Boston Little Amal’s Hopeful First Big Steps Change The Picture 12-foot-tall puppet of 10-year-old refugee girl begins 6,000-mile coast-to-coast journey Why do people throw their energy into art when there are so Sasha Patkin 11 Sep 2023 · 6 min read
Reno Originals Trump Covers At Folkie Pignic By Karrie O’Neill’s own admittance, it was a weird night at Pignic Pub & Patio in Reno. At one point during her first set, her iPad with her Jose Davila IV 11 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Flower Fairies In 1st solo U.S. show, a photographer’s tech tricks challenge how we view beauty KATHRIN LINKERSDORFF: FAIRIES Yossi Milo Gallery 245 10th Avenue, New York, NY Through Oct. Betsy Kim 11 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven CT Folk Fest Sweetens The Heart Highway philosophers, bossa nova and a NYC harpist-singer-writer added new texture and kept the mood vibrant at New Haven’s 30th annual CT Folk Fest and Green Expo. Karen Ponzio 11 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Hartford Bella’s Bartok Beats The Post-Pandemic Blues It was an interesting concert — and that was before Jack Skellington showed up. But allow me to take a few steps back. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Jamil Ragland 8 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
LA Keith Haring Is For … Everybody? KEITH HARING: ART IS FOR EVERYBODY The Broad, Los Angeles Through Oct. 8, 2023. On a Saturday, I boarded the Long Beach Blue Line (now called the A Line, a A.J. Urquidi 8 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Boston Amid Verse-Tossing, The Cutest Date Night Of All Time Poetry Open Mic Night Trident Booksellers & Cafe 338 Newbury St, Boston Sept. 3, 2023 “And next up, Tony!” called the host of Trident Booksellers’s Poetry Open Mic Night. Sasha Patkin 8 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa Black Moonscapes Deliver First Friday Hope, Not Hype “Moonscapes & Earthshine” + TAF First Friday Programming September 1, 2023 TAF Studio 101 / Archer Studios As someone who tends to lose hours of my one wild and precious life to Alicia Chesser 8 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland My Big Fat Italian-esque Sandwich A Sack Lunch at Oakland's Lunch Box A good sandwich, for those of us who still consume the small luxury that is fresh glutinous bread, may make the Sarah Bass 8 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
LA It’s Not Pretty IT’S BETTER TO START OUT UGLY Written and directed by Asher Hartman JOAN, Los Angeles; closed The audience, on three sides, can at first imagine that they are on Martin Harries 7 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Toad’s Place Rocks In Memory Of Rohn Lawrence Toad’s Place on York Street lit up as a cadre of jazz musicians gathered to pay homage to one of New Haven’s own axe men extraordinaire, Rohn Lawrence, Lisa Gray 7 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa Tulsa, We Have A Situation: Revived Open Mic For Musicians Makes Magic The Situation August 28, 2023 Fassler Hall What’s The Situation? It’s an open mic night with a live band, but it’s so much more than that. It’ Ryan Anderson 7 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland Anemic Queer Femmes Rock Mommy Mommy, comprised of four UC Berkeley students, is all about spreading sad gurl rock: They’re queer, they’re loud, they’re sad, and they want you to know Sarah Bass 7 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven You Talkin’ To Me? Screening Prompts Reappraisal Of Taxi Driver Four decades later, the question is called: What was the point, in the end? Brian Slattery 6 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Oakland The Gallery Tech Takeover: AR You Ready? I have always sought augmented reality when I come across art: I like to touch, feel, see brush strokes on a work of art or stitches or seams from welding Sarah Bass 6 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
Tulsa Jazz Raises Monday Nights From The Dead I am a jazz simpleton. Everything about a live jazz performance is as astonishing to me as a no-look pass (and I am probably even worse at playing basketball Becky Carman 6 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
New Haven Codefendants Take The Stand — To Launch “Crime Wave” Tour Sunday night was the hottest night of the week, literally and figuratively, as Space Ballroom hosted the first Northeast U.S. show featuring Codefendants, described as a “genre fluid musical Karen Ponzio 5 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa “Drown Or Swim” New play recasts Oedipus's mother as a dancer navigating the modern age. What stories does the body tell? As we learn more about how our cells carry the Alicia Chesser 5 Sep 2023 · 4 min read