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Never So Many Dead Children Philadelphia

Never So Many Dead Children

Poet Saul Williams and composer Carlos Niños have joined forces to make music that is as righteously indignant as it is vulnerable.

  • Go to the profile of  John Morrison
John Morrison
3 Apr 2026 · 3 min read
"& Juliet" Offers An Alt Ending Detroit

"& Juliet" Offers An Alt Ending

What if Shakespeare's Juliet got to write her own story?

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
3 Apr 2026 · 2 min read
Emperor Takes Detroit to the ‘Nightside’ Detroit

Emperor Takes Detroit to the ‘Nightside’

The black metal legends stopped at the Fillmore with Blood Incantation.

  • Go to the profile of  Randiah Camille Green
Randiah Camille Green
2 Apr 2026 · 3 min read
Tshatshkes For All! Philadelphia

Tshatshkes For All!

Izzy True visits jeweler Maddy Hirsch at her Port Richmond storefront.

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Izzy True
1 Apr 2026 · 1 min read
The Best Worst High Schoolers You’ve Ever Met Tulsa

The Best Worst High Schoolers You’ve Ever Met

In ‘Dog Sees God,’ directed and self-produced by Karmen GoldenBough, aged-up Peanuts characters were going through it

  • Go to the profile of  Alex Isaak
Alex Isaak
1 Apr 2026 · 4 min read
Sexy Ballet? Sexy Ballet. Tulsa

Sexy Ballet? Sexy Ballet.

Tulsa Ballet leans all the way in with ‘Casanova’

  • Go to the profile of  Alicia Chesser
Alicia Chesser
1 Apr 2026 · 6 min read
A Secret Lingers All Over

A Secret Lingers

In Chloe Mitchell Howarth's circa-1965 Irish family tale, "Heap Earth Upon It."

  • Go to the profile of  Janday Wilson
Janday Wilson
31 Mar 2026 · 2 min read
Maria Bamford Remains Herself As New Fans Find Her Detroit

Maria Bamford Remains Herself As New Fans Find Her

At Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
31 Mar 2026 · 2 min read
Rockin' Amid The Typewriters Philadelphia

Rockin' Amid The Typewriters

Heater and Goshupon were a couple of bands that let loose at a show hosted by Philly Typewriter.

  • Go to the profile of  Pierce Jordan
Pierce Jordan
30 Mar 2026 · 3 min read
Joe Lovano channels Coltrane Detroit

Joe Lovano channels Coltrane

In 2026 Detroit Jazz Fest preview.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
30 Mar 2026 · 2 min read
‘Pillion’ Turns First Love Into a Study of Power, Consent, and Discomfort All Over

‘Pillion’ Turns First Love Into a Study of Power, Consent, and Discomfort

A special screening and discussion of the latest kinky flick to hit mainstream interrogated agency, and more.

  • Go to the profile of  Vita Hewitt
Vita Hewitt
30 Mar 2026 · 3 min read
Openers Sell Out Show w/ Cole Berggren Band Philadelphia

Openers Sell Out Show w/ Cole Berggren Band

And Mavis The Dog uses a nail as a pick.

  • Go to the profile of  Tyler Maxwell
Tyler Maxwell
30 Mar 2026 · 3 min read
The Kids Are More Than All Right Hartford

The Kids Are More Than All Right

Latest evidence: "Matilda Jr." at the Bushnell

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
30 Mar 2026 · 3 min read
Facing Off With Angels + Spirits Philadelphia

Facing Off With Angels + Spirits

Bill Callahan sings of fatherhood, his parents, marriage, and "his real feelings about his real life" at Philadelphia Record Exchange.

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Tyler Maxwell
30 Mar 2026 · 3 min read
Mongolian Beef Sizzles New Haven

Mongolian Beef Sizzles

As Chinese-born chef Haolun Hu gets busy in new Dixwell Avenue kitchen.

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
30 Mar 2026 · 4 min read
Photographer Gives Everyone Their Dignity New Haven

Photographer Gives Everyone Their Dignity

August Sander's Yale show humanizes 20th century Germany -- and perhaps today's U.S.?

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
30 Mar 2026 · 6 min read
Birth Mothers Emerge From The Fog All Over

Birth Mothers Emerge From The Fog

Let's talk about adoption.

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
29 Mar 2026 · 5 min read
Break Or Be Broken Detroit

Break Or Be Broken

That's the choice in Liberian civil war-set "Eclipsed" at Detroit Repertory Theatre.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
29 Mar 2026 · 4 min read
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