Oakland A Day Focused On The Plant-Based Future Plant Futures Fest Oakstop 2325 Broadway Ave. Oakland Feb. 24, 2024 Nine a.m. on an unseasonably sunny Saturday morning, a small line of sleepy people waiting for coffees from Sarah Bass 8 Mar 2024 · 5 min read
Nashville Dive Bar Magic As Betty’s Grill Gets Weird Sam Petschulat, Ziona Riley, Frank Hurricane, and The Cherry Blossoms Betty’s Grill Nashville 3/5/24 During Sam Petschulat’s opening set, I was mostly orienting myself to the Libby Weitnauer 7 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Inside Mussel Bag Job Hook and Reel Cajun Seafood and Bar Hartford March 6, 2024 Hook and Reel Cajun Seafood and Bar in Hartford has a great deal for the seafood enjoyer on a Jamil Ragland 7 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Salt Lake City Andrew Alba Paints Mysteries & Suspicion Andrew Alba – Inheritance Material Contemporary South Salt Lake, UT March 1, 2024 Andrew Alba doesn’t trust art that’s too pretty. That’s part of why he had to Jose Davila IV 7 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven Wow, Okay, Cool As a heavy rainstorm pounded the pavement outside on State and Crown, drummers pounded skins inside Cafe Nine, propelling a night of raucous guitar, muscular bass, and vocals that pushed Brian Slattery 7 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Beauty Of Strangers We Meet Meet the Author — Dr. Irene Sardanis Connections: The Power of Connecting with Stranger Oakland Public Library — Rockridge Branch Oakland Feb. 24, 2024 As a writer with an unceasing streak of Robin Lapid 7 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
LA The Pulsing Innards of Jack Skelley Fear of Kathy Acker Illusion Magic Lounge Santa Monica Feb. 29, 2024 A flash of red taillights: The satin stage curtain of the Illusion Magic Lounge in Santa Monica parts, Emily Ann Zisko 6 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Rug Cut In A Winery Karim Israel Unplugged Côte West Winery 152 Dennison ST. Oakland Feb. 29, 2024 I found an empty table and took a seat in the back room of Côte West Winery, Sarah Bass 6 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland The Power of Textures and Touch Artists Reception: Jessica Cadkin, Leah Korican, Monika Mayer, and Various Artists Mercury 20 Gallery Oakland Feb. 25, 2024 I have a friend who loves touching objects that look like they Robin Lapid 6 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven The Thing Is… With a new month comes a new Best Video movie series, and the March madness at the film and cultural center in Hamden has everything to do with horror and Karen Ponzio 6 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
LA Calamaric Euphoria, 20,000 Leagues Under The OC SQUID with WATER FROM YOUR EYES The Observatory Santa Ana, Cal. February 29, 2024 As a lifelong admirer of weird cryptids, sea monsters, and beings of potentially extraterrestrial origin, I’ A.J. Urquidi 5 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
Nashville The Taste Of An Indy Moviehouse The Taste of Things The Belcourt Theater Nashville 3/5/24 Showing up hungry to a movie called The Taste of Things was both unintentional and a mistake — salvageable only Libby Weitnauer 5 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford PBS Runs Armenia Through The Dull Machine Armenia, My Home Connecticut Public TV premiere; streaming on PBS I guess you could say that I have a fraught relationship with the idea of a homeland. I’m an Jamil Ragland 5 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
NYC A Dizzy Return Makes Sunday Night Magic Dizzy Ventilators Big Bar East Village, NYC 3/3/2024 During a prior tenure as Big Bar’s Sunday night bartender, I could always count on a relatively profitable late- K Hank Jost 5 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
Raleigh/ Durham/ Chapel Hill Sheryl Underwood’s Straight Talk Hits Home Sheryl Underwood Raleigh Improv Raleigh, N.C. March 2, 2024 Laughter, cheers, and applause boomed from the Raleigh Improv Saturday night as Sheryl Underwood and quick-witted comedians stole the Synclaire Cruel 5 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland The Warrior Who Saved a Dolphin Meet and Greet: Two-Time NBA Champion Clifford Ray African American Museum and Library Oakland Feb. 24, 2024 Some of my fondest memories with my father involved watching sports, since Robin Lapid 4 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Black Planter Party Lifts Proud Parents (Like Me) Black Planter Party Hella Bee’s Oakland Feb. 24, 2024 I know a few people my age who are parents to human children, but I know many more who are Robin Lapid 3 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Troy/Albany Live Live Revelation: Middle-Age Uncool Is Fine Live Unplugged The Egg Albany, N.Y. 2/27/24 I ran into a work friend — a fellow civil servant — in the Egg’s subterranean entrance before the Live concert. RS Benedict 3 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
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