Patricia Sheridan talks with Barbara Baker Burrows, LIFE magazine's director of photography. (Total time:17:41.)

Welcome to This Week in High School Sports. Today, the PG’s scholastic sports writers Mike White and Colin Dunlap look back at last week’s four WPIAL football championships and ahead to the PIAA quarterfinals this Friday (Total time 11:45).

This week, PG sports columnists Gene Collier and Ron Cook join sports editor Jerry Micco. They get out their crystal balls and offer a five game forecast for the rest of the Steelers’ season, comment on the new diversity in the Pirate’s franchise, and speculate on Dave Wannstedt’s future at Pitt. Then they dip into the Sports Now mailbag (Total time 12:30).

After 20 years of watching her confound logic by rising up the greasy pole of Pennsylvania politics, often with pundits and party regulars trying to pull her down, Dennis Roddy attended Catherine Baker Knoll's funeral and reflected on what made her the most popular vote-getter in the state's history. (Total time: 6:34.)

Pittsburgh singer/songwriter Bill Deasy talks with PG pop music critic Scott Mervis about his new CD, "A Different Kind of Wild." Deasy will be performing in a benefit concert at Cefalo's in Carnegie the night before Thanksgiving (0-6:18). Also, country music critic and historian Rich Kienzle reviews a brand-new recording by Trace Adkins and offers some comments on the phenomenon called Taylor Swift (6:18-16:58). Total time: 16:58.

This week, Certified Guru of Geekdom Ced Kurtz and PG Now Webmaster Jody Farr talk about items likely to be selling fast and furious – at a steep discount – on Black Friday and Cyber-Monday. Also, the letter of the week, and a new feature: the news of the week in technology-land. (Total time: 18:43)

Post-Gazette TV editor Rob Owen talks with columnist Tony Norman about "24" and "The Shield."

As usual, PG staff opinionistas Monica Haynes and L A Johnson dissect the news of the day in their own, insightful way (Total time 23:00).

In today's Post-Gazette Steelers Report, beat writers Ed Bouchette and Gerry Dulac preview the Bengals game when they visit Heinz Field this Thursday evening. Then Gerry offers his pick for that game and the weekend's other top match-ups. Stay tuned (Total time 7:05).

This week, Post-Gazette drama critic Chris Rawson hosts a special guest, Todd Kreidler, a Pittsburgh-area native, playwright and protégé of August Wilson. Kreidler was in town this week for a staged reading of his work in progress “Stayers and Goers” at the Pittsburgh Public Theater (Total time 16:30).

Today Post-Gazette food editor Bob Batz Jr., dining critic China Millman and staff writer Gretchen McKay are talking turkey and Thanksgiving treats (Total time – 8:55).

Today Post-Gazette movie critics Barb Vancheri and Barry Paris review "Quantum of Solace," "What Just Happened?" and a slew of entries in the Three Rivers Film Festival: "Have Rocket Will Travel," "The Korean," "Deuce," "Tricks," "Song Sung Blue," "Momma's Man" and "The Last Command" (Total time 18:40).