLEY, ALA. -- "C'mon girls! Llama time!" said owner Cozette O'Neil, opening the gates at Cozy Cove Farm one recent morning so dozens of the long-necked animals could parade down to the shade trees and water sprinkler in front of her house. "Come on, everybody, let's go!"

• As American as Granny's Web site
EWING, N.J. -- A 70-year-old entrepreneur is taking on the outsourcers.

• Beyond borders
TRESPASS

• Dog is my co-author
DOGS I HAVE MET AND THE PEOPLE THEY FOUND

• Ohio seniors receive fresh produce at home
PARMA, OHIO -- Eat your veggies, adults tell their children. These days, older adults are being told the same thing.

• Paper Trails
Many Travel section readers are hitting the roads.

• This week
-- Earl J. Higgins discusses 'The Joy of Y'at Catholicism,' today at 2 p.m. at Moreau Center, Our Lady of Holy Cross College, as a benefit for the Blaine Kern Library.

• Trip Tips
Passports . . . again!

• Beyond borders
TRESPASS

• Dog is my co-author
DOGS I HAVE MET AND THE PEOPLE THEY FOUND

• PICTURES FROM THE PAST
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF JERRY ROMIG

• Chris Rose: Racing Katrina
As is the fate of most self-styled inventors, pioneers and visionaries -- those who toil in decades of anonymity, never realize their dreams and eventually die of broken hearts, or worse -- J.T. Nesbitt and Andy Overslaugh's grand scheme never really had a chance in hell.

• This week
-- Earl J. Higgins discusses 'The Joy of Y'at Catholicism,' today at 2 p.m. at Moreau Center, Our Lady of Holy Cross College, as a benefit for the Blaine Kern Library.

• The art of war films
Hollywood wants you.

• THE HOME MAKERS
"You have got to see the washroom," Paula Pete said as she unlocked the front door of a trim new three-bedroom, two-bath cottage near Boutte. "And the master bath. It's gorgeous."

• A great deal
New Orleans still has plenty of treats for cultural bargain hunters.

• Ricky Graham sings Danny Kaye
As I sink into senility, I may forget my Social Security number, birthdate (if only!) or first job (running a follow spot for Evelyn West, Biggest and Best, The Girl with the $50,000 Treasure Chest as Insured by Lloyd's of London). But I will never forget:

• Another 'SNL' success story
For all its consistent inconsistency over the past three-plus decades -- the quality dips marked in 1,001 "Saturday Night Dead" headlines -- "Saturday Night Live" remains a starmaker unparalleled in popular culture.

• 'Forgotten on the Bayou' will open film fest
He's been to Hollywood for the Moondance Film Festival. He's been to Philadelphia for the First Glance Film Festival. He's been to Palm Beach, Newport Beach and Houston for film festivals there. Now, Rockey Vaccarella is coming home.

• Ronnie Milsap wouldn't miss touring for the world
Look at Ronnie Milsap's touring schedule, and one thing jumps out at you right away: For a 64-year-old with plenty of laurels to rest on, he keeps busy.

• SATURDAY'S CALENDAR
SPECIAL EVENTS

• A BED FIT FOR A KING
THE PIECE: An American Rococo carved rosewood half-tester bed from mid-19th century New Orleans, accompanied by the original bill of sale from Prudent Mallard furniture company.

• Nell Nolan: Acclaim and Appreciation
Festive forums!

• Dave Walker: Another 'SNL' success story
For all its consistent inconsistency over the past three-plus decades -- the quality dips marked in 1,001 "Saturday Night Dead" headlines -- "Saturday Night Live" remains a starmaker unparalleled in popular culture.

• Letters to Dan Gill: Dan Gill's mailbox
The leaves on my lemon tree have started to curl, and there is a gray/silver-colored track on them. Additionally, a few of the lemons have brownish-black spots. It seems that I remember you addressing this in the past, but do not recall the specifics. Could you tell me what is going on and what to do?

