Monthly Archive:: March 2019
Mar 17 2019
This Week in Geek (3/18/19–3/24/19)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, March 18th to Sunday, March 24th.
Game Changers
What: Educational, Gaming, Family, Arts
When: Daily through May 5th; see site for museum hours
Where: Science Museum of Minnesota
When…
Mar 16 2019
Crackdown 3 Is Fine, but That’s Just Not Enough
Just I did during the long wait for Kingdom Hearts III, I had all but given up on Crackdown 3 ever entering my disc tray. After years of rocky development, multiple delays, and outright radio silence from Microsoft, I thought I’d never get the sequel to one of my favorite Xbox 360 games of all time.…
Mar 15 2019
Video Games Come to the Science Museum of Minnesota in the Game Changers Exhibit
The Science Museum of Minnesota has transformed its US Bank Great Hall into a 10,000-square-foot educational video game experience. Game Changers, the museum’s newest exhibit, takes a hands-on look at some of video games’ most important and groundbreaking creations and the minds…
Mar 13 2019
We Need to Talk About Your Kid’s Book Diet
Have you thought about your kid’s diet recently? Not their eating diet, though a balanced one is equally as important, but their reading diet. What are they reading, or, more specifically, who are they reading about? Who are the protagonists on their bookshelves?
Take a look at their shelves, and look…
Mar 13 2019
Minnesota’s Taiko Community Gives Back with the Issho Benefit Concert
Fans of Harisen Daiko in the Twin Cities are familiar with the group’s combination of geekery and traditional Japanese drumming. Harisen performs frequently at local conventions such as CONvergence and MantiCon, in addition to many other performances, and their repertoire is a mix of traditional-sounding…
Mar 12 2019
Comics I’m Picking Up the Week of March 13, 2019
Here are the books I’m looking forward to seeing at my local comic store the week of March 13, 2019.Little Bird
Publisher: Image Comics
Words/Story: Darcy Van Poelgeest
Art/Colors: Ian Bertram
“Little Bird follows a young resistance fighter who battles against an oppressive American empire…
Mar 10 2019
Enter to Win a Captive State Prize Pack!
To coincide with Captive State, the new sci-fi thriller from writer and director Rupert Wyatt, hitting theaters March 15, 2019, we’re giving away movie prize packs to 2 lucky winners! Enter for your chance to win a Captive State hoodie, pop socket, sticker, and movie poster.Just enter through…
Mar 10 2019
This Week in Geek (3/11/19–3/17/19)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, March 11th to Sunday, March 17th.
Creative Night
What: Arts, Community
When: Monday, March 11th at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Event Horizon at the Waterbury Building
Let your creativity shine…
Mar 08 2019
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Is a Satisfying Mystery-Solving Challenge
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective is a story lover’s dream.
It presents like a fairly standard game. A thick, plastic-wrapped box of the usual size and shape greeted me within my Amazon package. But the moment I lifted it out, I found my first surprise: it was heavy, weighing as much as or more…
Mar 07 2019
10 Underrated Black Sci-Fi Characters
I always enjoyed science fiction more when the creators used fantastical settings and unorthodox concepts to make poignant commentary on present-day issues. When the writers and producers play with a literally infinite selection of worlds, technologies, cultures, and so on, audiences are exposed…