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Saucy? Old Oakland Restaurant’s Name Begs The Question 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

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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.

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Karen Ponzio
26 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
A House Of Desires: 1683 Play Finds New Footing In The Age Of Reality TV 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

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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.

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Brian Slattery
25 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
3 Mad Scientists Of Sound Bend The Universe 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,

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Alicia Chesser
24 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
Cosplayers Battle AI, Studio Villains 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

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Jamil Ragland
24 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
The Durability Of Dorothea Lange: Photography As Activism, And Conscience 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

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Jonathan Kiefer
24 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
Rebecca Loves Marty: 8 Years Later, It Shoulda Been You Works Past Stereotypes 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

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Serena Puang
24 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
This Means Something — Right? 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

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Jamil Ragland
21 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
Busker Review: JoshOnBuckets Builds Gratitude Into The Beat 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.

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Sasha Patkin
21 Jul 2023 · 2 min read
Words Take On New Meaning In Creative Growth’s Text Me Group Exhibition 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.

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Theadora Walsh
21 Jul 2023 · 2 min read
Silhouetted Against Time 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.

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Eleanor Polak
21 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
The Challenge Of Change: American Theatre Company Wrestles With Religion 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

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Alicia Chesser
20 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
Shakespeare Sings: Free Hamlet In The Park Drives Home That Point With A Gospel, Hip-Hop Assist 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

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Adam Wassilchalk
20 Jul 2023 · 5 min read
New Haven Has Its Cake And Hears It Too 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.

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Eleanor Polak
20 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
Oklahoma! Independent Review Crew Takes Off 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,

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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

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Jamil Ragland
19 Jul 2023 · 2 min read
Fest Photos Blend With Nature, As Finding The Right Path Proves Tricky 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

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Sasha Patkin
19 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
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