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. Cassidy McCants 24 May 2024 · 4 min read
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 Jamil Ragland 24 May 2024 · 3 min read
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 CARL ANTONOWICZ 24 May 2024 · 1 min read
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 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 David Diaz 24 May 2024 · 2 min read
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 Brian Slattery 24 May 2024 · 1 min read
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 Sarah Bass 23 May 2024 · 3 min read
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 Nora Grace-Flood 23 May 2024 · 3 min read
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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 Brittany Menjivar 22 May 2024 · 3 min read
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 Jamil Ragland 21 May 2024 · 3 min read
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 Nora Grace-Flood 21 May 2024 · 5 min read
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 Dandi Meng 21 May 2024 · 2 min read
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, 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 Brian Slattery 21 May 2024 · 1 min read
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 Robin Lapid 21 May 2024 · 3 min read