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Nice Licorice New Haven

Nice Licorice

Bill Qian reveals what's inside a complex Chinese confection.

  • Go to the profile of  Liz Grace
Liz Grace
22 Apr 2025 · 1 min read
Sailor Moon Shoots For The Stars Hartford

Sailor Moon Shoots For The Stars

And transports a reviewer back to childhood.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
22 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
"We" Wear The Pants Philadelphia

"We" Wear The Pants

A papier-mache alphabet goes jeans shopping for The Arts League's latest gallery show.

  • Go to the profile of  Clay Davies
Clay Davies
21 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
Small Ceramics with Big Feelings Oakland

Small Ceramics with Big Feelings

A room of small creatures unknown makes everyone feel a lot of feelings.

  • Go to the profile of  Sarah Bass
Sarah Bass
21 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
Down The Wonderland Lantern Rabbit Hole Detroit

Down The Wonderland Lantern Rabbit Hole

Alice and co. light up the night.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
21 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
A Deal With The Klan Devil All Over

A Deal With The Klan Devil

Unfolds in a juke joint, and — surprise! — gets complicated.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
21 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
Retro Soul In The Grooves ... New Haven

Retro Soul In The Grooves ...

... and sax on the brain.

  • Go to the profile of  Paul Bass
Paul Bass
21 Apr 2025 · 2 min read
50 Years After The Fall Of Saigon, An Art Exhibition Reflects Tulsa

50 Years After The Fall Of Saigon, An Art Exhibition Reflects

This isn’t a showy show; it asks you to slow down, to stand in the midst of a long history and listen for the ways it speaks in the present.

  • Go to the profile of  Alicia Chesser
Alicia Chesser
18 Apr 2025 · 5 min read
Dvořák, Strauss, And … One Other Guy Tulsa

Dvořák, Strauss, And … One Other Guy

Even the TSO’s spirited rendition of Hanson’s symphony didn’t get me on board. The melodies are unmemorable; the harmonies are lush but predictable; the rhythms are standard.

  • Go to the profile of  Yvonne Hazelton
Yvonne Hazelton
18 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
Don't You Wish You Could Go on a Jungle Cruise? Oakland

Don't You Wish You Could Go on a Jungle Cruise?

Legendary punk musicians Alice Bag and Kid Congo Powers are the duo Juanita & Juan: a “psychedelic lounge act on a Mexican beach.”

  • Go to the profile of  Agustín Maes
Agustín Maes
18 Apr 2025 · 4 min read
Java Spring Philadelphia

Java Spring

Coffee shop blues give way to seasonal revelation.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
17 Apr 2025 · 2 min read
Rhythm Lounge Nation Oakland

Rhythm Lounge Nation

Rhythm Lounge brings creatives together to socialize in a chill atmosphere.

  • Go to the profile of  Frederick Noland
Frederick Noland
17 Apr 2025 · 1 min read
Tangled Bedsheets New Haven

Tangled Bedsheets

It's a wrap at a juried show marking the Paint & Clay Club's 125th year.

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
17 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
Reviewing Myself In "Mud Follies" New Haven

Reviewing Myself In "Mud Follies"

" ​‘A Wounded Bird,’ didn’t put any audience members to sleep, though six people got up to go the bathroom.”

  • Go to the profile of  Lary Bloom
Lary Bloom
17 Apr 2025 · 4 min read
Pianist Jason Moran Stuns Detroit

Pianist Jason Moran Stuns

At 2025 Detroit Jazz Fest preview

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
17 Apr 2025 · 2 min read
Trip-Hop Monday Detroit

Trip-Hop Monday

Portishead's Beth Gibbons, flying solo, brings the Cathedral Theatre to life on a Monday night.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
17 Apr 2025 · 2 min read
Tina Fey & Amy Poehler Deliver Detroit

Tina Fey & Amy Poehler Deliver

Onstage, and on the Home Screen.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
17 Apr 2025 · 2 min read
Identity, Mapped and Mod Podged Oakland

Identity, Mapped and Mod Podged

Collage of people and places, with some paints and prints, come together for a personal solo show by Anthony R. Grant.

  • Go to the profile of  Sarah Bass
Sarah Bass
16 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
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