Mayor Toni Harp updates listeners on Saturday's holed-up shooter incident, Board of Ed fireworks, and conditions on the Green, among other issues.

Devita Davison passionately shares this powerful approach to food business development based on building alliances across social boundaries and the food industry for lasting success and impact on our most marginalized communities. Co-sponsored by the Yale Sustainable Food Program and co-hosted by Ony Obiocha. Check www.thetableunderground.com to see photos, links, recipes and much more.

Host Babz Rawls-Ivy talks jazz with Ace Livingston. Ace will be performing September 30, 2017 in Cromwell CT. For more information visit http://www.acelivingston.com/calendar.

On today’s episode of the show, host Tom Breen is joined by Madison Art Cinemas’ founder and owner Arnold Gorlick to talk about their experiences at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which ran from September 7th to September 17th and featured almost 340 movies, many of which were making their world premieres.

Host Brian Slattery talks to musicians Carl Testa, Anne Rhodes, and Lou Guarino about the ten-year run of he Uncertainty Music Series, which is ending this weekend with a two-day festival at Firehouse 12 on Crown Street.

Host Cyd Oppenheimer talks with author Owen Egerton about the difference between the novel and film ("a movie knows exactly what it wants you to feel when you step out of the theater; a book you can walk away from in a bunch of different ways"); about why he fell in love with writing ("here was a place where my questions could live"); and about how writing Hollow changed him ("it expanded the mystery"). And he quotes Tim O'Brien (without being prompted!).

Three years after the inexplicable crib death of his toddler son, Oliver Bonds -- once husband, professor, do-gooder -- is divorced, unemployed, living in a shed. Everything he thinks he knew about how the earth operates has been smashed. Consumed by grief, beset by the challenge of how to go on when he can no longer pretend to himself that life is fair and bad things only happen to other people, Oliver is drawn to the fringe idea that the earth is hollow, with an undiscovered civilization at its center. "The concept of the Hollow Earth was something better than factual: it was applicable," Oliver tells us; "I myself was a hollow shell with nothing but a question at my core.”

Host Mubarakah Ibrahim talks with parent Denea Bennet about her decision to Homeschool her children.

Fay Sheppard, who helps run a not-for-profit to maintain New Haven's Holocaust Memorial park, discusses her father's experiences as a Nazi holocaust survivor as well as the history -- and continuing work involving -- New Haven's memorial.

Host Marcia Chambers speaks with Laura Burban, Director of the Dan Cosgrove Animal Shelter

Brenda Brenner of the Jewish Coalition for Literacy and volunteers Hedda Kopf, Ruth Sachs and Scott Zimmerman discuss their work reading to students in 7 New Haven schools.