Hartford Artwork Offers Different Take on Drag Free to Be Theaterworks Hartford August 13, 2024 The celebration of drag culture continues at Theaterworks with the opening of the exhibit Free to Be in the gallery space on Jamil Ragland 14 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Stanzas Dropped Amid 1st Degree Murder Dismissal Rally for Eddie Irizarry Center for Criminal Justice 1301 Filbert St. Philadelphia August 8, 2024 One year after Philadelphian Eddie Irizarry was killed by a cop through his car window, Lindo Yes 14 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland A Big Burger Surprise 10th and Wood 945 9th St. Oakland It may not seem like much, but for the past 11 years, 10th and Wood, located at the corner of said streets, has Sarah Bass 14 Aug 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford A Different Kind Of “Weird” — That Merits Our Attention Kinds of Kindness Cinestudio Hartford August 12, 2024 Rarely has a movie left me as speechless as Kinds of Kindness, showing at Cinestudio through Aug. 15, managed to do. It’ Jamil Ragland 14 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Artists Get Constructive Ariel Bintang’s pieces can be understood as abstractions of figurative landscapes. The color choices, of vivid greens, blues, and oranges, don’t happen much in the real world, and Brian Slattery 14 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven A Gem Called Wanda, Rescued What’s an arthouse film? Not unlike the cult film, it can draw in a certain type of cinephile that searches for an experience unlike the one you get from Karen Ponzio 13 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford Nothing To Be Ashamed Of Shameless Connecticut Pizza & Brew Fest Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater Bridgeport Aug. 11, 2024 Believe it or not, my trip down to the Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater was my first time in Jamil Ragland 12 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Avant Pan Africanism In “Lake Walking, Revolutionary Talking” Lake Walking, Revolutionary Talking BAM House 1540 Broadway, Oakland August 9, 2024 Fred Noland 12 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven TikTok-Revived Play Pits “Teenagers Against The World” Ride the Cyclone, which ran this weekend at Whitneyville Cultural Commons in a production mounted by Magnolia Theatre Company, tells the story of six teenagers — Ocean O’Connor Rosenberg (Chloe Brian Slattery 12 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
LA Mulholland Drive In 4K: “Don’t Drink All the Coke!” MULHOLLAND DRIVE IN 4K Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Los Angeles July 25, 2024 Like the memory of its brunette leading lady, my relationship to David Lynch’s 2001 Los Audrey Serrano 11 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven From LA To New Haven: Ozzy’s Apizza Brings It All Back Home New Haven-style apizza arrived in East Rock Market last weekend as the East Coast outpost of a super successful Glendale, Ca. location. Wait — New Haven apizza from L.A.? Yes, Karen Ponzio 11 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford 1st Half: Front Flip In 6‑Inch Heels. 2nd Half: A Drag Celebrate Drag with Plasma Theaterworks Hartford Aug. 8, 2024 Theaterworks’ second annual Celebrate Drag was my first drag show. I’d been invited to shows before, but conflicts and commitments Jamil Ragland 9 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven “Everything Is Political In America,” Including The Art Howardena Pindell had already created the spiraling mess of oranges, yellows, blues, and greens, footprinted with red arrows indicating the path of the swirls, when she realized that the lithograph Eleanor Polak 9 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Trace Evidence: The Work & Friendship Of Hayley Nichols & Nic Annette Miller Hayley Nichols and Nic Annette Miller: Natural Rhythms 108 Contemporary Tulsa Through Sept. 21 I was lucky enough to get out of Oklahoma’s sweltering heat recently, as my family Cassidy Petrazzi 9 Aug 2024 · 5 min read
Philadelphia Red Dragon Roll Goes Green I ordered an eel and tuna sushi roll — and got tomato and eggplant that tasted just as good, if not better. I tried the “Red Dragon” vegan dupe at Tomo Emily Cohen 9 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa This Art Deserves Better Jordan Vinyard: Command + C, Command + C, Command + CTAC Gallery Tulsa Aug. 2 – 24, 2024 Kinetic sculpture — sculpture that moves — is a tough beast to tame. It tends to move slowly, Z.B. Reeves 9 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford O Say, Can You See … Mom? National Anthem Cinestudio Hartford Aug. 7, 2024 National Anthem is a straightforward movie about a young man named Dylan (played by Charlie Plummer), a day laborer who gets invited to Jamil Ragland 9 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
LA At New Palestine Movie Night, Genuine Love Stories RESISTERE The Other Space Los Angeles July 17, 2024 New ways — that is, cinematic ways — to look at Palestine could be more accessible in a city experiencing a repertory resurgence. Tosten Burks 9 Aug 2024 · 2 min read