Hour 1
The record snowfall blanketing the mid-Atlantic region for the second time in a week is the topic of today's first hour of "Radio Times." We'll talk to National Weather Service meteorologist JOE MIKETTA about what's causing the snow and how it stacks up against historical precipitation. Then we'll talk to JON SHURE of The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities about what the financial burden of dealing with the blizzard means for municipal governments already buckling under the financial strain of the recession. Then we'll talk to SCOTT BERNHARDT of the weather forecasting firm Planalytics about the economic impact to the private sector. And to close the show, we'll turn to our listeners to hear about YOUR experience of this snowstorm.

Filed under: economy, science, transportation |

Hour 2
How do you administer aesthetics? Our guest, TIMOTHY RUB, has many challenges ahead since he began this fall leading the Philadelphia Museum of Art, one of the country’s biggest art institutions, with more than 200 galleries and an active exhibition program. How will he decide which exhibitions will work at the museum, and if they will attract the numbers of people to support them and future shows? Rub follows the impressive legacy of the beloved late director Anne d’Harnoncourt and he's also inherited the tension of the Barnes Collection that will be housed in the Art Museum’s shadow. Rub is the former director of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Filed under: arts |