New Haven “Neverending Poetry” Moves From Open Mic To The Page On the last page of the new poetry anthology Never Ending Poetry — a celebration of the first year of Open Mic Surgery, the poetry reading series that happens almost every Brian Slattery 27 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Boston The Latinx Question Explored in an exhibit that looks below the surface of identity politrix. Latinx Identities: Struggles, Perspectives, and Critiques Unbound Visual Arts Exhibit Gallery 43 North Beacon St., Allston, Mass. Through Sasha Patkin 27 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Buffalo Nichols Embodies The Blues Buffalo Nichols Cafe 9 New Haven Sept. 23, 2023 Saturday night was a great night for blues. As rain pattered on the windows of Cafe Nine on the corner of Lisa Gray 26 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
NYC Un Museo Gets Under The Hood Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección El Museo del Barrio 1230 Fifth Ave. at 104th St. New York, NY Through March 10, 2024 Upon entering Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección, visitors Betsy Kim 26 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Boston Not Your Bubbe’s Latkes — But Almost Kosher! Zaftigs Delicatessen 335 Harvard St. Brookline, Mass. “Knish Happens,” “Love you a latke,” “Almost Kosher,” and “Got Matzo Balls?” Zaftigs in Brookline knows its brand, and its tongue-in-cheek T‑shirts Sasha PatkinKelley McLaughlin 26 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Troy/Albany DIRK & Quirks: Int’l Film Fest Sees World Through Micro Lens New York State International Film Festival The Linda/ WAMC Performing Arts Studio Albany, N.Y. Sept. 22 – 23 The eighth annual New York State International Film Festivalc elebrated small things. RS Benedict 26 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford Twain House Hosts A Worthy Paws (Cause) Mark Twain was an accomplished author, a fierce critic of injustice, and an adopted son of the city of Hartford. Twain was also an animal lover. He routinely kept cats Jamil Ragland 26 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Artist Births A New Sky Field Notes from the Empathic Universe Work by artist Saya Woolfalk, organized by Kalia Brooks NXTHVN, 169 Henry St., New Haven Through Nov. 19. The central figure in Birthing a Brian Slattery 26 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
NYC Fancy Bumping Into You Here In Lieu of the Option … The Dynamite Experience JACK Theatre Brooklyn, N.Y. Sept. 21, 2023 Closede The group holds a lone member above the ground by her fingertips. A K Hank Jost 24 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland Ethiopian Musical Ambassadors Bring Down The House Ethiocolor Zanzi 19 Grand Ave., Oakland Sept. 19, 2023 The ensemble Ethiocolor brought an exuberant range of Ethiopian music and dance traditions from Addis Abba to Oakland’s Zanzi — and Lauren Tannenbaum 24 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
LA Was That A Sax? Or A Guitar? Pharoah Sanders' acclaimed 2021 album gets its first full live orchestra treatment. FLOATING POINTS PERFORMS PROMISES featuring Floating Points with Shabaka Hutchings, Kieran Hebden, Dan Snaith, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Hinako Emily VanKoughnett 24 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Artists Travel To Dreamland Dreamland Muse Gallery Bushwick, Brooklyn Closed “The world is not as bright as it used to be,” artist NARCO (@artbynarco) noted, explaining why vibrant colors are so crucial to her Adam Wassilchalk 22 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
Tulsa Messy, Slippery, Smart, Terrifying Jazz Delivers For This Trying Time NOLATET LowDown jazz club Sept. 16, 2023 Last Saturday night, I saw the New Orleans-based NOLATET play at LowDown, the Arts District’s basement jazz club. Made up of Brian Z.B. Reeves 22 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford The Shoe Fits: Cinderella At The Bushnell “Is ballet for me?” That’s one of the questions on the homepage for The World Ballet Series’ production of Cinderella. When I saw that the show was coming to Jamil Ragland 22 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Frame + Frame + Frame + Frame In group show, sequential artists tell a story. Two narratives are laid out on the wall. They follow at first familiar forms, a plucky young person setting out on a Brian Slattery 22 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Reno Think Globally, Paint Locally Local arts stands out, inject natural inspiration in Reno's second annual int'l show. 2023 Reno Tahoe International Art Show Reno-Sparks Convention Center Reno, NV Sept. 14 Jose Davila IV 21 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Greil Marcus Finally Finds, Tells The “Secret History” Legendary culture writer opens up at launch of annual writer-award fest. A rumination on the question of why people write — delivered by legendary culture writer Greil Marcus — that took in Brian Slattery 21 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa An Evergreen Band Finds A Fresh Peach Perch Tom Skinner’s Science Project Thelma’s Peach Aug. 30, 2023 Thelma’s Peach is tiny inside and out. There’s a neon peach emanating a warm glow from above Becky Carman 21 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
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