GOING OUT
        Boofest: Pumpkins that go bump in the night, as in a haunted pumpkin patch, do a ghostly turn in the Cincinnati Museum Center's haunted village. Designed for kids, it opens 12:30-3:30 p.m. today and runs all month with train rides and a haunted bakery serving, we guess, boonoughts or something. $4.50-$6.50. 287-7000.

        Vermeer Quartet: The well-known resident quartet of Performing Arts Chicago makes Cincinnati one of a few stops on its U.S. tour. They cut loose at 8 p.m. today in Corbett Auditorium, University of Cincinnati. Presented by Cincinnati Chamber Music Society. $7-$20. 556-4183.

        Cincinnati lithography: Art collector Harry Garrison shows slides and tells stories about Cincinnati's Decorative Poster Co., a turn-of-the century printing outfit that established the city as a world center of lithography, 7 p.m. today at the Main Public Library, downtown. 369-6945.

        Blues: National blues artist Carl “Sonny” Leyland and his boogie-woogie chops come thundering into Jefferson Hall at 9 p.m. today, 1150 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. $5. 723-9008.

STAYING IN
        TV picks: And baby makes three, but not for Dharma & Greg. Dharma's hippie mother (Susan Sullivan) turns up a little bit preggers in the fourth season opener (9 p.m., Channels 9, 2).

        • TV Critic John Kiesewetter says PBS' Building Big takes the lid off domes at the U.S. Capitol, Saint Peter's Cathedral at the Vatican and the Houston Astrodome (8 p.m., Channels 48, 54, 16).

WHAT'S IN STORES TODAY
        Video picks: Dive! Dive! Dive! Among this week's new video titles, Enquirer film critic Margaret A. McGurk picks the suspenseful and testosterone-rich submarine yarn U-571 with Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel and Jon Bon Jovi, for fans of old-fashioned, sweaty-palmed underwater action.

PLANNING AHEAD
        24 hours out: Village Players of Fort Thomas goes for laughs with Beau Jest, a comedy about a Jewish woman dating a gentile and trying to hide it. It's 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Village Players' theater, 8 N. Fort Thomas Ave. $9. (859) 441-0122.

        48 hours out: High-end photographer Duane Michaels talks about his career and life in a free lecture. It's open to the public, 7 p.m. Thursday in the Cincinnati Art Museum auditorium, Eden Park. 721-2787.

        72 hours till Friday: MainStrasse Village rolls out its fall Harvest Celebration 11 a.m.-5 p.m. along Main and Sixth streets, Covington. (859) 491-0458.

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