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Exposure Thera-Bee Philadelphia

Exposure Thera-Bee

Musician Pierce Jordan is no stranger to a stage — but faced unparalleled performance anxiety during an adult spelling bee.

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Pierce Jordan
7 May 2026 · 5 min read
Full On Trouble and Tin Pan Alley Philadelphia

Full On Trouble and Tin Pan Alley

Tyler Maxwell covers old school artists playing the (arguably) oldest tavern in North America.

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Tyler Maxwell
7 May 2026 · 3 min read
Konjo Me Brings Ethiopia To Detroit Detroit

Konjo Me Brings Ethiopia To Detroit

The name means "Beautiful Me."

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Erica Hobbs
7 May 2026 · 2 min read
Normalizing Inclusion Oakland

Normalizing Inclusion

An exhibit of works by incarcerated artists showcases the life of the mind and the strength of the human spirit.

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Agustín Maes
7 May 2026 · 4 min read
No BBQ, Just Arson Oakland

No BBQ, Just Arson

Sometimes Oakland can really Oakland at you, in good and bad ways. Sometimes just uniquely Oakland ways.

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Frederick Noland
7 May 2026 · 1 min read
The Animals Want To Play New Haven

The Animals Want To Play

In a solo show up at Delaney’s for ArtWalk.

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Judy Lee
7 May 2026 · 2 min read
Philly Has A Shoegaze Problem Philadelphia

Philly Has A Shoegaze Problem

Comprador's latest album sends reviewer Izzy True down a smoke-filled genre spiral.

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Izzy True
6 May 2026 · 1 min read
Sweating Strawberries Phliadelphia

Sweating Strawberries

The Afterglows, Emotional World and Try the Pie turned an under-attended basement show into a juicy jam fest.

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Tyler Maxwell
6 May 2026 · 2 min read
Up Close With Green Corn Rebellion Tulsa

Up Close With Green Corn Rebellion

The local supergroup reunited to welcome spring, with opener David Hernandez and friends

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Eric James Stephens
6 May 2026 · 5 min read
Lightening Up In A Tense Time All Over

Lightening Up In A Tense Time

Podcaster Chris Duffy's new book aims to put us all in a better humor

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Jenn McKee
6 May 2026 · 4 min read
I Spent An Evening Walking Admiral Boulevard. Tulsa’s Music Scene Did the Rest. Tulsa

I Spent An Evening Walking Admiral Boulevard. Tulsa’s Music Scene Did the Rest.

Kendall Whittier's venues deliver everything from witty folk to EDM with a banjo sample

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Eric James Stephens
6 May 2026 · 5 min read
Jazzy Derby Day Brunch Oakland

Jazzy Derby Day Brunch

Before the ponies ran in Saturday's 152nd Kentucky Derby, The Farmer and Her Cook on Washington Street in Old Oakland hosted a jazzy brunch on their patio.

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Lisa Gray
6 May 2026 · 3 min read
Queer Feminists Design Korea's Future Gwangju

Queer Feminists Design Korea's Future

At film fest, Jisu Sheen catches up with martial-law resistance.

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Jisu Sheen
6 May 2026 · 5 min read
Lapping Around Love Park Philadelphia

Lapping Around Love Park

We Walk PHL is celebrating a decade of community strolls this May in tandem with mental health awareness month.

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Marquis Combs
6 May 2026 · 3 min read
What It's All About Philadelphia

What It's All About

It's about: Opening up your home, playing music, helping each other out, and positively dangerous tempos (like, 180 BPM and above).

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Tyler Maxwell
5 May 2026 · 2 min read
How Black Bodies Are Meant To Perform New Haven

How Black Bodies Are Meant To Perform

Examined in a dance-art work-in-progress staged in town.

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Janday Wilson
5 May 2026 · 5 min read
Han Okhi's Cinema Language Gwangju

Han Okhi's Cinema Language

Jisu Sheen explores an avant-garde pathbreaker’s work, then & now, at Korean film fest.

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Jisu Sheen
5 May 2026 · 4 min read
Coke Bust Comes Through Philadelphia

Coke Bust Comes Through

The hardcore show must go on — and it did, in spite of of one bandmate's hand injury, at PhilaMoCA last Friday.

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Pierce Jordan
5 May 2026 · 5 min read
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