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Yes, I’m “Bored of the Negro Problem”

Yes, I’m “Bored of the Negro Problem”

HartBeat Ensemble’s production of Jimmy and Lorraine: A Musing, which chronicles the friendship of famed African-American writers James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry, brings two of the giants of American literature to a present day...

Jamil Ragland

21 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Chopped Glass & Palm-Sized Homes

Chopped Glass & Palm-Sized Homes

This weekend was the turn of artists at Willow Street's Marlin Works complex to invite the public in for Open Studios.

Karen Ponzio

21 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

Hey Erector Square: Who You Calling Meat Face?

Hey Erector Square: Who You Calling Meat Face?

Amelia Ingraham's "MeatFace" captures the vibe of the artwork being put together in studios where workers once produced America's erector sets.

Brian Slattery

21 Oct 2024 · 8 min read

Style Shines Bright on Oakland Rooftop

Style Shines Bright on Oakland Rooftop

The High 5ive Rooftop Bar at the Kissel Uptown Oakland boasts a stunning view of Oakland; currently in more ways than one. 100 Faces of Oakland, an ambitious project sponsored by Visit Oakland and created by photographers Anthony Weaver and Patanisha Williams, is on display through October 31st.

Vita Hewitt

20 Oct 2024 · 2 min read

Tulsa Is Not-So-Secretly Fond Of Orville Peck

Tulsa Is Not-So-Secretly Fond Of Orville Peck

What do you call a gay cowboy? Until recently, your uncle might have said “a jolly rancher,” but the collective pop culture mind now turns immediately to THE gay cowboy: Orville Peck.

Mitch Gilliam

20 Oct 2024 · 2 min read

The Hell We’ve Allowed Ourselves To Fall Into

The Hell We’ve Allowed Ourselves To Fall Into

Photographer Peter Brown has transformed a harrowing experience into a mind-bending display of resilience and recovery with Memories Misused at Real Art Ways.

Jamil Ragland

20 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

TheaterWorks Season Opens With A Promising Extinction-Level Event

TheaterWorks Season Opens With A Promising Extinction-Level Event

Fever Dreams tells the story of Zach and Adele, two lovers who have absconded away to a cabin in the woods for a weekend of passionate sex and food. Eventually Adele’s husband, and Zach’s former best friend, Miller shows up, and a series of revelations rock Zach’s world

Jamil Ragland

20 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Idora Idora: Echoes from the Past

Idora Idora: Echoes from the Past

Fred's review in comics of Idora Idora. Saturdays, October 12 through November 9, 2024

Fred Noland

20 Oct 2024 · 1 min read

Sopranos’ Still Photographer Searches For Drama In The Shadows

Sopranos’ Still Photographer Searches For Drama In The Shadows

The silhouette of a cigarette-smoking man caught my eye — after Craig Blankenhorn’s camera captured his shadow.

Nora Grace-Flood

20 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Crohn’s Disease Comedy Takes Care

Crohn’s Disease Comedy Takes Care

“Oh, god,” I thought as the lights dimmed — had I accidentally signed up for stand-up?

Leo David

19 Oct 2024 · 2 min read

Ten Tulsa Rappers Share Whys And Rhymes

Ten Tulsa Rappers Share Whys And Rhymes

Go big or go home. That’s the sentiment I always get watching an Aaron Sawyer performance. The emcee, battle rapper, and mental health advocate has performed on many Tulsa stages throughout his career, all while helping to build platforms and cultivate relationships within Tulsa hip-hop.

Ryan Anderson

18 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

Philbrook’s New Show Gets Much Of America Right

Philbrook’s New Show Gets Much Of America Right

When people talk about being American, they’re inevitably talking about the flavor of American that they themselves are. Being an American is different for the recently-arrived Hmong mother of two than it is for the white suburban housewife whose British ancestors colonized Native land.

Z.B. Reeves

18 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

How We Mourn Four-Legged Family

How We Mourn Four-Legged Family

Death is inevitable for all living things. Humans have a wide range of ceremonies across cultures and religions that lay out strict rules for what to do with other humans who are dead. But what about our pets?

Jamil Ragland

18 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

“Falcon Girls” Portrays Adolescence On The Wing

“Falcon Girls” Portrays Adolescence On The Wing

Hilary, a middle-school student, has just moved to Falcon, Colorado. She wears all the wrong clothes, says all the wrong things, and most of the other students are ready to tease her for it, except one, who reminds them to ask themselves what Jesus would do.

Brian Slattery

18 Oct 2024 · 2 min read

Go Fish, Yale Film Archive

Go Fish, Yale Film Archive

The 1994 film Go Fish opens in a classroom where the teacher asks the class to make a list of “women that you think are lesbians or that you know are lesbians.”

Karen Ponzio

17 Oct 2024 · 1 min read

Prints From The Underground

Prints From The Underground

It’s a transfixing stare, made more intense by the medium. A woodcut hearkens back to an earlier time — and, in German Expressionism, an earlier mode of expressing anxiety.

Brian Slattery

16 Oct 2024 · 1 min read

This Is the Way to Exit Your Youth

This Is the Way to Exit Your Youth

WALLOWS with BENEE, Kia Forum, Inglewood, September 12, 2024. A band’s homecoming can’t help but be special: musicians fresh-eyed from sleeping in their own bed, an audience studded

Emily Quintanilla

16 Oct 2024 · 2 min read

Megalopolis: A Mega Mess

Megalopolis: A Mega Mess

Major studios spent years telling Francis Ford Coppola “no” when he tried to get Megalopolis made. The movie spent decades in development hell before Coppola spent $120 million of his own money to make it, financed by his winemaking business.

Jamil Ragland

16 Oct 2024 · 3 min read