Monthly Archive:: January 2023

If you’re like me and your 2023 New Year’s resolution is to make more adult friends with similar interests but also keep up with the young ones and make more trendy TikToks, then you probably want to hit up as many conventions as you can this year. As always, Twin Cities Geek is your go-to resource.…

This recession has hit all of us in some way, and many of us feel a bit of a deficit in our budgets postholidays. This past autumn, I had to cancel my gym membership when gas prices rose to nearly $5 per gallon. It was tough because I loved going to the gym, even if it was a long drive for me—I admit I mostly went…

It was publicly reported in December that the Maplewood Mall would be up for auction again, despite being bought just less than a year ago, and there have been murmurs that the land will be converted into apartments. To many, that isn’t a surprise—just another suburban mall falling victim to online…

Shrouded in fog, there lies a remote island just off the coast near the easternmost tip of Hokkaidō, the northernmost of the main islands of Japan. Named Yururi, this is a desert island where only horses live. Yururi Island seems to have emerged from the distant past, or from a fairy tale. Yururi is a breeding…

Curious about how the New Year is welcomed in Japan? On January 26 at 6:00 p.m., the Japan America Society of Minnesota is hosting an online event in which Aiko Hatano, a Japan outreach initiative coordinator based at Mayville State University in North Dakota, will give a presentation on Japanese New…