Monthly Archive:: October 2021
Oct 31 2021
This Week in Geek (11/1/21–11/7/21)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, November 1, to Sunday, November 7.
Virtual Events
GalaxyCon Live
What: Community, Conventions
When: Monday, November 1, through Sunday, November 7
Where: Virtual via video chat
GalaxyCon,…
Oct 27 2021
We Light Up the Sky Tackles Both Alien and Human Horrors in a YA Story
Life beyond Earth has been a mystery for centuries, and Hollywood has no shortage of interpretations of what kinds of beings could be living in space. These run the gamut of friendly and cute to terrifying and deadly, and a common theme that recurs is how aliens might compare to humans on an emotional level:…
Oct 24 2021
This Week in Geek (10/25/21–10/31/21)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, October 25, to Sunday, October 31.
Virtual Events
Great International Scavenger Hunt Presents: Halloweird
What: Arts, Community, Family
When: Tuesday, October 19, through Sunday,…
Oct 22 2021
Enter to See Dune for FREE!
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is here, and we have your chance to see it for free!
We’re giving away 25 pairs of Fandango gift codes so that 25 winners can each see Dune in theaters with a friend. For your chance to win, just submit your information through the form below before 11:59 p.m. Central…
Oct 19 2021
Denis Villeneuve Does Dune Right
Frank Herbert’s Dune is a notoriously dense book and certainly not the easiest story to transfer to the big screen. There have been two previous attempts to do so: The first try was in the 1970s and was never completed—experimental filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky took a whack at it with some ambitious…
Oct 17 2021
This Week in Geek (10/18/21–10/24/21)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, October 18, to Sunday, October 24.
Virtual Events
SocietyX: Making a Home for Houseplants
What: Educational
When: Monday, October 18, at 10:30 a.m.
Where: Virtual event
Learn best practices…
Oct 16 2021
5 Tips for Overcoming Gymtimidation
One of the biggest barriers for a lot people in getting active is just getting to the gym, period. Personally, I avoided the gym for years because I couldn’t get past my anxiety and convinced myself that I didn’t belong there. If this sounds familiar to you, then don’t worry—you’re not alone! Let’s…
Oct 13 2021
Twin Cities Con Starts Small with Room to Grow
While the Minneapolis–St. Paul area has a wealth of nonprofit conventions celebrating geeky interests—including anime, comics, sci-fi and fantasy, and gaming—an expo-style convention has yet to create a permanent annual presence here. In previous years, Wizard World, GalaxyCon, and Fan Fusion…
Oct 13 2021
Hoa Is a Relaxing Adventure through Nature
It’s beyond argument that electronic games are a form of artistic expression. From the visuals, to the musical accompaniment, to especially the gameplay itself, everything in a game has the capacity to elicit an emotional response. And yet, somewhat ironically, the experience created by a quality…
Oct 12 2021
Being Autistic, Seeing Myself Represented in Media Is Not Always a Good Thing
If you spend time in certain geeky communities—especially those that aren’t primarily white, male, cisgender, heterosexual, nondisabled, neurotypical, etc.—you’ve probably heard discussions about representation in media. A lot of us simply don’t see ourselves reflected in the books we read,…