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 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 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.
January 22, 1994 - MPR’s Chris Roberts talks with American composer Dominick Argento about his opera The Dream of Valentino, a chronicle of the life of silent movie star Rudolph Valentino.
February 5, 1994 - Jay Weiner, Weekend Edition’s sports commentator and sportswriter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, comments on what is behind the public announcement by Minnesota Twins owner Carl Pohlad that he is interested in selling team.
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.