Oakland Anemic Queer Femmes Rock Mommy Mommy, comprised of four UC Berkeley students, is all about spreading sad gurl rock: They’re queer, they’re loud, they’re sad, and they want you to know Sarah Bass 7 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven You Talkin’ To Me? Screening Prompts Reappraisal Of Taxi Driver Four decades later, the question is called: What was the point, in the end? Brian Slattery 6 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Oakland The Gallery Tech Takeover: AR You Ready? I have always sought augmented reality when I come across art: I like to touch, feel, see brush strokes on a work of art or stitches or seams from welding Sarah Bass 6 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
Tulsa Jazz Raises Monday Nights From The Dead I am a jazz simpleton. Everything about a live jazz performance is as astonishing to me as a no-look pass (and I am probably even worse at playing basketball than Becky Carman 6 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
New Haven Codefendants Take The Stand — To Launch “Crime Wave” Tour Sunday night was the hottest night of the week, literally and figuratively, as Space Ballroom hosted the first Northeast U.S. show featuring Codefendants, described as a “genre fluid musical Karen Ponzio 5 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa “Drown Or Swim” New play recasts Oedipus's mother as a dancer navigating the modern age. What stories does the body tell? As we learn more about how our cells carry the Alicia Chesser 5 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
NW Arkansas Paging Lou Reed, In The City That Birthed Walmart At the Meteor Guitar Gallery, an up-and-coming music venue in Northwest Arkansas, I was hoping to see a Lou Reed tribute act. The act, a local band audaciously named Blew Mickey Mercier 4 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Reno Earthlings Escape To Afrotopia After stepping back onto Earth (in this case, the third floor hallway of the Nevada Museum of Art), through the portal from the planet of Atlantica, a friendly immigration agent Jose Davila IV 4 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Oakland 300 Artists + 525 Pieces = Creativity Wonderland A longtime fan of work by artists at the Bay Area’s Creative Growth, Creativity Explored, and NIAD (Nurturing Independence through Artistic Development) workshops, I was eager to see Into Agustín Maes 4 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
NW Arkansas Art Breathes Deep At Momentary Walking into artist Firelei Báez’s To breathe full and free: a re-visioning, a correction (19°36’16.9“N72°13’07.0“W, 42° 21’48.762″ N 71° Serena Puang 1 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Exhibition Takes Art To New Dimensions Tea Montgomery’s installation greets the visitor who enters the art show at the Lab at ConnCORP for 6th Dimension, an Afrofuturist festival running in New Haven and Hamden now Brian Slattery 31 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
Boston Sofar Sounds So Good at Boston HQ The last time I went to a concert it was too loud, tall people stood in front of me the whole time, and canned beers cost $15. While there’s Sasha Patkin 31 Aug 2023 · 6 min read
Tulsa Branjae Manifests The Vibe When I think of Tulsa’s Branjae, I think of discipline, performance, energy. “Who’s a manifester?” she asked us, the sometimes awkward but incredibly enthusiastic crowd at Thelma’s Cassidy McCants 31 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Stamford Steve Wilkos Broadcasts Truth, Lies And Love In Stamford When my friend told me she’d gotten tickets to The Steve Wilkos Show, I jumped at the opportunity to go. I love drama, I love daytime television, and I Jamil Ragland 31 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Troy/Albany Delaney Silvernell Gives All Clear To Dance Pop musicians have a reputation for artificiality, but there was nothing manufactured about Delaney Silvernell’s show at Albany’s Fuze Box last Friday. The former contestant of The Voice RS Benedict 30 Aug 2023 · 2 min read
Tulsa Femme And Queer Oklahomans Raise Voices In Group Show In April, The Oklahoman reported that Oklahoma ranked lowest in gender equity nationally. Additionally, Equaldex ’s 2023 Equality Index placed the state at #47 for LGBTQ+ rights. These metrics, along Jenny Wu 30 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven How To Keep Rocking When The Mics Fail “I don’t know about you guys, but it’s been a Friday,” said Julie Smith as she introduced local favorites Big Fat Combo, who were performing their scheduled patio Karen Ponzio 30 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
NYC New Play Asks What “Genius” Is Worth “What would you do with $800,000?” playwright and actor Tarek Ziad asks at the start of Give Me The MacArthur Genius Grant. And then again. And then again. The Adam Wassilchalk 29 Aug 2023 · 4 min read
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