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Artist Memorializes Fallen Beeches New Haven

Artist Memorializes Fallen Beeches

Struck by violence of fallen trees, Jay Bright picks up pastels.

  • Go to the profile of  Dereen Shirnekhi
Dereen Shirnekhi
18 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Glenn Barr’s Saturday-Morning Noir Detroit

Glenn Barr’s Saturday-Morning Noir

The pop surrealist continues to chase his muses with his first local solo show in a decade.

  • Go to the profile of  Leyland DeVito
Leyland DeVito
17 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Hollywood’s Nicest Guy Still Doing The Garage Band Thing Tulsa

Hollywood’s Nicest Guy Still Doing The Garage Band Thing

Keanu Reeves' band Dogstar takes the Tulsa Theater

  • Go to the profile of  Becky Carman
Becky Carman
16 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Ogunbiyi Builds On Age-Old Traditions Philadelphia

Ogunbiyi Builds On Age-Old Traditions

The Nigerian-born pianist arranges perfect unions of American jazz and African musical sensibilities — straight from the Cellar Dog stage.

  • Go to the profile of  John Morrison
John Morrison
16 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
When The Drama Happens Offstage Hartford

When The Drama Happens Offstage

"Little Bear Ridge Road" packs its most important action out of site at TheaterWorks.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
16 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Anything But Fuchsia Hartford

Anything But Fuchsia

When the light bends in Brianna Bass's trippy Theaterworks exhibit, so do the colors

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
15 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
The Duck Dreams Are Made Of New Haven

The Duck Dreams Are Made Of

Chef Kwame Williams Presents Proppa Suppa Anchor Spa 272 College St. New Haven Oct. 11, 2026 It was 3 a.m. the other day and I was devouring jerk duck.

  • Go to the profile of  Janday Wilson
Janday Wilson
15 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Back to Pirriwee All Over

Back to Pirriwee

A decade after “Big Little Lies,” Liane Moriarty reunites the moms for a new mystery that’s well worth the wait.

  • Go to the profile of  Jenn McKee
Jenn McKee
15 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
Urgh! A Music War Philadelphia

Urgh! A Music War

PhilaMOCA screens a concert film capturing the who's who of 1980's punk, post-punk, ska, new wave and reggae bands.

  • Go to the profile of  John Morrison
John Morrison
14 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Philadelphia

Is Philly A Sexy Town?

And what makes erotic art important in this moment? Are questions Izzy True posed to the owner of a hyperlocal erotic gallery.

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Izzy True
14 Oct 2026 · 1 min read
True Grits New Haven

True Grits

A now-retired judge who describes his humble beginnings in a new memoir teaches Liz how to make his mom's grits.

  • Go to the profile of  Liz Grace
Liz Grace
14 Oct 2026 · 1 min read
August Wilson’s World Is Still Our World New Haven

August Wilson’s World Is Still Our World

Janday writes about watching a production about a character unraveled by the machinations of white supremacy — only to experience the same on the street outside the theater after she had left the show.

  • Go to the profile of  Janday Wilson
Janday Wilson
13 Oct 2026 · 7 min read
AI Winter Is Coming All Over

AI Winter Is Coming

Sherry Turkle, Jill Lepore offer two takes on where we're headed, with mixed results

  • Go to the profile of  Midbrow Editor
Midbrow Editor
13 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
Not Your Average Kegger Philadelphia

Not Your Average Kegger

Gun Itttt, Small Head Big Torso Vicious Grip, Lateral, and Carpet Floor showed off creative twists on math rock at 1737 House last week.

  • Go to the profile of  Bengal (B. Gallman)
Bengal (B. Gallman)
13 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
Jed Perl’s Novel Plunge All Over

Jed Perl’s Novel Plunge

Career critic turns to fiction to decipher art world.

  • Go to the profile of  Paul Bass
Paul Bass
13 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
At AmericanaFest, Tulsa Music Takes The Spotlight Tulsa

At AmericanaFest, Tulsa Music Takes The Spotlight

Tulsa's efforts to promote music as a workforce ecosystem paid off with center stage billing in Nashville. Plus: five new discoveries from AmericanaFest.

  • Go to the profile of  Lindsey Claire Smith
Lindsey Claire Smith
13 Oct 2026 · 8 min read
Yoon Hyung-Hyuk, wearing a hat with a brim, looks out over a yellow rice field. Gwangju

Heritage Seeds Plant an Alternative Future

At Gwangju Native Plants School.

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
13 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
Singer Asuka, with spiky metallic lip piercings and a bunny character onesie, screams into the mic. Gwangju

Ever Fan So Hard You Start a Band?

Korean indie rock devotees are no longer just moshing to others' music — now they're making their own.

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
13 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
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