New Haven “Hadestown” Keeps Up The Fight Orpheus is smitten with Eurydice before they even speak. Hermes, Orpheus’s wingman, helps him work up his courage to ask her out. “Orpheus,” he warns, “don’t come on Brian Slattery 2 May 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Humble Hip Hop Trumpeter Packs Out The New Parish Takuya Kuroda w/ Isaiah Mostafa & DJ Wonway Posibul The New Parish 1743 San Pablo Ave. Oakland April 25, 2024 Hip hop heads will grant Takuya Kuroda street cred from Breezy Bratton 2 May 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Metal Goes Mental For Meditation Savage Sisters Metal Meditation with Monks Pond PhilaMOCA 531 N. 12th St. Philadelphia April 28, 2024 *Extra credit: Test your focus (or flexibility) by reading this review while listening to Nora Grace-Flood 1 May 2024 · 4 min read
LA Mannequin Pussy Embraces Anger MANNEQUIN PUSSY: I GOT HEAVEN TOUR with SOUL GLO The Fonda Theater Los Angeles April 26, 2024 My millennial algorithm keeps pushing TikToks about the power of listening to nostalgic Emily VanKoughnett 1 May 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Transmasculine Experience Mythologized RED RED RED by Amelio García Oakland Theater Project 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way Oakland Through May 19 RED RED RED, “the alternate telling of a story no one Breezy Bratton 1 May 2024 · 3 min read
All Over A Trip to the Big City (Island) Sea Shore Restaurant & Marina City Island, The Bronx New York April 29, 2024 I am a proud Nutmegger, and an annoyingly outspoken proponent for Hartford and its development. But Jamil Ragland 1 May 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Melissa White’s Violin Sings Strings of Inspiration! Artists Collective Hartford April 30, 2024 Not to toot my own horn, but I’m not just a band geek — I was band president in high school. Jamil Ragland 1 May 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Gumball Poems Remind Readers: You’re Not A Robot The Poetry Gumball Machine Project Museum for Art in Wood 141 N. 3rd St. Philadelphia April 27, 2024 “Tough love is being punched until you don’t cry — and crying Nora Grace-Flood 1 May 2024 · 6 min read
New Haven Ceschi Keeps Hope Alive Like the rest of us, Ceschi, a.k.a. Julio Ramos, had long since emerged from the darkest days of the Covid-19 pandemic. But he hadn’t forgotten. Nor had Paul Bass 28 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
LA IKEA Panacea IKEA RESIDENCY RECEPTION Surely Work Studios Los Angeles April 20, 2024 Like the markers in the 22-acre IKEA in Burbank — second in size only to the flagship store in Stockholm Emily Ann Zisko 28 Apr 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Vocal Fest Ignites East Oakland 2nd Annual East Oakland Vocal Festival Phillip Reeder Auditorium at Castlemont High School 8601 MacArthur Blvd Bldg. 300 Oakland April 24, 2024 The energy was frenetic in the spacious Phillip Breezy Bratton 28 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Juggler’s Drop Adds To Cirque-us Drama Cirque du Soleil BAZZAR Hartford April 25, 2024 Seeing BAZZAR in Hartford on an unseasonably chilly evening was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. The commercials for Cirque du Soleil, Jamil Ragland 28 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa “With A Side Of Ranch”: Big Bite’s Effervescent Encore Big Bite Food Festival Gateway Event Center April 20, 2024 I’m only a little bit embarrassed about the noise I made in public when I put Antoinette Bakery’s Alicia Chesser 28 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
Philadelphia KulfiGirls Swim Deep At The Dolphin KulfiGirls The Dolphin Tavern 1539 S Broad St. Philadelphia April 24, 2024 Amid the fuzz rock, punk and noise music bouncing off the walls of the Dolphin Tavern Wednesday night, Nora Grace-Flood 26 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven Waxahatchee Rises Waxahatchee Toad’s Place New Haven April 25, 2024 “I’ve been yours for so long / We come right back to it.” It was a refrain I’d heard maybe Dereen Shirnekhi 26 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Tripping The Light Stochastic: Adventures In Ambient Noise ONE AUX: A Night Of Ambience Noise Town April 17, 2024 If you’ve never spent a Wednesday night sitting on a floor in West Tulsa listening to experimental ambient Alicia Chesser 26 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Booked. What About Books? Salons at Stowe: Literary Criticism Locked Up Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Hartford April 24, 2014 I went to the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center for a discussion titled “Literary Criticism Locked Jamil Ragland 26 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Baby Bhangra Bangs, Bro Non Stop Bhangra at OMCA Friday Nights Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak St, Oakland April 19, 2024 I had been to OMCA’s Friday night events a handful of Sarah Bass 25 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
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