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.
May 1, 1993 - MPR’s Chris Roberts talks with local pop-culture expert Karal Ann Marling about Ted Mann Concert Hall and general trends in philanthropy.
May 1, 1993 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews American poet and novelist Luis J. Rodriguez about his memoir Always Running La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. The book chronicles his youth as a Chicano gang member in East Los Angeles and his eventual escape through writing and education.
May 8, 1993 - A reading from Native American author Louise Erdrich’s The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year. The book is a meditation on the experience of motherhood and the first nonfiction work by Erdrich.
May 8, 1993 - In reaction to controversy over gossip columnist Cheryl Johnson, MPR’s Chris Roberts provides a satirical take on gossip in Minnesota with two local “experts.”
May 8, 1993 - Local commentator and writer Lawrence Sutin takes a moment to consider people watching, in particular a metal detectorist.
May 8, 1993 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews Karal Ann Marling, author and professor of Art History and of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, about the history and impact of the public holiday Mother’s Day in the United States.
May 22, 1993 - Local commentator and writer Lawrence Sutin ponders on his 20-month old daughter and the joy of “whee.”
May 29, 1993 - Weekend Edition’s Jay Weiner talks with Mary Schmitt, sportswriter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, about the environment surrounding role as a woman sportswriter.
May 29, 1993 - On this segment from Weekend Edition, historian and pop culture expert Karal Ann Marling discusses the background and reminisces on personal experience of Memorial Day.
June 12, 1993 - Local commentor and writer Lawrence Sutin ponders the idea of entrepreneurship in America.