Oakland Pooches on Parade: Dogfest Brings the Party Who doesn't love a dog in a tutu? Or a cape? Or just a basic bitch bandana? All that and more were on parade at Dogfest, a Halloween-themed pet event in Oakland's Jack London Square. Frederick Noland 30 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland The Pleasure of Pure Form “Layers,” is the superbly curated new show on view at Slate Contemporary Gallery. The group exhibit allows the pieces to play off one another other in a silent symphony of pure form that enraptured me like a charmed serpent. Agustín Maes 29 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
Philadelphia Like It Or Not, Wing Bowl Wows The only thing more spectacular than Wing Bowl itself might be the Wing Bowl movie. Nora Grace-Flood 29 Oct 2024 · 5 min read
Philadelphia Rolling through Unseeing Eyes I feel uneasy, and so does the boy in the photograph. He looks sick, on the edge of consciousness. He lays out on a chaise lounge, his face blank, while his twin brother holds onto his hand with an intensity I am familiar with when I am slipping unconscious. Clay Davies 28 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland The Strike: The Fight for Freedom Behind Bars The Strike, a documentary by Berkeley grad filmmakers Joebill Muñoz and Lucas Guilkey, screened to a sold-out and enthusiastic audience at The Grand Lake Theatre on October 23rd. Frederick Noland 28 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
LA Cookbook for the Recently Deceased Brittany Menjivar departs Tinseltown for Halloween Town and gets her Edward Burger Hands dirty. Brittany Menjivar 27 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Blinded by the Frights Aspiring It-ghoul Brittany Menjivar gets stabbed by the Grabber and barbed by Chucky at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights. Brittany Menjivar 27 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Kate Bollinger Induces Retro Vertigo I feel a kind of vertigo. Is this kind of recursion something humans have always done, or is it something we do because we can watch films and hear music from these eras? The past is more alive than it used to be? Izzy True 26 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa The Soothing Sounds Of Gonkulation Ten bucks got me a whole night of creative laboratory action, a few new pals, and—as usual—a fresh appreciation for the mischievous, investigative, risk-taking chops of the friendly artists who gather around the One Aux cable. Alicia Chesser 25 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa The Founder of Sand Springs Might Have Been a Real Weirdo (Or Worse) Russell Cobb’s newest history, Ghosts of Crook County, traces the life—and the alleged fraud—of Charles Page, that scion of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, whose name graces a statue and street signs along the Arkansas River. Z.B. Reeves 25 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Dang Clarinet! The Austin-based Miró Quartet, along with clarinetist David Shifrin, delivered a show that was by turns technically thrilling, culturally edifying, emotionally satisfying, and—wouldn’t you know it—swinging. Z.B. Reeves 24 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Drunk on Film(s) Drunken Film Fest Oakland strikes again. Shorts from near and far served up with your favorite brews. Sarah Bass 23 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
From One Man, Multitudes American Renaissance art gets its due, at Yale University Art Gallery Brian Slattery 23 Oct 2024 · 5 min read
Oakland Black Cowboys: Sparking the Imagination and Correcting the Historical Record How many Black movie cowboys can you remember? Danny Glover in Silverado, Morgan Freeman in Unforgiven, and, of course, Cleavon LIttle in Blazing Saddles. Arguably the best. If I asked the same of White cowboys, we would be here all day. Frederick Noland 23 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Foot Tappers Touch The 1920s Four-piece Gypsy swing band The West Philly Foot Tappers brought 1930s Prohibition-era sounds across state lines to Delaware speakeasy “Hummingbird to Mars” on Thursday. Emily Cohen 22 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Hit The Bowl, Mac Liz Grace picks up the recipe for plant-based mac & cheese from a vegan-trending Soul Greenery. Liz Grace 22 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland A Gory Substance We say body horror, I believe, because we have no better words. The production’s heavy use of intricate prosthetics exaggerate the horror that is a human form, with silicone rearing its ugly head in an unexpected ways for Hollywood. Sarah Bass 22 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Blues and Culture in a West Oakland Lot Remember — Dance is good for your mind, body, spirit, and mental health. Frederick Noland 22 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
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