Oakland Hovering Above the Baseboards, Peering Down from Above The strange curation of this show lends to the exhibit’s whimsy and playfulness: delightfully eccentric and bizarro. Agustín Maes 14 Nov 2024 · 4 min read
Philadelphia How To Sew A Seamless Story Arden Theatre stitches together Lynn Nottage's "Intimate Apparel." Nora Grace-Flood 14 Nov 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Descend Into The Sonic Abyss In The Heart Of Midtown Tulsa Spatially engaged composition at its finest from local string weirdos Snobug. CARL ANTONOWICZ 14 Nov 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia TikToker Tour Turnout Serves Boy Band A Second Shot Resuscitated by the Internet, Panchiko roars into a sea of awkward acne. Nora Grace-Flood 13 Nov 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Oakland Symphony's Carmina Burana and Two Black Churches Pack a Powerful Message More than a hundred voices accompanied by a full orchestra gave our our soul a sense of elation that we didn't know it was missing. Vita Hewitt 11 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia DIY Love A Mickalene Thomas exhibition inspired by French Black erotica from the 1950s shows It’s up to us to collage together the truths of our existence — and show everyone else what we’re made of. Nora Grace-Flood 11 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Tabla Tag Tugs At Heartstrings Anirudh watches Vinay closely and catches him expertly. There is so much charisma in these exchanges, it's a game they are playing together. Izzy True 10 Nov 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa The Vampire Business Is Booming Tulsa Ballet's "Dracula" plays it straight. But that cape is fabulous. Alicia Chesser 8 Nov 2024 · 5 min read
Tulsa There Was Very Little Día de Los Muertos at the Día de Los Muertos Pickleball Tournament If we’re fortunate, the ancestors might still look down and smile. Z.B. Reeves 8 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford How An Alcoholic Asshole Made Me Cry The new film The Outrun gets past the cliches about substance abuse and recovery. Jamil Ragland 8 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Rohrer or Rorschach? Return to the Land puts the viewer to the test. Nora Grace-Flood 7 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Survival Playlist: Dirty Frank's Dances Election Night Away While the TV showed their presidential candidate losing, the crowd at a Philly dive bar turned the jukebox up. Nora Grace-Flood 6 Nov 2024 · 5 min read
Oakland Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts: A Tour Through the Past Looking to the Future The Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts, idle since 2005 is a stately reminder of a bygone era and a magnet for tagging and encampments. When I saw a guided tour annonced, I jumped at it. Fred Noland 5 Nov 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Musically Haunting: "Ghost Quartet"Gives us Life at Oakland Theater Project If you could be any kind of dead person, what kind would you be? Spoiler: you want to be a ghost, the kind that goes “hoo hoo hoo all night Vita Hewitt 5 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland California Against the Sea: Rosanna Xia Takes the High Road on Sea Level Rise An author's chat at Clio's Books offers a clear-eyed look at the storms brewing outside. Fred Noland 5 Nov 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Feet Fleet & Supple The Sanskrit word 'Sangam' means “confluence of rivers,” or “coming together." "Sangam: A Diwali Odissi Recital," performed at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in west Oakland, left me in sweet spirits. Agustín Maes 4 Nov 2024 · 4 min read
Philadelphia No Future/ No Past I hear shades of Sabbath with a dose of shoegaze-y sensuality. Izzy True 4 Nov 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Disabled Joy Hits The Runway Oftentimes abled folks cannot conceive of Disabled joy without pity; they get lost in their own imaginations, stumbled by the disorders and wrongness they believe our bodies are burdened by. But on Saturday, celebration took center stage through flexibility of form and fashion. Clay Davies 3 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
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