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Dialtone Picks Up The Mic, Taps Into Everyday Tulsa Tulsa

Dialtone Picks Up The Mic, Taps Into Everyday Tulsa

Frequency: “No Club“ Atento Capital July 22, 2023 It’s hard to imagine the day Dialtone picked up a mic. Maybe it was in middle school during lunch break. Maybe

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Ryan Anderson
31 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
Lost Tribe Beats Rain With Rhythm-Wrapped Spoken Word New Haven

Lost Tribe Beats Rain With Rhythm-Wrapped Spoken Word

“We had to take you to Africa, real quick,” the percussionist said after the last drumbeats of the first number had faded into the air and the band, defined by

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Eleanor Polak
31 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
Open Mic Drops To The Next Generation Hartford

Open Mic Drops To The Next Generation

I’ve worked as an educator for most of my adult life. One of the great pleasures of tutoring and teaching is watching students grow in skill and confidence. That

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Jamil Ragland
28 Jul 2023 · 2 min read
Black Men Speak From The Heart Oakland

Black Men Speak From The Heart

On a hot night in Oakland, a packed house listened to Black men get vulnerable and share stories about their journeys. Produced by Create the Space, 2ME4U: Stories of Self-

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Lisa Gray
28 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
Grand Avenue Barbie Line Offers Respite From The Real World Oakland

Grand Avenue Barbie Line Offers Respite From The Real World

The movie-goers are as much a part of this story as the blockbuster new Barbie feature film itself, as evidenced by brightly flocked patrons queueing up at the corner

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Sarah Bass
28 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven

Who Runs The World? Barbie Does

I walked into Bow Tie Cinemas proudly sporting the only pink top I own, and I thought I was ready for anything. Turns out, I wasn’t ready for Barbie.

  • Go to the profile of  Eleanor Polak
Eleanor Polak
28 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
Self-Love, & The Intertwined History Of Pharmaceuticals & Color New Haven

Self-Love, & The Intertwined History Of Pharmaceuticals & Color

Explored in new group show at the Blake Hotel. Click here to read Brian’s review and see more images.

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Brian Slattery
27 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
Aimee Mann’s No-Nonsense Honesty Ages With Grace Troy/Albany

Aimee Mann’s No-Nonsense Honesty Ages With Grace

Only Aimee Mann could make a giant concrete orb packed with hundreds of strangers feel intimate. But during her show Monday night at The Egg, Albany’s oddly-shaped performing

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RS Benedict
27 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
The Way We Are, Post-Pandemic Tulsa

The Way We Are, Post-Pandemic

Phantom Limb: Mixed Media Works by Zach Litwack July 14-August 4, 2023 Liggett Studio Who are you when you lose part of what makes you “you”? Zach Litwack started

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Alicia Chesser
27 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
At Burmese Lunch Spot, You Can Have Your Tea and Eat It Too Boston

At Burmese Lunch Spot, You Can Have Your Tea and Eat It Too

On a bustling corner in the heart of Boston’s Allston Village neighborhood, behind an unassuming storefront, its door flanked by two tidy cafe tables, stands Yoma Burmese Cuisine. Despite

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Kelley McLaughlinSasha Patkin
27 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
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

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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

  • Go to the profile of  Jonathan Kiefer
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

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Serena Puang
24 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
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