Monthly Archive:: May 2016
May 31 2016
This Week in Geek (05/30/16–06/05/16)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, May 30th through Sunday, June 5th.
Game Designer Session
What: Meet-Up, Gaming
When: Tuesday, May 31st at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Waterbury Center
The Geek Partnership Society’s United Geeks…
May 31 2016
Barnes & Noble Is Celebrating Teen Books with a New Three-Day Festival
In May, Minnesota’s Teen Lit Con celebrated its third year of panels, workshops, and exhibitors for lovers of young-adult books. Now, starting in June, they’ll have company: Barnes & Noble just announced its first-ever B-Fest Teen Book Festival, three days of free YA-centric events…
May 30 2016
Sic Parvis Magna in Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
Nearly a decade has come and gone since we were first introduced to Nathan Drake—a character heavily inspired by Eidos Interactive’s Lara Croft of Tomb Raider who, in turn, helped inspire the reboot of the very character by which he was inspired. In that time we have discovered the treasures…
May 29 2016
Soundtrack Sunday: Fire Up the Doof Wagon for the Music of Fury Road
Let’s start out by clearing something up: I’m not a Mad Max: Fury Road fangirl. In fact, I was super late to the proverbial party and didn’t see the movie until well after its home release. Action movies just aren’t my thing—I only like movies where everyone dies of sadness or…
May 28 2016
Yamishibai Is a Fresh Take on Japanese Horror
Horror is a genre that seems to come in waves, with dramatic drops and rises in quality. There will be a large amount of rather mediocre and uninspired bits of horror that get released, mostly capitalizing on recent trends in more popular and much better horror films to the point of stagnation. Then there…
May 26 2016
Throwback Thursday: All Aboard The Magic Christian
Throwback Thursday examines films from the past, “classic” films that might not be in the current cultural zeitgeist but can still be important, interesting, fun, or all of the above.
If there was one comic actor in the ’60s that typified the idea of Swinging London, I would have to state that it…
May 24 2016
Briana Lawrence and Jessica Walsh Bring You Fantasy Set in Minnesota
In a lot of ways, Briana Lawrence and Jessica Walsh are living the fandom dream. They met on an old-school mailing list and struck up a friendship, then more than a friendship, based on a mutual love of role-playing and fanfiction. Eventually, this evolved into telling stories not just for themselves…
May 24 2016
This Week in Geek (05/23/16–05/29/16)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, May 23rd through Sunday, May 29th.
YogaQuest Continues
What: Sport & Fitness
When: Tuesday, May 24th at 7:00 p.m.
Where: YQdio
YogaQuest is “a unique blend of yoga and fan-fiction…
May 23 2016
Twin Cities Geeks Celebrate Comics at MSP ComiCon 2016
A little over a week ago, I had the pleasure of being a part of MSP ComiCon, a local comic convention that has been held in high regard by creators and vendors within the local geek community. I was helping staff a table with Twin Cities Geek, which allowed me to enter the con with exhibitor status. The convention…
May 23 2016
How Does Your Geek Garden Grow?
Spring has officially sprung with its moody temperature changes and hordes of people desperate to get out of their houses after a long winter. Now that the harsh cold has passed, people are turning their attention to their gardens and other outdoor areas of their homes. Hopefully, one of these items…