New Haven MJ Bones Lives, Unplugged “If love is like an ocean,” MJ Bones was singing, “I’m lost at sea.” Meanwhile, they sounded right at home, right where they belonged: Performing revelatory original songs on Paul Bass 29 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
LA Other People’s Art That We Could Have Created Ourselves THE BIG ONE MAGAZINE RELEASE PARTY Heavy Manners Library Los Angeles March 21, 2024 On a cool night in Echo Park, Heavy Manners Library was heating up. The small space, Max Gordy 29 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Gold Nuggets: The Other Monday Open Mic The Other Monday Open Mic The BLU House Oakland March 25, 2024 A laminated sign on the gate had graphics of hanging plants. It read, “The BLU House,” with the Breezy Bratton 29 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford The Crunch Survives Takeout Bonchon West Hartford March 27, 2024 Sitting down and eating at a restaurant can be a relaxing experience. No food to cook, no dishes to wash, and someone dedicated to Jamil Ragland 29 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Nashville Songs Swapped As A Hideaway Turns Into A Writer’s Kitchen Writer’s Kitchen Jane’s Hideaway Nashville 3/26/24 As soon as the first writer started singing, Jane’s Hideaway changed from a full restaurant to a listening room, Libby Weitnauer 28 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford All-Women Jazz Trio Breaks Sound Barriers GATHER Women in Jazz: Interview and Concert with Mimi Jones Hartford Public Library Center for Contemporary Culture Hartford March 26, 2024 I’d never seen an all-women jazz performance before, Jamil Ragland 28 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Old Jokes Are Still Funny D.L. Hughley The Funny Bone Comedy Club Manchester March 24, 2024 The first standup that I remember seeing was in The Kings of Comedy movie. My idea of professional Jamil Ragland 28 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland A (Gertrude) Steinful of Oakland Gertrude Stein’s Oakland Oakland Public Library, Main Branch Through April 30, 2024 “When there was there and when it wasn’t or was it.” As one of Oakland’s Sarah Bass 27 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Kids Ring In iPeabody Era The reborn Peabody Museum unlocked its doors Tuesday and ushered in a new era of kids ready to roam renovated dinosaur rooms — as the kids unlocked their iPhones. Nora Grace-Flood 27 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
NW Arkansas “Exquisite Creatures” Challenge Art Exquisite Creatures Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Bentonville, Arkansas Through July 29, 2024 Artist and naturalist Christopher Marley pursued rare animals, reptiles and insects to the ends of the Mickey Mercier 26 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Anything Goes Chorus Rings in Spring Anything Goes Chorus 2024 Spring Concert First Unitarian Church 695 14th St. Oakland March 24, 2024 I didn’t expect the First Unitarian Church downtown on the corner of 14th Breezy Bratton 26 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland The Battle Of The Lanky British Frontmen The Vaccines and The Kooks The Fox Theater Oakland March 22, 2024 It was the unofficial early aughts battle of the lanky British frontmen this past Friday night at The Robin Lapid 26 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
NYC Composer-Performer Welps Across Genres H.G. Welp Heaven Can Wait LES, NYC March 23, 2024 I’ve said it once before, and I’ll say it again — I cannot stand the venue Heaven Can K Hank Jost 25 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Shandy Lawson Sings Stories A chair and a guitar. A table holding an old-fashioned radio. A vase full of purple flowers. A teacup and saucer. Was this a scene from an oft-told tale or Karen Ponzio 25 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Chicago Keeping It Reel In Chicago La battaglia di Algeri Music Box Theatre 3/24/24 Chicago may not be the first place that aspiring megastars think to showcase their talents on the silver screen, but Stacey Peters 25 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Nashville Frist Dives Into Southern Side Of Modern The Frist Art Museum “Southern/Modern” Exhibition Through April 28 “I always like to tell people it’s the best work of art in the building,” said the man sitting Libby Weitnauer 25 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Monday Is Still West Coast Blues Night In Oakland Lady E & The Best of the Bay Eli’s Mile High Club 3629 Martin Luther King Jr Way Oakland March 18, 2024 An influx of Black workers in the Breezy Bratton 25 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Pussy Riot Burns On Meet & Greet: Pussy Riot Woody Guthrie Center March 14, 2024 Pussy Riot’s transgressive artivism has the world frothing — and Moscow fuming. Yet in Tulsa on March 14, their Jennie Lloyd 24 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
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