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When ICE Comes to Your Neighborhood...

Izzy True reports on their disappearing neighbors and reflects on modern day community defense.

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Izzy True
23 Jun 2026 · 2 min read
New American Art Gallery Opens Detroit

New American Art Gallery Opens

In new theater.

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Erica Hobbs
23 Jun 2026 · 3 min read
Brazil V. Haiti; Cumbia V. Soul Philadelphia

Brazil V. Haiti; Cumbia V. Soul

Two bands played off alongside an on-stage screening of the World Cup — and showed the difference between cultural competition and collaboration.

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Sabrina Iglesias
22 Jun 2026 · 3 min read
June 22: The Weekly Roundup Philadelphia

June 22: The Weekly Roundup

Welcome! You're reading a weekly wrap of articles from Philly Midbrow, which publishes daily reviews about arts and culture events happening across our city. Scroll for local story

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Nora Grace-Flood, Izzy True
22 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
Makeshift Hammer Hits Harmonie Hall Philadelphia

Makeshift Hammer Hits Harmonie Hall

Along with Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage.

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Tyler Maxwell
22 Jun 2026 · 3 min read
These Billboards Have Nothing To Sell But Poetry Detroit

These Billboards Have Nothing To Sell But Poetry

Lines from students' work gets plastered across town.

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
22 Jun 2026 · 2 min read
A Goo-Dripped Dystopia Takes Over Living Arts Tulsa

A Goo-Dripped Dystopia Takes Over Living Arts

OKC art punk band Stepmom brings their immersive "Profitopia" installation to Tulsa

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Becky Carman
22 Jun 2026 · 3 min read
Poetics of Memory Oakland

Poetics of Memory

OMCA’s retrospective of Mildred Howard’s body of work, and the Artist herself.

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Frederick Noland
22 Jun 2026 · 4 min read
Out Of This Galaxy Detroit

Out Of This Galaxy

A new look at the heavens at the upgraded Penske turns us back into kids again.

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
22 Jun 2026 · 2 min read
"TOXIC" Fashion Strutted Hartford

"TOXIC" Fashion Strutted

At Artists Collective show.

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Jamil Ragland
22 Jun 2026 · 3 min read
Happy Feet Detroit

Happy Feet

Abound at Detroit's Multicultural Dance Festival.

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Erica Hobbs
22 Jun 2026 · 2 min read
Plantcestry Baton Rouge

Plantcestry

Participants discover the smell of roots at a Glassel Gallery workshop.

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Serena Puang
21 Jun 2026 · 3 min read
LGBTQ+ "EyeCons" of Louisiana

LGBTQ+ "EyeCons" of Louisiana

On display at Shell Gallery, where the pictured icons get some, not all, the attention they deserve.

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Serena Puang
21 Jun 2026 · 2 min read
Drag Queen Bambi Tells a Story New Haven

Drag Queen Bambi Tells a Story

At Spruce Cafe.

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Judy Lee
21 Jun 2026 · 2 min read
FUJI||||||||||TA Is Not Out of Nowhere Philadelphia

FUJI||||||||||TA Is Not Out of Nowhere

The Japanese experimental sound artist's performance at Ice Box Project Space reminded John Morrison of Philly's tradition of celebrating uncategorizable noise.

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John Morrison
20 Jun 2026 · 2 min read
Blood Harmony Breaks Down Philadelphia

Blood Harmony Breaks Down

Four bands pulling from similar families of genres and musical influences showcased their senses of individualism at Cousin Danny's last week.

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Bengal (B. Gallman)
20 Jun 2026 · 4 min read
Reviving The Citizen Abortion Philadelphia

Reviving The Citizen Abortion

San Pedro punk band Toys That Kill have returned to the scene with their first album in ten years, and to Philly as the headliner of a three-band bill at Ortlieb's.

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Tyler Maxwell
20 Jun 2026 · 3 min read
Museum Hosts Juneteenth Block Party Philadelphia

Museum Hosts Juneteenth Block Party

Thousands packed Arch Street for the African American Museum's annual open celebration of June 19.

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John Morrison
20 Jun 2026 · 2 min read
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