Oakland In Lit-Up Darkness, Gardens Pulsate With New Life 12th Annual Autumn Lights Festival Gardens at Lake Merritt Oakland Oct. 12 – 14. 2023 “Ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants…” A small grove fitted with Sarah Bass 20 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Solo Artists Band Together Among the digital video detritus of Kit Young’s installation at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art is a cracked screen with a sign rarely seen in a gallery: “Please Brian Slattery 19 Oct 2023 · 5 min read
NW Arkansas Annie Leibovitz Embraces The iPhone Cam Annie Leibovitz At Work Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Bentonville Through Jan. 29, 2024 Walking through the photography exhibit Annie Leibovitz At Work at the Crystal Bridges Museum of Mickey Mercier 19 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
Boston A Taguarita Adds Cozy To Harvard Square Orinoco Harvard Square 56 John F. Kennedy St. Cambridge, Mass. We’d heard many good things lately about Orinoco, a Latin kitchen inspired by “taguaritas,” rustic, family-run eateries found along Sasha PatkinKelley McLaughlin 19 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland No Community = No Liberation! Life is Living Oct. 14, 2023 Defermery/Little Bobby Hutton Park West Oakland, Cal. The “Life Is Living Festival” of 2023 was nothing short of a tribal celebration of community John Williams 19 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Just Write a Song, Why Don’t You? The First Cut is the Deepest, Vol. 2 Thelma’s Peach Oct. 8, 2023 “The First Cut is the Deepest,” at Thelma’s Peach, brings Tulsa songwriters up in front Z.B. Reeves 19 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
LA Death Cab Returns To The Emotional Shipwreck Road THE POSTAL SERVICE & DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Give Up & Transatlanticism 20th Anniversary Tour with BUILT TO SPILL Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles Oct. 15, 2023 If you were a A.J. Urquidi 18 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Ft Worth/ Dallas “Rancid” Curtain Drops; Names Are Named The Vibes are Rancid 500x Gallery Dallas, Texas Oct. 14, 2023 The Vibes are Rancid, a performance art work by Nora Soto, debuted at 500x Gallery, amid much anticipation. The Sophia del Rio 18 Oct 2023 · 5 min read
New Haven Sang The Dollyrots, “My Best Friend’s Hot” Three New Haven-area rock ‘n’ roll favorites Chaser Eight, pop-punk Gen X‑ers The Dollyrots, and Maryland-based newcomers Kings of The Wild Things — brought a much-needed serotonin boost to the Marisa Torrieri 18 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
Boston This Art Is Bad. That’s A Compliment, Kinda Museum of Bad Art 1250 Massachusetts Ave. Boston, Mass. 02125 I was gazing upon a Michelangelo. Except, it wasn’t a Michelangelo. It was an artist’s painstakingly recreated version Sasha Patkin 17 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
LA Alt Lit Is Alive & Well CONSUMPTION Project DéBRIS and Car Crash Collective Los Angeles Oct. 15, 2023 At the edge of what I call the “Stories Strip” on Sunset Boulevard, the colorful Project DéBRIS vintage A.J. Brown 17 Oct 2023 · 2 min read
NYC “The Rabbit Did Not Ask For This.” But We Did Dolan Morgan’s Chapbook Release Reading Black Spring Books Williamsburg, Brooklyn Oct. 13, 2023 Black Spring Books is famously situated in a building once occupied by the legendary Henry Miller K Hank Jost 17 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa Finally, Classical Music for Silly Little Guys Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Oct. 7, 2023 Tulsa Performing Arts Center If you weren’t at the fair last Saturday night, you should’ve been at the symphony. Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Z.B. Reeves 17 Oct 2023 · 2 min read
Tulsa Boot Scootin’ Boogie: Tulsey Town Two-Step Brings Back The Honky Tonk For The Best Tulsa Time In A Long Time Inaugural Tulsey Town Two Step VFW Post 577 Community Hall Friday, Oct. 6, 2023 When’s the last time your big Friday night plans involved two-stepping at the VFW? If Cassidy McCants 16 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Ft Worth/ Dallas Why The Artist Couldn’t Make It To His Opening Looking Within II Transystems Corporation Gallery Fort Worth Community Art Center 1300 Gendy St., Fort Worth, Texas Closed A collection of paintings, works on paper, sculpture and crafted objects was Sophia del Rio 16 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
Oakland Guitar Karaoke: Who Knew? Guitar Bar The Alley 3225 Grand Ave., Oakland Wednesday, 8 – 12 p.m. “That was much better than I was expecting!” Paul Hlebcar (pronounced heb-car) proclaimed from behind his KN95 Sarah Bass 16 Oct 2023 · 2 min read
LA As Dark As It Can Be: billy woods and Elucid team up, and the lights go down ARMAND HAMMER (billy wood and Elucid) with OPEN MIKE EAGLE The Echo Los Angeles Oct. 13, 2023 On his most recent solo album — this spring’s Maps, produced entirely by Paul Thompson 16 Oct 2023 · 2 min read
New Haven Yale Rep Weighs The Private Costs Of Revolution Wish You Were Here Yale Repertory Theatre Through Oct. 28 Five female friends prepare for the wedding of one of them. High-spirited, vivacious, thoroughly at home with one another. They Donald Brown 16 Oct 2023 · 4 min read