You can't take a minute more of Joe's anemic "Blue's Clues" crooning when a laid-back beat, set to Hawai'i scenery, starts shaking your TV. Your crabby toddlers start bopping cheerily — and so do you.

It's singer/dad Jack Johnson's video of "Upside Down" — the first single from the animated feature "Curious George," getting play during cable channel Noggin's morning preschool-programming block. You can also watch the video at www.jackjohnsonmusic.com.

— Esme Infante Nii

TOAST TO MARDI GRAS

Do you know what a sazerac is? It's a classic New Orleans drink (made with rye whiskey), and one that students will learn to make in Dale DeGroff's Mardi Gras in New Orleans class at the Halekulani on Tuesday.

The star mixologist (also the hotel's director of beverage arts) will show you how to finesse three other spirited drinks in the $50 seminar, which starts at 6 p.m. on the Garden Terrace. Call 931-5040 to reserve.

— Advertiser staff

FINAL WORD

"See that sitting position? That's terrible. If she sticks her can out as if she's — pardon the expression — going to the toilet, that's really terrible."

Dick Button | the 1948 and 1952 Olympic gold medal skater and current NBC commentator, watching pairs skaters practice at Turin, to The Washington Post