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 4, 1993 - MPR’s Euan Kerr profiles Mask Dance, a Theater Mu play about adopted Korean kids. Kerr interviews director and actors from the work that brings into focus Korean culture.
December 4, 1993 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews an instructor about the writing form of “hyperfiction,” non-linear digital literature where readers use hyperlinks to navigate through fractured narrative nodes.
December 4, 1993 - Weekend Edition film reviewer David Brauer gives his take of Daniel Appleby’s film Bound and Gagged: A Love Story. The movie is set in Minnesota.
December 11, 1993 - On this Weekend Edition segment, MPR’s Chris Roberts talks with two young poets, who discuss their writing and read some of their work. Both are participants of Community Programs in the Arts and Sciences in Schools (COMPAS), an arts education nonprofit that puts creativity in the hands of Minnesotans of all ages. Community Programs in the Arts and Sciences in Schools
January 1, 1994 - MPR’s Chris Roberts talks with a “tired” Karal Ann Marling, local author and scholar of American popular culture and art, about her MANY dislikes from the previous year and her hopes that 1994 may hold something different.
January 15, 1994 - Playwright, director, actor, and storyteller Jim Stowell shares a Rio Grande story. He is a co-founder of The Minnesota Ensemble Theater and The Palace Theater.
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.
January 22, 1994 - St. Paul writer and commentator Lawrence Sutin delves into the social debate on choice and men.
February 5, 1994 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews Aron Pilhofer, the news editor of the weekly gay publication Equal Time. Pilhofer discusses the goals of newspaper and the concerns of his leadership role at Equal Time, being that he is straight and not part of the gay community.
February 5, 1994 - St. Paul writer and commentator Lawrence Sutin shares his lack of desire to read the daily newspaper.