It’s official. Autumn is here. Leaves are falling, Thanksgiving is over and — at some point — the weather here in Alabama will stay cold. When that day comes, these recipes will fill you up and ward off the chill.

If you comb through your kitchen, you can probably find the ingredients needed to become one of the undead. No, not by eating the month-old pasta stashed in the back of the fridge — although that might work, too.

Things to do in the community for the week of October 7-13.

Julia Segars has learned to recognize how the Lord works in her life — “through convergences of people, experiences and ideas,” the vice president of the eastern division of Alabama Power explained in an email. Through a seemingly chance encounter, she became the artist of a new mural in the children’s nursery at First Missionary Baptist Church in Anniston. “I ... find painting a spiritual endeavor, as it frees me from distractions and opens my mind to the voice of God in a way that nothing else does,” Segars wrote.

Things to do in the community for the week of September 23-29

“One of the things people don’t get is that these are real objects,” said Susan Doss, collections assistant for the museums. “They are unique things that cannot be replaced. Every day we have something broken.”

Things to do in the community for the week of August 26 through September 2.

His hands work quickly, with the speed an artist who has years of experience. But instead of a paintbrush, this artist wields a knife, and his medium is fish.