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Improvisers Teach How To Listen New Haven

Improvisers Teach How To Listen

It was 7:30 p.m. on Monday at Never Ending Books, and Bob Gorry of the New Haven Improvisers Collective had a few instructions for the musicians gathered in

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Brian Slattery
30 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
How The West Was Wrung Oakland

How The West Was Wrung

Alta Journal Issue 26 Party Clio’s Bookstore and Bar Oakland Jan. 24, 2024 In the bowels of what feels like the coziest Manhattan bookstore not in Manhattan, I thumbed

  • Go to the profile of  Robin Lapid
Robin Lapid
29 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Drone Not Drones: 28-Hour Music Happening vs. Military-Industrial Complex Minneapolis

Drone Not Drones: 28-Hour Music Happening vs. Military-Industrial Complex

Drone Not Drones Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis 1/26 – 1/27, 2024 By 6 a.m. on Jan. 27 at the Cedar Cultural Center, Drone Not Drones had been going

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Alexis Zanghi
29 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Heaven Can’t Wait, For Luke Herbermann NYC

Heaven Can’t Wait, For Luke Herbermann

Luke Herbermann Heaven Can Wait East Village, NYC 1/26/24 Just kitty-corner to Tompkins Square Park is a music venue that never once in my four, five, six, or

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K Hank Jost
29 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven

Mixed Company Digs Deep At Jazzy’s

The music and meal were part of the package at Jazzy’s on Orange Street, as the restaurant served up signature platters while the Hartford-based band served up one smoking

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Brian Slattery
29 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Pound Cake, Sound Takes: How Brown’s Diner Defies Nashville’s Sterilization Nashville

Pound Cake, Sound Takes: How Brown’s Diner Defies Nashville’s Sterilization

Ziona Riley, Neil O’Neil, Dylan Whitlow Brown’s Diner Nashville 1/25/24 With a strip of computer paper taped on the shelves behind the bar that reads “booking

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Libby Weitnauer
28 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
I Run This Spelling Bee Like Cardio Oakland

I Run This Spelling Bee Like Cardio

Cardi Spelling Bee Baba’s House Oakland Jan. 24, 2024 After all these years, I still recall it like it was yesterday: Dan Mini Elementary School. Fourth grade. I’m

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Robin Lapid
28 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
NYC

Drum + Drum + 6 = 1

Jake Richter’s Double Drum Octet Barbès Brooklyn 1/25/24 What would possess a drummer so lighting-limbed as Jake Richter to enlist the aid of second percussionist? I wondered

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K Hank Jost
28 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Opening Act Steals The Show Tulsa

Opening Act Steals The Show

Bandelier and David Hernandez Thelma’s Peach Tulsa Jan. 20, 2024 What could have been Bandelier’s triumphant re-entry into 2024 show life was, both by accident and by fault,

  • Go to the profile of  Z.B. Reeves
Z.B. Reeves
28 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
Grandmas Gone Wild LA

Grandmas Gone Wild

YOSHIE SAKAI: GRANDMA ENTERTAINMENT FRANCHISE Vincent Price Art Museum Monterey Park, Cal. Through Feb. 3, 2024 Like the siren song of a real nightclub, a karaoke version of “Fergalicious” lures

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Rebecca Giordano
28 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
Happy Hour At The Flying Monkey: BBQ Chicken Bombs The Asian Pear Martini Hartford

Happy Hour At The Flying Monkey: BBQ Chicken Bombs The Asian Pear Martini

The Flying Monkey Newington, Conn. January 24, 2024 Welcome back to my search for the perfect Happy Hour in the Greater Hartford area! This time I found myself on the

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Jamil Ragland
26 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Graffiti Art On The Fly — And Everyone’s Welcome Oakland

Graffiti Art On The Fly — And Everyone’s Welcome

Jazman’s zine sale Pigment Art Supply 304 15th St. Oakland Jan. 20, 2024 I wasn’t aware of how big the graffiti scene is in the Bay Area until

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Robin Lapid
26 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Rock ​‘n Roll’s Not Dead New Haven

Rock ​‘n Roll’s Not Dead

A Thursday night of churning rhythms, big guitars, barked lyrics, and dancing feet at Cafe Nine made the case that New Haven’s rock ‘n’ roll scene is alive and

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Brian Slattery
26 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Rosemary Mayer, Reconsidered LA

Rosemary Mayer, Reconsidered

Rosemary Mayer (1943 – 2014) was a New York artist well known in the 1970s for her drawings, large-scale fabric sculptures, and site-specific installations. By the end of her life, her

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Gillian Sneed
26 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
Dark (And Long) Was The Night Oakland

Dark (And Long) Was The Night

“They Made Me A Fugitive” and “Aimless Bullet” Noir City 21 Grand Lake Theater Oakland Jan. 23, 2024 Who knew watching films was exhausting? If you’ve ever been to

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Sarah Bass
25 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Grab A Kazoo On Your Way Into Knipple’s Moody Barnyard Tulsa

Grab A Kazoo On Your Way Into Knipple’s Moody Barnyard

Knipple’s Variety of Games Show Thelma’s Peach Tulsa Jan. 16, 2024 Your next free Tuesday night begs to be taken up by the Knipple residency at Thelma’s

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Z.B. Reeves
25 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
Ghosts & The Sisters Gibb Oakland

Ghosts & The Sisters Gibb

The Science Behind Science Fiction with the Gibbs Sisters Chapter 510 Oakland Jan. 20, 2024 It’s a rainy Saturday afternoon, and Shawnee Gibbs is telling me a real-life ghost

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Robin Lapid
25 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Fire Master NYC

Fire Master

Quest for Fire Woodbine Queens, N.Y. Jan. 24, 2024 The other night I was arguing with a clown. We’d gotten into the heated weeds on a subject neither

  • Go to the profile of  K Hank Jost
K Hank Jost
25 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
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