Peter Sagal is the host of National Public Radio’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, a humorous news quiz show that airs weekends on New Hampshire Public Radio (Saturdays at 11 a.m., Sundays at 1 p.m.) and other public radio stations throughout the U.S. Usually the show is performed in Chicago, but it takes frequent road trips. Sagal and his crew will tape this week’s show at the Palace Theatre in Manchester on Thursday, Sept. 28. The show (which will feature Dean Kamen in the “Not My Job” segment) sold out weeks in advance (but catch it this weekend or catch it whenever via podcast at www.npr.org/programs/waitwait). The show tests call-in contestants and weekly panelists on the week’s news. The panelists win bragging rights; the listener contestants can win Carl Kasell’s voice on their home answering machine.

The professional company Yellow Taxi Productions is staging String Fever at the Hunt Memorial Building in Nashua, the fourth show in its five-show 2007 season. .

We all want to know what’s in what we eat but the true free-range enthusiast can even find out what the animal they eat ate.

Bob Jennings, who raises free-range poultry and pork at Winrose Farm in Greenfield, said today’s consumers want to know that their meat is safe.

When I was at WMUR, I once said to meteorologist to the stars and Celtics savant Mike Haddad (can I borrow the car) there should be official standings for weather forecasters. He looked at me in the way I imagine Frank Costanza did after 14-year-old George told him he wanted to be a ventriloquist and asked me why. I said, “To see whose five-day forecast we should pay attention to the most.”

Allow me to whine a bit

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