LA A Fairycore Revelation Unfolds, Vocal On Top Of Layered Vocal Black Country, New Road with Little Wings Downtown Los Angeles August 31, 2023 Ushers and security guards corralled me inside the Regent before Black Country, New Road’s sold out Danielle Clough 14 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa I Went To The Super Bowl of Classical Music Tulsa Symphony brings in a guest to shake up an old favorite. Tulsa Symphony Opening Night September 9, 2023 Tulsa Performing Arts Center Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 — the one Z.B. Reeves 14 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
NW Arkansas Plane Truth Uncovered About That “$200 Burger” Amateur pilots love to complain about the “hundred-dollar hamburger.” It’s an in-joke, a wry lament about the high cost of learning to fly small aircraft – the expense of plane Mickey Mercier 13 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
NYC No One Stole The Show, But … In which a writer discovers why it might be worth showing up at an open mic even though neither he nor a friend is performing. Easy Paradise Open Mic The K Hank Jost 13 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
Tulsa “We’re Gonna Stay” Women and non-binary muralists make their mark Sunny Dayz Mural Festival Sept. 9, 2023 Pearl District “You know when you’re an Okie and you’re trans and you think, Alicia Chesser 12 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
LA Boundaries Blur Between Student & Washed-Up Yale Prof THE SOUND INSIDE Pasadena Playhouse Through Oct. 1, 2023. In retrospect, I should have expected that I would see Daniel Franzese (Damian from Mean Girls) at the industry night opening Brandon Sward 12 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
Boston Little Amal’s Hopeful First Big Steps Change The Picture 12-foot-tall puppet of 10-year-old refugee girl begins 6,000-mile coast-to-coast journey Why do people throw their energy into art when there are so many real and terrible things happening in Sasha Patkin 11 Sep 2023 · 6 min read
Reno Originals Trump Covers At Folkie Pignic By Karrie O’Neill’s own admittance, it was a weird night at Pignic Pub & Patio in Reno. At one point during her first set, her iPad with her Jose Davila IV 11 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Flower Fairies In 1st solo U.S. show, a photographer’s tech tricks challenge how we view beauty KATHRIN LINKERSDORFF: FAIRIES Yossi Milo Gallery 245 10th Avenue, New York, NY Through Oct. Betsy Kim 11 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven CT Folk Fest Sweetens The Heart Highway philosophers, bossa nova and a NYC harpist-singer-writer added new texture and kept the mood vibrant at New Haven’s 30th annual CT Folk Fest and Green Expo. Karen Ponzio 11 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Hartford Bella’s Bartok Beats The Post-Pandemic Blues It was an interesting concert — and that was before Jack Skellington showed up. But allow me to take a few steps back. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Jamil Ragland 8 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
LA Keith Haring Is For … Everybody? KEITH HARING: ART IS FOR EVERYBODY The Broad, Los Angeles Through Oct. 8, 2023. On a Saturday, I boarded the Long Beach Blue Line (now called the A Line, a A.J. Urquidi 8 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Boston Amid Verse-Tossing, The Cutest Date Night Of All Time Poetry Open Mic Night Trident Booksellers & Cafe 338 Newbury St, Boston Sept. 3, 2023 “And next up, Tony!” called the host of Trident Booksellers’s Poetry Open Mic Night. Sasha Patkin 8 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa Black Moonscapes Deliver First Friday Hope, Not Hype “Moonscapes & Earthshine” + TAF First Friday Programming September 1, 2023 TAF Studio 101 / Archer Studios As someone who tends to lose hours of my one wild and precious life to Alicia Chesser 8 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland My Big Fat Italian-esque Sandwich A Sack Lunch at Oakland's Lunch Box A good sandwich, for those of us who still consume the small luxury that is fresh glutinous bread, may make the Sarah Bass 8 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
LA It’s Not Pretty IT’S BETTER TO START OUT UGLY Written and directed by Asher Hartman JOAN, Los Angeles; closed The audience, on three sides, can at first imagine that they are on Martin Harries 7 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Toad’s Place Rocks In Memory Of Rohn Lawrence Toad’s Place on York Street lit up as a cadre of jazz musicians gathered to pay homage to one of New Haven’s own axe men extraordinaire, Rohn Lawrence, Lisa Gray 7 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa Tulsa, We Have A Situation: Revived Open Mic For Musicians Makes Magic The Situation August 28, 2023 Fassler Hall What’s The Situation? It’s an open mic night with a live band, but it’s so much more than that. It’ Ryan Anderson 7 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
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