Monthly Archive:: July 2017
Jul 26 2017
Minnesota’s Magic the Amateuring Podcasters Spill on Turning Their Love of Magic into a Full-Time Venture
Trailblazers. Entrepreneurs. Pioneers. Generally, these types of traits assigned to people indicate a certain amount of premeditation. But what if you’re in the middle of your groove before you truly know you’re setting a trend? What if you’re humble Minnesotans, content to eat doughnuts…
Jul 25 2017
AbleGamers Is Working to Make Gaming Open to Everyone
AbleGamers is a charitable organization that helps people with disabilities play video games. It was founded by Mark Barlet, who was inspired when his best friend was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis to start a blog on how to play video games with a disability. Then Steven Spohn, now the chief operations…
Jul 24 2017
The Top 3 Things Wrong with Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Let me say right from the start that I love weirdo Euro Métal hurlant trippy science-fiction movies. Sometimes, the “worse” they get, the better they are, especially if you’re consuming them as part of a late-night, altered-state cinematic binge bender. You’ve never?…
Jul 24 2017
Powerbomb the Patriarchy with Netflix’s GLOW
Ah, America in the ’80s: big hair, shiny clothes, and . . . blatant racial and gender stereotypes? Yep, that’s the decade of decadence. But from within that society emerged a groundbreaking and exciting promotion, the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. GLOW is Neflix’s somewhat-based-on-a-true-story…
Jul 23 2017
What’s Coming Next for the Characters of Game of Thrones?
It’s my favorite season of the year. No, not summer—it’s Game of Thrones season! The best show on TV has returned, and with only two seasons left, how is this one going to look? Will there be more death than before? Will unlikely alliances be built? Will others be broken? I think season 7’s…
Jul 23 2017
This Week in Geek (7/24/17–7/30/17)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, July 24th to Sunday, July 30th.
Knitting Social
What: Arts, Meetup
When: Tuesday, July 25th at 6:00 p.m.
Where: Minnesota History Center
Get social with fellow knitters at the Minnesota…
Jul 23 2017
My First Cosplay
I nervously lace up the boot on my right leg—an uncomfortable angle when you have five-inch platforms on the bottom and the bed is too short. But I get it done. Now to do the other boot. My roommate gives me an incredulous look, somewhere between understanding and “Do you know what you’ve gotten yourself…
Jul 22 2017
A Minnesota Author Imagines Intergalactic Battles with a Cosmic Entity in Wolf of the Tesseract
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Ever since playing Arkham Horror with my brother, I can’t get enough of the Cthulhu mythos. I was at Blizzard World ComiCon in February of this year, and Christopher Schmitz overheard me discussing with another creator about Cthulhu. He attracted my attention and sold me on his novel Wolf of…
Jul 21 2017
Dunkirk Glides to Victory
In the early part of World War II, Hitler’s blitzkrieg left the British Army pushed up against the English Channel with no immediate means to get safely back to England to fight another day. The stakes were high—if Hitler managed to destroy the British forces on the shores of Dunkirk, the invasion…
Jul 19 2017
The Rick and Morty Card Game is Totally Rickdiculous!
The wait for season 3 of Rick and Morty—the highlight of our lives—has moved so slowly, the clocks have practically started going backwards. But hey, at least we discovered time travel, right? So many rumors had floated around about the date the series would continue, and they all ended…