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Artist Dives Into The Dangers Of Banned Books New Haven

Artist Dives Into The Dangers Of Banned Books

The pieces at first look just like abstract collages, but soon, fragments of meaning emerge. The shape of lips. A pattern of shadows. Finally, letters and words, but not enough

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Brian Slattery
14 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Unsingular Sound: 7th St. Sidewalk Sessions Oakland

Unsingular Sound: 7th St. Sidewalk Sessions

Sidewalk Sessions 7th West 1255 7th St. Oakland May 31, 2024 Small sunglasses, a neon yellow beanie, eye-shocking magenta sporty shorts, pale yellow socks, and black dress shoes: thusly clad,

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Sarah Bass
13 Jun 2024 · 5 min read
Finding The Hartford Taste Hartford

Finding The Hartford Taste

Hartford Taste Hartford June 8, 2024 This year’s Hartford Taste festival, billed as a celebration of the city’s cultural heritage and a fundraiser for CT Foodshare, was held

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Jamil Ragland
11 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
The Horror Of The Place Hartford

The Horror Of The Place

2.5 Minute Ride Hartford Stage Hartford Through June 23, 2024 2.5 Minute Ride is a one-person show about a woman named Lisa, who is making a movie about

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Jamil Ragland
11 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia

Porchfest Pill Provokes Sweats, Shakes And Salsa

West Philly Porchfest June 9, 2024 Philadelphia I woke up at noon on Saturday, startled and drenched in sweat, to the sounds of whining guitar riffs escalating into manic chaos:

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
10 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Summer Starts With An Indie Pop Oakland

Summer Starts With An Indie Pop

Oakland Weekender Thee Stork Club 2330 Telegraph Ave. Oakland June 7, 2024 Summer in June is lovely in theory, but every true Bay Area local knows that our mercurial microclimates

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Robin Lapid
10 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Can I Be Sappy? LA

Can I Be Sappy?

THE LAST FIVE YEARS Sierra Madre Playhouse Sierra Madre Through June 16, 2024 Seven years ago, I made a single friend during freshman orientation. We bonded over having no other

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Maya Chen
10 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Bleachers Are The Boss Of The Bowl New Haven

Bleachers Are The Boss Of The Bowl

Milling around the floor-level seating area at the Westville Music Bowl on Friday night, I had no particular idea what I was in for. I had come to review a

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Mark Oppenheimer
10 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia

Bus Stop Jam Sesh Jazzes Up Dollar Strollers

Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll June 6, 2024 Philadelphia The Dollar Stroll returned to West Philly last week, with businesses along Baltimore Avenue selling goods to the tune of between $1

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Lindo Yes
10 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Pride Was A Mosh Pit New Haven

Pride Was A Mosh Pit

The room was a sea of tattoos, fish nets, and dyed hair as three bands almost entirely composed of queer people performed at Witch Bitch Thrift. Their songs about acceptance

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Leo Slattery
10 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Screen Savors Philadelphia

Screen Savors

Dream House: Inside Music + Video Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine St. Philadelphia Through Aug. 3, 2024 At the exhibit Dream House: Inside Music + Video, I found myself surrounded by a

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Nora Grace-Flood
9 Jun 2024 · 4 min read
Border Towns, Unbound Stories, Irreverent Gods: A Celia Álvarez Muñoz Retrospective Tulsa

Border Towns, Unbound Stories, Irreverent Gods: A Celia Álvarez Muñoz Retrospective

Celia Álvarez Muñoz: Breaking The Binding Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa May 31, 2024 According to the ACLU, nearly two out of three people in the United States live within

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Cassidy Petrazzi
9 Jun 2024 · 6 min read
When the Sharks Meet The Warhawks Hartford

When the Sharks Meet The Warhawks

Shark Tank Pitch Competition Bloomfield High School Bloomfield June 6, 2024 I hadn’t been back to Bloomfield High School, my alma mater, in at least a decade. What better

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Jamil Ragland
9 Jun 2024 · 4 min read
Invitation To The Dance: An Original Adaptation of Pride & Prejudice Tulsa

Invitation To The Dance: An Original Adaptation of Pride & Prejudice

Pembroke Players: Pride & Prejudice 101 Archer Tulsa June 1, 2024 I couldn’t have been more charmed by an invitation if Mr. Darcy had delivered it to me himself.

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Alicia Chesser
9 Jun 2024 · 5 min read
Three’s Harmony New Haven

Three’s Harmony

“Everything’s meant to be broken / Everything’s meant to pass …” Alex Blair wrote those words back in junior high or high school; he’s not sure of the exact

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Paul Bass
7 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
LA

Syd Barrett Roosts In Robyn Hitchock’s Head

ROBYN HITCHCOCK Zebulon Los Angeles May 21, 2024 In the end, Pink Floyd was a gigantic rock band. But before that, under founder Syd Barrett, it was a deep and

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Jack Skelley
7 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
Walking on Wool Oakland

Walking on Wool

East Bay Open Studios The Loom 2150 Livingston St. Oakland June 1 & 2, 2024 In demonstration of the wool she uses in her work, Meghan Shimek stood atop one

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Agustín Maes
6 Jun 2024 · 4 min read
The Mutter Misses: ​“Unhoused” Exhibition Puts Humanity Behind Bars Philadelphia

The Mutter Misses: ​“Unhoused” Exhibition Puts Humanity Behind Bars

Unhoused: Personal Stories and Public Health The Mutter Museum 19 S. 22nd St. Philadelphia I walked by three people camped out on the few blocks of sidewalk between my bus

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Nora Grace-Flood
6 Jun 2024 · 9 min read
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