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Día De Muertas Festival Honors Lives Lost To Femicide New Haven

Día De Muertas Festival Honors Lives Lost To Femicide

Featuring a 400-year-old dance tradition.

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Midbrow Editor
10 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
Kang makes coffee in a glass piece of equipment that holds a two-part flask-like piece with a round bottom above a small blue flame. Gwangju

Waking Up in Stages at the Roasting House

A Gwangju coffee shop doubles as a music listening room.

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Jisu Sheen
10 Nov 2026 · 4 min read
Electa Steals The Show Hartford

Electa Steals The Show

In playwright Walt Scadden's recreation of Washington's visit to Manchester.

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Jamil Ragland
10 Nov 2026 · 2 min read
This Art Was An Antidote To My Political Dismay Tulsa

This Art Was An Antidote To My Political Dismay

At Contemporary Arts of Tulsa, "Lucid Self" pushed forward against the forces pushing us back.

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Portlyn Houghton-Harjo
10 Nov 2026 · 2 min read
An Ode to the Boogaloo Sandwich, a Detroit Delicacy Detroit

An Ode to the Boogaloo Sandwich, a Detroit Delicacy

Like the chili on a coney dog, the sauce is the star here.

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
9 Nov 2026 · 3 min read
Detroit’s Own Aaliyah, Hip-Hop Icons Featured in Exhibit Inside Detroit School Detroit

Detroit’s Own Aaliyah, Hip-Hop Icons Featured in Exhibit Inside Detroit School

Photographer Andre Smith’s exhibit feels like flipping through a magazine again in the social media era.

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
9 Nov 2026 · 3 min read
Nov. 9: The Weekly Roundup Philadelphia

Nov. 9: 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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Multiple authors
9 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
DJ Ryan’s New Release of the Week: Bonobo & Arooj Aftab’s “Fire on the Water” All Over

DJ Ryan’s New Release of the Week: Bonobo & Arooj Aftab’s “Fire on the Water”

You can actually hear the room it was made in.

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
9 Nov 2026 · 2 min read
Yaghi looks intk the distance. A caption says, "and the civil defense was there." Gwangju

What it Takes to Witness

The winning documentaries of this year's Hinzpeter Awards examine the role of journalism in genocide.

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Jisu Sheen
9 Nov 2026 · 3 min read
Irreverent, Angry and Untethered Philadelphia

Irreverent, Angry and Untethered

Touring bands Duel and Gassed (from NJ and NYC, respectively) went berserk at The Pouch.

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Bengal (B. Gallman)
9 Nov 2026 · 3 min read
This Fright Night’s Not Done With Me Yet

This Fright Night’s Not Done With Me Yet

I’m not what you’d call a haunted house veteran. When I was seven, I went to a disastrous HallowZOOeen where, dressed in a mermaid costume, I alternated between

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Xandra Kaste
9 Nov 2026 · 7 min read
A Different Spin On The Violin Hartford

A Different Spin On The Violin

John Violinist's Hip-hop multimedia show crossed genres at the Bushnell.

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Jamil Ragland
9 Nov 2026 · 2 min read
Stephanie Pope Brings Broadway Sparkle to The Cube Detroit

Stephanie Pope Brings Broadway Sparkle to The Cube

Part concert, part memoir, “All About Love” celebrates music, storytelling, and joy.

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Erica Hobbs
9 Nov 2026 · 2 min read
Wrestling With Exorcisms Philadelphia

Wrestling With Exorcisms

At a Halloween-themed professional fight club.

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Marquis Combs
8 Nov 2026 · 4 min read
All Hail The PPA? Philadelphia

All Hail The PPA?

A documentary about a Philly man fighting $800 in parking tickets might be a new hyperlocal cult classic.

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Bengal (B. Gallman)
7 Nov 2026 · 4 min read
Slum Village Holds Tight Philadelphia

Slum Village Holds Tight

The hip-hop group performed polished nostalgia at Brooklyn Bowl Philly on Friday night.

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John Morrison
7 Nov 2026 · 2 min read
DJ Ryan’s New Release of the Week: smush’s “John Dearly” All Over

DJ Ryan’s New Release of the Week: smush’s “John Dearly”

It’s like ’90s college radio has come back from the grave.

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
7 Nov 2026 · 1 min read
VCR Philly Takes It Back To Analog Philadelphia

VCR Philly Takes It Back To Analog

Visit a Philly video lending library alongside John Morrison.

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John Morrison
7 Nov 2026 · 2 min read
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