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
Boston Art Has Consequence At The Big Summa’ Show Teen artist Ashanti Dejesus’s paintings hung on the wall at the Artists For Humanity’s Big Summa’ Show — two moody-blue paintings of underpasses, their details sponged away to abstraction Sasha Patkin 28 Aug 2023 · 5 min read
Hartford A Little Rain Can’t Ruin A Great Surprise At last, the summer heat seemed to have broken. That influenced my decision to take the bus to my latest review instead of an Uber. The heat had been so Jamil Ragland 28 Aug 2023 · 2 min read
New Haven Yale Art Gallery Crosses The Atlantic While the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) undergoes renovations, the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) has volunteered to host a selection of their paintings in an exhibition entitled “In Eleanor Polak 25 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Three Bands Bare Their Gritty Hearts On Wednesday three rock bands — Cabins, East!, Pyramid Rose Band, and headliner Laney Jones — brought loud guitars, driving drums, strong vocals, and a lot of heart to a rapturous audience Brian Slattery 25 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa Hannah Dasher’s Country Rock Is Large And In Charge If you like country music and haven’t heard of Hannah Dasher, I’d bet some honey-buttered biscuits on that fixing to change. Seeing is believing, and I bore witness Mitch Gilliam 25 Aug 2023 · 2 min read
Oakland O‑Town, A‑Fare Ever tried a collard salad? Town Fare by chef Michele McQueen sits inside of the Oakland Museum of California’s complex of buildings, walkways, and gardens. The museum restaurant reopened Sarah Bass 24 Aug 2023 · 5 min read
Tulsa Honky Tonk Hero Serves Up Country Crooning If you have, as Junior Brown sang, spent “too many nights in a roadhouse,” you can now get your fill of country music and cold drinks during daylight hours on Becky Carman 23 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
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