• EAST JEFFERSON REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
E. JEFFERSON

• FINDING THE DIVINE AMID THE DRUDGERY
Elizabeth Ann Scott used to resent doing chores.

• GET THE FACTS ON MOLD
NOTE: This is the first in a four-part series on mold.

• Home and garden happenings
THIS WEEK

• HOME PROJECTS GURU MARKS 10 YEARS ON AIR
MOBILE, ALA. -- Danny Lipford is standing at his pool-side arbor in the morning sun, talking to himself. A few seconds later the cameraman counts, "One, two, three, roll!" and Lipford is yakking to 500,000 households across the country.

• Dan Gill: LAWNS GET LAZY FOR FALL
Although fall has technically arrived, weather in October can still feel rather warm. Even so, the seasons are changing, and the coming cooler weather affects gardening activities now.

• MEDIA CAN MAKE OR BREAK DESIGN
Like the tide, styles come in, and they go out.

• MINIMALIST DECOR, MAXIMUM MEANING
THE HOME: A ranch-style parsonage in Lacombe

• NEW ORLEANS REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
NEW ORLEANS

• PROOF THAT, LIKE THE ENVIRONMENT, HOPE CAN BE SUSTAINABLE
In this fractured city, hope can come from the oddest places.

• Craig Loewe: SALT IS THE RISING TIDE IN POOL MAINTENANCE
About a month ago, when Terry Lonatro of Aqua Pool Renovations and I were going over the details of my upcoming pool replastering project, he casually asked if I wanted him to install a saltwater system as long as we were updating.

• ST. BERNARD REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Real estate transfers for St. Bernard Parish do not appear in this week's publication but will return next Saturday. In the meantime, if you have a question or concern about one, please call (504) 278-4375 or visit the clerk of court's office at 1101 W. St. Bernard Highway in Chalmette, Monday through Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

• ST. CHARLES REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
ST. CHARLES

• ST. JOHN REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
ST. JOHN

• ST. TAMMANY REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
St. TAMMANY

• This Mold House: THE ENERGY OF A TRUE BELIEVER CAN BE CONTAGIOUS
How tired do we get before we just can't find the energy to put one foot in front of the other any more?

• Dan Gill: Tips for gardeners
BLOOMING BASIL: Regularly remove basil flower spikes to encourage plants to continue producing leaves into the fall. Ultimately, as the weather cools, the plants will begin to lose steam.

• WEST JEFFERSON REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
W. JEFFERSON

• Karnak reveals his corny colors
The answer: "Jefferson's back, he's in trouble, Letten's chasing him towards the sideline, he's going down, but at the last second flips the ball to Blanco, who stumbles, fumbles the ball, picks it up, fumbles again. Holy Cow! It's loose on the field! Nagin tries to scoop it up, drops the ball . . . Thomas tries to get it, he's blindsided by -- Oh brother! -- it's Letten again -- Letten is everywhere! Morial goes after it, but here comes Bernazzani closing in, Morial reverses field . . . Man alive! He could get caught! Hold the phone! There's a big pileup! Flag on the play! Oh brother!"

• ON COURSE
For City Park to heal, an artist's healing must end.

• THE RIGHT TONE: A weekly guide to being fit
If you find yourself in a rush, don't forgo your workout, just double up. You can do two exercises simultaneously for double the muscle toning in half the time.

• Winning the 'Healthy Challenge'
When last we spoke with Kenderick Scorza, he was embarking on a journey perhaps even more challenging than the one that took him, in the wake of post-Katrina levee failures, from the Lower 9th Ward to Memphis, Tenn., to Cabot, Ark., to North Little Rock, Ark.

• Dave Walker: A STABLE FAMILY
It is series-premiere season on broadcast television, and all the newbies struggling for ratings traction can take heart from the trail broken at this time last year by ABC's "Brothers & Sisters."

