Charles Babington (AP), Jeanne Cummings (Politico), John Dickerson (Slate), and Jeff Zeleny (NYTimes) and host Gwen Ifill discuss:
* Biden, Palin Face Off in Vice-Presidential Debate
* Congress Passes Financial Rescue Bill
* Eventful Week May Be Crucial Shift in Campaign
Watch here. Originally aired 10/3/2008

Worldfocus anchor Martin Savidge is not just another talking head, he’s reported extensively from the Middle-East, Asia, Russia, Europe, and more for NBC and CNN. He shares with thirteen.org some insight into how Worldfocus will approach their difficult tasks ahead.

Fall for Dance is a wildly successful annual festival at New York City Center featuring $10 tickets and an amazing range of dance companies, 28 total. Read more…

‘Margarita Happy Hour’, a Reel 13 Indie broadcast late night 9/27, has generated a heated discussion on the web. Is the film’s content, which includes profanity, nudity, and drug use, inappropriate, or is it the job of Public TV to push the boundaries of programming to provide challenging, relevant content for adults?

Comedian Chris Rock spends some time with Charlie Rose, talking about his HBO special, why he’ll never win the Nobel Prize, and more…it’s Rock’s 5th visit to the Charlie Rose program. Watch interview now.

On Oct. 6, 1927, talking pictures arrived with “The Jazz Singer,” a movie starring Al Jolson that featured both silent and sound-synchronized scenes. Jolson was the first openly Jewish man to become a star in America. Listen to: “You Made Me Love You” sung by Al Jolson, part of the 2004 PBS documentary series “Broadway: [...]

Should kosher certification depend not only on how an animal is slaughtered but on how workers are treated? R & E reports from Iowa, where authorities have uncovered evidence suggesting serious safety violations and child labor abuse by plant officials in a kosher meat packing plant. Watch.

NOW on PBS travels to New Mexico to see how the campaigns are hoping to attract—and secure—first-time voters on college campuses, as well as voters in New Mexico’s large Hispanic population. This southwestern state was won by fewer than 400 votes in 2000, and 6,000 votes in 2004. Watch.

NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft has spotted snow falling from Martian clouds, and detected evidence of past water at its landing site in the Martian arctic plains. Read more…

In the ongoing babe-ification of the Western world, welcome to this week’s episode: Classical Babes 2.0. That’s a reference, of course, to “Too Hot to Handel,” a current feature on the online arts and entertainment segment of Playboy. Read more…