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Pixels, Pasties, Dice And Derrieres Tulsa

Pixels, Pasties, Dice And Derrieres

2nd Annual Geeks & Cheeks Nerdlesque Show Chimera Ballroom Tulsa May 18, 2024 A truth that embarrasses me: Before last weekend, I’d only been to one burlesque show ever.

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Cassidy McCants
24 May 2024 · 4 min read
More Than Just A Caning Victim: Charles Sumner The Abolitionist Hartford

More Than Just A Caning Victim: Charles Sumner The Abolitionist

The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union Mark Twain House and Museum Hartford May 23, 2024 I concede that not many people spend a

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Jamil Ragland
24 May 2024 · 3 min read
Like The Devil’s On Their Back: The HIRS Collective’s Heavy, Silly, Essential Queer Resistance Music Tulsa

Like The Devil’s On Their Back: The HIRS Collective’s Heavy, Silly, Essential Queer Resistance Music

The HIRS Collective With Hissom And Diced The Whittier Bar Tulsa May 15, 2024

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CARL ANTONOWICZ
24 May 2024 · 1 min read
The Mountain Comes Alive With Music Hartford

The Mountain Comes Alive With Music

Powder Ridge Mountain Park and Resort Press Conference Middlefield, Conn. May 5, 2023 What do you do at a place like Powder Ridge when there’s no snow on the

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
24 May 2024 · 4 min read
LA

Bittersweet Wednesday Recollections

WEDNESDAY with DRAAG The Bellwether Los Angeles May 17, 2024 My mid-twenties were a strange time. I was perpetually poor, carless (and soon, following a theft from the side of

  • Go to the profile of  David Diaz
David Diaz
24 May 2024 · 2 min read
Punq Noire Opens A New Stage New Haven

Punq Noire Opens A New Stage

Allie Bee stood in front of an admiring audience in the downstairs space of Westville’s Third Space. Tracks they’d made themself played behind them as they took their

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
24 May 2024 · 1 min read
Music Al Fresco: There’s A New Sound in Town Oakland

Music Al Fresco: There’s A New Sound in Town

Tracy Cruz AMP Lunch and Listen Franklin Square 2204 Broadway Ave. Oakland May 15, 2024 The midday sun was bright and strong, but thankfully Franklin Square in Uptown Oakland was

  • Go to the profile of  Sarah Bass
Sarah Bass
23 May 2024 · 3 min read
Fried, Fried & Fried Food Make This Happy Hour Happier Philadelphia

Fried, Fried & Fried Food Make This Happy Hour Happier

Booker’s Restaurant & Bar 5021 Baltimore Ave. Philadelphia May 17, 2024 We didn’t make reservations before showing up to Booker’s Restaurant on a Friday night — but somehow

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
23 May 2024 · 3 min read
Feminism, By Design New Haven

Feminism, By Design

It’s a poster for a conference held in Los Angeles in 1975, “for women who work with public visual and physical forms,” as the piece advertises — that is, women

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
23 May 2024 · 1 min read
Business Booms For Netflix’s Jewish Matchmaker Philadelphia

Business Booms For Netflix’s Jewish Matchmaker

Aleeza Ben Shalom Beth Sholom Congregation Elkins Park May 20, 2024 When streaming star and professional matchmaker Aleeza Ben Shalom asked our synagogue’s cantor about what he’s looking

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Amy Cuker
22 May 2024 · 3 min read
How Geology Shaped A City Oakland

How Geology Shaped A City

Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped A City, by Andrew Alden, published by Heyday Books.

  • Go to the profile of  Frederick Noland
Frederick Noland
22 May 2024 · 1 min read
Hot Moms In Your Area LA

Hot Moms In Your Area

KIMBERLY KING PARSONS’S WE WERE THE UNIVERSE BOOK TOUR Skylight Books Los Angeles May 16, 2024 The cosmos keep bringing me back to Kimberly King Parsons. During undergrad, I

  • Go to the profile of  Brittany Menjivar
Brittany Menjivar
22 May 2024 · 3 min read
The Real Italian Deal, In The Suburbs Hartford

The Real Italian Deal, In The Suburbs

Elizabeth’s Bar and Grill Bloomfield May 20, 2024 You can’t go to an Italian place without trying the two Ps — pasta and pizza. So I made sure I

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
21 May 2024 · 3 min read
Julia’s War Fest Plays Hooky Philadelphia

Julia’s War Fest Plays Hooky

Hooky at Julia’s War Fest Ukie Club 847 N. Franklin St. Philadelphia May 19, 2024 Two-person indie electronica band Hooky adapted their lo-fi recorded tracks for live listening Saturday

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
21 May 2024 · 5 min read
Squawking, As A Symptom LA

Squawking, As A Symptom

THE STRINGS/KEYS REINCIDENCE: A RESIDENCY WITH JOANNA NEWSOM The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever May 15 – 19 + May 26 – 27, 2024 The first sound I heard on Thursday night

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Dandi Meng
21 May 2024 · 2 min read
The Sound Of Hearts On A Gravel Road Oakland

The Sound Of Hearts On A Gravel Road

Waxahatchee The Fox Theater 2807 Telegraph Ave, Oakland May 18, 2024 To hear Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee wallop a crowd with her full-bodied wail of a voice and her plaintive,

  • Go to the profile of  Robin Lapid
Robin Lapid
21 May 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven

This Is How To Rock A Monday

New Haven-based artist Michael Miglietta has a visual style that leans into the surreal and the cosmic, creating dizzying, shape-shifting images with bold linework and vivid color. Under the moniker

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Brian Slattery
21 May 2024 · 1 min read
A Pop Dance Party For The Proletariat Oakland

A Pop Dance Party For The Proletariat

Belle and Sebastian The Fox Theater 1807 Telegraph Ave. Oakland May 16, 2024 In the world of Scottish indie pop, Belle and Sebastian surely must be the hardest working band

  • Go to the profile of  Robin Lapid
Robin Lapid
21 May 2024 · 3 min read
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