NYC A Star-Crossed Orca Rises In Red Hook Orca: A One-Whale Musical By Kyle Mazer Waterfront Museum Red Hook, Brooklyn Oct. 20, 2023 It’s my experience, in my relatively short time in NYC, that whenever one K Hank Jost 23 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Raleigh/ Durham/ Chapel Hill A Master Designer’s Costumes Leap From Wakanda Screen To Gallery Tour Afrofuturism in Costume Design Ruth E. Carter National tour Through March 31, 2024 Ruth E. Carter: Afrofuturism in Costume Design, a colorful and informative touring exhibit of outfits designed to Synclaire Cruel 23 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
NYC A Comic Con-nection: Lightsaber-Bearing Millionaire Reveals Secrets New York Comic Con Javits Center, New York, NY Oct. 12 – 15 When I went to New York Comic Con, I was ready for the spectacle of a lifetime. It’ Jamil Ragland 23 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
LA The Horror Of The Haunted House Waiting Line HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS Universal Studios Hollywood Universal City, Calif. Through Oct. 31, 2023 There is a special plane of reality that can only be accessed in line for the Universal Maya Chen 23 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland Miguel Arzabe’s Kaleidoscopic Thunderbolt “Animales Familiares” Works by Miguel Arzabe Johansson Project 2300 Telegraph Ave. Oakland Through Oct. 28, 2023 Color is a beautiful language, not often well spoken, but “Animales Familiares,” on exhibit Agustín Maes 23 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Artists Take Over The Reins Of Open Studios Artist Chelsea M. Rowe marries festive colors to a violent act in her art, a contrast that opens up the possibilities for interpretation. There’s no getting away from the Brian Slattery 23 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
NYC Go Inside To Go Outside To Go Inside Ruth Asawa Through Line Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort St. NYC Through Jan. 15, 2024 Count to 10, taking time to closely examine the hypnotic pattern below, while Betsy Kim 23 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
LA Reviewer Kneecapped — With Irish Infatuation KNEECAP The Echo Los Angeles Oct. 16, 2023 Here’s my brisk impression of the Irish: I think Conan O’Brien is perhaps the funniest person ever to live. I Madeline Connors 20 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Yale Art Galley Show Uncovers Individuals Amid Crush Of Slavery Prentice looks like a no-nonsense woman. The depiction of her is simple, but it appears to capture some of her essential nature. Prentice looks smart, curious, and strong. But Brian Slattery 20 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
NYC Juggler Defies Gravity, Reveals New Realms REFLEX: Unraveling 4,000 Years of Juggling Baruch Performing Arts Center 1 Bernard Baruch Way, NYC Through Oct. 22, 2023 “Skill, difficulty, and risk,” juggler Jay Gilligan notes, are one Adam Wassilchalk 20 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa Noise Kids, Street Punk Dads & Pinterest Punks Congeal It’s no secret that Whittier Bar has been demolishing the booking game. Tulsa has become a “must play” city for myriad genres in a global sense, and Whittier is Mitch Gilliam 20 Oct 2023 · 2 min read
Oakland In Lit-Up Darkness, Gardens Pulsate With New Life 12th Annual Autumn Lights Festival Gardens at Lake Merritt Oakland Oct. 12 – 14. 2023 “Ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants…” A small grove fitted with Sarah Bass 20 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Solo Artists Band Together Among the digital video detritus of Kit Young’s installation at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art is a cracked screen with a sign rarely seen in a gallery: “Please Brian Slattery 19 Oct 2023 · 5 min read
NW Arkansas Annie Leibovitz Embraces The iPhone Cam Annie Leibovitz At Work Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Bentonville Through Jan. 29, 2024 Walking through the photography exhibit Annie Leibovitz At Work at the Crystal Bridges Museum of Mickey Mercier 19 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
Boston A Taguarita Adds Cozy To Harvard Square Orinoco Harvard Square 56 John F. Kennedy St. Cambridge, Mass. We’d heard many good things lately about Orinoco, a Latin kitchen inspired by “taguaritas,” rustic, family-run eateries found Sasha PatkinKelley McLaughlin 19 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland No Community = No Liberation! Life is Living Oct. 14, 2023 Defermery/Little Bobby Hutton Park West Oakland, Cal. The “Life Is Living Festival” of 2023 was nothing short of a tribal celebration of community John Williams 19 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Just Write a Song, Why Don’t You? The First Cut is the Deepest, Vol. 2 Thelma’s Peach Oct. 8, 2023 “The First Cut is the Deepest,” at Thelma’s Peach, brings Tulsa songwriters up in front Z.B. Reeves 19 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
LA Death Cab Returns To The Emotional Shipwreck Road THE POSTAL SERVICE & DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Give Up & Transatlanticism 20th Anniversary Tour with BUILT TO SPILL Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles Oct. 15, 2023 If you were a A.J. Urquidi 18 Oct 2023 · 3 min read