NYC Brass Busts Into Hidden DIY Spot Fly By Brass Band Rubulad Brooklyn Feb. 4, 2024 In my years in NYC I’ve spent many a Saturday night in Bushwick’s Rubulad — address to remain undisclosed. It’ K Hank Jost 5 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Checkmate, Black History Month How does a young girl from Uganda go from beginning chess player to champion? Disney’s Queen of Katwedocuments the journey from one to the other as well as the Karen Ponzio 5 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Roll Over, Steinway Paolo Fazioli Talk on Fazioli Pianos Piedmont Piano Company Oakland Jan. 30, 2024 I was among a few dozen guests milling about Piedmont Piano Company when a bottle of Prosecco Robin Lapid 4 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa Dreams Meet Drums As Tulsa Hip-Hop Legends Come Full Circle The Oilhouse Drummer Show Soundpony Tulsa Jan. 27, 2024 Hip-hop has always been a young person’s sport. Unlike in other genres, the pioneers don’t often get the same Ryan Anderson 4 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA Kate Means It KATE Pasadena Playhouse Pasadena, Cal. Through Feb. 11, 2024 Kate is for everyone. Comedian Kate Berlant’s one-woman show is a rousing send-up of contemporary theater that has united industry Rebecca Giordano 4 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
NYC The Beautiful Darkness Of Dario Argento Dario Argento’s Inferno (1980) IFC Center Part of the Panic Attacks: The Films of Dario Argento series IFC Center West Village, NYC Feb. 2, 2024 Among the great Italian K Hank Jost 4 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Happy Hour Becomes Happy Birthday Beacon Cafe Hartford Jan. 30, 2024 How good does a happy hour have to be for someone to fly a thousand miles just to experience it again? I found that Jamil Ragland 2 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Troy/Albany Taína Asili Finds The Beat In Climate Crisis Fever Pitch The Linda, WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio Albany, N.Y. Jan. 27, 2024 The most striking feature of Taína Asili’s evolving multimedia concert/performance piece Fever Pitch, RS Benedict 2 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Hartford Black Inventors Tour Reflects Need For Black History Month, After All The start of Black History Month always elicits competing feelings for me. On the one hand, I enjoy learning in general, and specifically about my people and what they’ve Jamil Ragland 2 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Abandon All Bummers, Ye Who Karaoke Here Karaoke Mondays Whittier Bar Tulsa Jan. 29, 2024 The Whittier Bar’s front door is emblazoned with an all-caps warning: NO BUMMERS. It’s a good reminder for a Monday, Becky Carman 1 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
NYC I Couldn’t Hear The Poets Amid The Unironic Fascism-fetishists At The Sports Bar The Writer’s Circle at Offside NYC East Village Manhattan Jan. 31, 2024 Something’s happening in NYC right now. Whether it’s a blending of scenes that previously had K Hank Jost 1 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA Comic Convo: Hello, RX-24 PASADENA COMIC CON Pasadena Convention Center Pasadena Jan. 28, 2024 Comic cons are like chain restaurants: everywhere the same. Whether held in sleepy suburbs or busy cities, comic cons share Brittany Menjivar 1 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven 3 New (Haven) Albums “Unity in the Community” begins with a classic hymn-like statement from Warren Byrd’s piano, carried aloft by a chorus of voices, bubbling bass and percussion, and horns passing a Brian Slattery 1 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
LA Couldn’t We Pretend It Was 2008 For Just 1 Night? CRIME WAVE: AN INDIE SLEAZE PARTY Los Angeles Jan. 25, 2024 The indie sleaze event was advertised as a comedy show/birthday party; it took place in a secluded warehouse Madeline Connors 31 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Raleigh/ Durham/ Chapel Hill Wisdom Captured At African American Cultural Celebration 23rd Annual African American Cultural Celebration North Carolina Museum of Natural History Raleigh, N.C. Jan. 27, 2024 Excitement filled the air at the North Carolina Museum of Natural History Synclaire Cruel 31 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Grandmas Duke It Out In The Ring Winner Winner TV Dinner Sensational 7 Wrestling 7th West Oakland CA Jan. 27, 2024 The smell of burning gasoline filled my nostrils, begging for fresh air. “That’s not OSHA Sarah Bass 30 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Chinatown Diner Cracks The Pancake-Syrup Code Golden Diner 123 Madison St. New York, N.Y. I am not immune to brunch propaganda. As I come up on almost a year in NYC, all my algorithms seem Adam Wassilchalk 30 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Rattos-touille Ratto’s Deli 821 Washington St. Oakland Surrounded by other locally owned shops and restaurants, Ratto’s charm lies in the understated, no-frills-but-all-quality take on the Italian-American deli. A fourth-generation Sarah Bass 30 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
