Cold comfort it may be, but rest assured you're not the only one freaking out about sky-high heating bills this season. “How to Beat the Big Energy Chill,” in the current issue of Newsweek takes a fascinating look at the flipside of the heating-bill crisis: High oil prices amp up the economic argument for switching to alternative energy. Sure enough, as oil prices surpassed 60 dollars a barrel in recent months, investors have been seeing the logic in making the clean-power shift.

Like everything else in the Big Easy, yoga lost its footing. Many studios are still closed and others are only slowly trickling back, if at all. Seán Johnson, the owner of Wild Lotus Yoga (voted best yoga in New Orleans three years in a row by NOLA's alt weekly), fled New Orleans with only a few possessions--his beloved harmonium (an instrument for Hindu chanting) among them.