January 10, 1992 - Midmorning’s Paula Schroeder interviews Loren Niemi and Jim Stowell about storyteller series being held on the Jungle Theater stage.
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 11, 1992 - Kim Hines, a local playwright, discusses her play, Who Was I The Last Time I Saw You? A Play in Four Lives. Topics in play include social issues in the Black and gay communities. Hines highlights two characters (80 year-old Mavis & 10 year-old Christy) and performs excerpts from play.
January 11, 1992 - Elizabeth Bird, anthropology and popular culture specialist at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, gives her take on the potential for public with videophone hitting the consumer market.
January 11, 1992 - Joanne Slavin, nutritionist from the University of Minnesota, takes listener's questions about food, provides insights into healthy food habits for the new year, talks about the cholesterol debate.
January 16, 1992 - Minneapolis Mayor Don Fraser shares details on his talks with President George Bush on commission to focus on families in U.S. cities, and how to help foster healthy environment and support for them.
January 17, 1992 - MPR’s Gary Eichten gets the scoop from Marilyn Nelson on the various pre-Super Bowl festivities. It is a true Minnesota winter affair. Activities include a “warm-up” aerobic workout outside the Metrodome that includes motions of shoveling snow, throwing snowballs, and pushing cars.
January 17, 1992 - MPR’s Beth Friend has a conversation about race in entertainment culture with Marlon Riggs, a Black gay filmmaker, educator, poet, and activist.
January 17, 1992 - MPR’s Beth Friend interviews American actor Ron Vawter about his stage work for Roy Cohn/Jack Smith. Vawter explores the themes of sexual identity in play with a series of two monologues that contrast the characters of two gay men who died of AIDS.
January 17, 1992 - Midmorning’s Paula Schroeder invites Laurie Allmann into the studio for a chat about owls. Segment includes owl sounds, followed by a poem.