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.
October 31, 1992 - A Weekend Edition interview with English journalist and author Eric Silver shares details on figures within his book, The Book of the Just: The Unsung Heroes Who Rescued Jews from Hitler.
October 31, 1992 - On this segment from Weekend Edition, historian and pop culture expert Karal Ann Marling shares insights into the architecture of numerous bridges that traverse spots within the Twin Cities.
October 31, 1992 - Local commentator and writer Lawrence Sutin comments on what he sees as the ‘strange’ affair of a three-way race in the 1992 U.S. presidential race…and beyond.
November 2, 1992 - Continuation of speech segment of Japanese linguist Dr. Junji Miura.
November 28, 1992 - Local commentator and writer Lawrence Sutin takes a look at the virtual reality nature of magazine and book, Mondo 2000.
November 28, 1992 - R. U. Sirius (aka Ken Goffman), co-founder and editor of Mondo 2000 magazine, discusses the rapid change in computer technology and counter-culture movement connected to it.
December 12, 1992 - Local commentator and writer Lawrence Sutin reflects on the joy of reading and how that joy now is in the experience of reading to his daughter.
December 19, 1992 - Weekend Edition’s Jim Wishner talks with pop-culture expert Karal Ann Marling about the complicated concept of gift-giving during Christmas. Marling provides some advice on gift ideas.
December 19, 1992 - Thorunn Bjarnadottir shares her fondest Christmas memory from Minnesota. Back in 1989, Bjarnadottir and her friend Remy, both foreign students, hunted the cold northern landscape for a Christmas tree.
December 19, 1992 - Minnesota writer Lawrence Sutin reflects on the winter solstice and on humanity in the darkest days of year.