Oakland Where Stuffed Falafel Shines and Dried Figs Falter Pomella Oakland 3770 Piedmont Ave. Oakland CA 94611 I am often skeptical of both falafel served anywhere outside of the Middle East and the quality of the offerings on wealthy Sarah Bass 18 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
Tulsa Challenging Appropriation From A Tiny World Stage The Chinese Lady September 10, 2023 World Stage Theatre Company You wouldn’t know it to look at the space from the street, but in a tiny studio on the Alicia Chesser 15 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland A Hip-Hop Photographer’s Oakland ’90s, Re-Revealed Oakland Photo Lady: Tales of a 90s Girl B‑Love’s Guest House 1131 Center St., West Oakland Saturdays through September Missy Elliott, younger than you’ve ever seen, hair Sarah Bass 15 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
LA ’70s-’80s Photos Recall When LA Knew How To Play MAPPING AN ART WORLD: LOS ANGELES IN THE 1970S-80S Museum of Contemporary Art Downtown Los Angeles June 18, 2023 – March 10, 2024. The work included in this exhibit (why must Annie Buckley 15 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
Boston A Hobbit Hole Offers Up A Magic Meal Antique Table Lynn 2 Essex St. Lynn, Mass. If you have ever read or watched a fantasy adventure, you are no stranger to the wonderful world of magical dining spaces. Sasha PatkinKelley McLaughlin 15 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
LA A Fairycore Revelation Unfolds, Vocal On Top Of Layered Vocal Black Country, New Road with Little Wings Downtown Los Angeles August 31, 2023 Ushers and security guards corralled me inside the Regent before Black Country, New Road’s sold out Danielle Clough 14 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa I Went To The Super Bowl of Classical Music Tulsa Symphony brings in a guest to shake up an old favorite. Tulsa Symphony Opening Night September 9, 2023 Tulsa Performing Arts Center Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 — the one Z.B. Reeves 14 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
NW Arkansas Plane Truth Uncovered About That “$200 Burger” Amateur pilots love to complain about the “hundred-dollar hamburger.” It’s an in-joke, a wry lament about the high cost of learning to fly small aircraft – the expense of plane Mickey Mercier 13 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
NYC No One Stole The Show, But … In which a writer discovers why it might be worth showing up at an open mic even though neither he nor a friend is performing. Easy Paradise Open Mic The K Hank Jost 13 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
Tulsa “We’re Gonna Stay” Women and non-binary muralists make their mark Sunny Dayz Mural Festival Sept. 9, 2023 Pearl District “You know when you’re an Okie and you’re trans and you think, Alicia Chesser 12 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
LA Boundaries Blur Between Student & Washed-Up Yale Prof THE SOUND INSIDE Pasadena Playhouse Through Oct. 1, 2023. In retrospect, I should have expected that I would see Daniel Franzese (Damian from Mean Girls) at the industry night opening Brandon Sward 12 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
Boston Little Amal’s Hopeful First Big Steps Change The Picture 12-foot-tall puppet of 10-year-old refugee girl begins 6,000-mile coast-to-coast journey Why do people throw their energy into art when there are so many real and terrible things happening in Sasha Patkin 11 Sep 2023 · 6 min read
Reno Originals Trump Covers At Folkie Pignic By Karrie O’Neill’s own admittance, it was a weird night at Pignic Pub & Patio in Reno. At one point during her first set, her iPad with her Jose Davila IV 11 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Flower Fairies In 1st solo U.S. show, a photographer’s tech tricks challenge how we view beauty KATHRIN LINKERSDORFF: FAIRIES Yossi Milo Gallery 245 10th Avenue, New York, NY Through Oct. Betsy Kim 11 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven CT Folk Fest Sweetens The Heart Highway philosophers, bossa nova and a NYC harpist-singer-writer added new texture and kept the mood vibrant at New Haven’s 30th annual CT Folk Fest and Green Expo. Karen Ponzio 11 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Hartford Bella’s Bartok Beats The Post-Pandemic Blues It was an interesting concert — and that was before Jack Skellington showed up. But allow me to take a few steps back. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Jamil Ragland 8 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
LA Keith Haring Is For … Everybody? KEITH HARING: ART IS FOR EVERYBODY The Broad, Los Angeles Through Oct. 8, 2023. On a Saturday, I boarded the Long Beach Blue Line (now called the A Line, a A.J. Urquidi 8 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Boston Amid Verse-Tossing, The Cutest Date Night Of All Time Poetry Open Mic Night Trident Booksellers & Cafe 338 Newbury St, Boston Sept. 3, 2023 “And next up, Tony!” called the host of Trident Booksellers’s Poetry Open Mic Night. Sasha Patkin 8 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
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