Monthly Archive:: November 2017
Nov 09 2017
John Carpenter Brings His Film-Music Magic to Minnesota Fans
John Carpenter is a man who really needs no introduction. You like movies? Yeah? Genre movies? Yeah? Then you know John Carpenter.
Crowned a master of horror by cinephiles, Carpenter has been delivering pop-culture classics since the ’70s. Titles like Halloween, Big Trouble in Little China, and…
Nov 09 2017
5 Tips for Getting a Job in Book Publishing
You’ve always loved books. Maybe you’re the word nerd of your friend group, or maybe you’re an evangelist for your favorite sci-fi series—whatever the angle, you’ve decided you want to turn that love into a career, but you’re not sure know how to get your foot in the door. The usual career advice like setting…
Nov 08 2017
White Birch, Red Hawthorn Recognizes the Roots of Oppression
The Twin Cities area is a Midwestern hub of art, culture, and business, but at its center is also one of the most spiritually important sites to the Dakota people. Bdote, now part of Fort Snelling State Park, is the sacred confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, revered by the Dakota people…
Nov 07 2017
Stranger Things 2 Smoothly Pairs Humor and Horror
During summer 2016, it seemed like everyone was glued to their TV, phone, tablet, computer, Apple Watch, or smart refrigerator to check out Netflix’s nostalgia-driven Stranger Things, the first show to make you run out and buy Eggo waffles. After more than a year’s wait, season 2 debuted…
Nov 06 2017
Cosplay Cost Saving
As winter approaches and convention season winds down, now is the time to start planning your cosplay lineup for next year! Whether this is your first or 100th cosplay, hopefully some of these tips can help you save some time and money.
I highly recommend using the app Cosplanner to help stay focused and…
Nov 05 2017
This Week in Geek (11/6/17–11/12/17)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, November 6th through Sunday, November 12th.
Stalker
What: Movies
When: Monday, November 6th and Tuesday 7th at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Trylon Cinema
Andrei Tartovsky’s Stalker is a…
Nov 04 2017
Cowboy Bebop Is a Story Both Familiar and Unexpected
As I wrote back in January, Cowboy Bebop is an anime I’ve had aspirations of watching for a long time now, and this year I put it on my official to-watch list as part of my New Year’s resolution. It’s now the second series from my three-item list that I’ve had the opportunity to…
Nov 03 2017
The Trippy, Technicolor Trip of Thor: Ragnarok
Director Taika Waititi has taken the drab world of the Thor movies and injected it with a hefty dose of 1980s tone and style. After all, the nine realms of this universe can’t all be dreary Shakespeare (though they seemed to be before now, given how eager the god of thunder was to get back to Earth in his previous…
Nov 02 2017
Dirty River Is a Memoir of Diaspora, Social Justice, and Queer Identity
I thought I had read every queer-girl coming-out story ever written, and then I dug into Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s deeply personal memoir, Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home. There’s a lot going on with Leah, who flees an upbringing in Massachusetts for…
Nov 01 2017
Andrea Swensson Documents the Ascent of the Minneapolis Sound in Her New Book
The North Minneapolis and Rondo neighborhoods played key roles in the evolution of Minnesota’s music scene, culminating in the birth of the Minneapolis Sound. Until Prince began to garner national attention in the late 1970s, the budding movement went mostly unnoticed and undocumented by the people…