Tulsa Theatre North Has A Win With “Topdog” Theatre North “Topdog/Underdog“ Tulsa Performing Arts Center Feb. 25, 2024 There’s no winning in the game explored in Topdog/Underdog, Suzan-Lori Parks’ 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which Theatre Alicia Chesser 29 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford I Breakfast, Therefore I Am … Not Hungry? Blue Plate Kitchen West Hartford Febr. 28, 2024 What is a breakfast food? Simple enough question, but there are as many different answers as there are people to ask. Is Jamil Ragland 29 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Chattanooga Con Nooga Has Fun With Coexistence Con Nooga Chattanooga Convention Center 2/24/24 I didn’t expect to meet an exorcist at Con Nooga. But there she was: Jeni Tanner, in a homemade priest’s Drew Bunting 28 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Chicago The Vitality Of The Abstract Rebecca Morris: 2001 – 2022 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois Through April 7, 2024 It feels strange to consider that coming out of the 1990s, painting was the pariah of Allison HadleyDaniel Shoemaker 28 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Secret Concert Reveal: Sofar Spirit So Good SoFar Sounds Black History Month Show Ramsess Art Garden 2511 Broadway Feb. 24, 2024 As February’s Snow Moon lit up the sky, I drifted my way downtown towards the Breezy Bratton 28 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland One Ramen Bowl To Rule Them All Marufuku Ramen 4828 Telegraph Ave. Oakland Ramen — the real deal, not the packaged bricks — was an adult discovery for me. Turned off by meaty or overly sweet and uncomplicated broths Sarah Bass 28 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Lost Tribe Performs, Screens Diaspora Stories The Hartford-based Afro-funk fusion ensemble The Lost Tribe returned to Best Video on to screen the completed three-part series Diaspora Stories: Hartford a year and a half after sharing a Karen Ponzio 27 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Salt Lake City Plan‑B Brings Shakespearean Gender Fluidity To The Stage Balthazar Plan‑B Theatre at the Studio Theatre in the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Salt Lake City Feb. 22, 2024 I couldn’t have gotten a better first taste Jose Davila IV 27 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Nashville Regi Wooten & Friends at Rudy’s Jazz Room Regi Wooten & Friends Rudy’s Jazz Room Nashville Feb. 21, 2024 Much to my surprise, the hostess clicked around on her computer trying to see if she could fit Libby Weitnauer 27 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Black Joy Beams and Blooms: Scenes From A Parade 7th Annual Black Joy Parade Oakland Feb. 25, 2024 Sarah Bass 27 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Joan Jett Blakk Spills The Tea At Queer BIPOC Short-Film Fest Black Queer History Spotlight: Shorts Grand Lake Theatre 3200 Grand Lake Ave. Oakland Feb. 22, 2024 It’s not always easy to find events falling at the intersection of Black Breezy Bratton 26 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Tulsa, Oakland Metal Bands Rip & Tear In Unlikely Space Necrot / Ectospire / Dust Lord Whittier Bar Tulsa Feb. 11, 2024 Oklahoma has long harbored a love for the Heavy Arts. Black Sabbath played their second to last show here in Mitch Gilliam 25 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
NYC The Tarkovsky Test: Hang In For The Long Shots Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia Film Forum West Village, NYC Feb. 23, 2024 The average shot length in contemporary, big-budget films — both your Marvel slogs and flacccid A24 pseudo-arthouse meanderings — is, K Hank Jost 25 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa The Lovingly Assembled Mortadella Sandwich Of Your Dreams Prism Cafe 217 W. Latimer St. Tulsa There are few better places in Tulsa to feel the tug-of-war between preservation and progress than the Heights district, just north of downtown. Becky Carman 25 Feb 2024 · 5 min read
Oakland Black Joy On The Block Fourth Annual “Love the People” Block Party Black Panther Mini Museum Oakland Feb. 18, 2024 I’m always on the lookout for pockets of joy, specifically in the form of Robin Lapid 23 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA Shakespeare In The Mental Institution MATTHEW BOURNE’S ROMEO AND JULIET Ahmanson Theater Los Angeles Feb. 4, 2024 The Ahmanson Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, twinkling with warm light and towering like a 20th-century castle, Brook Metayer 23 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland At Hi-Fi Listening Bar, All Other Sound Stops Silent Sunday Bar Shiru Oakland Feb. 18, 2024 “Just a reminder… once the needle drops, the talking stops.” You might not expect a bar that calls itself “the Bay Area’ Robin Lapid 23 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Anchorage Salsa In The Snow Alaska Salsa Festival Anchorage, Alaska Feb. 9 – 11, 2024 The presence of a Latin dance festival in Anchorage, Alaska, might come as a surprise to many, but this year’s Jacqi Jones 23 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
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