June 22, 1991 - MPR’s Chris Roberts profiles local Hmong pop-rock group Asian Invasion. Roberts interviews members of the band, who describe their varied influences and cultural subject matter in songs.
June 22, 1991 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews Phil Willkie, co-editor of The Gay Nineties: An Anthology of Contemporary Gay Fiction. Willkie comments on the themes of the writings collected in book.
June 26, 1991 - All Things Considered’s Gary Eichten interviews Father Frankie Perkovich, the fourth person to be named into the Polka Hall of Fame. Father Perkovich is known for performing and promoting the Polka Mass.
June 27, 1991 - All Things Considered’s Gary Eichten gets the inside scoop from Kevin Strong, a baseball player from Minneapolis who finds himself as a rookie for the Minnesota Twins minor league affiliate Elizabethton Twins.
June 28, 1991 - MPR’s profiles Choua Lee, a Hmong woman running for the St. Paul School Board. Lee says her main concerns are minority students, in particular the grouping of these students into separate tracks in curriculum. She also sees the need for Hmong parents to be more active greater community decisions.
June 28, 1991 - MPR’s Susan Orandi reports on a Otter Tail County onstage program, which is staging plays at the historic River Inn, Fergus Falls. Lance Belleville, co-artistic director and playwright-in-residence at the theater details the plans for play and tying it to River Inn’s history.
June 28, 1991 - MPR’s Bob Potter interviews Lou Bellamy, artistic director of The Penumbra Theatre, about August Wilson. Bellamy discusses Penumbra’s production of Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.
June 28, 1991 - MPR’s Leif Enger reports on the efforts being taken by the local community in staging a history play at the River Inn, located in Fergus Fall. The play, entitled Hooch, Hokum and Horsefeathers at the Hotsy Totsy Inn, presents the real-life drama (including murder) that took place at the inn back in late 1920-early 1930s.
June 29, 1991 - Midday’s Bob Potter talks with Minnesota writer John Shepard, who answers listener questions about places to go and things to see all around the region.
June 29, 1991 - MPR’s Chris Roberts profiles the 8th Annual Young Playwrights Summer Conference, sponsored by the Minneapolis-based playwright's center. The program offers teenagers a chance to work one-on-one with some of the best-known playwrights in the Twin Cities.