Jul 21 2026
Minneapolis Cartoonist Trung Le Nguyen on His Creative Process and the Power of Fairy Tales
Minneapolis-based comics creator Trung Le Nguyen (also known online as Trungles) loves a good story, both as a fan and as a creator. He works through them the way a watchmaker studies a timepiece: flipping it over, popping off the back, examining how the gears mesh, trying to understand precisely what…
Jul 20 2026
“Star Fox” Ushers in a New Era for the Titular Team
While Nintendo fans have been treated to a wide assortment of Mario, Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon games, there is one staple franchise that seems to have been left out of the fun. For almost a decade, Star Fox has been left to gather dust, with many hoping for another spacefaring adventure. Now, after his…
Jul 19 2026
This Week in Geek (7/20/2026–7/26/2026)
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Jul 16 2026
Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” Is a True Big-Budget Hollywood Spectacle
Troy has fallen, the war is over, and the Greeks have prevailed. Now Odysseus leads his men back home, but not before making a few pit stops. Cyclops, Sirens, and the Trojan Horse are all here in Christopher Nolan’s adaption of one of the best-known adventures of all time.
The Odyssey is thought to have…
Jul 16 2026
“Wicked” Brings the Magic of Oz to the Orpheum Theatre
Going to see Wicked at the Orpheum in Minneapolis was exciting because I could cross it off my list as the third Wizard of Oz adaptation I’ve seen in the last eight months. The very first play I reviewed for Twin Cities Geek was The Wiz, also at the Orpheum, and one of my favorite plays I’ve written about was…
Jul 15 2026
WTF! Fest Takes Over the Hook and Ladder for Year Two of Punk Love and Rage
On July 11, the Hook and Ladder Theater and Lounge in Minneapolis hosted the second edition of WTF! Fest (“Women, Trans, Femmes and Allies to the Front!”) across all of its indoor stages. The focus of the event was to support queer, trans, and femme punks in the Twin Cities area and to act as a fundraiser…
Jul 13 2026
“The Oldest Profession” Shares the History of Sex Work at the Phoenix Theater on July 17
At 7:00 p.m. on July 17, 2026, Kaytlin Bailey brings The Oldest Profession to the Phoenix Theater in Minneapolis for one night only. This one-woman show, written and performed by Bailey, advertises itself as “a mad dash through 10,000 years of history from a sex worker’s perspective.” It’s been…
Jul 13 2026
Win Free Tickets to See MC Chris at the Turf Club!
MC Chris, nerdcore rapper and Aqua Teen Hunger Force‘s MC Pee Pants, is headed to the Turf Club in St. Paul with Swell Rell on July 22. For your chance to attend for free, just enter our giveaway by 8:00 p.m. Central time on July 17, 2026—you could win 2 tickets to the show!
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Jul 12 2026
This Week in Geek (7/13/2026–7/19/2026)
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Jul 11 2026
“Guillotine City” Asks Relevant Questions About Action, Inaction, and Change
“I don’t write cartoons. I make machines.”
This was a line that stood out to me from Marge J. Buckley’s Guillotine City, which ran at Open Eye Theatre over the weekend of June 12, 2026. Denny (played by Sasha Blinnikova), a machinist, has just found out that her friend’s neighbor, a cartoonist, had been…