Hartford People Are The News The Stories Behind the Big Stories of 2023 Elmwood Community Center West Hartford Feb. 8, 2024 Until about two weeks ago, I didn’t consider myself a journalist. I’ve Jamil Ragland 9 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland You’ll Poke Your Eye Out Stop Men Studio Open House 337 13th St. Oakland Feb. 1, 2024 Looking for the Stop Men Studio, I doubled, or rather tripled, up on the right block and turned Sarah Bass 8 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA Remember World Peace? WORLD PEACE, SCALP, KIND EYES, and friends Bricks Rock Bar Maywood, Cal. Jan. 26, 2024 When I’m an old biddy in a rocking chair on a porch overlooking the David Diaz 8 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Nashville Sweet Megg and John Mailander’s Forecast at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge Sweet Megg and John Mailander’s Forecast Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge Nashville 1/28/24 “Enjoy the bar!” said the bouncer, as he stamped my hand on my way Libby Weitnauer 8 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Americana Keeps The Room Warm Cafe Nine on Wednesday night was the scene for delicate ballads, bright harmonies, and gritty rhythms as three bands — Pyramid Rose, Dallas Ugly, and the Split Coils — played sets with Brian Slattery 8 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Chicago Puerto Rican Identity & The Diaspora Entre horizontes: Art and Activism between Chicago and Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Through May 5 Entre horizontes: Art and Activism between Chicago and Puerto Rico at the Stacey Peters 7 Feb 2024 · 6 min read
Oakland The Trims Turn Up The Sound And Turn On The Bright Lights Mod80s Disco Presents The Trims Elbo Room Oakland Oakland Feb. 2, 2024 I have fond memories of late nights-into-early mornings spent dancing the night away at the Elbo Room in Robin Lapid 7 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Garbologists Fails To Kill Its Darlings The Garbologists TheaterWorks Hartford February 6th, 2024 WARNING: THIS REVIEW SPOILS THE BIG TWIST. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! The Garbologists is a two-person play that tells the story of Danny Jamil Ragland 7 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Trashy Treasures, Uncovered Garbage Art — One Person’s Trash Rock Paper Scissors Oakland Feb. 2, 2024 Is there treasure to be found in garbage? I sometimes walk around the streets in Oakland and Robin Lapid 7 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven New Open Mic Takes Off Performers and audience members arrived at Cantean on Whitney Avenue in Hamden en masse Tuesday evening before the posted start time of 6 p.m., quickly filling the space and Brian Slattery 7 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland It Was A Dark Aand Rainy Crawl Friday Night Crawl Downtown, various locations Oakland Feb. 2, 2024 I walked around the rain-slicked streets of Old Oakland on Friday night, wondering if the Night Crawl might have been Robin Lapid 6 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Leela James Rocks The Fox Leela James Fox Theater Oakland Jan. 26, 2024 Leela James, aka The Goddaughter of Soul, took the stage at the Fox Theater and, let me tell you, she didn’t Lisa Gray 6 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Gauntlet Thrown: TheKidTheBoy Takes On antiv3nom Gauntlet at the Market Parkville Market Hartford Feb. 3, 2024 I’ve alternated between being a teacher and tutor, off and on for the last 20 years. And many, many Jamil Ragland 6 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Chicago Chicago Brands Mix With Bands As Smashed Plastic Turns 5 Smashed Plastic Undisclosed venue Chicago Feb. 3, 2024 Smashed Plastic’s logo says it all: the Chicago-born vinyl pressing plant’s insignia features one of the ubiquitous red, six-point stars Allison HadleyDaniel Shoemaker 6 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven City Gallery Keeps It In The Family WIlliam Frucht’s photograph from Coney Island combines rigor and humor to make for an engrossing image. On the rigorous side, there’s the strict geometry of the workout equipment, Brian Slattery 6 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
LA When The Audience Comes Onstage THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS Near Los Globos Through April 14, 2024 I have asked immersive audiences many times what they felt just before an immersive experience begins. There are only Erik Blair 6 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Hartford Spiritualism And Slavery At The Stowe Center Spiritualism as Resistance: Spirits at Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Hartford Feb. 2, 2024 The central truth of American history is that every question you can ask has its answer Jamil Ragland 5 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Easy Like Sunday Morning, On Tuesday Night Karaoke Night Baba’s House Oakland Jan. 30, 2024 It was another not-so-secret party at Baba’s House, and everyone was welcome. I was back in downtown Oakland, on yet Robin Lapid 5 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
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