LA Bravery in the Blackness of Punk Soul Glo/ Zulu The Roxy Theatre West Hollywood, California Sept. 15, 2023 There is an evergreen discomfort in being a Black punk going to the Roxy Theatre. The venue is Marcus Clayton 27 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven When Kristen Met Ani Watch out Taylor Swift: A DIY one-woman band catches a break, courtesy of her “Righteous Babe” hero, to release a liberation anthem for our times. Paul Bass 27 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
NYC That Upstairs Rave Isn’t In The Script One-Winged Dove The Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research Greenpoint, Brooklyn Closed It’s Sunday night and the room at the Brooklyn Center is packed. There’s a rave going on K Hank Jost 27 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa Rappers Meet Up With Poets To Pärlā Pärlā Creative Festival Presents: Open Mic Poetry & Hip-Hop Night Letterman’s Lounge Sept. 21, 2023 “Good poets talk about the loss. Great poets teach you how to win.” These Ryan Anderson 27 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
Oakland Crunch Time Cactus Taqueria 5642 College Ave. Oakland, CA 94618 The streets run amok with tacos here in Oakland, but finding one worth its salt (or cheese) for a vegetarian is a Sarah Bass 27 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven “Neverending Poetry” Moves From Open Mic To The Page On the last page of the new poetry anthology Never Ending Poetry — a celebration of the first year of Open Mic Surgery, the poetry reading series that happens almost every Brian Slattery 27 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Boston The Latinx Question Explored in an exhibit that looks below the surface of identity politrix. Latinx Identities: Struggles, Perspectives, and Critiques Unbound Visual Arts Exhibit Gallery 43 North Beacon St., Allston, Mass. Through Sasha Patkin 27 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Buffalo Nichols Embodies The Blues Buffalo Nichols Cafe 9 New Haven Sept. 23, 2023 Saturday night was a great night for blues. As rain pattered on the windows of Cafe Nine on the corner of Lisa Gray 26 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
NYC Un Museo Gets Under The Hood Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección El Museo del Barrio 1230 Fifth Ave. at 104th St. New York, NY Through March 10, 2024 Upon entering Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección, visitors Betsy Kim 26 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Boston Not Your Bubbe’s Latkes — But Almost Kosher! Zaftigs Delicatessen 335 Harvard St. Brookline, Mass. “Knish Happens,” “Love you a latke,” “Almost Kosher,” and “Got Matzo Balls?” Zaftigs in Brookline knows its brand, and its tongue-in-cheek T‑shirts Sasha PatkinKelley McLaughlin 26 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Troy/Albany DIRK & Quirks: Int’l Film Fest Sees World Through Micro Lens New York State International Film Festival The Linda/ WAMC Performing Arts Studio Albany, N.Y. Sept. 22 – 23 The eighth annual New York State International Film Festivalc elebrated small things. RS Benedict 26 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford Twain House Hosts A Worthy Paws (Cause) Mark Twain was an accomplished author, a fierce critic of injustice, and an adopted son of the city of Hartford. Twain was also an animal lover. He routinely kept cats Jamil Ragland 26 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Artist Births A New Sky Field Notes from the Empathic Universe Work by artist Saya Woolfalk, organized by Kalia Brooks NXTHVN, 169 Henry St., New Haven Through Nov. 19. The central figure in Birthing a Brian Slattery 26 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
NYC Fancy Bumping Into You Here In Lieu of the Option … The Dynamite Experience JACK Theatre Brooklyn, N.Y. Sept. 21, 2023 Closede The group holds a lone member above the ground by her fingertips. A K Hank Jost 24 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland Ethiopian Musical Ambassadors Bring Down The House Ethiocolor Zanzi 19 Grand Ave., Oakland Sept. 19, 2023 The ensemble Ethiocolor brought an exuberant range of Ethiopian music and dance traditions from Addis Abba to Oakland’s Zanzi — and Lauren Tannenbaum 24 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
LA Was That A Sax? Or A Guitar? Pharoah Sanders' acclaimed 2021 album gets its first full live orchestra treatment. FLOATING POINTS PERFORMS PROMISES featuring Floating Points with Shabaka Hutchings, Kieran Hebden, Dan Snaith, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Hinako Emily VanKoughnett 24 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Artists Travel To Dreamland Dreamland Muse Gallery Bushwick, Brooklyn Closed “The world is not as bright as it used to be,” artist NARCO (@artbynarco) noted, explaining why vibrant colors are so crucial to her Adam Wassilchalk 22 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
Tulsa Messy, Slippery, Smart, Terrifying Jazz Delivers For This Trying Time NOLATET LowDown jazz club Sept. 16, 2023 Last Saturday night, I saw the New Orleans-based NOLATET play at LowDown, the Arts District’s basement jazz club. Made up of Brian Z.B. Reeves 22 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
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