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.
May 23, 1992 - A Weekend Edition interview with Geoffrey Scott, author of Memorial Day. Scott provides a historical understanding of the holiday.
May 30, 1992 - Gina Barreca, author of They Used to Call Me Snow White . . . But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor, shares her research and views on women humor and how it fits into the general culture.
May 30, 1992 - Local writer Lawrence Sutin gives a critique on gender generalization in current society.
June 6, 1992 - Pop culture academic Karal Ann Marling talks about the topic of Elvis, from USPS postal stamp release, to biographical books and myths.
June 6, 1992 - Karal Ann Marling recites Elvis Is Everywhere by Mojo Nixon.
June 13, 1992 - A Weekend Edition interview on public interest in travel books. Segment includes a group of recommendations of travel writing from a bookseller.
June 20, 1992 - Pop culture historian Karal Ann Marling talks glitz tour across United States, which included study on Mamie Eisenhower, Edward Durell Stone, and Elvis Presley.
June 27, 1992 - S. Elizabeth Bird, anthropology and popular culture specialist at University of Minnesota-Duluth, shares details from her book, For Enquiring Minds: A Cultural Study of Supermarket Tabloids.
July 4, 1992 - Pop culture historian Karal Ann Marling gives a description of her visit to Washington D.C. and the 4th of July holiday.
July 4, 1992 - A Weekend Edition interview with Karen Nussbaum, co-author of Solutions for the New Work Force: Policies for a New Social Contract and contributor to The 9 to 5 Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment: Candid Advice from 9 to 5, The National Association of Working Women by Ellen Bravo and Ellen Cassedy.