Oakland Black Men Speak From The Heart On a hot night in Oakland, a packed house listened to Black men get vulnerable and share stories about their journeys. Produced by Create the Space, 2ME4U: Stories of Self-Exploration Lisa Gray 28 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
Oakland Grand Avenue Barbie Line Offers Respite From The Real World The movie-goers are as much a part of this story as the blockbuster new Barbie feature film itself, as evidenced by brightly flocked patrons queueing up at the corner of Sarah Bass 28 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Who Runs The World? Barbie Does I walked into Bow Tie Cinemas proudly sporting the only pink top I own, and I thought I was ready for anything. Turns out, I wasn’t ready for Barbie. Eleanor Polak 28 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Self-Love, & The Intertwined History Of Pharmaceuticals & Color Explored in new group show at the Blake Hotel. Click here to read Brian’s review and see more images. Brian Slattery 27 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
Troy/Albany Aimee Mann’s No-Nonsense Honesty Ages With Grace Only Aimee Mann could make a giant concrete orb packed with hundreds of strangers feel intimate. But during her show Monday night at The Egg, Albany’s oddly-shaped performing arts RS Benedict 27 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa The Way We Are, Post-Pandemic Phantom Limb: Mixed Media Works by Zach Litwack July 14-August 4, 2023 Liggett Studio Who are you when you lose part of what makes you “you”? Zach Litwack started asking Alicia Chesser 27 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
Boston At Burmese Lunch Spot, You Can Have Your Tea and Eat It Too On a bustling corner in the heart of Boston’s Allston Village neighborhood, behind an unassuming storefront, its door flanked by two tidy cafe tables, stands Yoma Burmese Cuisine. Despite Kelley McLaughlinSasha Patkin 27 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland Saucy? Old Oakland Restaurant’s Name Begs The Question Saucy, a pan-Asian pop-up turned brick-and-mortar restaurant, has occupied at its current location on 8th Street in Old Oakland since spring of 2022. A few blocks from BART, Jack London Sarah Bass 27 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Psychedelic Do Ho Down Orchestra Walks “The Tightrope” Click here to read Karen’s full review. Karen Ponzio 26 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
NYC A House Of Desires: 1683 Play Finds New Footing In The Age Of Reality TV I love reality TV. I love live theater. When I saw that Repertorio Español was producing Los Empeños De Una Casa: Un Nuevo Reality TV Show Para El Escenario (House Adam Wassilchalk 25 Jul 2023 · 6 min read
New Haven Trio Brings A “Good Dream” About Musical Perseverance From Oakland To New Haven When the money’s gone, the lights go out … the music remains. Brian Slattery reports from Gather. Brian Slattery 25 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa 3 Mad Scientists Of Sound Bend The Universe DABNAP + Pete Tomshany Thelma’s Peach July 15, 2023 Like mystery greens creeping up through the cracks in the concrete, experimental music is emerging as one of the most exciting, Alicia Chesser 24 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford Cosplayers Battle AI, Studio Villains Am I going to take pictures of struck cosplay? I pondered the question as I waited in the line that snaked through the Hartford Marriott’s parking lot for ConnectiCon Jamil Ragland 24 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
Oakland The Durability Of Dorothea Lange: Photography As Activism, And Conscience What first draws the eye, even from across the room, is a close-up: the dark hood, the sinewy face, the upward gaze of worry or hope. She is equally plausible Jonathan Kiefer 24 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
NW Arkansas Rebecca Loves Marty: 8 Years Later, It Shoulda Been You Works Past Stereotypes Rogers, Ark. – Arkansas’ Public Theatre’s production of It Shoulda Been You — featuring an interfaith wedding gone awry, bickering mothers, and an all-knowing, borderline-magical wedding planner — is a joyful farewell Serena Puang 24 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford This Means Something — Right? I like experiencing art randomly. If an exhibit or event catches my eye, I don’t research it or the artists, I just go in blind. That was how I Jamil Ragland 21 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
Boston Busker Review: JoshOnBuckets Builds Gratitude Into The Beat The plaza outside of Faneuil Hall is generally packed with tourists and performers on a summer weekend, but the performers can often feel as commercial as the shops around them. Sasha Patkin 21 Jul 2023 · 2 min read
Oakland Words Take On New Meaning In Creative Growth’s Text Me Group Exhibition In Gregory Stoper’s ink on paper drawings, pictorial text takes on the intonations of spoken language. In bowed compositions, the artist presents biographical sentences in a downward sloping motion. Theadora Walsh 21 Jul 2023 · 2 min read
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