Monthly Archive:: February 2022
Feb 13 2022
This Week in Geek (2/14/22–2/20/22)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, February 14, to Sunday, February 20.
Virtual Events
Beijing 2022 Olympics
What: Sports & Fitness
When: Thursday, February 4, through Sunday, February 20
Where: Virtual via NBC,…
Feb 08 2022
Rob Paulsen Talks Animaniacs, Voice Acting, and Performing to a Crowd
Rob Paulsen is a name—or at least a voice—that any cartoon geek knows. He may talk more nasally and you’d instantly recognize him as Carl Wheezer from Jimmy Neutron. He may go louder and you you’d hear him as Donatello from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (or Raphael, depending on which version you…
Feb 07 2022
Image Comics’ Stray Dogs Tells a Terrifying yet Adorable Tale
When I found out that two of the people behind IDW’s My Little Pony created a horror comic, I had my reservations, but writer Tony Fleecs and artist Trish Forstner quickly destroyed any doubts. Much like their work on My Little Pony, Fleecs and Forstner create a tale about anthropomorphized animals…
Feb 06 2022
This Week in Geek (2/7/22–2/13/22)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, February 7, to Sunday, February 13.
Virtual Events
Beijing 2022 Olympics
What: Sports & Fitness
When: Thursday, February 4, through Sunday, February 20
Where: Virtual via NBC,…
Feb 04 2022
Supernatural America Brings Literal and Figurative Hauntings to the Minneapolis Institute of Art
We live in haunted lands. Surrounded by echos of what has come before us, what we have done, what has been done to us. We have a past that won’t stay quiet, demands reconciliation, seeps between time and space and silence and story.
A collective manifestation. Summoning. Compartmentalization,…
Feb 01 2022
Platinum End Revisits Death Note’s Themes in New Ways
Death Note remains one of the most thought-provoking anime series to date, exploring the question of death as a punishment or deterrent against crime and showing how unchallenged power can bring out the worst in us. But it’s not that power corrupts, per se; rather, power enables. Those too corrupt…