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 21, 1992 - Local short story writer Jim Heynen reads Fewer Cats Now.
April 4, 1992 - Local author Lawrence Sutin provides thoughts on 'herstory' and mothers.
April 11, 1992 - Weekend’s Jim Wishner interviews curator Karen Nelson Hoyle about the Kerlan Collection, the cornerstone of the Children's Literature Research Collection at the University of Minnesota's Archives and Special Collections. Nelson Hoyle highlights some of the collection, including Wanda Gag's papers.
April 11, 1992 - Minneapolis author and commentator Lawrence Sutin ponders Opening Day of Major League Baseball.
April 11, 1992 - An interview with Harriet Beinfield about Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine, a book about Chinese medicine that she co-authored. Acupuncture, herbs and Eastern medicine philosophy are discussed.
April 11, 1992 - On this Weekend Edition segment, historian Karal Ann Marling comments on Phil Patton’s book about American inventions, entitled Made in U.S.A.: The Secret Histories of the Things That Made America. Segment opens with Thomas Jefferson's inventions.
April 18, 1992 - Magazine editor and author Aubrey Edwards is interviewed about Children of the Dream: The Psychology of Black Success, a book she co-authored.
April 25, 1992 - Historian and pop culture expert Karal Ann Marling shares the historical ties of a military influence on evolution of bikinis and bras.
May 2, 1992 - Jay Weiner, Weekend Edition sports commentor, discusses his recent Star Tribune essay on Rodney King. Weiner sees a correlation on violence in the real world and the ‘folly’ of mass sports.
May 9, 1992 - Historian and pop culture expert Karal Ann Marling shares the background of World's Fair and lackluster U.S. exhibit at the Seville Expo '92.