LA A Podcast Far Gone: Why Are We Pretending This Is Good? HOW LONG GONE El Rey Theater Los Angeles Nov. 11, 2023. Occasionally, there are men who are so untalented, so uninteresting, and so entitled that they insist on starting a Madeline Connors 16 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford The Trombone Sings at Black Eyed Sally’s Dr. Emmett Goods Black Eyed Sally’s Hartford Nov. 15, 2023 The trombone is not the first instrument I associate with jazz music. I’d seen trombones as part of Jamil Ragland 16 Nov 2023 · 2 min read
Tulsa “Nobody Smokes Anymore” And Other Observations From Robert Ellis’s Visit To The Mercury Lounge Robert Ellis Mercury Lounge Tulsa Nov. 10, 2023 Live, songwriter and instrumentalist Robert Ellis zigs and zags between silly and poignant, gentle and effusive, bantering with the laugh of a Becky Carman 16 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven “Magical Thinking” Is The Real Deal In New Production Of Joan Didion’s Meditation On Profound Loss “This happened on Dec.r 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you. And it will happen to you. The details Brian Slattery 16 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
NYC Jazz Spacesters Bring Light To Dive Bar Tim Dahl, Matt Nelson, Alexis Marcelo, and Richard Edson Mama Tried 787 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NYC Nov. 15, 2023 Save for Chicago, New York City seems to me to be K Hank Jost 16 Nov 2023 · 2 min read
NYC Public-Housing Art Creates Bridges To Somewhere, And A Right To Dream Public art displays Carver Houses, Madison Avenue and East 100th Street Saint Nicholas Houses, 230 West 131st St. Elliott Houses, 420 West 26th St. On view year-round, until Elliott-Chelsea Houses Betsy Kim 15 Nov 2023 · 6 min read
Oakland Oh (Po’) Boy Brenda’s 4045 Broadway St. Oakland CA Brenda’s, a new New Orleans kitchen (as in new food, not new restaurant) in Oakland, offers the expected Southern charm and disposition Sarah Bass 15 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
LA Words Nerds, Scenesters Keep It Lit CASUAL ENCOUNTERSZ alt-lit reading No Moon LA Los Angeles Nov. 2, 2023 Strip poker with a blow-up doll, Minnesota meth murder, sub sex addiction, Jet Blue fuckups, a bloody foot Jack Skelley 15 Nov 2023 · 2 min read
Oakland Black Women Power, Shown Large Throughline: An Art and Culinary Experience 1500 Broadway St, Oakland Through Nov. 19 In a city like Oakland, damn near everyone, especially in the arts, is connected in some way Sarah Bass 14 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford A Trip to the Emerald Isle, by Way of Hartford Music Mondays: Celtic Sounds Parkville Market, Hartford Nov. 13, 2023 “Make sure you come back, if you want to go even further down the rabbit hole.” That’s what Carol Jamil Ragland 14 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Look Out For Ian Taylor Sisters (feat. guitarist Ian Taylor) Park Side Lounge East Village, NYC Nov. 3, 2023 “It’s funny you say playing, because it’s all just that … It’s all playing. K Hank Jost 14 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Boston “The White Children Who Tormented Me Eat Kimchi Now”: Lunchbox “Moments” Pack a Punch Lunchbox Moments: Seek Understanding. Share Stories. Stop Hate Pao Arts Center 99 Albany St., Boston Through Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024 When did you realize that you were different? For most Sasha Patkin 13 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford Conventioneers Toy With Memory Trek Manchester Comic and Toy Convention Army and Navy Club, Manchester, Conn. Nov. 12, 2023 I’ve been a Gundam fan since Gundam Wing premiered on Cartoon Network almost 30 years Jamil Ragland 13 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Zines Create Scene Tiny Ghosts Haunting Small Things, The Band Plays in Front of a Big Audience, and Cars Go Too Fast (and our road design encourages it) are not titles you might Karen Ponzio 13 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
NYC Serious — Or Not — Petey Guns For The Crescendo Petey Warsaw Greenpoint, Brooklyn Nov. 10, 2023 “I read the Bible sometimes/ Please don’t make fun of me!” sang Petey’s front man, who I assumed goes by Pete. K Hank Jost 12 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Why “Enslaved” Individuals of Connecticut’s Colored Regiments New Haven Museum New Haven Nov. 11 One of the first things I noticed while listening to John Mills’s lecture about the experience Jamil Ragland 10 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa The Festival That Started With A Dream Dreamland Festival Guthrie Green Nov. 4, 2023 “If you build it, they will come”: This could be Steph Simon’s mantra. The Dreamland Festival (originally the World Culture Music Festival) Ryan Anderson 10 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Can You Capture A Mass Shooting In Dance, Music & Poetry All At Once? Watch Night The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) 251 Fulton Street, New York, NY Through Nov. 18, 2023 “Start with the white savior teacher? Or maybe the slick Black Adam Wassilchalk 10 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
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