• Family Affairs
Get down and dirty

• Angus Lind: Karnak reveals his corny colors
The answer: "Jefferson's back, he's in trouble, Letten's chasing him towards the sideline, he's going down, but at the last second flips the ball to Blanco, who stumbles, fumbles the ball, picks it up, fumbles again. Holy Cow! It's loose on the field! Nagin tries to scoop it up, drops the ball . . . Thomas tries to get it, he's blindsided by -- Oh brother! -- it's Letten again -- Letten is everywhere! Morial goes after it, but here comes Bernazzani closing in, Morial reverses field . . . Man alive! He could get caught! Hold the phone! There's a big pileup! Flag on the play! Oh brother!"

• THE RIGHT TONE: A weekly guide to being fit
If you find yourself in a rush, don't forgo your workout, just double up. You can do two exercises simultaneously for double the muscle toning in half the time.

• Dave Walker: Winning the 'Healthy Challenge'
When last we spoke with Kenderick Scorza, he was embarking on a journey perhaps even more challenging than the one that took him, in the wake of post-Katrina levee failures, from the Lower 9th Ward to Memphis, Tenn., to Cabot, Ark., to North Little Rock, Ark.

• Leaf it to us
With just a hint of fall in the air and a renewed determination to eat better and be healthier, my thoughts have turned to the many varieties of salad greens.

• Leaf it to us
With just a hint of fall in the air and a renewed determination to eat better and be healthier, my thoughts have turned to the many varieties of salad greens.

• Winning recipe lost in storm
"Decades ago, The TP sponsored a cooking contest and published the recipes in a magazine section of the paper. The recipe I am seeking was a first place winner, under Main Dishes, I think," writes E.L.G. from Bogalusa. "The dish is a stuffed cannelloni. The stuffing is a ground beef spinach mixture, and calls for two sauces, both red and white.

• Winning recipe lost in storm
"Decades ago, The TP sponsored a cooking contest and published the recipes in a magazine section of the paper. The recipe I am seeking was a first place winner, under Main Dishes, I think," writes E.L.G. from Bogalusa. "The dish is a stuffed cannelloni. The stuffing is a ground beef spinach mixture, and calls for two sauces, both red and white.

• FOOD BRIEFS
FIRST NEW ROUSE'S OPENS WEDNESDAY: The Sav-A-Center supermarket at 400 N. Carrollton will close at 3 p.m. Monday as it transitions to new ownership. When it reopens on Wednesday morning, it will be a Rouse's Market, the first since the Thibodaux-based family-owned chain's recent purchase of 17 Sav-A-Center and A&P stores in the area.

• FOOD BRIEFS
FIRST NEW ROUSE'S OPENS WEDNESDAY: The Sav-A-Center supermarket at 400 N. Carrollton will close at 3 p.m. Monday as it transitions to new ownership. When it reopens on Wednesday morning, it will be a Rouse's Market, the first since the Thibodaux-based family-owned chain's recent purchase of 17 Sav-A-Center and A&P stores in the area.

• Growing veggies is popular again
NEWVILLE, PA. -- Julie and Kevin Guistwite aren't growing vegetables in their small backyard to be trendy (although it is), and they aren't growing them to put food on the table (although it does).

• THURSDAY'S CALENDAR
SPECIAL EVENTS

• Nell Nolan: Accolades for 10 plus one
A "Best" Fest!

• Marcel Bienvenu: Leaf it to us
With just a hint of fall in the air and a renewed determination to eat better and be healthier, my thoughts have turned to the many varieties of salad greens.

• Angels of St. Bernard
Bob Buras was paralyzed by depression and couldn't conceive how, at age 69, he'd rebuild his flooded Arabi home. Then he met a "team of angels," who he says is saving St. Bernard Parish one house at a time.

• Sometimes you have to laugh
Lots of couples have communication problems.

• Citizen forecasters
So over our morning coffee last Friday, my co-workers and I were chatting about Invest 93L, and whether or not its cool core would warm up in time for it to develop from a subtropical low into a tropical storm.

• Twirling fork? But wait, there's more!
In the world of gadgetry, there are items that are useful, items that are fun, items that seem unintentionally absurd, and then there's Baron Bob.

