Hartford Come For The Art, Stay For The History (And The Historian) Spring Art Exhibit Garmany Visitor Center Elizabeth Park Hartford March 7, 2024 When I go to galleries, I’m usually self-guided and left to contemplate the artwork by myself. That’ Jamil Ragland 8 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Jazz Millions And Beyond Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey LowDown Tulsa March 2, 2024 Thirty years ago, a group of local high school and college musicians got together to share their collective love of jazz, Alicia Chesser 8 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven The End Of The Art World Thursday night the Yale Film Archive added two new jewels to their Treasures series: a new 35 mm print of Daisies, the 1966 Czech New Wave film directed by Vera Karen Ponzio 8 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Cut Fruit, Family Photos And Vietnamese Ancestral Worship “I Bear the Fruit of My Ancestors“ Belafonte Tulsa March 1, 2024 A dimly lit space permeated with the smell of burning incense greeted visitors, many of whom waited in Becky Carman 8 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland A Day Focused On The Plant-Based Future Plant Futures Fest Oakstop 2325 Broadway Ave. Oakland Feb. 24, 2024 Nine a.m. on an unseasonably sunny Saturday morning, a small line of sleepy people waiting for coffees from Sarah Bass 8 Mar 2024 · 5 min read
Nashville Dive Bar Magic As Betty’s Grill Gets Weird Sam Petschulat, Ziona Riley, Frank Hurricane, and The Cherry Blossoms Betty’s Grill Nashville 3/5/24 During Sam Petschulat’s opening set, I was mostly orienting myself to the Libby Weitnauer 7 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Inside Mussel Bag Job Hook and Reel Cajun Seafood and Bar Hartford March 6, 2024 Hook and Reel Cajun Seafood and Bar in Hartford has a great deal for the seafood enjoyer on a Jamil Ragland 7 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Salt Lake City Andrew Alba Paints Mysteries & Suspicion Andrew Alba – Inheritance Material Contemporary South Salt Lake, UT March 1, 2024 Andrew Alba doesn’t trust art that’s too pretty. That’s part of why he had to Jose Davila IV 7 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven Wow, Okay, Cool As a heavy rainstorm pounded the pavement outside on State and Crown, drummers pounded skins inside Cafe Nine, propelling a night of raucous guitar, muscular bass, and vocals that pushed Brian Slattery 7 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Beauty Of Strangers We Meet Meet the Author — Dr. Irene Sardanis Connections: The Power of Connecting with Stranger Oakland Public Library — Rockridge Branch Oakland Feb. 24, 2024 As a writer with an unceasing streak of Robin Lapid 7 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
LA The Pulsing Innards of Jack Skelley Fear of Kathy Acker Illusion Magic Lounge Santa Monica Feb. 29, 2024 A flash of red taillights: The satin stage curtain of the Illusion Magic Lounge in Santa Monica parts, Emily Ann Zisko 6 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Rug Cut In A Winery Karim Israel Unplugged Côte West Winery 152 Dennison ST. Oakland Feb. 29, 2024 I found an empty table and took a seat in the back room of Côte West Winery, Sarah Bass 6 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland The Power of Textures and Touch Artists Reception: Jessica Cadkin, Leah Korican, Monika Mayer, and Various Artists Mercury 20 Gallery Oakland Feb. 25, 2024 I have a friend who loves touching objects that look like they Robin Lapid 6 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven The Thing Is… With a new month comes a new Best Video movie series, and the March madness at the film and cultural center in Hamden has everything to do with horror and Karen Ponzio 6 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
LA Calamaric Euphoria, 20,000 Leagues Under The OC SQUID with WATER FROM YOUR EYES The Observatory Santa Ana, Cal. February 29, 2024 As a lifelong admirer of weird cryptids, sea monsters, and beings of potentially extraterrestrial origin, I’ A.J. Urquidi 5 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
Nashville The Taste Of An Indy Moviehouse The Taste of Things The Belcourt Theater Nashville 3/5/24 Showing up hungry to a movie called The Taste of Things was both unintentional and a mistake — salvageable only Libby Weitnauer 5 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford PBS Runs Armenia Through The Dull Machine Armenia, My Home Connecticut Public TV premiere; streaming on PBS I guess you could say that I have a fraught relationship with the idea of a homeland. I’m an Jamil Ragland 5 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
NYC A Dizzy Return Makes Sunday Night Magic Dizzy Ventilators Big Bar East Village, NYC 3/3/2024 During a prior tenure as Big Bar’s Sunday night bartender, I could always count on a relatively profitable late-night K Hank Jost 5 Mar 2024 · 2 min read