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Gail Mirabella used to train her dogs to do tricks when she was a kid. Eventually, her hobby turned into a career. Today, Mirabella works as a dog trainer for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus. Backstage before a recent show, she talked to TFK Kid Reporter Cameron Young about why she chose this career path, how she selects the dogs she trains and what it's like to work in the circus.

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NEW ORLEANS - The Crescent City is known as much for its cuisine as for its carousing. It's easy to pay too much for both, such as $83 for a simple pasta lunch at the far edge of the French Quarter.

LONG BEACH, Calif. - As my husband, our nephew and I made our approach to the Queen Mary Hotel in Long Beach, it occurred to me what an odd setting this was for a luxury hotel. We were passing through a hard-core industrial area that was none too fragrant.

SAN FRANCISCO - It was summer 1974, and a one-time street performer produced a comedy show in the back room of a club - a perfect antidote to the grimness of Watergate and the Vietnam War. Tickets were $2.50 each, and everyone was hoping for a six-week run.

The most mind-boggling aspect of the still-fresh TV season isn't that witches have returned to Eastwick or that the planet got a sneak peek at the apocalypse. It's that, for the first time in years, network executives can step away from the ledge.

NEW ORLEANS - I've awakened to my first morning here, just a few hours after getting my mind - and hearing - blown by the Soul Rebels Brass Band at uptown's Le Bon Temps Roule.

FORKS, Wash. - For some reason, Randy Lato's "Vampire Voyages" boat trips just haven't brought in the big tourist bucks yet. He hasn't quite worked out a plausible connection between fishing and the fictional "Twilight" series author Stephenie Meyer set in this little Olympic Peninsula town.

Back home in Garfield, N.J., they call him Smiles.

The Kansas City Chiefs can pin some blame on Ann Austin for their overtime loss to the Cowboys. The Atlanta Falcons, a blowout victim last week, can point fingers at her, too.

To help you with your planning, here are the top stories planned for next week's travel package. Stories will move Monday, Nov. 2, 2009.

Q: What is a "botnet"?

Controversy has followed discredited British historian and accused Holocaust denier David Irving for decades. On Monday, it followed him to the Ritz-Carlton in Manalapan, Fla., where a man was stabbed as Irving spoke about World War II.

On my second day in the Texas Hill Country, a rolling patch of scrubby green land in the central part of the state, I met Gary Kirkham.

Strapped into a harness and lying only a couple of inches from the soft, dew-wet grass airstrip at Lookout Mountain Flight Park in Georgia, I close my eyes, swallow hard, and then say a little prayer. Okay. Scratch that. A big prayer.

SEATTLE - As bus tours go, Ray Piesciuk chose a most peculiar conveyance on which to take in the sights and sounds of Seattle.

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - That little extra bit of money in the form of a larger paycheck tied to the Obama stimulus plan could end up taking a bite out of your federal income tax refund or even leave you owing taxes, say observers.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - Ruby Montana steers her VW convertible past the former homes of Liberace, Dinah Shore and Sammy Davis Jr., and I start to panic.

STEARNS, Ky. - Blue Heron is a ghost town in more than one way.

Many veteran Southern California desert vacationers prefer some of the newer cities within a short drive of Palm Springs.