A SPECIAL REPORT: THE ARTS

THIS IS RETIREMENT? Douglas Rowe, above, who retired in June as artistic director of the Laguna Playhouse to rekindle his acting career, seems to have lighted a bonfire. . . . He’s an Alaska oil millionaire on CBS’s “Northern Exposure” in an episode tentatively set for Oct. 28. He stars as the true-life bomber of a Lake Tahoe casino on “FBI: The Untold Story,” a new fall ABC series for which shooting just concluded. . . . And he hasn’t forgotten his roots. He’ll narrate “Our Town” in the Grove Shakespeare Festival revival beginning Oct. 3 in Garden Grove.