Monthly Archive:: January 2018
Jan 20 2018
Minnesota Gaming Conventions to Check Out in 2018
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Minnesota, and particularly the Twin Cities area, is a great place for gamers. Maybe it’s all the time we spend indoors due to the weather, or maybe it’s just a natural evolution of the fan culture that has thrived here for over 50 years, but it’s…
Jan 19 2018
Machines Will Inherit the Earth in Planetarium
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Occasionally, I browse through Kickstarter looking for new projects to contribute to, because I am more than willing to back any project I think I would thoroughly enjoy.
Kicking off 2018, writer and illustrator Chance Wyatt Oberlander, who publishes as Chance Wyatt, reached out to me with details…
Jan 17 2018
Here’s the Buzz on Bizzy Coffee Shots
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Being an occasional barista at Steamship Coffee & Tea has taught me how important it is to support local businesses. In addition to purchasing pounds of coffee at Steamship, I was able to try out coffee espresso shots from Bizzy Coffee—a company devoted to sustainability and improving the environment.…
Jan 16 2018
Minnesota-Born Writer Marisa Tam on Creating Stories for The Blacklist
Marisa Tam was born and raised in the Twin Cities and graduated from the University of Minnesota before heading out to Los Angeles to pursue a career in TV writing. She completed UCLA’s inaugural Professional Program in TV Writing and was later selected for the 2015 CAPE New Writers Fellowship and the…
Jan 15 2018
Dance and Theater Combine for A Rap on Race, Revamped
It was a simple conversation that changed the nation. Two people, black author James Baldwin and white anthropologist Margaret Mead, sat down and talked about race back in 1970.
Nearly five decades later, that moment in time is being brought back to life in the form of an arts hybrid of sorts by Spectrum…
Jan 15 2018
The Way Out Experiment Lives Up to Its Name
Arriving early so I could get a good seat, I sat, knees practically touching the stage. The Bryant-Lake Bowl theater slowly filled up to the accompaniment of unsettling music: a soft bell tolling in the distance, anxious descending strings, alarmed horns, and occasionally that most disturbing instrument…
Jan 14 2018
This Week in Geek (1/15/18–1/21/18)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, January 15th to Sunday, January 21st.
Star Trek: Discovery Viewing Party
What: Movies, Arts, Family
When: Monday, January 15th at 7:00 p.m.
Where: The Parkway Theater
TC Trek Trivia…
Jan 12 2018
The Glossy Importance of The Post
There’s such an insistence for a story like The Post in the current climate of questioning the free press that Steven Spielberg’s film feels more grand in its historical relevance than it does in its capacity as a well-made picture. It’s as though there’s such an overwhelming urge for winking and nudging…
Jan 12 2018
The Sweet and Savory Innocence of Paddington 2
Paddington 2 is a film as adorable as its furry and friendly protagonist. It exists in a fairytale version of London where every problem seems as though it can be solved with a kind heart and a handful of marmalade sandwiches. It’s a city that has become so accepting of the bear dressed in a hat and coat that…
Jan 11 2018
The Nerd Cult Podcast Struggles to Stand Out
Creating a new podcast is a hard feat. We are in a time when the Internet is saturated with “self-started” media, and it’s hard to sift through this infinite sea to get quality. It’s especially hard to find new podcasts that are good. Out of the thousands that are uploaded for…