Monthly Archive:: December 2016
Dec 31 2016
10 Movies from 2016 We Shouldn’t Forget
After 12 long months, 2016 has come to a close, and it’s time for critics to start composing their end-of-the-year best-of lists. Most are fairly predictable, encompassing the more recent awards-worthy pictures being released around this time—from the grand musical La La Land to the racial biopic…
Dec 30 2016
The Twin Cities Geek 2016 Holiday Toy & Book Drive Was a HUGE SUCCESS!
Thanks to you, our second annual Twin Cities Geek Holiday Toy & Book Drive was an amazing success! Together we collected an unprecedented number of donated gifts to make the holidays brighter for so many Twin Cities families, and boy, did the Twin Cities geek community pull out all the stops. Just…
Dec 30 2016
4 Anime Series Perfect for Winter Binge-Watching Bliss
With lots of dark, chilly days left ahead in the coming months, ’tis the season for hibernation! And as much as I dislike the cold and the all-too-early sunsets that come with this time of year, I love the prospect of some time off of work, some relaxing evenings at home, and some actual free time (for once!).…
Dec 29 2016
Throwback Thursday: To Every Year a Vanishing Point Comes
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.
We’re living in antagonistic times: our country is incredibly divided. In the short term, I don’t see things getting…
Dec 25 2016
This Week in Geek (12/26/16–1/1/17)
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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, December 26th through Sunday, January 1st.
It Came upon a Monday clear. The MNCS Holiday Implosion!
What: Theater & Comedy
When: Monday, December 26th at 7:30 p.m.
Where: 355 Monroe…
Dec 24 2016
A Geek’s Guide to Creating the Ultimate Cosplayer’s Emergency Repair Kit
Meta Con 2014 was truly a historic convention for me. It was the first con where I started doing cosplay repair, with my inspiration coming from two places: meeting another cosplay repairman—General Maintenance, a punny name inspired by the one who started the viral the movement, Captain Patch-It—and…
Dec 23 2016
CNN’s The Hunting Ground Is a Cognitive Necessity
One of the final scenes in CNN Films’ The Hunting Ground (2015), a 103-minute documentary film about the nationwide epidemic of campus sexual assault in universities and colleges that is now streaming on Netflix, consists of a single line on an otherwise blank screen. The line seems innocuous—almost…
Dec 22 2016
Throwback Thursday: I Married a Witch Features Veronica Lake at Her Finest
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.
In my mission statement for this column, I mention zeitgeist but don’t always talk about it when discussing the films…
Dec 22 2016
Gamer’s Rhapsody 2016 Struggles with a New Venue and New Problems
Gamer’s Rhapsody 3 was, as one could infer, the third go of a convention focused on the art and music of video gaming. As the red-rings-on-my-face target audience for this convention, I’ve been following this con closely, including enthusiastically reviewing last year’s event.…
Dec 21 2016
Fact or Fiction? A Scientist Puts a Minnesota Monster Book to the Test
After completing M. P. Johnson’s latest novella, Lake Lurkers, I felt like I needed to reach out to confirm a few points in the book that rang a little too true to be fiction. While there is nothing in Minnesota that quite rises to the level of the Loch Ness Monster, there have been a few lake creatures…