• Web surfing
Seeing is be-leaf-ing

• WEDNESDAY'S CALENDAR
SPECIAL EVENTS

• Angus Lind: Sometimes you have to laugh
Lots of couples have communication problems.

• Answering calls for help
The phone rings 5,000 to 6,000 times a month. Sometimes Derrick is the one to answer it.

• Local heroes trump NBC 'Heroes'
When this fall's NFL schedule was announced earlier in the year, locking down the local broadcast rights to the Saints-Titans "Monday Night Football" game was an easy decision for WDSU-Channel 6.

• Mayor Incomplete
As a lowly, tax-paying, go-along, get-along, member of this grand social experiment called democracy, I ask very little from my government. I just want three things: I want my mayor, my governor and my president to be smarter than me.

• Employers can now conduct job interviews online
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A new system may revolutionize online interviewing and recruiting.

• TUESDAY'S CALENDAR
SPECIAL EVENTS

• Nell Nolan: Anniversary ado -- times two
Two recent events rolled out the welcome mat: one for newcomer niceties and the other for a historical salute. Both celebrated significant anniversaries.

• Dave Walker: Local heroes trump NBC 'Heroes'
When this fall's NFL schedule was announced earlier in the year, locking down the local broadcast rights to the Saints-Titans "Monday Night Football" game was an easy decision for WDSU-Channel 6.

• Chris Rose: Mayor Incomplete
As a lowly, tax-paying, go-along, get-along, member of this grand social experiment called democracy, I ask very little from my government. I just want three things: I want my mayor, my governor and my president to be smarter than me.

• Are you ready for some goofball?
It covers 40 years in 90 minutes, moving faster than many New Orleans Saints players ever did and running through lines with more punch than the team had during much of its history.

• Tougher K-ompetition
The ratings for last week's "K-Ville" premiere were solid locally and nationally, but viewers will be much harder to come by starting tonight.

• PARENTS & CHILDREN CALENDAR
STUFF FOR KIDS

• MONDAY'S CALENDAR
COMMUNITY EVENTS

• Nell Nolan: A couple of delightful dinners
Social salutes!

• Angus Lind: Are you ready for some goofball?
It covers 40 years in 90 minutes, moving faster than many New Orleans Saints players ever did and running through lines with more punch than the team had during much of its history.

• PARENTS & CHILDREN CALENDAR
STUFF FOR KIDS

• Dave Walker: Tougher K-ompetition
The ratings for last week's "K-Ville" premiere were solid locally and nationally, but viewers will be much harder to come by starting tonight.

• Love And War
Six years in the making, Ken Burns' epic 15-hour, seven-night World War II documentary "The War" is an awesome achievement, knitting the human-level social history of the war with battle footage from multiple fronts.

• Paper Trails
Many Travel section readers are hitting the roads.

• Trip Tips
Passports, again!

• With the wind
ABOARD THE ROYAL CLIPPER SHIP -- Today was just about perfect. I don't say that often. But it was. Perfect.

• An open letter to the producers of 'K-Ville'
Dear "K-Ville" Guys,

• Alabama's lords of the ring thrive on the adrenaline
PALMERDALE, ALA. -- It is a hot and sticky night in the old, unair-conditioned gymnasium that is now the Palmerdale Community Center near Birmingham, Ala.

• Alone at last
THE WORLD WITHOUT US

• Cat 5 chills
After Hurricane Katrina, almost everybody was looking for a good handyman -- just not Erica Spindler's kind.

• Don't like band? Don't take it out on instruments
PORTLAND, ORE. -- Step into the musical instrument repair room at Portland Public Schools and suddenly you're back in grammar school, pudgy, prepubescent fingers fumbling for the trumpet keys and a cranky director keeping time.

• Labyrinth has healing properties at Alabama mental health center
HUNTSVILLE, ALA. -- In 2000, Marilyn Lands experienced what could have been a life-threatening health problem. She eventually recovered physically, but emotionally had difficulty coming to grips with her ordeal.

