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Marcus Elliot Arrives With Big Motifs Detroit

Marcus Elliot Arrives With Big Motifs

... and I can still feel the music in my bones.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
3 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
WAX Gets Cannon Jumpin’ New Haven

WAX Gets Cannon Jumpin’

For a 3 1/2‑hour old-school hip-hop party.

  • Go to the profile of  Lisa Gray
Lisa Gray
2 Apr 2025 · 4 min read
Short Dog, That’s Oakland Baby Oakland

Short Dog, That’s Oakland Baby

Professional sports is alive and well in the Town, and you already know how Oakland it is. With the long term future of the coliseum in question, soccer fans show out in open defiance of the doom loop narrative, and of course Too $hort performed at halftime.

  • Go to the profile of  Tony Daquipa
Tony Daquipa
2 Apr 2025 · 4 min read
The 6-Hour Gelato New Haven

The 6-Hour Gelato

New caffe’s owners take their time to craft an Old Country treat.

  • Go to the profile of  Paul Bass
Paul Bass
2 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
The Eggbeater Revolution Philadelphia

The Eggbeater Revolution

A retrospective on Wanda Gag sets an old world in motion.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
1 Apr 2025 · 4 min read
Women-Only Exhibition Centers 'Female Gaze' Detroit

Women-Only Exhibition Centers 'Female Gaze'

Show curated by gallery-owner Paulina Petkoski for Women’s History Month features work by 30+ artists

  • Go to the profile of  Randiah Camille Green
Randiah Camille Green
1 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
The Revolution Will Be Spiraled New Haven

The Revolution Will Be Spiraled

Artivists carve their own space in local art scene.

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
1 Apr 2025 · 4 min read
Collage and Creativity: the Diaspora in an Oakland Library Oakland

Collage and Creativity: the Diaspora in an Oakland Library

Nedra T. Williams’ works, on view at the African American Museum and Library, share complex collaged worlds and divas extraordinaire.

  • Go to the profile of  Sarah Bass
Sarah Bass
1 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
Stripped-Down Sexual Fluidity Detroit

Stripped-Down Sexual Fluidity

The one named character in the play "Cock" wrestles with a painful choice

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
1 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
Live ... On Air Detroit

Live ... On Air

A local radio host loves the gig but laments missing the magic of a venue show.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
1 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
I Struggled To Get "Saint Joan" But I Loved It Anyway Tulsa

I Struggled To Get "Saint Joan" But I Loved It Anyway

Riffraff Tulsa's immersive theatre is a well-oiled machine

  • Go to the profile of  Alex Isaak
Alex Isaak
31 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
Hey, Down Here! New Haven

Hey, Down Here!

Center for British Art reopens with an eye toward the next generation.

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
31 Mar 2025 · 3 min read
The Long Dance Of The Mundane New Haven

The Long Dance Of The Mundane

Yale Film Archive goes French.

  • Go to the profile of  Karen Ponzio
Karen Ponzio
31 Mar 2025 · 5 min read
African Diasporic Artists Pop-up Gallery Oakland

African Diasporic Artists Pop-up Gallery

Gallery Guichard brings contemporary works with a focus on African Diasporic artists to Oakland.

  • Go to the profile of  Frederick Noland
Frederick Noland
31 Mar 2025 · 1 min read
Pizza and Tums Philadelphia

Pizza and Tums

The right way to celebrate women's history month? A clown show.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
31 Mar 2025 · 3 min read
2nd Wave, The Musical Detroit

2nd Wave, The Musical

"Vanities" offers insight into Baby Boomer women for whom promises didn't all pan out.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
30 Mar 2025 · 3 min read
Best-Kept Secrets New Haven

Best-Kept Secrets

I can tell you something — not everything — about what happened at a Best Video film night.

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
30 Mar 2025 · 5 min read
This Queer Exhibition Has No Inhibition Tulsa

This Queer Exhibition Has No Inhibition

A joint jewelry and photography show defies constraints.

  • Go to the profile of  Erin Robinson
Erin Robinson
28 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
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