Aug 23 2026
This Week in Geek (8/24/2026–8/30/2026)
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Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, August 24, to Sunday, August 30.
Although inclusion in This Week in Geek is not an official endorsement of any event or organizer, we do our best…
Aug 22 2026
The Crane Wives Fill First Avenue with Radical Positivity
On August 15, the Crane Wives played a sold-out show at First Avenue in downtown Minneapolis. While the indie folk band was new to me, they were very well known and loved by the more than 1,500 loyal fans in the enraptured audience. I have to say it has been a while since I’ve had to wait in a line that…
Aug 22 2026
The Character Alignments of 2026 Minnesota State Fair Foods, Rated
August is a reminder that the temperature will (thankfully) begin to drop soon, school is starting back up, and, of course, it’s time for the Minnesota State Fair. While some people go to the state fair to see lumberjack shows, the parades, or cute baby farm animals, I go for the food. Not the classic…
Aug 20 2026
“Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” Is Jane Schoenbrun’s Best Work Yet
There is an exchange in Jane Schoenbrun’s film I Saw the TV Glow that sits in my heart like a 50-pound weight sometimes. About one-third of the way into the movie, main characters Owen and Maddy sit awkwardly near each other on the outdoor bleachers of their high school. After not being able to answer whether…
Aug 17 2026
“The End of Oak Street” Brings Monster Craft Back to Suburbia
The suburban cul-de-sac is one of cinema’s favorite safe spaces: a manicured bubble built to keep the chaotic outside world at arm’s length. In The End of Oak Street, director David Robert Mitchell takes that idea to its extreme by dropping an entire 1982 neighborhood straight into a prehistoric…
Aug 16 2026
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “The Samurai and the Prisoner” Is Filmmaking at Its Finest
I would not be surprised if The Samurai and the Prisoner turned out to be my favorite movie of 2026.
It’s a beautiful piece of cinema that works for me on every level. The writing is thought-provoking, the cinematography is inspired, and the plot is suspenseful. It’s the type of film that proves you don’t…
Aug 16 2026
This Week in Geek (8/17/2026–8/23/2026)
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Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, August 17, to Sunday, August 23.
Although inclusion in This Week in Geek is not an official endorsement of any event or organizer, we do our best…
Aug 14 2026
Minnesota Author Mallory Glass Serves Up Steamy and Intriguing Gargoyle Romance
Mallory Glass is a Twin Cities author whose first solo publication, the romance novella Stone Heart, came out in 2025. Since then, she’s been busy: The sequel, Stone Shadows, came out in June 2026, and between those two she also published the new adult romance Me and You, set in 1999, and the erotic…
Aug 13 2026
“Therapist Zero” Is a Father-Daughter Story About “Dysfunction and Trying to Fit In”
As part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the Southern Theater in Minneapolis is currently hosting Brian Leonard’s Therapist Zero, a one-man dark comedy show described as centering on “broken parents, failed therapists, and the art of getting it right.”
In Therapist Zero, Leonard…
Aug 12 2026
Tradition Meets Modernity in Yudori’s “Lovers of the Empire Vol. 1”
Lovers of the Empire: Volume 1, the second full-length graphic novel by Eisner Award–nominated South Korean cartoonist Yudori, starts with a straightforward yet intriguing series of statements: “Joseon (colonial Korea) had been under Japanese rule for decades. Gyeongseong was its capital city,…