December 4, 1993 - MPR’s Euan Kerr profiles Mask Dance, a Theater Mu play about adopted Korean kids. Kerr interviews director and actors from the work that brings into focus Korean culture.
December 4, 1993 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews an instructor about the writing form of “hyperfiction,” non-linear digital literature where readers use hyperlinks to navigate through fractured narrative nodes.
December 4, 1993 - Weekend Edition film reviewer David Brauer gives his take of Daniel Appleby’s film Bound and Gagged: A Love Story. The movie is set in Minnesota.
December 7, 1993 - Tom Heffelfinger, a former U.S. attorney, explains the possible decisions of U.S. Justice Department in pursuing a fraud investigation into U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger.
December 8, 1993 - American feminist author and journalist Naomi Wolf discusses the state of the feminist movement and her book, Fire with Fire: New Female Power and How It Will Change the Twenty-First Century.
December 9, 1993 - Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the center for biomedical ethics at the University of Minnesota, talks about the topic of physician-assisted suicide and answers listener questions.
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December 10, 1993 - Midday guest Peter Hutchinson, new superintendent of the Minneapolis Public School District, discusses what lies ahead for district, with student achievement being the first priority. Hutchinson also takes listener questions.
December 10, 1993 - Playwright Jose Cruz Gonzalez and producer Alberto Justiniano talk about Latino theatre and the play, La Posada (The Inn). The play is being premiered by Teatro del Pueblo at the Guthrie Theatre.
December 10, 1993 - On this episode of Worldview, MPR’s Jim Wishner talks with Diane Espaldon, executive director of Theater Mu; and Rick Shiomi, director of Theater Mu production “Mask Dance.” The play weaves traditional Korean mask dancing with a contemporary Asian American story based on the experiences of the Korean adoptees who were some of Mu’s first artists.