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.
March 26, 1994 - Weekend Edition film reviewer David Brauer gives his impressions of the Coen brothers film, The Hudsucker Proxy.
March 26, 1994 - St. Paul writer and commentator Lawrence Sutin talks about death and the act of writing about it.
April 2, 1994 - Freelance writer and commentator Nancy Giguere gives her insights on American Catholics…and being one.
April 2, 1994 - American writer and novelist Frances Sherwood discusses her book, Vindication. The novel is a historical fiction on Mary Wollstonecraft, a pioneer feminist and author of the radical classic, A Vindication of the Rights of Women: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects.
April 2, 1994 - Local writer and commentator Lawrence Sutin breaks down the shaky idea of mega bookstores.
April 9, 1994 - Will Hermes, arts and entertainment editor for City Pages, remembers Kurt Cobain after news of his suicide. Hermes explains the fascination and importance of the musician for many young people. Cobain was a member of the the band Nirvana.
April 9, 1994 - Twin Cities Black journalist and essayist Dwight Hobbes shares his frank thoughts over the debate on low-rent housing in Maple Grove.
April 16, 1994 - A performance clip from an unknown Theater Mu production.
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.
May 7, 1994 - Historian and pop culture expert Karal Ann Marling comments on the purpose and history of domes, including the State Capitol and Cathedral in St. Paul.