Raleigh/ Durham/ Chapel Hill Sheryl Underwood’s Straight Talk Hits Home Sheryl Underwood Raleigh Improv Raleigh, N.C. March 2, 2024 Laughter, cheers, and applause boomed from the Raleigh Improv Saturday night as Sheryl Underwood and quick-witted comedians stole the stage. Synclaire Cruel 5 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland The Warrior Who Saved a Dolphin Meet and Greet: Two-Time NBA Champion Clifford Ray African American Museum and Library Oakland Feb. 24, 2024 Some of my fondest memories with my father involved watching sports, since that’ Robin Lapid 4 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Black Planter Party Lifts Proud Parents (Like Me) Black Planter Party Hella Bee’s Oakland Feb. 24, 2024 I know a few people my age who are parents to human children, but I know many more who are Robin Lapid 3 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Troy/Albany Live Live Revelation: Middle-Age Uncool Is Fine Live Unplugged The Egg Albany, N.Y. 2/27/24 I ran into a work friend — a fellow civil servant — in the Egg’s subterranean entrance before the Live concert. RS Benedict 3 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Get Lost. You’re Uncool Forever Magazine’s Issue 6 Release Party 99 Canal St. Chinatown, Manhattan Something’s gone awry in NYC’s literary world. To be properly cynical, I’m sure it’s K Hank Jost 1 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Lunar New Year, Minus The Flash Lantern Festival 2024 Pacific Renaissance Plaza Oakland Feb. 24, 2024 Across the Bay, with great anticipation and fanfare, Awkwafina served as grand marshal of the San Francisco Chinese New Year Robin Lapid 1 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland “Symphony Dance Party”? I Left Breathless Oakland Civic Orchestra: Symphonic Dance Party First Presbyterian Church of Oakland Oakland Feb. 25, 2024 Classical music on the grounds of a church on a sunny Sunday afternoon — it just Robin Lapid 1 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Fathers, Sons And Chicken Wings At Hartford Stage The Hot Wing King Hartford Stage Hartford Through March 24, 2024 We got an extra day of Black History Month this year, so I celebrated by going to see the Jamil Ragland 1 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Dancer of Motion and Illusions Madeline Hollander: Entanglement Bortolami 39 Walker Through March 2 From the Tribeca Bortolami gallery room’s entrance, rows of cylindrical plinths, topped with flying saucer-like disks invite a remarkably unremarkable Betsy Kim 1 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Want Some Organ Meat With That Smoothie? The thick, tawny mason jar smoothie I ordered from The Remedy’s Cultured Cafe on State Street looked, smelled and tasted like soft, cinnamon cream — despite the fact that it Nora Grace-Flood 1 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Nashville Sean Brock’s Bar Continental Bar Continental Nashville 2/28/24 I wondered about the man rummaging through records in the corner as the DJ fussed with the turntables. He was spinning some relatively unengaging Libby Weitnauer 1 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Grand Rapids Maps And Consequences Thereof Uncharted Ways Through: Maps, Land, and the Image Grand Rapids Art Museum Grand Rapids, Mich. Through April 7, 2024 Border Cantos | Sonic Border Grand Rapids Art Museum Grand Rapids, Mich. Stacey Peters 1 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Lights, Camera, Soulbody Cyphers Soulbody Cyphers Presents: The Cinematic Showdown Circle Cinema Tulsa Feb. 22, 2024 From the big stage of collegiate sports to the big screen of Circle Cinema, Marshall Moses has always Ryan Anderson 1 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Loud And Sour Stimmerman TV Eye Ridgewood, Queens 2/28/2024 For a long-enough-time fan of a band, there’s pique little joy in witnessing them play to a small crowd. All the K Hank Jost 1 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa A Christening For A Listening Room John Moreland, Ken Pomeroy, and Justin Bloss Saint Cecilia’s Tulsa Feb. 23, 2024 One of my favorite shows in the last decade took place at Old Church Center, a Cassidy McCants 29 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Happy Joe Young Day A Night of the Arts: A Black History Month Event Alvin & Beatrice Wood Human Services Center Bloomfield Feb. 28, 2024 Although I’ve lived the majority of my life Jamil Ragland 29 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA Velcro Shoes & Moons Over My Hammy CEREMONY with INFEST, GOUGE AWAY, and friends Hollywood Palladium Los Angeles Feb. 24, 2024 There’s something serene about a diner after a show. When you saunter through the front David Diaz 29 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
NYC What We Have Become Thomas Hirschhorn: Fake it, Fake it —till you Fake it Gladstone Gallery 530 West 21st Street Through March 2, 2024 Stepping through cluttered aisles of warfare, punctuated by the ubiquitous Betsy Kim 29 Feb 2024 · 4 min read