LA Down(town) in the Underground LABYRINTH MASQUERADE Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles Aug. 16 – 17, 2024 Last Thursday night, I posted an urgent inquiry to my Insta story: “Where can I buy a masquerade mask? Brittany Menjivar 28 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Artists Paint An Ailing Planet In Vivid Color They’re eyes, but they’re taking in a universe of shifting shapes and colors. The piercing structures of the irises only accentuate how the rest of the eyes are Brian Slattery 28 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland A Sophisticated Forest I certainly didn’t expect Ross-esque paintings, and the works on exhibit are definitely not “happy little trees.”…This is a decidedly more sophisticated forest than those broadcast on PBS years ago. Agustín Maes 27 Aug 2024 · 4 min read
LA At Koreatown’s LA Chess Club Singles Arena, Players With No Game LA CHESS CLUB Apt 503 Lounge Los Angeles Aug. 22, 2024 My mother thinks I’m a chess prodigy. I don’t have the heart to correct her. Like most Madeline Connors 27 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
LA Friday Night Is For The Good Boys FOURTH FRIDAYS: DOG DAYS OF SUMMER Retro Row Long Beach Aug. 23, 2024 For small-business patrons, Long Beach’s 4th Street Corridor (a.k.a. Retro Row) has become the A.J. Urquidi 27 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford The Feat Of The Feet Rapid Fire 4 Speed Double Dutch Competition and Health Fair Dunkin’ Donuts Park Hartford Aug. 25, 2024 What do you get when you combine one of the most entertaining sports Jamil Ragland 27 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Three Albums Welcome The Young Guard Short chords from electric piano and synthesizer set the mood, contemplative but with a pulse. “Estoy aquí / ya estuve allá / ya fui feliz / y acaba mal,” Ene de Nadie croons Brian Slattery 27 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
LA Mortal Coil Shuffle LABYRINTH WALK Christ the King Lutheran Church Torrance August 15, 2024 During a recent downward spiral, I drove south to Torrance for a labyrinth walk at Christ the King Lutheran Tosten Burks 26 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa Misery Wrapped In A Pink Bow Charlotte Bumgarner: “Promise” EP Release Show LowDown Tulsa Aug. 16, 2024 For a singer-songwriter whose songs feature on a Spotify playlist named “broken love songs to feed your misery,” Charlotte Z.B. Reeves 25 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland A Breathtaking Sax Summit The café tables and booths at Geoffrey’s filled quickly at the 6 p.m. start time on a recent Sunday for what was billed as The Great Saxophone Summit, hosted by Faye, with Joe sharing house… Jeff Kaliss 25 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
Hartford Snack Time Ripe-ns With A Dance Party Ripe Hartford Live Old State House Aug. 22, 2024 I arrived seven minutes late to the area between the Old State House and the food court to see the band Jamil Ragland 25 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Bahn Mi Brings It, Sans Sriracha Just a few short blocks from Lake Merritt, this low profile all-day cafe makes good on its name...[with] sandwiches and salads, wraps, rice bowls, breakfast bites, a handful of pastries, and smoothies and juices a plenty, the small kitchen has something for many palates. Sarah Bass 25 Aug 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Tulsa’s Vibrant, Homegrown “Fiddler” Has It All TPAC Produces: Fiddler On The Roof Tulsa Performing Arts Center Tulsa August 18, 2024 “I didn’t know Tulsa theatre could do that.” It’s a sentence I regularly hope Alicia Chesser 25 Aug 2024 · 6 min read
New Haven Black & Brown Artists Abstract Origins Howard el-Yasin’s My Mother’s Hose hangs at one end of Orchid Gallery in The Lab at ConnCORP, redolent with associations without landing definitively on a single one. From Brian Slattery 25 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artist Makes The Mythology Ralph Levesque’s Match Maker, at first glance, looks like religious art, from the halo encircling one of the figures to the positions of the figures in relation to each Brian Slattery 25 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Photography Show Sees Through Younger Eyes Bethany Edwards’s The Eye of the Beholder is both formal and relaxed. It’s formal in the staged positioning of the two subjects, the way that (it appears) they Brian Slattery 25 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
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