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Blistering Into Defiant Screams

A fresh emo EP takes cartoonist Izzy True back to the era of Myspace and shopping malls.

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Izzy True
19 Sep 2025 · 1 min read
Concert Raises Funds For Laid-Off Cafe Workers New Haven

Concert Raises Funds For Laid-Off Cafe Workers

Baristas, abruptly laid off, pool talents together to raise money to keep each other afloat.

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Jisu Sheen
19 Sep 2025 · 6 min read
Choral grief All Over

Choral grief

A young rock star's death inspires a strange scavenger hunt (and alliance) in a debut novel

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Jenn McKee
19 Sep 2025 · 4 min read
That’s Just Dandy Hartford

That’s Just Dandy

A "people's history" sheds light on a sartorial tradition.

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Jamil Ragland
19 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
A piece of artwork lies on the table, arms reach out and contribute to the painting using pieces of charcoal. Art

Collaborative Canvas

Gilda Award-winning painter and muralist Oshun Williams led a workshop for the local community at the DIA

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Midbrow Editor
19 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
“BookArts: Beyond Expectation” Actually Delivers What It Promises Tulsa

“BookArts: Beyond Expectation” Actually Delivers What It Promises

The book-based exhibition at Liggett Studio offers a wealth of new ideas and formats

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Z.B. Reeves
18 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
Jewels of Emerald Precision Oakland

Jewels of Emerald Precision

Painter Kelly Ording presents a unified green palette that's precise, conceptually centered, and geometrically bedazzling.

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Agustín Maes
18 Sep 2025 · 4 min read
Lib Art: It’s Not Political Oakland

Lib Art: It’s Not Political

A library staff art show offers small—if marginally confusing—fun.

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Sarah Bass
18 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
Remember Real Life? Baton Rouge

Remember Real Life?

"Disk Full" exhibit at Glassell Gallery pops a digital-age question.

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Serena Puang
18 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
Sexy Ben Frank Bends Too Far Philadelphia

Sexy Ben Frank Bends Too Far

A sex show about building a better a world — as told by a balding, horny Ben Franklin — didn't fail to insult its audience with dirty words.

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Leo David
18 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
The First Play Ever... Philadelphia

The First Play Ever...

... Performed in America returns to the Philadelphia stage for the nation's 250th anniversary.

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Leo David
17 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
Raitt Sounded Great Detroit

Raitt Sounded Great

Inside Detroit's grand Fox Theatre, especially when she sang alone on stage.

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
16 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
Nothing, Either Good or Bad Oakland

Nothing, Either Good or Bad

The Oakland Theater Project stages an updated, diverse-casted production of a Shakespeare tragedy.

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Jeff Kaliss
16 Sep 2025 · 4 min read
Solar Clipse Detroit

Solar Clipse

Rap duo closes out tour after releasing first project in 15 years.

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
16 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
Mom Didn't Crush Her Curiosity Detroit

Mom Didn't Crush Her Curiosity

Tour shows Dr. Jane Goodall is still a force to be reckoned with reckoned with.

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
16 Sep 2025 · 2 min read
Hump! Part Deux: Electric Booga-ewwww Oakland

Hump! Part Deux: Electric Booga-ewwww

Hump! Shows we have much to learn from each other, but is at its best when it challenges its audience's assumptions, not the strength of its stomach

  • Go to the profile of  Frederick Noland
Frederick Noland
16 Sep 2025 · 1 min read
Take That All Over

Take That

A news report from the dystopian near-future? Or a call to arms?

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Paul Bass
16 Sep 2025 · 4 min read
In “Dinkum Hokum” And “STATE OF THE UNION,” Artists Respond To A Weird Time Tulsa

In “Dinkum Hokum” And “STATE OF THE UNION,” Artists Respond To A Weird Time

Digital dissociation and nationalistic idiocy are two of the most important undercurrents in American society today; it’s exciting to see artists take on both with such vigor.

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Z.B. Reeves
16 Sep 2025 · 5 min read
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