Nashville Music City Bar and Grill Makes Another World On Old Ground Nathan Belt Music City Bar and Grill Nashville Dec. 30, 2023 “It’s music from outer space,” my show-going companion Will Johnson said to me. It’s difficult to convey Libby Weitnauer 2 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Good Things Lurk at Gearbox Gallery “Press Play: Remain Creative“ Malik Seneferu Gearbox Gallery 770 W. Grand Ave. Oakland Through Jan. 6, 2024 African mask paintings stare down family portraits, a wall of small sculptures arranged Sarah Bass 2 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Celestials & Tricky Bits The penultimate night of the year can be a tricky one, especially if it falls on a weekend. Do you go out and do something fun, or do you stay Karen Ponzio 2 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven A Year Of Reckoning In The Arts Organizational chaos. Art spaces closing their doors. And new collectives of artists forming to take matters into their own hands. For many in the arts scene, the year 2023 was Brian Slattery 22 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
NYC A True Fabel: East Village Turns Out For A Hip-Hop Legend In Hour Of Need Fundraiser Party for Jorge “PopMaster Fabel” Pabone Big Bar East Village, Manhattan Dec. 20, 2023 Lower Manhattan’s Big Bar is a place well known for the being a center K Hank Jost 22 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
Tulsa Altered States: Tulsa’s Hidden Psychedelic Past Michael Mason: The Secret Psychedelic History of Tulsa 101 Archer Tulsa Dec.14, 2023 Any free seminar about psychedelic drugs probably attracts an eclectic crowd. At least a hundred people Kathryn Parkman 22 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
Boston Post-“Normal” World Glimpsed The Myth of Normal: A Celebration of Authentic Expression MassArt Art Museum 621 Huntington Ave. Through May 19, 2024 Sitting in the middle of a gallery at MassArt Art Museum Sasha Patkin 21 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Nashville “Quilty Pleasures” Indulged Quilty Pleasures Elephant Gallery Buchanan Arts District Nashville Through Jan. 27 Through the windows of Elephant Gallery, I saw an elephant, a lamp toilet, Tweety Bird. I cursed myself for Libby Weitnauer 21 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Oakland House Of Plenty (Of Veggies) Plenty 1825 San Pablo Ave. Oakland Unassuming but delightfully fresh, with pre-pandemic pricing, imposter cocktails (Sochu in place of hard liquor), friendly staff, and a lived-in feel, downtown Oakland’s Sarah Bass 21 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
New Haven Musicians Pay Tribute To Shane MacGowan Gary Mezzi, a.k.a. Buzz Gordo (pictured above), beamed from behind a 12-string guitar on the stage of Cafe Nine Tuesday night. “This is a song about the demise Brian Slattery 21 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
LA Graf Closes Curtain On 20-Year “Cinemagrind” Hardcore Career GRAF ORLOCK with SUPERVOID CHORALE ENSEMBLE, DANGERS, and THOU Echoplex Los Angeles Dec. 15, 202, and Chain Reaction Anaheim Dec. 16, 2023 In 2008, I met Jason Schmidt in an David Diaz 20 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland In Search Of The Sage Serpent “Sage Serpent“ Maybelle Avenue & MacArthur Boulevard Laurel District, Oakland www.last1s.com www.fistofflour.com No names, no faces. That’s what I promised one of the co-founders of Agustín Maes 20 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
NYC A Group Effort Toward A Less Lonely World Suicide: An Anthology Release Reading The Red Room East Village, NYC Dec. 17, 2023 (Note: If you or a loved one are struggling with thoughts of suicide, please call 988 K Hank Jost 19 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa Candy Cain’s: An Evening Of Sheer Joy With JD McPherson JD McPherson’s “Socks: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas Tour” Cain’s Ballroom Tulsa OK Dec. 9, 2023 “Presents are coming,” JD McPherson said with uncharacteristic austerity, flanked by strings Becky Carman 19 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
Oakland Coffee-Curious Tour Hits West Coast Innovation Gallery Tour La Marzocco The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab and Tasting Room 2535 Broadway Oakland Dec. 14, 2023 Are you … coffee curious? Perhaps a seasoned ‘spresso pro? A crowd Sarah Bass 19 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Artist Rolls With The Temporary After decades of printmaking, Barbara Harder revels in embracing the accidents. “I’m trying to make things the way I’m making them,” she said, but “sometimes I almost like Brian Slattery 19 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
LA Kathy Acker Masturbated Here JASON McBRIDE and ANAHID NERSESSIAN with KATHY ACKER’S WRITING DESK Poetic Research Bureau Los Angeles Dec. 11, 2023 It’s a fact: Kathy Acker often wrote while masturbating. And Jack Skelley 19 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
NYC Hopper With A Camera: Paul Vlachos Captures The Loneliness Of The Metropolis PRIVATE/NYC: Photos by Paul Vlachos, New York City, 1998 ‑2023 Art Cake 214 40th St. Brooklyn, NY Through Dec. 23, 2023 Paul Vlachos’ haunting photos of vacant spaces of Betsy Kim 18 Dec 2023 · 5 min read
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