• Love at last sight
"We read books for the same reason we have children," the late Donald Barthelme once said, "to enrich and complicate our lives." The distinguished literary critic and author Anatole Broyard knew all about the complexities of existence -- from his birth July 16, 1920, to his death Oct. 11, 1990, he lived a double life, lived as a white man in an America where being white made a lot of difference. Then, shortly before his death in 1990, his wife Alexandra told his children, Todd and Bliss, that their father was the son of light-skinned Creoles from New Orleans, and that his parents had passed for white in order to get work after the family moved to New York in the 1930s. Passing became Broyard's way of life; over time, he distanced himself from his family of origin.

• Paper Trails
Many Travel section readers are hitting the roads.

• Plant a pharmacy in your yard
Long before Tegrin, the heartbreak of psoriasis was likely battled with a healthy coating of sycamore milk or evening primrose oil, rather than the coal tar-based ointment made famous by its 1960s advertisement.

• Return trip from Frankfurt a nightmare a year later
As she boards a flight from Frankfurt to Philadelphia, a gate agent stops Frances Carter because her ticket is incomplete. She's sent on a sprint through a terminal, is forced to pay $125 for a replacement coupon and almost misses her flight. Her online agent says the fee was unnecessary, and promises a refund. But many months and phone calls later, she has received nothing.

• Strokes also can hit midlife people who are healthy
Halloween was only a few days away, and it was the last game of the World Series. David Whitehead and his wife, Pam Bailey, had just gone to bed, when Whitehead woke up to find his wife trying to crawl to the bathroom.

• SUNDAY'S CALENDAR
SPECIAL EVENTS

• This week
-- Sherry Lee Alexander interviews Mary Monroe, author of 'Deliver Me from Evil,' today at 8:30 a.m. on Writers' Forum, WRBH radio, 88.3 FM. Program repeats at 10:30 p.m. -- There will be an open mike reading today at 3 p.m. at the Maple Leaf Bar.

• 'Treeman' helps climbers branch out
ATLANTA -- Around the corner from Atlanta's funky Five Points district, between two houses in a tucked-away neighborhood, sits an uninhabited sliver of the city.

• Trip Tips
Passports, again!

• Walking tall in custom cowboy boots
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. -- There's something about a pair of cowboy boots that just makes a man, well, look like a man.

• With the wind
ABOARD THE ROYAL CLIPPER SHIP -- Today was just about perfect. I don't say that often. But it was. Perfect.

• Alone at last
THE WORLD WITHOUT US

• Chris Rose: An open letter to the producers of 'K-Ville'
Dear "K-Ville" Guys,

• Cat 5 chills
After Hurricane Katrina, almost everybody was looking for a good handyman -- just not Erica Spindler's kind.

• Dave Walker: Love And War
Six years in the making, Ken Burns' epic 15-hour, seven-night World War II documentary "The War" is an awesome achievement, knitting the human-level social history of the war with battle footage from multiple fronts.

• Love at last sight
"We read books for the same reason we have children," the late Donald Barthelme once said, "to enrich and complicate our lives." The distinguished literary critic and author Anatole Broyard knew all about the complexities of existence -- from his birth July 16, 1920, to his death Oct. 11, 1990, he lived a double life, lived as a white man in an America where being white made a lot of difference. Then, shortly before his death in 1990, his wife Alexandra told his children, Todd and Bliss, that their father was the son of light-skinned Creoles from New Orleans, and that his parents had passed for white in order to get work after the family moved to New York in the 1930s. Passing became Broyard's way of life; over time, he distanced himself from his family of origin.

• This week
-- Sherry Lee Alexander interviews Mary Monroe, author of 'Deliver Me from Evil,' today at 8:30 a.m. on Writers' Forum, WRBH radio, 88.3 FM. Program repeats at 10:30 p.m. -- There will be an open mike reading today at 3 p.m. at the Maple Leaf Bar.

• Little theater, big challenge
He's a metaphor for the theater that he runs.

