New Haven Poetry Slam Keeps MLK Vision Alive Memories of the Children’s Crusade. A vision of alien visitations in the future. Invocations of superheroes. Fist-raising calls for change. These were all part of the 28th annual Z Brian Slattery 16 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Raleigh/ Durham/ Chapel Hill How Women Made STEM Flourish Beyond Curie: A Celebration of Women in Science North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences 11 W. Jones St. Raleigh, N.C. Beyond Curie: A Celebration of Women in Science is Synclaire Cruel 16 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Monumental Dreamspace Monument Valley Living Arts of Tulsa Through Jan. 20 As a solo viewer walking into Living Arts on a quiet weekday afternoon, I had a very different experience of Monument Alicia Chesser 16 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven A New “Star” Rises Guitar strings plucked with grace and care, voices keening in the air, and one of the most attentive audiences seen anywhere in months made for an intense and intimate evening Brian Slattery 16 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
LA L.A.’s Uncool School THE ADVANCE OF THE REAR GUARD: CEEJE GALLERY IN THE 1960S ArtCenter College of Design Through March 9, 2024 Los Angeles’s art history is seemingly as infinite as the Damon Willick 15 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
NYC As Told On The (Baldwin) Mountain James Baldwin Centennial Programing Film Forum Manhattan, NYC Through Jan. 25,2024 A hundred years of James Baldwin and, if we’re lucky, a hundred years more. I went to K Hank Jost 15 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland A Grand Brunch Grand Lake Kitchen 576 Grand Ave. Oakland Take an all-day diner and deli, but make it hip, in an Oakland kinda way: Grand Lake neighborhood’s Grand Lake Kitchen, a Sarah Bass 15 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
LA Currant Jam, Customland, and the “Vagina Dream Cave” CURRANT JAM LAUNCH PARTY Frogtown Creative Los Angeles Jan. 6, 2024 On a crisp January evening, the sleepy backstreet that houses Frogtown Creative was abuzz. New and familiar faces in A.J. Brown 15 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
NYC As Indie (Lit) As It Get Lit reading KGB (bar) 85 E. 4th St. New York City Jan. 11, 2024 I know, I know: Another review about KGB bar. I can’t help that they’re K Hank Jost 14 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Sliding Into Happy Hour The Main Pub Manchester Jan. 9, 2024 Until a few years ago, I didn’t like to eat. It was a chore on the same level as sleeping: While it Jamil Ragland 14 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland David Bowie Falls Back To Earth Nicholas Roeg’s “The Man Who Fell to Earth” The New Parkway Theater Oakland Jan. 7, 2024 I’m ensconced on a couch with a bowl of popcorn and a Robin Lapid 12 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Dr. Brains(ane) Will See You Now Joseph Kowalczyk Fm Gallery 483 25th St. Oakland On a small pedestal at waist are a clutter of ceramic sculptures, none more than 10 or 12 inches high. They are Sarah Bass 12 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven Artists Look At Beginning Again Hank Paper may have given his photograph the perfect title. Another Brand New Day is on one level just a normal street scene in Italy, but its vivid colors and Brian Slattery 12 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Making Voices Visible Invisible Voices Positive Space Tulsa Tulsa Through Jan. 27 Not many things around here move me as much as a packed house at an art show opening. When the community Alicia Chesser 11 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Finding My Story On Gallery Walls First Sundays Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak St. Oakland The Oakland Museum of California is not that crowded around noon on this Sunday. But there are a lot of Robin Lapid 11 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
LA Ukraine, In The Rearview IN THE REARVIEW Los Feliz Theater Los Angeles Jan. 7, 2024 On a windy Sunday at the Los Feliz Theater, Maciek Hamela pops out from behind the curtain before the Emma dePaulo Reid 11 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven At City Gallery, “Blue Does Not Mean Sky” Judy Atlas’s Blue Flux can evoke dozens of things if you let it: a cityscape in the rain, a snow field, the inside of an ice crystal, with just Brian Slattery 11 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland A Full Pour (Of Art) First Pour by Lola SLATE Contemporary Gallery 473 25th St. Oakland, Calif. Eye-popping colors of tinted, layered resins in organic shapes ooze an unreal light. Some soothe, watery; others evoke Sarah Bass 10 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
