Monthly Archive:: March 2020
Mar 31 2020
Comics I’m Picking Up the Week of April 1, 2020

With the delivery of new comics suspended by Diamond, the distributor for comic shops, and the limited number of new digital releases on the leading digital distribution platform, many are using this time to catch up with the series we’ve fallen behind on. Those still looking for new stories…
Mar 31 2020
Keystone’s Foodmobile and Other Services Are Helping Fight COVID-19 in Minnesota, and You Can Help

Minnesotans are stepping up and making a difference during the COVID-19 pandemic, and I want to make sure people know about all the organizations out there doing great work and helping during this crisis and beyond. I’m profiling a different nonprofit each day to share their information and…
Mar 31 2020
Join Minnesota Geeks Helping Disease Research with Folding@Home

Are you, like me, the sort of geek who has multiple computers in their house? Do you have a gaming computer or server at home that’s not being used much most of the time? Maybe you have multiple video cards in your gaming or your editing rig, but you only usually use one at a time. Well, you can put those…
Mar 30 2020
Out of the Pocket Is an Empowering Paranormal Romance

When I requested Out of the Pocket from F-BOM, a monthly subscription service I’m trying out that highlights self-published sci-fi and fantasy stories by self-identifying women, I admit I went in without much foreknowledge. The paranormal romance subgenre is not one I’m well versed…
Mar 30 2020
PRISM Is Providing Food and Housing Assistance to Minnesotans during COVID-19, and You Can Help

As you may have noticed, there’s a little bit of a pandemic going on, as well as a lot of efforts happening to help. Minnesotans are stepping up and making a difference, whether it’s health-care workers diligently forging ahead to develop treatments and other efforts to stem the tide of…
Mar 29 2020
This Week in Geek (3/30/2020–4/5/2020)

Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, March 30, to Sunday, April 5.
Please note: Due to risks from the global COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Tim Walz has declared a state of Peacetime Emergency, recommending social distancing…
Mar 28 2020
5 Common Coronavirus Questions Answered by the Experts

I am writing this not as an old lady with a naïve attitude toward anime (my usual role at Twin Cities Geek) but as a physician who practiced pediatrics for 25 years. Because of this shady past, many people have been coming to me with questions about how to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. I began by haunting…
Mar 27 2020
Quick and Easy Soda Breads to Bake at Home

Bread making is intimidating for many people unused to baking, but it doesn’t have to be. You can make delicious breads without special knowledge or equipment. It’s a tasty and useful skill to know—especially when folks pick over the grocery-store bread shelves in a rush of panic buying.…
Mar 24 2020
Comics I’m Picking Up the Week of March 25, 2020

Here are the books I’m looking forward to seeing at my local comic store the week of March 25, 2020.
As stores adjust to how they can maintain customer service—and business at all—check with your favorite small/local purveyor on how they can get you the books you want to stay entertained as we get ready…
Mar 23 2020
3 Tabletop Games to Play at Home Alone

Due to the coronavirus outbreak, people are encouraged to stay at home and keep human contact to an absolute minimum. For many of us geeks, this provokes little controversy; apart from conventions being canceled, many of our most cherished hobbies can be enjoyed from the safety of home. For tabletop…
