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Flower Fairies 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.

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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.

  • Go to the profile of  Karen Ponzio
Karen Ponzio
11 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Bella’s Bartok Beats The Post-Pandemic Blues 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

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
8 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
Keith Haring Is For … Everybody? 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

  • Go to the profile of  A.J. Urquidi
A.J. Urquidi
8 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Amid Verse-Tossing, The Cutest Date Night Of All Time 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.

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Sasha Patkin
8 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Black Moonscapes Deliver First Friday Hope, Not Hype 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

  • Go to the profile of  Alicia Chesser
Alicia Chesser
8 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
My Big Fat Italian-esque Sandwich 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

  • Go to the profile of  Sarah Bass
Sarah Bass
8 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
It’s Not Pretty 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

  • Go to the profile of  Martin Harries
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,

  • Go to the profile of  Lisa Gray
Lisa Gray
7 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa, We Have A Situation: Revived Open Mic For Musicians Makes Magic 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’

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Ryan Anderson
7 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Anemic Queer Femmes Rock 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

  • Go to the profile of  Sarah Bass
Sarah Bass
7 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
You Talkin’ To Me? Screening Prompts Reappraisal Of Taxi Driver 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?

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
6 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
The Gallery Tech Takeover: AR You Ready? 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

  • Go to the profile of  Sarah Bass
Sarah Bass
6 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
Jazz Raises Monday Nights From The Dead 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

  • Go to the profile of  Becky Carman
Becky Carman
6 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
Codefendants Take The Stand — To Launch ​“Crime Wave” Tour 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

  • Go to the profile of  Karen Ponzio
Karen Ponzio
5 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
“Drown Or Swim” 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

  • Go to the profile of  Alicia Chesser
Alicia Chesser
5 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Paging Lou Reed, In The City That Birthed Walmart 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

  • Go to the profile of  Mickey Mercier
Mickey Mercier
4 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Earthlings Escape To Afrotopia 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

  • Go to the profile of  Jose Davila IV
Jose Davila IV
4 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
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