• ROOM TO GROW
Whether the New Orleans Saints will dazzle fans at their first home game Monday remains to be seen, but the Superdome definitely will shine.

• Stage notes
Jonne Dendinger is one busy pianist. The director-musical director of "Naked Boys Singing" is now playing keyboards for Le Petit Theatre's "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" Friday and Saturday nights. Then, after the Sunday 2 p.m. matinee, she hurries over to Theatre Marigny to play the 6 p.m. show of "Naked Boys." Filling in for her at "Naked Boys" Friday and Saturday nights is Jesse Reeks.

• Fly me to the moon
Do I order the same dish over and over again at my favorite restaurant? Do I take comfort in familiar things done well? Yes, on both counts. So is it churlish to ask why the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra decided to launch its 17th season with an account of Gustav Holst's "The Planets," a crowd-pleasing display piece that it had performed as recently as January 2005?

• Who Dats trump 'Heroes'
Thanks to WDSU-Channel 6's broadcast of ESPN's "Monday Night Football" Saints-Titans tilt, New Orleans "Heroes" fans -- not to mention local viewers intrigued by the relentless promos for the new NBC series "Chuck" and "Journeyman" -- will have to wait a few days longer than the rest of the country to see their season and series premieres.

• Remembering Willie Tee
Before Aaron Neville hit the road to promote "Tell It Like It Is" in 1966, he stopped at a club called Gloria's Living Room and sang soul standards with Wilson "Willie Tee" Turbinton's band. Neville and Turbinton had first met as boys in the Calliope housing development, where Turbinton's cousins lived a few doors from the Neville family.

• SATURDAY'S CALENDAR
SPECIAL EVENTS

• This Mold House: AN À LA CARTE MENU OF CONSTRUCTION CHOICES
New Orleans recovery director Ed Blakely announced last week that his office is building a Recovery Village in City Park to showcase alternative construction methods. Things such as SIPS, concrete panels, steel frames and modular houses.

• A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
THE PIECE: A 21-inch-high silverplate and bone hot-water urn by Rogers, Smith and Co., from the mid- to late 19th century

• Dan Gill: CALADIUMS: THE RETURNING CHAMPS
Plantings of caladiums are getting past their prime now, or will be soon, and it's time to decide what you want to do with them. Your choices are: Pull them up and throw them away, leave the tubers in the ground, or dig them up, store the tubers and plant them again next year.

• EAST JEFFERSON REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
E. JEFFERSON

• Letters to Dan Gill: Garden advice
I have a great bed of caladiums in my front yard. I never dig up the bulbs. I leave them in the ground over winter and just add to them each year. They are now looking sort of puny. Should I cut them back to the ground and fertilize them? Will they (perhaps) grow back and look good until November?

• Home and garden happenings
THIS WEEK

• KITCHEN DECOR IS LEFTOVER CHIC
DEBRIS FLAVOR: Talk about making lemonade from lemons. Chris Lorenzen and Sage Wagner renovated their Bywater kitchen using debris left by Hurricane Katrina as construction materials.

• KITCHEN DECOR IS LEFTOVER CHIC
DEBRIS FLAVOR: Talk about making lemonade from lemons. Chris Lorenzen and Sage Wagner renovated their Bywater kitchen using debris left by Hurricane Katrina as construction materials.

• Nell Nolan: Many 'gardeners' at Blue Rose Ball
If there were such a thing as a Special Blue Rose,

• NEW ORLEANS REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
NEW ORLEANS

• PICK YOUR THEME
There are as many kinds of home interiors as there are kinds of people who live in them. The key to finding the right one, two decor books seem to say, is setting aside some quality introspection time to decide what's important to you.

• Craig Loewe: PUMPS MOVE MORE THAN JUST FLOODWATERS
Not many days go by without some article in the paper voicing concern about the ability of the Army Corps of Engineers' pumps to operate effectively, at the correct capacity and without excess vibration.

