Tulsa Black Moonscapes Deliver First Friday Hope, Not Hype “Moonscapes & Earthshine” + TAF First Friday Programming September 1, 2023 TAF Studio 101 / Archer Studios As someone who tends to lose hours of my one wild and precious life to Alicia Chesser 8 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland My Big Fat Italian-esque Sandwich A Sack Lunch at Oakland's Lunch Box A good sandwich, for those of us who still consume the small luxury that is fresh glutinous bread, may make the Sarah Bass 8 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
LA It’s Not Pretty IT’S BETTER TO START OUT UGLY Written and directed by Asher Hartman JOAN, Los Angeles; closed The audience, on three sides, can at first imagine that they are on Martin Harries 7 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Toad’s Place Rocks In Memory Of Rohn Lawrence Toad’s Place on York Street lit up as a cadre of jazz musicians gathered to pay homage to one of New Haven’s own axe men extraordinaire, Rohn Lawrence, Lisa Gray 7 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa Tulsa, We Have A Situation: Revived Open Mic For Musicians Makes Magic The Situation August 28, 2023 Fassler Hall What’s The Situation? It’s an open mic night with a live band, but it’s so much more than that. It’ Ryan Anderson 7 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland Anemic Queer Femmes Rock Mommy Mommy, comprised of four UC Berkeley students, is all about spreading sad gurl rock: They’re queer, they’re loud, they’re sad, and they want you to know Sarah Bass 7 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven You Talkin’ To Me? Screening Prompts Reappraisal Of Taxi Driver Four decades later, the question is called: What was the point, in the end? Brian Slattery 6 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa Jazz Raises Monday Nights From The Dead I am a jazz simpleton. Everything about a live jazz performance is as astonishing to me as a no-look pass (and I am probably even worse at playing basketball than Becky Carman 6 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
Oakland The Gallery Tech Takeover: AR You Ready? I have always sought augmented reality when I come across art: I like to touch, feel, see brush strokes on a work of art or stitches or seams from welding Sarah Bass 6 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
New Haven Codefendants Take The Stand — To Launch “Crime Wave” Tour Sunday night was the hottest night of the week, literally and figuratively, as Space Ballroom hosted the first Northeast U.S. show featuring Codefendants, described as a “genre fluid musical Karen Ponzio 5 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa “Drown Or Swim” New play recasts Oedipus's mother as a dancer navigating the modern age. What stories does the body tell? As we learn more about how our cells carry the Alicia Chesser 5 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
NW Arkansas Paging Lou Reed, In The City That Birthed Walmart At the Meteor Guitar Gallery, an up-and-coming music venue in Northwest Arkansas, I was hoping to see a Lou Reed tribute act. The act, a local band audaciously named Blew Mickey Mercier 4 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Reno Earthlings Escape To Afrotopia After stepping back onto Earth (in this case, the third floor hallway of the Nevada Museum of Art), through the portal from the planet of Atlantica, a friendly immigration agent Jose Davila IV 4 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Oakland 300 Artists + 525 Pieces = Creativity Wonderland A longtime fan of work by artists at the Bay Area’s Creative Growth, Creativity Explored, and NIAD (Nurturing Independence through Artistic Development) workshops, I was eager to see Into Agustín Maes 4 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
NW Arkansas Art Breathes Deep At Momentary Walking into artist Firelei Báez’s To breathe full and free: a re-visioning, a correction (19°36’16.9“N72°13’07.0“W, 42° 21’48.762″ N 71° Serena Puang 1 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Exhibition Takes Art To New Dimensions Tea Montgomery’s installation greets the visitor who enters the art show at the Lab at ConnCORP for 6th Dimension, an Afrofuturist festival running in New Haven and Hamden now Brian Slattery 31 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa Branjae Manifests The Vibe When I think of Tulsa’s Branjae, I think of discipline, performance, energy. “Who’s a manifester?” she asked us, the sometimes awkward but incredibly enthusiastic crowd at Thelma’s Cassidy McCants 31 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Boston Sofar Sounds So Good at Boston HQ The last time I went to a concert it was too loud, tall people stood in front of me the whole time, and canned beers cost $15. While there’s Sasha Patkin 31 Aug 2023 · 6 min read