Yearly Archive:: 2019
Oct 06 2019
Win Tickets to See Goblin Perform the Live Score of Dario Argento’s Profondo Rosso at the Fitzgerald Theater
Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin, the Italian prog-rock outfit known for creating the soundtracks to director Dario Argento’s Profondo Rosso (1975) and Suspiria (1979), is headed to the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul on October 10, 2019. The band will perform the score for Profondo Rosso…
Oct 06 2019
Pathfinder 2nd Edition Brings Refreshing Change to the Fantasy RPG Genre
Like many people who weren’t so enamored with the fourth edition of the world’s most popular role-playing game, I played a lot of Paizo’s Pathfinder after it was released in 2009. The game was built from that same distaste for Dungeons & Dragons’ fourth edition, based off of D&D 3.5’s rules,…
Oct 06 2019
This Week in Geek (10/7/19–10/13/19)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, October 7, to Sunday, October 13.
Dark Out: Memory: The Origins of Alien
What: Movies
When: Monday, October 7, through Thursday, October 10; various times
Where: St. Anthony Main Theatre…
Oct 03 2019
Kate Mulgrew Talks Science, Science Fiction, and the Power of Words
With countless film, television, and stage roles to her name, a successful résumé as an audiobook narrator, and a New York Times bestseller under her belt, it’s safe to say Kate Mulgrew has a storied career in the entertainment industry. Perhaps best known for her roles as the iconic Captain…
Oct 02 2019
One Gamer Fund’s Steam Charity Sale Is On Now
Today through October 6, 2019, One Gamer Fund is having its third annual fundraiser event. As part of this campaign, more than 40 different games are on sale on Steam; 50 percent of the proceeds from these games will go to the fund, which will divide the proceeds among seven different gaming charities.…
Oct 02 2019
Joker Stumbles with Good Character and Troubling Commentary
It’d be easy to gravitate toward the alternative route Joker presents compared to other comic-book movies. There’s no computer-generated spectacle or a routine plot of a villain’s scheme rule the world. There’s also no hero to save the day and no tidy bow to put on this story of the villain transforming…
Oct 02 2019
Remnant: From the Ashes Offers Excellent Co-Op and Challenging Boss Fights
“Souls-like” is a very popular descriptor these days. Lots of games want to be the next Dark Souls.
Remnant: From the Ashes is Souls-like, but it’s also a shooter, and a bit of a dungeon crawler, and a cooperative-focused experience. It’s a complete mishmash of concepts…
Oct 01 2019
Comics I’m Picking Up the Week of October 2, 2019
Here are the books I’m looking forward to seeing at my local comic store the week of October 2, 2019.
Strange Skies Over East Berlin
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Words/Story: Jeff Loveness
Art/Colors: Lisandro Estherren
“Mankind made it to space, and now space has followed them back.
Herring…
Oct 01 2019
Minnesota Goth Events and Gatherings for October 2019
Welcome back to Minnesota Dark Scene, your guide to goth events and gatherings for October 2019. It’s finally arrived: our month of all things dark and spooky. It is a busy month for us, so let’s dive in.
Special Events
Conversations with Nick Cave
What: Concert
When: Tuesday, October 1,…
Oct 01 2019
Topside Is an Engaging Adventure Tale
In Topside, we meet 16-year-old Jo, a citizen of the Interior—a futuristic underground city with an overgrown sense of bureaucracy. While performing repair work as a part of her job, Jo makes an error, accidentally breaking something else in the process. Fearing the repercussions from the Interior’s…