Reno Lipsticks Crash To The Floor, & The Dancers Dive In A Clean Look Makeup Experience 2023 Fall Dance Festival University of Reno Reno, Nevada Nov. 2 – 4, 2023 Music wasn’t playing, but people were moving up onstage. It was Jose Davila IV 6 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
NYC Black (Woman) Magic Nicole Cardoza — Magician NeueHouse Madison Square Manhattan, NY Oct. 31, 2023 “This is my first time performing for such a wide, intergalactic, interspecies audience,” Nicole Cardoza observed, looking out across Adam Wassilchalk 5 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa The Past Is Present: Tulsa Massacre Inspires Stage “Reflections” Reflections World Stage Theatre Company Tulsa Performing Arts Center Oct. 26, 2023 Over a hundred years later, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre continues to impact this city’s community life. Alicia Chesser 3 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford 50 Years Down: Wadsworth Celebrates Hip-Hop Gardens and Galleries | Celebrating Hip-Hop at 50 The Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford Nov. 2, 2023 When “Ms. Fat Booty” by Mos Def came on, I knew it was my type of Jamil Ragland 3 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Jazz Club Crushed Dollars Performing at Barbés 376 9th St., Park Slope, Brooklyn Nov. 2, 2023 Warning: This article is going to read less like a review, and more like a love-letter to K Hank Jost 3 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford How Porcelain Packs History Into A Small Package A Walk Through Dresden: Eighteenth Century Meissen Porcelain with Vanessa Sigalas Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford Nov. 1 My biggest takeaway from a fascinating lecture Dr. Vanessa Sigalas gave at the Wadsworth, Jamil Ragland 3 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Something’s Off. Something’s Wrong Collective Consciousness Theatre raises searing questions about race, class, gender, plot, and character in a new production of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer-winning Fairview. Brian Slattery 3 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
Raleigh/ Durham/ Chapel Hill Curator ChatGPT Didn’t Mention The Clock Act as if you are a curator: An Al-generated exhibition Nasher Museum of Art Duke University Durham, N.C. Through Jan. 14, 2023 A wall-sized message lets you know that Synclaire Cruel 2 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
LA Gaggle Of Glam Saviors Fly West GEESE with YHWH NAILGUN Constellation Room Santa Ana, Cal. Oct. 26, 2023 “Thanks for coming to a Geese show,” singer Cameron Winter addressed us at Santa Ana’s Constellation Room. A.J. Urquidi 2 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Twist & Hedge A keen sense of play — married to rigorous formal accomplishment — marks both Marjorie Gillette Wolfe’s show, “Hedge,” and sculptor and potter Amanda Duchen’s show, “Clay,” running concurrently at Brian Slattery 2 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa Live From The Admiral Twin Drive-In Drive-In Double Feature: Halloween & Halloween 4 Admiral Twin October 29, 2023 In director Peter Bogdanovich’s shocking 1968 debut Targets, old Hollywood collides with the new at a drive-in Matt Carney 2 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford How A Guyanese Painter Brought Me Home To Hartford Color and Identity: A Visual Conversation Clare Gallery, Hartford Oct. 19-Dec. 3, 2023 I was looking for some color on a particularly dreary day when I found out about an Jamil Ragland 1 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Empanada Universe Expands Madeline’s Empanaderia 86 Spring St. Madeline, the 11-year-old cello player who is also the namesake of a Hill empanaderia, likes the Guava Lava her mother serves there — it’s Dereen Shirnekhi 1 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa Scared Shortless At Hellerween Hellerween: Shorts To Scare You Shortsless 101 Archer Tulsa Oct. 28, 2023 It was, for real, a dark and stormy night when I hiked through the cold to Hellerween. For Alicia Chesser 1 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
LA Apocalypse (Party) Wow APOCALYPSE HALLOWEEN PARTY A downtown warehouse Los Angeles Oct. 28, 2023 As a recent East Coast transplant, I’ve noticed a major difference between New York parties and L.A. Brittany Menjivar 1 Nov 2023 · 2 min read
New Haven Latinio/Iberian Film Fest Offers Honest Lens On Photog Who Changed History The Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale — a.k.a. LIFFY — commenced Monday night with a screening of the documentary film Una Mirada Honesta/An Honest Look, the story Karen Ponzio 1 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
NW Arkansas Post-Punk Painter Of Myth And Horror Conquers All The Art of Kim Seltzer: Love Conquers All Art Collective Gallery Rogers, Arkansas Through Nov. 30 Startling portrayals of mythological and historical figures inhabit the otherworldly paintings of Kim Seltzer Mickey Mercier 31 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
LA Anatomy of a Scare, Courtesy of a Horrorista HAUNTED HOUSE CONFIDENTIAL: THE ART AND ORIGINS OF THE SCARE With Kristen Phillips Philosophical Research Society Los Angeles Oct. 26, 2023 I’d never been to the Philosophical Research Society Roby Duncan 31 Oct 2023 · 3 min read