February 1, 1992 - American cultural historian Karal Ann Marling reviews The Toy Book by Gil Asakawa and Leland Rucker. Among numerous topics, the book looks back at how many toys (such as Silly Putty) came out of the experimentation during WWII.
January 18, 1992 -
January 18, 1992 - Findings presented by the project director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics - New Ethics research project.
January 18, 1992 -
January 18, 1992 -
January 18, 1992 - MPR’s Jim Wishner interviews Karal Ann Marling, a scholar of American popular culture and art, about attempts to preserve Minneapolis Armory. Marling talks about “creative re-use.”
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 - 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 - 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 4, 1992 - An interview with Karal Ann Marling, local author and professor at University of Minnesota, about her visit to Japan. Marling details numerous cultural items she learned about, including that Minnesota is known for “eggs” in the East Asian country.