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.
February 5, 1994 - Minnesota poet, singer, and advocate Julia Dinsmore shares her thoughts and experiences on the struggle of American violence and poverty. Segment contains reading and performance excerpts.
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 12, 1994 - Historian and pop culture expert Karal Ann Marling comments on a fragrance she received and what it says about a person.
February 19, 1994 - Clark Morphew, a religion columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, discusses a religious play he has put together.
February 19, 1994 - St. Paul writer and commentator Lawrence Sutin tells the tale of writing Alphonse, the Happy Tree.
February 26, 1994 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews unknown Russian musician prior to a recital performance at Science Museum of Minnesota.
March 5, 1994 - St. Paul writer and commentator Lawrence Sutin explains his disdain for the American misuse of quotations.
March 5, 1994 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews former Minnesota U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy on his thoughts of poetry and politics.
March 12, 1994 - Historian and pop culture expert Karal Ann Marling comments about the culture of bars…from a bar.
March 26, 1994 - Historian and pop culture expert Karal Ann Marling comments on art museums and the “art” of curation, installation, and exhibition.