NYC “You Cartoon Mascot For A Chalk-Flavored Candy Bar”: Battle Comedy Commences Roasted Comedy Battle Grove 34 31 – 83 34th St. Queens, NY Dec. 6, 2023 On Wednesday, all the way out in Queens, at the self-proclaimed eighth best comedy club K Hank Jost 8 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa Cuban Rhythms, Frank Ocean And Whatever The Hell Else: A Night At The Colony Lil’ Big Band The Colony Nov. 24, 2023 Turkey and holiday starches are known to tank folks, but Thanksgiving is traditionally a huge day for Tulsa’s service industry. Expats Mitch Gilliam 8 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
Boston When “Awful” Rhymes With “Felafel” The Band’s Visit The Huntington Theatre 264 Huntington Ave. Boston, Mass. Through Dec. 17, 2023 “Once, not long ago, a group of musicians came to Israel from Egypt. You Sasha Patkin 8 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford Reviewer Takes The Reins Self-Curated Exhibit Jean Burr Smith Library Conn. State Community College Middlesex Dec. 7, 2023 This painting particularly caught my eye. So I decided to feature it in an exhibition. Jamil Ragland 8 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Indie-Folk Favorites Darlingside, Field Guide Bring Solace To Space As the temperature outside dropped to feeling downright wintery, Space Ballroom in Hamden on Wednesday was filled with warmth, as indie-folk favorites Darlingside, with Field Guide opening, created a Brian Slattery 7 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
Oakland Persimmons Three Ways JooDooBoo 4201 Market St. Oakland You might think it’s holiday season, but the folks at Oakland’s JooDooBoo, a Korean banchan and house-made tofu deli and market, and Sarah Bass 7 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Some Painted,Some Panted Music and visual art both went live Wednesday night at Cafe Nine when Color in Sound, an event organized and curated by local artist Andres Madariaga, brought together three musical Karen Ponzio 7 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
Boston T Retch T: An MBTA Musical The Rockwell 255 Elm St. Somerville, Mass. Dec. 1, 2023 Loving to hate the absurd incompetence of the T is a time-honored Boston tradition as Sasha Patkin 6 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa A Slower Kind Of Knowing Darren Dirksen: November Grass Joseph Gierek Fine Art Tulsa Through Dec. 9 In the introduction to her “Best Music of 2023” list, the New Yorker music critic Amanda Petrusich wrote Alicia Chesser 6 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
LA From Guyana with Love CARIBBEAN TELEVISION Commonwealth and Council Los Angeles Through Dec. 23, 2023 Adam revealed his life to me in slivers over the course of our brief romance: his Muslim faith, the Brandon Sward 6 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
New Haven How An Artist Sparked An Institution The two friends in Ann Lehman’s sculpture — we only know they’re friends because the title tells us so — appear as though they’re deep in the middle of Brian Slattery 6 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
LA Big Shark Roams The Big Easy BIG SHARK WITH TOMMY WISEAU IN PERSON Landmark Westwood Los Angeles Nov. 11, 2023 Exactly 20 years since the premiere of writer-director Tommy Wiseau’s cine-magnum opus The A.J. Urquidi 5 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Paul Truly Springs Paul Spring Always Almost Home Record Release Show Bar Sundown Ridgewood, NYC Dec. 2, 2023 An artist friend of mine once relayed a piece of life-changing advice. The advice K Hank Jost 5 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven “The Truth Is Out There” Ken Grimes’s pieces in “The Truth Is Out There” partake of the style of cartoons, woodblocks, and also — thanks to the associations from the X‑Files reference in the Brian Slattery 5 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
Raleigh/ Durham/ Chapel Hill Ready. Set … Sugar! The Dessertery Holiday pop-up cafe Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts Raleigh, N.C. Ticketed; through Dec. 23 Sweet aromas waft through the air from a maze of Synclaire Cruel 5 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
Hartford Pin-Up Girls Salutes The Troops The Pin-Up Girls: A Musical Love Letter The Playhouse on Park West Hartford Through Dec. 23, 2023 There’s nothing like community theater. I’ve had fun at the Jamil Ragland 4 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
NYC ‘Til Death We Do Past ‘Til Death Abingdon Theatre Company Written by Elizabeth Coplan Directed by Chad Austin Theatre Five at Theatre Row 410 West 42nd St., NYC Through Dec. 23, 2023 Parenthesizing every moment K Hank Jost 4 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Tyshawn Sorey Trio Casts Spell On Firehouse 12 Did you hear thunder Friday night or see lightning? Probably not, unless you were one of the lucky few to attend the sold-out Tyshawn Sorey Trio show at Firehouse Karen Ponzio 4 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
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