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.
December 19, 1992 - MPR’s Chris Roberts profiles Keith Antar Mason and the Los Angeles based Black theatrical company Mason founded, Hittite Empire. Mason speaks on Rodney King and LA riots.
January 2, 1993 - On Weekend Edition, pop culture expert Karal Ann Marling provides a humorous take on her predictions for 1993.
January 2, 1993 - American cartoonist and writer Lynda Barry performs a reading from Good Times Are Killing Me, a coming-of-age novella about a white girl, Edna Arkins, navigating racism, class, and family struggles in a changing Seattle neighborhood in the late 1960s, focusing on her friendship with a Black girl, Bonna Willis, and the role of music in their lives.
January 2, 1993 - American cartoonist and writer Lynda Barry performs a reading from Good Times Are Killing Me, a coming-of-age novella about a white girl, Edna Arkins, navigating racism, class, and family struggles in a changing Seattle neighborhood in the late 1960s, focusing on her friendship with a Black girl, Bonna Willis, and the role of music in their lives.
January 9, 1993 - Minnesota Black writers Pamela Fletcher, Margaret Carlson, and Chen Lee Barksdale talk about the importance of the Loft Literary Center’s Inroads Mentoring Program providing ‘voice’ to writers of color.
January 23, 1993 - Commentator and writer Lawrence Sutin found himself a guest at New York Film critics Circle Local…and starstruck.
January 30, 1993 - Local pop-culture expert Karal Ann Marling comments on paint by number. It’s a multifaceted history.
February 6, 1993 - Local commentator and writer Lawrence Sutin gives his take on when and how to raise a complaint.
February 13, 1993 - MPR’s Leif Enger visits Sauk Rapids and presents a Weekend Edition profile on the sport of roping in the depths of a Minnesota winter.
February 27, 1993 - Local commentor and writer Lawrence Sutin gives his thoughts (and rules) on booing at sports events.