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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

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K Hank Jost
25 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
Toru Sugita Transmits Oakland

Toru Sugita Transmits

Toru Sugita Transmission Gallery Oakland Jan. 20, 2024 Is there a moment when a memory of a place changes color in the mind’s eye? When I conjure images of

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Robin Lapid
25 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Owed To A Poet Laureate New Haven

Owed To A Poet Laureate

New Year’s/Inauguration Day Twenty Twenty-Four Boring speeches Left us snoring Like captives wilting In the auditorium For an hour. Plus an hour Then Influence stepped up And spit

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Paul Bass
25 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Loose Threads Untangled Oakland

Loose Threads Untangled

Anne Garvey Keep It Together: Reception Manna Gallery Oakland Jan. 20, 2024 If you were to have driven past this particular block on 25th Street, just off Telegraph, on this

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Robin Lapid
25 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
Theater ​“Cleansed” New Haven

Theater ​“Cleansed”

The plays of British playwright Sarah Kane (1971 – 99) are notoriously difficult — for staging, and for what they put an audience through. The warning distributed by the David Geffen School

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Donald Brown
25 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Steve Daly Slides In At The Underdog Nashville

Steve Daly Slides In At The Underdog

Steve Daly and The Cumberland Sliders The Underdog Nashville 1/23/24 “I wish I woulda quit this shit a long time ago/ but now I’m standing in a

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Libby Weitnauer
24 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
American Fiction Pulls A Switcheroo Hartford

American Fiction Pulls A Switcheroo

American Fiction (2023) Cinemark Buckland Hills 18 XD and IMAX Manchester, Conn. Jan. 23, 2024 Warning: This review contains spoilers. As soon as I saw the trailer for American Fiction,

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Jamil Ragland
24 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Smash Hit Tulsa

Smash Hit

Tina’s 1732 S. Boston Ave. Tulsa Before I went to Tina’s for the first time, I’d heard fervent praise from multiple people about its good vibes and

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Becky Carman
24 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Barbells, Betty Boop As Bodybuilder: Girl Power On Tour LA

Barbells, Betty Boop As Bodybuilder: Girl Power On Tour

Hit Bargain, Gianna Gianna, Sarah Register Zebulon Los Angeles Jan. 20, 2024 For all the ink spilled over which of the two largest cities in the United States reigns supreme,

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Jamie Peck
24 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Say Jambalaya Cheese(cake)! Hartford

Say Jambalaya Cheese(cake)!

The Cheesecake Factory West Hartford Jan. 22, 2024 I recently came across a TikTok video that went viral late last year. In it, a woman refused to leave the car

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Jamil Ragland
24 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Blue Velvet Suitcase New Haven

Blue Velvet Suitcase

Blue Velvet Suitcase is simple: a wooden chair, a small suitcase, a shirt from a uniform, neatly folded. It’s unassuming enough that it almost — almost — invites the viewer to

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Brian Slattery
24 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
A Jazz Quartet Walks Into A Brewery Oakland

A Jazz Quartet Walks Into A Brewery

Jazz Fridays Original Pattern Brewing 292 4th St. Oakland Jan. 19, 2024 Each Friday evening from 7 to 10 the tasting room at Oakland’s Original Pattern Brewing gets livened

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Sarah Bass
23 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Three Bands Keep The Fun In The Weird New Haven

Three Bands Keep The Fun In The Weird

Sounds like nature. Sounds like video games. Choirs of unearthly voices and raspy tones from a saxophone. And people listening hard to build sounds together. All of this awaited the

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Brian Slattery
23 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Teens & Covid Reality Raleigh/ Durham/ Chapel Hill

Teens & Covid Reality

Museum of Durham History Stranger Times Durham, N.C. Through Spring 2024 At the beginning of the Stranger Times exhibit, panels are situated in a circle, citing the Emmy-winning Netflix

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Synclaire Cruel
23 Jan 2024 · 5 min read
Mike Epps Is Short But Sweet Hartford

Mike Epps Is Short But Sweet

Mike Epps Foxwoods Resort and Casino Ledyard, Conn. Jan. 20, 2024 Kat Williams set the Black comedy world ablaze a few weeks ago during his interview with Shannon Sharpe, when

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Jamil Ragland
22 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
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