Monthly Archive:: July 2016

The Internet can be a cruel and unusual place. A place where anyone with some pent-up aggression can become a trivial sort of supervillain. With a little ingenuity—so little, in fact, that ingenuity hardly seems like the right word—an individual can make life miserable for others. Best…

The Paramerican Summer Tour, promoting a brand-new paranormal documentary film called Sir NoFace by award-winning director Chad Calek, stopped off at St. Paul’s Mounds Theatre on its way through the Twin Cities last week. The touted documentary promised “definitive proof ghosts…

Steve Jobs had a quote from Picasso he liked to throw around when he was feeling thoughtful: “Good artists copy; great artists steal.” He usually employed it to explain Apple’s strategy of “borrowing” technological innovations from competitors. He was somewhat…

Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s Batman: The Killing Joke is an iconic story in the history of Batman comics. The graphic novel was published in 1988, but it made the New York Times bestsellers list as recently as 2009 and has influenced almost three decades of writing and film, especially when it…

Many Harry Potter fans are excited that J. K. Rowling has continued to produce new writing set in the wizarding world, and Pottermore is the online platform through which she can introduce fans to new stories, characters, and histories. At the end of June, Pottermore was updated with the latest installment…