This week, PG sports columnists Ron Cook and Colin Dunlap join sports editor Jerry Micco to debate the meaning of Pitt's recent gridiron victories, reasons for the high-level performance of the Steelers' defense and the relative merits of being a Pirates fan (Total time 10:10).

Welcome to This Week in High School Sports. Today, the PG's scholastic sports writers Mike White and Colin Dunlap offer their picks, praise and pans for this weekend's action of the WPIAL football season (Total time 12:20).

Today Post-Gazette food editor Bob Batz Jr. and dining critic China Millman leaf through the new "Fallingwater Cookbook." (Total time – 10:10).

Today Post-Gazette movie critics Barb Vancheri and Barry Paris review "The Duchess," "The Express," "Body of Lies," "I Serve the King of England," "City of Ember" and preview several entries in the upcoming Three Rivers Film Festival (Total time 17:20).

PG pop music critic Scott Mervis talks with Pittsburgh soul singer Sheena B. about her debut CD, "Paradise" (0.00-7:25). Country music critic and historian Rich Kienzle reviews veteran singer/guitarist Glen Campbell's latest CD, "Meet Glen Campbell" (7:25-14:15). (Total time: 14:15).

On this week's Tuned In podcast, PG TV editor Rob Owen and entertainment editor Sharon Eberson share insights on the latest ratings, "Saturday Night Live" and "Life on Mars." Stay tuned and get Tuned In. (Total time 12:00).

Today, Post-Gazette Tech Man Ced Kurtz and systems manager Tim Dunham look into the future and see Wi-Max (Total time - 16:00).

This week, PG opinionistas Monica Haynes and L.A. Johnson talk about the vice-presidential debate and the Wall St. bailout, as well as a request from the State of California for its own federal bailout . Then there's "The Truth About Cheating" -- hint, men claim it's not about the sex. (Total time: 24:45)

Debra Messing, of "Will and Grace," "The Starter Wife" and "The Women," chats with Patricia Sheridan. (Total time: 13:11)

In today’s Post-Gazette Steelers Report, beat writers Ed Bouchette and Gerry Dulac look back at the Ravens game and forward to the Jaguars on Sunday night. Then Gerry offers his picks for the weekend’s other top games. Stay tuned (Total time 8:50).

This week, Post-Gazette drama critic Chris Rawson reviews the New Horizon Theater's production "The Story," Pittsburgh Playwrights' "Dorothy 6," and previews the final weekend of the Pittsburgh New Works Festival's, Aquila Theatre Company's version of "The Iliad" as well as Prime Stage's "Hound of the Baskervilles." And he sneaks in a plug for next week's "Off the Record," the annual musical review and media roast, produced by the Newspaper Guild and AFTRA (Total time 8:00).

This edition of Dennis Roddy's Journal boards a Greyhound Bus in Pittsburgh headed to New York City in search of America (Total time 11:15)