Oakland Lunar Parading Between Prosperity and Privation 2024 Lunar New Year Parade Chinatown near Wilma Chan Park Oakland Feb. 18, 2024 I was unsure the weather would cooperate for this year’s Lunar New Year’s Parade Robin Lapid 23 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven New Haven Theater Company Cries It Out New Haven Theater Company’s production of Cry It Out, by Molly Smith Metzler, is a finely tuned performance of a play about early motherhood that starts light and ends Brian Slattery 23 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford Running With The Wolf Pack Hartford Wolf Pack vs. Bridgeport Islanders XL Center Hartford Feb. 21, 2024 My last hockey game was back in the 1990s. Obsessed with the movie The Mighty Ducks 2, I Jamil Ragland 22 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
NW Arkansas El Dorado Film Fest Shows Triumphs, Struggles Of Indie Movie Makers El Dorado Film Festival South Arkansas Arts Center El Dorado, Arkansas Feb. 8 – 11, 2024 Independent filmmakers converged on the El Dorado Film Festival in Arkansas to show their work Mickey Mercier 22 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Ailey II Rocks Tulsa’s Soul Ailey II Tulsa Performing Arts Center Feb. 13, 2024 “I go every December in New York; I’ve probably seen Revelations 25 times,” said the woman behind me in the Alicia Chesser 22 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Two Dogs On A Date Soul Sunday Session Zanzi Oakland Feb. 18, 2024 Two dogs on a date walk into a bar… That’s not the beginning of a joke. It’s what happened at Robin Lapid 22 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
NYC All Blister, No Bluster Ingrid Laubrock’s Lilith The Jazz Gallery Flatiron, Manhattan Feb. 21, 2024 Ears on a swivel and eyes wide, we all hold our breath for the moment pianist Yvonne Rogers’ K Hank Jost 22 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Artists Walk The Path The view of a mountain in Sichuan, China is breathtaking, though not for the usual reasons. Photographer Roy Money doesn’t train his camera on the usual kind of tourist Brian Slattery 22 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland The Library of Broken Hearts Broken Hearts Party and Shrine Launch Oakland Public Library Oakland, CA Feb. 13, 2024 At The Alcove cafe on the east side of Los Angeles, there was a secret desk Robin Lapid 22 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Art Imitates … Books Books as Art, and Art of Books. At Book/Shop. Sarah Bass 22 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
NYC Crew Loads-in The House Before Bringing It Down Arts Workers Are Artists Too Performance Space New York Feb. 8, 2024 Assemble the stage. Hang the soft goods. Focus the lights. Focus the projector. Coffee break. Usually, when I Adam Wassilchalk 21 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven Ross Gay Incites Joy Ross Gay practiced what he preaches last night at Possible Futures, as the poet, essayist, and teacher offered a grateful crowd a selection of his work encompassing joy and tenderness Karen Ponzio 21 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Doing the Mardi Gras Mambo on the Shores of Lake Merritt Fat Tuesday Celebration Lake Chalet Seafood Bar & Grill Oakland, CA Feb. 13, 2024 I was sitting on the outdoor patio on Tuesday night, admiring the nighttime views of Lake Robin Lapid 21 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford A Garlic Aioli Revelation Sorella Hartford Feb. 19, 2024 Despite its central location in Downtown Hartford, I’d never been to Sorella before. I chose a great evening to visit, as the noontime rush Jamil Ragland 20 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven A View, From The Harbor Long Wharf Theatre’s current offering of A View from the Bridge takes audiences to the Canal Dock Boathouse on Long Wharf Drive, to let its sweeping view of the Donald Brown 20 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland “Hella’ Funny Comedians Walk Into A Speakeasy Hella Funny Comedy Collective Fluid510 Oakland Feb. 16, 2024 A jubilant man half-riding a bicycle called to me, “Why did the scarecrow outspend his Christmas bonus?” After I replied with Breezy Bratton 20 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Bits, Bobs, and Big Ben Pederson Grotto: Shrine Soloway Gallery Williamsburg, NYC Through March 25, 2024 I’ve written before that art in this city finds incredible ways to survive. Whether it’s noise shows in K Hank Jost 20 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Troy/Albany Albany Civic Theater Counts The Minutes The Minutes Albany Civic Theater Albany, N.Y. 2/15/24 While attending a production of Tracy Letts’ The Minutes in New York City, capital region theater director Brian Sheldon RS Benedict 19 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
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