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Lipsticks Crash To The Floor, & The Dancers Dive In 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

  • Go to the profile of  Jose Davila IV
Jose Davila IV
6 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Black (Woman) Magic 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

  • Go to the profile of  Adam Wassilchalk
Adam Wassilchalk
5 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
The Past Is Present: Tulsa Massacre Inspires Stage ​“Reflections” 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.

  • Go to the profile of  Alicia Chesser
Alicia Chesser
3 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
50 Years Down: Wadsworth Celebrates Hip-Hop 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

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
3 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Jazz Club Crushed 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

  • Go to the profile of  K Hank Jost
K Hank Jost
3 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
How Porcelain Packs History Into A Small Package 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,

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
3 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Something’s Off. Something’s Wrong 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.

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
3 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
Curator ChatGPT Didn’t Mention The Clock 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

  • Go to the profile of  Synclaire Cruel
Synclaire Cruel
2 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Gaggle Of Glam Saviors Fly West 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.

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A.J. Urquidi
2 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Twist & Hedge 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

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Brian Slattery
2 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
Live From The Admiral Twin Drive-In 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

  • Go to the profile of  Matt Carney
Matt Carney
2 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
How A Guyanese Painter Brought Me Home To Hartford 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

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
1 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Empanada Universe Expands 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

  • Go to the profile of  Dereen Shirnekhi
Dereen Shirnekhi
1 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
Scared Shortless At Hellerween 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

  • Go to the profile of  Alicia Chesser
Alicia Chesser
1 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Apocalypse (Party) Wow 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.

  • Go to the profile of  Brittany Menjivar
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

  • Go to the profile of  Karen Ponzio
Karen Ponzio
1 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
Post-Punk Painter Of Myth And Horror Conquers All 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

  • Go to the profile of  Mickey Mercier
Mickey Mercier
31 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
Anatomy of a Scare, Courtesy of a Horrorista 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

  • Go to the profile of  Roby Duncan
Roby Duncan
31 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
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