Monthly Archive:: July 2024
Jul 28 2024
This Week in Geek (7/29/2024–8/4/2024)
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Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, July 29, to Sunday, August 4.
Although inclusion in This Week in Geek is not an official endorsement of any event or organizer, we do our best to…
Jul 27 2024
Deadpool & Wolverine Delivers Much-Needed Superhero Roasting and Geeky Delights
Note: This review does not reveal any plot details or cameos not already shown in trailers, but it does mention some general themes and topics of humor. If you haven’t seen the film or trailers and want to know as little as possible going in, use your best judgment!
There’s a phrase used in Deadpool &…
Jul 25 2024
Catch a Free Floating Jazz Concert on July 27 in Downtown St. Paul
Local band Steve Clarke and the Working Stiffs will be performing this Saturday, July 27, on the Big River Music Boat, “the world’s only floating performance ship,” which will be docked on the Mississippi River at Upper Landing Park in downtown St. Paul. The live concert starts at 2:00 p.m. and is free…
Jul 23 2024
Count Down to Spooky Season with This Ghostly Cookbook
I love a good ghost story. Whether it’s told around the fire during a summer camping trip or delivered at midnight on Halloween, there is something that gives the perfect level of spooky chill. While most of my campfires have been rained out this summer, July 23 marks 100 days to Halloween, so there…
Jul 21 2024
This Week in Geek (7/22/2024–7/28/2024)
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Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, July 22, to Sunday, July 28.
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Jul 20 2024
For the Love of Queer Cheerleading Films
Today, I’d like to discuss an iconic but often overlooked genre of cinema: the queer cheerleading film.
This category is important to me as a queer woman and once-obsessed competitive cheerleader. While my cheerleading days are far behind me, I find that my interest in these films keeps growing—not…
Jul 20 2024
8 of the Best Space Books for Kids
My kiddo is obsessed with everything space related. Working model of the solar system? Check. Models of the Mars rovers? Check. Constellation projector? Check. NASA pajamas? Check, and check.
We also own a lot of space books and have read even more. The number of children’s space books is overwhelming,…
Jul 16 2024
That Wasn’t in the Script Is a Picture-Perfect New York Rom-Com
I went into Sarah Ainslee’s debut novel, That Wasn’t in the Script, with modest expectations and ended up loving it. It’s a genderbent retelling of Roman Holiday that doubles as a love letter to the young at heart, a story about making the most of a situation and taking charge of life, with occasional pop…
Jul 15 2024
Giga Town Is Your Guidebook to the Visual Language of Manga
There’s a bit of a learning curve to reading comics. Sure, in many ways they’re quicker and easier to understand than prose books, but getting used to the format can take a little time, and not all of the visual conventions are self-explanatory. In Western comics, a new reader might wonder…
Jul 14 2024
This Week in Geek (7/15/2024–7/21/2024)
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Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, July 15, to Sunday, July 21.
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