Weekend Edition (Regional Edition) is an MPR News segment series that runs as a companion to broadcasts of NPR’s Weekend Edition. As a regional version, the series highlights local news, commentary, profiles, and reports.
February 26, 1994 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews unknown Russian musician prior to a recital performance at Science Museum of Minnesota.
April 30, 1994 - Local writer Lawrence Sutin provides commentary on the Minnesota Twins. Despite the dismal start to 1994 Major League Baseball season, Sutin sees joy in what the future may hold in the years ahead and an appreciation of the game and a retiring veteran player.
August 20, 1994 - MPR’s Chris Roberts talks with Money Magazine’s Marguerite Smith about their 1994 rankings of U.S. cities. Minneapolis came up #32 and Roberts tries to figure out “why so low?”
November 18, 1995 - MPR Weekend Edition’s Jay Weiner joins Chris Roberts to celebrate and discuss the 20th anniversary of the Women’s Department at the University of Minnesota.
January 27, 1996 - MPR’s Greta Cunningham interviews author Carol Shields about her award-winning works, research, and the business of writing.
February 10, 1996 - MPR’s Greta Cunningham talks with singer and writer Leslie Ball, who shares a survival tale of Valentine’s Day past and performs a song in the studio about the “love” holiday.
July 6, 1996 - MPR’s Catherine Winter reports on insect threat to state park trees in northern Minnesota. Winter talks with Becky Marty, resource manager at Itasca State Park, about efforts to save the woods.
September 28, 1996 - MPR’s Lorna Benson interviews Eleanor Lanahan, F. Scott Fitzgerald's granddaughter about her famous grandfather, as well as Zelda, her grandmother. Lanahan also discusses how her mother somewhat protected children from the family history.
October 21, 1996 - Less than a century ago, millions of acres of North America were covered with prairie, vast grasslands that were home to bison, wolves, and prairie chickens. Today, less than one tenth of one per cent of that prairie remains. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working on the Tallgrass Prairie Project, a plan to buy and protect some of what little prairie is left.
October 26, 1996 - MPR’s Greta Cunningham takes a walking tour with Dennis William Hauck, author of Haunted Places. The two discuss Minnesota ghost hauntings at the Guthrie Theater, the State’s Capitol, and St. John’s University.