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A Podcast Far Gone: Why Are We Pretending This Is Good? 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

  • Go to the profile of  Madeline Connors
Madeline Connors
16 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
The Trombone Sings at Black Eyed Sally’s 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

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
16 Nov 2023 · 2 min read
“Nobody Smokes Anymore” And Other Observations From Robert Ellis’s Visit To The Mercury Lounge 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

  • Go to the profile of  Becky Carman
Becky Carman
16 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
“Magical Thinking” Is The Real Deal In New Production Of Joan Didion’s Meditation On Profound Loss 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

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
16 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
Jazz Spacesters Bring Light To Dive Bar 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

  • Go to the profile of  K Hank Jost
K Hank Jost
16 Nov 2023 · 2 min read
Public-Housing Art Creates Bridges To Somewhere, And A Right To Dream 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

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Betsy Kim
15 Nov 2023 · 6 min read
Oh (Po’) Boy 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

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Sarah Bass
15 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Words Nerds, Scenesters Keep It Lit 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

  • Go to the profile of  Jack Skelley
Jack Skelley
15 Nov 2023 · 2 min read
Black Women Power, Shown Large 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

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Sarah Bass
14 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
A Trip to the Emerald Isle, by Way of Hartford 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

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
14 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Look Out For Ian Taylor 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.

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K Hank Jost
14 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
“The White Children Who Tormented Me Eat Kimchi Now”: Lunchbox ​“Moments” Pack a Punch 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

  • Go to the profile of  Sasha Patkin
Sasha Patkin
13 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Conventioneers Toy With Memory Trek 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

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
13 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Zines Create Scene 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

  • Go to the profile of  Karen Ponzio
Karen Ponzio
13 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
Serious — Or Not — Petey Guns For The Crescendo 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.

  • Go to the profile of  K Hank Jost
K Hank Jost
12 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Why ​“Enslaved” 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

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
10 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
The Festival That Started With A Dream 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)

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Ryan Anderson
10 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Can You Capture A Mass Shooting In Dance, Music & Poetry All At Once? 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

  • Go to the profile of  Adam Wassilchalk
Adam Wassilchalk
10 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
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