Monthly Archive:: June 2022
Jun 26 2022
This Week in Geek (6/27/22–7/3/22)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, June 27, to Sunday, July 3.
Virtual Events
Minnesota Night Skies in July
What: Educational, Science & Tech
When: Monday, June 27, at 12:00 p.m.
Where: Virtual via Facebook
The Bell…
Jun 22 2022
In Chinatown Detective Agency, You Can Do Your Homework and Play It Too
Singapore, 2037. The skies and the streets are monitored by police drones, and once-public utilities have now been sold off to private corporations. Economic disparities are front and center. Underneath all the grime, ex-Interpol officer turned private investigator Amira Darma runs an agency…
Jun 20 2022
The One Piece Live-Action Series Deserves a Fair Chance
It’s June 2022. It has been 25 years since Eiichiro Oda started writing his epic saga of a rubber pirate who set sail in a tiny boat in search of the mysterious treasure, One Piece. It has been 23 years since Toei began animating its adaptation of Oda’s bestselling manga, which is now well over 1,000 episodes.…
Jun 19 2022
Lightyear Delivers a Fun and Fascinating Sci-Fi Adventure
Lightyear is perhaps one of the oddest spinoffs in recent memory. It’s not just whipping up ingredients from Toy Story into a different film genre but a movie that exists inside the Toy Story universe. This is noted in the textual prologue, which assures the audience this is the movie Andy saw before he…
Jun 19 2022
This Week in Geek (6/20/22–6/26/22)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, June 20, to Sunday, June 26.
Virtual Events
Juneteenth 2022—Honoring Ancestors: Dreaming Forward
What: Community, Music, Theater & Comedy, Educational
When: Monday, June 20…
Jun 17 2022
10 of the Cutest Anime Babies
Few, if any, can deny that baby creatures of most species are simply darling to look at. Babies in anime are no different! Whether they’re written to be like real-life babies or are an entirely different species that mimics human offspring, we simply can’t take our eyes off of them.
A few…
Jun 12 2022
This Week in Geek (6/13/22–6/19/22)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, June 13, to Sunday, June 19.
Virtual Events
Juneteenth 2022—Honoring Ancestors: Dreaming Forward
What: Community, Music, Theater & Comedy, Educational
When: Sunday, June 12,…
Jun 05 2022
This Week in Geek (6/6/22–6/12/22)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, June 6, to Sunday, June 12.
Virtual Events
SocietyX: Making a Home for Houseplants
What: Educational
When: Monday, June 6, at 10:30 a.m.
Where: Virtual event
Learn best practices for…
Jun 02 2022
Enter to Win a Jurassic World: Dominion Prize Pack
The next installment of the Jurassic Park franchise is coming on July 9, 2022, and we have a giveaway perfect for any dino fan!
We’re giving away 4 prize packs that each include 2 reserved seats at an advance screening of Jurassic World: Dominion happening at 7:00 p.m. on June 7 at the Showplace ICON…
Jun 01 2022
Twin Crowns Delivers in Its Plot and Protagonists
There are times when I see the cover of a book and immediately know I’ll love it. That was the case for Catherine Doyle and Katherine Webber’s fantasy YA novel Twin Crowns; Charlie Bowater’s art is distinctive and easy for me to recognize, and Twin Crowns became my most anticipated…