Going out

Previews: Catch one of the final dress rehearsals of Playhouse in the Park's razor-sharp comedy The Smell of the Kill, a not-so-kind - wicked even - look at upper middle-class marriage. 7 p.m. today, Robert S. Marx Theatre, Eden Park, $28. 421-3888.

Baroque & Arc: Cincinnati Baroque and the contemporary classical Arc Ensemble team for an afternoon of masterpieces, including Handel's "Dixit Dominus." 2 p.m. today, St. Monica/St. George Church, 328 W. McMillan, Clifton Heights, $10-$20. 351-1615.

Last call: It's curtains for Thomas Schiff's Panoramic Ohio exhibit at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The show closes after today, Noon-6 p.m., Eden Park, $4-$5. 721-2787.

On TV

Top pick: Too much good stuff comes pouring out of the tube on this first sweeps' Sunday, so watch one and tape another: Young Sofia Vassilieva stars in ABC's Eloise at the Plaza, the first TV adaptation of Kay Thompson's children's books (7-9 p.m., Channels 9, 2); B2K performs "My Girl" as the Temptations on American Dreams (8 p.m., Channels 5, 22); and Touched By An Angel wraps up after nine years (8 p.m., Channels 12, 7).

• Critic John Kiesewetter also says Scott Glenn stars in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of A Painted House

(9 p.m., Channels 12, 7), based on John Grisham's autobiographical novel.

The goods

Tons of dirt: Well you just gotta love this - a book of nasty incidents with the rich and famous. It's called Celebrity Tantrums: The Official Dirt (ECW Press, $14.95) by Lisa Brandt. Some incidents are old and well known, like O.J. Simpson's trial, Winona Ryder's shopping trip.Others less well known - like the time Ivana Trump snow-plowed into her husband's mistress in Aspen; or the time Eminem pistol-whipped some guy he thought was hitting on wife Kim.

Planning ahead

24 hours out: Krohn Conservatory's End of Show Sale offers plants from the Garden of Fragrance and Easter Lily displays, priced to sell, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Eden Park. 352-4080.

48 hours out: The Cincinnati Chamber Music Society hosts world-famous cellist Gary Hoffman with pianist Philippe Bianconi, 8 p.m. Tuesday, Corbett Auditorium, University of Cincinnati, $7-$20. 556-4183.

72 hours till Wednesday: There's plenty food, beer and music from Catch 22 at Hyundai/WB64 Party in the Park, 5:30-10:30 p.m., Sawyer Point, downtown. 579-3191.

Jim Knippenberg

E-mail jknippenberg@enquirer.com