Oakland Art Everywhere: East Bay Opens Studios, Hallways East Bay Open Studios was here, with bright florals and toothy pets. Sarah Bass 10 Dec 2024 · 4 min read
Philadelphia Kiss Me Kate Plays It Straight A show within a show shows the permanent resonance of theater by inviting the audience behind the scenes. Leo David 9 Dec 2024 · 4 min read
Philadelphia Employee Of The Month Pulls Co-Workers Into Mosh Pit Death metal fans and Trader Joe's stafferscame out to worship Philly's favorite freak show, Fuck Tomb. Nora Grace-Flood 6 Dec 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland I’mma Take All Y’all Home: Oakland Ballet’s Luna Mexicana How many yards in a skirt? The Oakland Ballet delivered a feast for the senses, for the living and their dead. Rita Sapunor 6 Dec 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Shark Fin Soup For The Soul The temps are dropping and so is your health meter — fuel up with super-charged soups. Sarah Bass 6 Dec 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Gabriel Royal Had Me at “Cello” On his main instrument, Royal channels a fusion of Andrew Bird and John Legend: a cool, laid-back, even sensuous sensibility blended with a sense of presence and technicality. Z.B. Reeves 6 Dec 2024 · 2 min read
Philadelphia To Tar Beach and Back The skyline as seen from a Harlem rooftop is celebrated in Faith Ringgold's children's book-inspired quilt. Clay Davies 5 Dec 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa My Job Is Just Museum-Goer At the Vintage Barbie Museum Pop-Up, you too can reconnect with your childhood self—and with the many selves represented in the world of Barbie. Alicia Chesser 5 Dec 2024 · 5 min read
All Over Boxes Checked Off How the film "Conclave" seeks to stand on the right side of the Catholic Church’s sordid history. Jamil Ragland 5 Dec 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Comic Belief Pearlstein Gallery exhibit reveals how cartoonists evade the claws of art-world co-optation. Nora Grace-Flood 4 Dec 2024 · 5 min read
Oakland Rumors, Secrets, and Conspirations The Pope has died and it’s time for the convening of one of those rarest of events. This movie is a banger--smart, tension-filled, and full of surprises. Agustín Maes 3 Dec 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Something's Not Quite Right Yale Peabody Museum neuroscience-art exhibit plays with perception. Brian Slattery 3 Dec 2024 · 8 min read
Philadelphia Brass Knuckles and Kneecaps The West Philly Orchestra gets their crowd moving with a little help from the horn section. Izzy True 3 Dec 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland The Fog City Singers Tunefully Traverse the Labyrinth Fog City Singers, a forty-man tenor-bass “voltron of a chorus”, brought big charm and emotion to hallowed acoustic halls. Fred Noland 2 Dec 2024 · 1 min read
All Over Threats Have Consequences Disney makes true transformation possible in Moana 2. Jamil Ragland 2 Dec 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven With Final Solo Album, Ceschi Completes The Cycle After 16 years of albums, tours, collaborations and compilations, indie hip hop and folk pioneer is done. Brian Slattery 2 Dec 2024 · 7 min read
Philadelphia A Drunken Angel Eulogy Lucinda Williams' timeless talent comes to McCarter Theater. Izzy True 29 Nov 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Zoinked-Out, Man! Three genre-defying bands unleash an evening of clarifying anarchy at Johnny Brenda's Nora Grace-Flood 28 Nov 2024 · 3 min read