Going out

        Gardening series: It's a gardening session and you don't even have to get potting soil under your fingernails: Learn about hostas and shade gardening when the White Oak Garden Center digs in on the Year Round Gardening Series. 7 p.m. today, Monfort Heights Branch Library, 3825 West Fork Road. Free. 369-4472.

        Theater: Last call for Miss Something, the biting musical send-up of the perky world of beauty pageants. It's part of Ensemble Theatre's Off-Center/On-Stage series. 8 p.m., ETC, 1127 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine. $10. 421-3555.

        Cookbooks: Here's a scary thought: Do-it-yourself cookbooks. But that's the theme when FRP Publications of Nashville, award-winning producers of cookbooks for non-profit organizations, gives a visual presentation on developing community cookbooks. Everything from recipe selection to presentation. 7 p.m. today, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Rookwood Pavilion, Norwood. 396-8960.

        Poetry: A little rhyme and reason when Sitwell's Coffee House does one of its ever so popular open readings. 8 p.m. today, 324 Ludlow Ave., Clifton. 281-7487.

Staying In

        TV picks: Baseballs bouncing all over the place today. League of Their Own (Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Tom Hanks, Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell) is a feel-good classic set in the World War II years, when there was a women's professional baseball league. But there is little “feel-good” in Yankee Clipper, where we see Joe DiMaggio as a distant, emotionally separated man. The portrait is richly detailed, yet depressing. A League of Their Own 8:05 p.m., WTBS; American Experience: Yankee Clipper, 9 p.m., Channel 48.

        Pigskin, too: Here's a nod to football: Jason Sehorn guests as a tough opponent in a firefighters' game, then as a colleague fighting a big blaze. Third Watch, 10 p.m., Channel 5.

Planning Ahead

        24 hours out: Astronaut Scott Carpenter pops in from outer space to speak on “A Space Odyssey: Past, Present and Future.” 8 p.m. Tuesday, Miami University-Middletown's Dave Finkelman Auditorium. Free. (513) 727-3379.

        48 hours out: Guitar masters Eric Johnson, Derek Trucks and their 10 very speedy fingers team up for a white-hot double bill. 8 p.m. Wednesday, Bogart's, 2621 Vine St., Corryville. $16.50-$18.50. 562-4949.

        72 hours 'til Thursday: Best-selling mystery author Dennis Lehanegets into the crime scene when he signs and discusses his blockbuster Mystic River. 7-9 p.m., Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Rookwood Pavilion, Norwood. 396-8960.

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