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
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