• Long Road Home: RENTAL IS UP, TRIP IS DUE AND PARENTS TO THE RESCUE
NOTE: Work on the Broadmoor home owned by Duff Voigt and Kayla Sliman was going well, until their drywall sub left the job "temporarily" before completing work on the upstairs walls. Now the couple is back to juggling schedules, contractors and more to make sure they have a place to live when their apartment lease expires.

• SIMPLE MAINTENANCE CAN PRESERVE TOOLS
Garden tools will last longer if givengood care. Here are a few simple tips.

• ST. BERNARD REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
ST. BERNARD

• ST. CHARLES REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
ST. CHARLES

• ST. JOHN REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
ST. JOHN

• ST. TAMMANY REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
ST. TAMMANY

• Dan Gill: Tips for gardeners
SOUTHERN LADY: Known as spider lilies, hurricane lilies or naked ladies, Lycoris radiata blooms this month. When the flower stalks of this traditional Southern bulb have faded, trim the stems to the ground. Watch for the narrow, dark green, silver-striped foliage to appear, and be sure not to cut it back during its growing season this winter and spring.

• WEST JEFFERSON REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
W. JEFFERSON

• Dave Walker: Who Dats trump 'Heroes'
Thanks to WDSU-Channel 6's broadcast of ESPN's "Monday Night Football" Saints-Titans tilt, New Orleans "Heroes" fans -- not to mention local viewers intrigued by the relentless promos for the new NBC series "Chuck" and "Journeyman" -- will have to wait a few days longer than the rest of the country to see their season and series premieres.

• Exercises in charity
Susan Fendlason was an avid triathlete whose workouts took a back seat to her primary post-storm mission of re-establishing a home. Then she found a second misson that got her back on track with an exercise routine.

• CONFERENCE CALL
When I was 7 years old, my grandmother told me I was a Creole. She was not too clear on exactly what that meant, but it sounded exotic to my young ears. Intrigued by this revelation, I scribbled down the word and vowed to investigate.

• THE BEST REVENGE
RACHAEL ADAMIAK

• THE RIGHT TONE: A weekly guide to being fit
According to the American Council on Exercise, fusion classes are the future of exercise while high/low impact aerobic and step classes are on the decline. A fusion class combines two or more exercise practices into one class, giving us more fitness in the same amount of time and battling the boredom of the same old workout routine.

• Ye olde college days
I just love research studies, and there's a new one out that says lack of sleep hurts the performance of students in the classroom and college athletes in competition.

• Exercises in charity
Susan Fendlason was an avid triathlete whose workouts took a back seat to her primary post-storm mission of re-establishing a home. Then she found a second misson that got her back on track with an exercise routine.

• THE BEST REVENGE
RACHAEL ADAMIAK

• THE RIGHT TONE: A weekly guide to being fit
According to the American Council on Exercise, fusion classes are the future of exercise while high/low impact aerobic and step classes are on the decline. A fusion class combines two or more exercise practices into one class, giving us more fitness in the same amount of time and battling the boredom of the same old workout routine.

• Dave Walker: TRENDY TV
Part of the fun of previewing a new TV season is identifying programming trends and then trying to figure out what they mean for the big-picture.

• Angus Lind: Ye olde college days
I just love research studies, and there's a new one out that says lack of sleep hurts the performance of students in the classroom and college athletes in competition.

• THE TAILGATE STATE
Before the Saints face the Tennessee Titans Monday at the Superdome, a sea of their fans, many sporting team colors of black and gold, will spread out in downtown parking lots, on the neutral ground along Tulane Avenue, under the Interstate 10 overpass and on every patch of green in sight, for one purpose: to chow down in a great American ritual, Louisiana-style.

• THE TAILGATE STATE
Before the Saints face the Tennessee Titans Monday at the Superdome, a sea of their fans, many sporting team colors of black and gold, will spread out in downtown parking lots, on the neutral ground along Tulane Avenue, under the Interstate 10 overpass and on every patch of green in sight, for one purpose: to chow down in a great American ritual, Louisiana-style.

