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Dog Days Are Over All Over

Dog Days Are Over

Cartoonist Harry Bliss' grief over the loss of a beloved dog acts as this memoir's anchor

  • Go to the profile of  Jenn McKee
Jenn McKee
23 Feb 2026 · 3 min read
The Best Of The (Short) Films Detroit

The Best Of The (Short) Films

Screened inside DIA.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
23 Feb 2026 · 3 min read
Step Into Marceline Mason's Dreamy Landscapes Detroit

Step Into Marceline Mason's Dreamy Landscapes

At M Contemporary, "who's next up."

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
23 Feb 2026 · 3 min read
Comics Were For Everyone Baton Rouge

Comics Were For Everyone

At this year's Mid City Micro-Con.

  • Go to the profile of  Serena Puang
Serena Puang
23 Feb 2026 · 2 min read
Multitasking, Multi-Purpose And Oysters Baton Rouge

Multitasking, Multi-Purpose And Oysters

Live music and seafood at the On the Half Shell.

  • Go to the profile of  Serena Puang
Serena Puang
23 Feb 2026 · 2 min read
Die Cast For 2nd Decade Of Elm City Games New Haven

Die Cast For 2nd Decade Of Elm City Games

Our intrepid reporter plunges into ShadowDark as a 9th Square mainstay celebrates its 10th anniversary.

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
23 Feb 2026 · 3 min read
A Punch For Lunch Detroit

A Punch For Lunch

Isaiah Stewart's suspension inspires a beefy treat.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
22 Feb 2026 · 2 min read
DJ Ryan’s New Release of the Week: Resavoir's “Far Cry” All Over

DJ Ryan’s New Release of the Week: Resavoir's “Far Cry”

As the main characters stares out the window on a rainy night ...

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
22 Feb 2026 · 1 min read
Browsing Between The Beats Philadelphia

Browsing Between The Beats

Pierce Jordan offers vinyl rex from the record shop shelves of Beautiful World Syndicate, all uncovered during a live four-band bill at the store.

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Pierce Jordan
20 Feb 2026 · 4 min read
8 Hours of Beading... Philadelphia

8 Hours of Beading...

... Is the type of work that goes down in Noorann Matties' studio, where kinky archival photos are turned into intricate beaded curtains.

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Izzy True
20 Feb 2026 · 1 min read
A Post-Migration Reuniting Baton Rouge

A Post-Migration Reuniting

Shell Gallery exhibit revisits the legacy of the mass movement North.

  • Go to the profile of  Serena Puang
Serena Puang
20 Feb 2026 · 3 min read
This Is Real (High School) Life New Haven

This Is Real (High School) Life

New Haven Academy stages “Heathers” through weekend.

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Jisu Sheen
20 Feb 2026 · 3 min read
Who Was James Baldwin? Hartford

Who Was James Baldwin?

"Citizen James" tells us too little about that.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
20 Feb 2026 · 3 min read
Post-Paczki Day Polish Detroit

Post-Paczki Day Polish

At Polish Village Cafe.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
20 Feb 2026 · 2 min read
$5, & Buried In The Bun Detroit

$5, & Buried In The Bun

Divinig into more dive food, at Port Bar

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
20 Feb 2026 · 2 min read
I Woke Up To A New World In “Sleeping Beauty” Tulsa

I Woke Up To A New World In “Sleeping Beauty”

Tulsa Ballet’s new production brought depth and detail to a century-old classic

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Alicia Chesser
19 Feb 2026 · 6 min read
Finding Love In Broken Arrow In ‘Almost, Maine’ Tulsa

Finding Love In Broken Arrow In ‘Almost, Maine’

Broken Arrow Community Playhouse’s Valentine’s play is full of giddy charm

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Alex Isaak
19 Feb 2026 · 4 min read
Guess The Genre Philadelphia

Guess The Genre

Gloom rock? Kinda-fried-neo-beat-poetry? Post-industrial Americana? Pierce Jordan asks some musicians at Cousin Danny's how they identify.

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Pierce Jordan
19 Feb 2026 · 6 min read
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