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Jazz Started With a Jam Sesh Philadelphia

Jazz Started With a Jam Sesh

And $5 Monday night sessions at Black Squirrel Club are keeping the genre alive and well.

  • Go to the profile of  John Morrison
John Morrison
12 May 2026 · 2 min read
GZA & PHUNKY NOMADS ROCK YOSHI’S Oakland

GZA & PHUNKY NOMADS ROCK YOSHI’S

Saturday night at Yoshi’s hip hop heads from around the Bay gathered to see the one the, the only Gary Eldridge Grice, better known as GZA one of the founding members of the Wu Tang Clan.

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Lisa Gray
12 May 2026 · 3 min read
Pentridge Stations Pops Off Philadelphia

Pentridge Stations Pops Off

With the "Watermelon Glow" DJ pop-up series happening now through September.

  • Go to the profile of  Mizzy (Nasir) Mack
Mizzy (Nasir) Mack
12 May 2026 · 4 min read
Sole De Pollo New Haven

Sole De Pollo

Down on her heels, Liz Grace emerges from a repair shop with a chicken recipe.

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Liz Grace
12 May 2026 · 1 min read
Black Dance Culture On Full Display Detroit

Black Dance Culture On Full Display

In Spot Lite Detroit exhibit.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
12 May 2026 · 2 min read
The Gospel According To Jazz New Haven

The Gospel According To Jazz

Inside a church, “Sister Sadie” becomes a soulful romp, “Precious Lord” a blues-soaked meditation.

  • Go to the profile of  Janday Wilson
Janday Wilson
12 May 2026 · 2 min read
PinkPantheress Is Too Powerful Philadelphia

PinkPantheress Is Too Powerful

The 25-year-old pop star almost blew the roof off of The Met during two nights of sold-out performances in Philadelphia.

  • Go to the profile of  Pierce Jordan
Pierce Jordan
11 May 2026 · 5 min read
The Trombone Takes a Triumphant Turn New Haven

The Trombone Takes a Triumphant Turn

In Civic Orchestra's "Glow & Grace" at Battell Chapel.

  • Go to the profile of  Janday Wilson
Janday Wilson
11 May 2026 · 3 min read
Newspapers As Art Baton Rouge

Newspapers As Art

Explored at Baton Route Gallery.

  • Go to the profile of  Serena Puang
Serena Puang
11 May 2026 · 2 min read
Wonderful; Fabulous; Frenetic Philadelphia

Wonderful; Fabulous; Frenetic

Tyler Maxwell searches for the right adjectives to express both Mother's Day love and admiration for Case Oats' Sunday set.

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Tyler Maxwell
11 May 2026 · 2 min read
The Fire Last Time Hartford

The Fire Last Time

Theaterworks premieres Jacques Lamarre's play about the 1944 Hartford Circus Fire.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
11 May 2026 · 3 min read
Farces Do End Baton Rouge

Farces Do End

Sullivan Theater's revival of "Run For Your Wife" offers the perspective of time.

  • Go to the profile of  Serena Puang
Serena Puang
11 May 2026 · 3 min read
New Haven

Artists Jam, Six By Six

At Kehler Liddell, in annual Art Walk event.

  • Go to the profile of  Judy Lee
Judy Lee
11 May 2026 · 3 min read
Romantic Regency Reigns

Romantic Regency Reigns

At public library celebration.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
10 May 2026 · 2 min read
Taishōgoto and Saxophone Philadelphia

Taishōgoto and Saxophone

The two instruments made a good pair, as did their players, Bill Nace and Sakina Abdou, at Solar Myth on Thursday.

  • Go to the profile of  Benjamin Gallman
Benjamin Gallman
10 May 2026 · 3 min read
R&B Packs A Full Punch @ TLA Philadelphia

R&B Packs A Full Punch @ TLA

Charli XCX sums up Ty Maxwell's experience at the Elmiene show: "I'm really banging my head / I'm really hurting my neck."

  • Go to the profile of  Tyler Maxwell
Tyler Maxwell
10 May 2026 · 3 min read
Remember Sports? Philadelphia

Remember Sports?

Pierce Jordan recalls and reviews the evolution of punk quartet Remember Sports at their Philly homecoming show.

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Pierce Jordan
10 May 2026 · 3 min read
"King James" Examines Male Friendship Detroit

"King James" Examines Male Friendship

At Detroit Public Theatre.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
10 May 2026 · 2 min read
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