• Tailgate 'round the tube
High school, college and professional football games are taking up the better part of the weekend around Louisiana, and food is an integral part of cheering on your favorite teams.

• Tailgate 'round the tube
High school, college and professional football games are taking up the better part of the weekend around Louisiana, and food is an integral part of cheering on your favorite teams.

• Erky Lerky heart
This week, this is the Erky Lerky Alley.

• Erky Lerky heart
This week, this is the Erky Lerky Alley.

• Cinema city
Storm? What storm?

• Emeril's sauteed shrimp with pasta
Top local chefs demonstrate the recipes and cooking techniques that give New Orleans its sterling culinary reputation in "Cooking, New Orleans Style," a video feature on NOLA.com and in The Times-Picayune Living section every Thursday.

• Emeril's sauteed shrimp with pasta
Top local chefs demonstrate the recipes and cooking techniques that give New Orleans its sterling culinary reputation in "Cooking, New Orleans Style," a video feature on NOLA.com and in The Times-Picayune Living section every Thursday.

• FOOD BRIEFS
COOKBOOK DONATIONS SOUGHT: If you're cleaning out the cookbook shelves, consider giving unwanted cookbooks to the Southern Food and Beverage Museum. The nonprofit cultural institution is soliciting donations of cookbooks as well as restaurant menus. Menus are cataloged and archived at the University of New Orleans, and will be made available to researchers and historians. Donated cookbooks will become part of the museum's library, also available to scholars and historians.

• FOOD BRIEFS
COOKBOOK DONATIONS SOUGHT: If you're cleaning out the cookbook shelves, consider giving unwanted cookbooks to the Southern Food and Beverage Museum. The nonprofit cultural institution is soliciting donations of cookbooks as well as restaurant menus. Menus are cataloged and archived at the University of New Orleans, and will be made available to researchers and historians. Donated cookbooks will become part of the museum's library, also available to scholars and historians.

• THURSDAY'S CALENDAR
SPECIAL EVENTS

• THURSDAY'S CALENDAR
SPECIAL EVENTS

• Nell Nolan: 'Second Line' a first-rate festivity
Superlatives galore were trotted out for the recent Overture to the Cultural Season's annual gala, which was billed "Cultural Second Line." It was housed in the New Orleans Museum of Art to benefit Overture, the umbrella organization to the arts. More than 50 member organizations are represented. The bash's Executive Producers, as the top donors were dubbed, were First Bank and Trust, the Saints, and Marriott New Orleans.

• Marcel Bienvenu: Tailgate 'round the tube
High school, college and professional football games are taking up the better part of the weekend around Louisiana, and food is an integral part of cheering on your favorite teams.

• The producer
The lights at the Superdome were mostly dark. It was a Tuesday morning, painfully early, and there were no Saints home games scheduled for almost two weeks. But in one corner, in the tunnel just behind the Poydras Street end zone, dozens of coffee-fueled film crew members were shuffling around.

• Gamblers and generals
Quick history quiz:

• His brush with Emmy infamy
How does a New Orleans news-talk radio host end up schmoozing in Hollywood with Kathy Griffin just hours before her notoriously blasphemous Emmy Awards acceptance speech?

• Burials take dead gently into green good night
In life, Lou Tafuri loved to fish in the waters off the New Jersey coast.

• Rebounding Creole group to convene again
Louisiana Creole Research Association will host a two-day conference, Saturday and Sunday, with the theme "Louisiana Creoles of Color: Inspiration, Admiration and Race Relations" at the Chateau Sonesta Hotel in New Orleans.

• Web surfing
Let's Twist again

• WEDNESDAY'S CALENDAR
SPECIAL EVENTS

• Angus Lind: Gamblers and generals
Quick history quiz:

• Dave Walker: His brush with Emmy infamy
How does a New Orleans news-talk radio host end up schmoozing in Hollywood with Kathy Griffin just hours before her notoriously blasphemous Emmy Awards acceptance speech?