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.
September 18, 1993 - Minnesota poet Joe Paddock provides an environmental commentary on the essense of the land.
September 25, 1993 - A Weekend Edition interview with about the demise of Artpaper, a monthly Twin Cities arts magazine. The publication came into existence in the early 1980s because local artists perceived a need for some vehicle of communication in the community.
October 9, 1993 - Local commentator and writer Lawrence Sutin reads an essay on looming winter and how to survive.
October 9, 1993 - MPR’s Chris Roberts talks with author James Woods, author of The Corporate Closet: The Professional Lives of Gay Men in America. Woods details putting together the book and interviewing various people within the corporate world to gain insights.
October 23, 1993 - Twin Cities poet Michael Dennis Browne reads Potatoes, October.
October 30, 1993 - Famed horror writer Clive Barker reads his short story The Departed, which concerns the tale of a dead woman who can visit the living on Halloween.
November 6, 1993 - Historian and pop culture expert Karal Ann Marling comments on American homes and the concept of ‘cocooning.’
November 13, 1993 - Local commentator and writer Lawrence Sutin shares his thoughts on the experience of lost and found.
November 20, 1993 - Historian and pop culture expert Karal Ann Marling comments on the uncomfortable changes within American airports.
December 4, 1993 - Local commentator and writer Lawrence Sutin shares an anecdote about the problem of political discourse in the locker room.