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
New Haven Silhouetted Against Time New Haven Museum exhibition offers view of city’s past through an early 20th-century mother-daughter artist duo. Click here to read Eleanor’s review. Eleanor Polak 21 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa The Challenge Of Change: American Theatre Company Wrestles With Religion American Theatre Company: The Christians July 13 – 17, 2023 Studio 308 Tulsa, OK If you think the question of whether or not there’s a hell is a tricky one Alicia Chesser 20 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Shakespeare Sings: Free Hamlet In The Park Drives Home That Point With A Gospel, Hip-Hop Assist Manhattan — Confession: I had never read or seen Hamlet before I attended the Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare In the Park production of the play, helmed by Tony Award-winning director Adam Wassilchalk 20 Jul 2023 · 5 min read
New Haven New Haven Has Its Cake And Hears It Too As the venerable alt-rockers play an outdoor show at the Westville Bowl. Click here to read the full review. Eleanor Polak 20 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa Oklahoma! Independent Review Crew Takes Off Tulsa — As a touring folk-country singer-songwriter’s band kicked into gear, a regular pointed to a stuffed possum wrapped in Christmas lights suspended over the bar. The possum, he said, Paul Bass 19 Jul 2023 · 9 min read
Hartford A Night Of Free Jazz Finds Warmth In The Fires The temperature was supposed to hit a toasty 88 degree at 6 p.m. when the six-week, and 56th annual, Paul Brown Monday Night Jazz concert series would kick off Jamil Ragland 19 Jul 2023 · 2 min read
Boston Fest Photos Blend With Nature, As Finding The Right Path Proves Tricky The last thing I want to do on a summer Friday afternoon in Boston is stay inside, which is how I ended up battling through city traffic in a car Sasha Patkin 19 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
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