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.
January 4, 1992 - Local writer Lawrence Sutin shares thoughts on friends who have babies and their focus shifts from their friends to their children.
January 4, 1992 - An interview with Karal Ann Marling, local author and professor at University of Minnesota, about her visit to Japan. Marling details numerous cultural items she learned about, including that Minnesota is known for “eggs” in the East Asian country.
January 11, 1992 - St. Paul writer Lawrence Sutin delivers his list of eight New Year's resolutions…some are tougher than others.
January 11, 1992 - MPR’s Jim Wishner interviews author Vicki Abrahamson about the book she co-authored with Wes Janz, entitled War of the Words: The Gulf War Quote by Quote. With the Gulf War, Abrahamson says the world is the theater in the round.
January 18, 1992 - MPR’s Jim Wishner interviews Karal Ann Marling, a scholar of American popular culture and art, about attempts to preserve Minneapolis Armory. Marling talks about “creative re-use.”
February 1, 1992 - American cultural historian Karal Ann Marling reviews The Toy Book by Gil Asakawa and Leland Rucker. Among numerous topics, the book looks back at how many toys (such as Silly Putty) came out of the experimentation during WWII.
February 1, 1992 - Minneapolis author Lawrence Sutin comments about the lives of authors…one of dreams and struggle.
February 8, 1992 - An excerpt of Black author Toni Cade Bambara doing a public reading.
February 8, 1992 - Weekend Edition film reviewer David Brauer gives his thoughts on David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch. The film is an adaptation of William S. Burrough’s book of the same title.
February 15, 1992 - Following Valentine’s Day, a reading excerpt of Colette's The Cure. The story is a tender tale of female companionship after heartbreak.