Hour 1
Leading off the last weekend before the election, we'll take a look at the New Jersey gubernatorial race with Newark Star-Ledger columnist Tom Moran and Jonathan Tamari of The Philadelphia Inquirer's Trenton Statehouse Bureau. They'll take stock of the increasingly close race between incumbent Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine and Republican challenger Chris Christie, as well as the vigorous challenge from Independent Chris Daggett.

Filed under: politics |

Hour 2
The Philadelphia Spectrum opened in the fall of 1967 swinging with the Quaker City Jazz Festival and is closing October 31st rocking out with Pearl Jam. Philadelphia's first indoor arena was home to the Flyers and 76ers championships, boxing and wresting matches, monster truck shows, and rock concerts.

Filed under: entertainment |

Hour 1
Ten year old Charleeni Ferreira died last week in Philadelphia from injuries related to physical abuse. Her family was the subject of several abuse investigations and she was seen by health care providers over the course of several years. We talk about this case and the challenges facing the child welfare system and the people who work in it.

Filed under: health |

Hour 2
[REBROADCAST] Neil White, a journalist, magazine publisher and family man, was convicted in 1993 for check fraud and sentenced for eighteen months in federal prison. That prison, was also the U.S. Government-sanctioned National Leprosarium. White tells the stories of these people in a memoir, "In the Sanctuary of Outcasts," as well as his story of the transformed, humbler man he had become when he was released.

Filed under: author |

Hour 1
The InterAct Theatre Company's new play, "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity," slams into the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre with an action-packed mix of professional wrestling, race and geopolitics.

Filed under: entertainment |

Hour 2
Novelist, poet, film-maker and National Book Award-winning writer, our guest Sherman Alexie grew up on an Indian Reservation fifty miles north of Spokane Washington. "War Dances" is Alexie's latest book, a collection of short stories filled with characters dealing with complex issues as wide reaching as a failed marriage, alcoholic death, hate crime, obituary writing and courtship.

Filed under: author |

Hour 1
In the debate over health care legislation, end of life counseling by physicians and nurses has been reduced to a frightening sound bite – "death panels." In fact these meaningful conversations go on every day.

Filed under: health |

Hour 2
The 2009 World Series promises to be one for the ages. In one dugout its the returning champions, the Philadephia Phillies. But the guys in the other dugout know something about dynasties: It's the dreaded, hated New York Yankees.

Filed under: sports |

Hour 1
Last week the Treasury Department announced a plans to cut the salaries of top executives of the seven companies that took government bailouts; the Federal Reserve also made public its own risk-based guidelines for banking salaries.

Filed under: economy |

Hour 2
In her new book, "When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of Women from 1960 to the Present," New York Times columnist Gail Collins explores the determination and persistence that shaped the contemporary women's movement.

Filed under: author |