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Now We Know Why All Over

Now We Know Why

A new "Hunger Games" prequel answers some questions and challenges us about our role amid the world' evils.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
8 Apr 2025 · 4 min read
It’s All Fun and Games Oakland

It’s All Fun and Games

Take that Shit Modesto: It’s Your Move Games hosts weekly BYOB comedy night Critical Hit, for fans and artists rolling deep in tens of bucks.

  • Go to the profile of  Frederick Noland
Frederick Noland
7 Apr 2025 · 1 min read
Ominous Harmonica Philadelphia

Ominous Harmonica

Mundanities and eerie distortions are respectively articulated during a two-act show at Johnny Brenda's.

  • Go to the profile of  Izzy True
Izzy True
7 Apr 2025 · 1 min read
If, Ands & Butts Philadelphia

If, Ands & Butts

A clown show about cybernetics takes us down a whirlpool of circular causality.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
4 Apr 2025 · 4 min read
You’re Probably More Hip-Hop Than You Know Tulsa

You’re Probably More Hip-Hop Than You Know

The Woody Guthrie Center’s new “Mixtape” exhibition brings hip-hop history together, with a little help from Digable Planets

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Anderson
Ryan Anderson
4 Apr 2025 · 7 min read
Nowhere To Go Solo Show Philadelphia

Nowhere To Go Solo Show

A Welsh one-woman play brings superficial grit to the stage.

  • Go to the profile of  Leo David
Leo David
3 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
A Full Life Through Death All Over

A Full Life Through Death

A moving, unsentimental new film follows novelist Cai Emmons through the final stages of a degenerative disease.

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
3 Apr 2025 · 8 min read
Snow New Ground All Over

Snow New Ground

In Disney remake.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
3 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
Thunderous Pipes Beneath the Fish's Bladder Oakland

Thunderous Pipes Beneath the Fish's Bladder

Inside a glass hatbox, or fish bladder, home to Christ, an organ bellowed thunderously. A recital of some classics, in a godly setting, for a Saturday afternoon.

  • Go to the profile of  Agustín Maes
Agustín Maes
3 Apr 2025 · 4 min read
A Baby DJ Grows Up Detroit

A Baby DJ Grows Up

... just a tiny bit, at Kraftwerk tribute party. .

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
3 Apr 2025 · 2 min read
Pasta & Paint Detroit

Pasta & Paint

Team up for a flavorful night showcasing local artists and local chefs.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
3 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
Fahrenheit 451 Ignites New Haven

Fahrenheit 451 Ignites

This year's Big Read.

  • Go to the profile of  Midbrow Editor
Midbrow Editor
3 Apr 2025 · 4 min read
Marcus Elliot Arrives With Big Motifs Detroit

Marcus Elliot Arrives With Big Motifs

... and I can still feel the music in my bones.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
3 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
WAX Gets Cannon Jumpin’ New Haven

WAX Gets Cannon Jumpin’

For a 3 1/2‑hour old-school hip-hop party.

  • Go to the profile of  Lisa Gray
Lisa Gray
2 Apr 2025 · 4 min read
Short Dog, That’s Oakland Baby Oakland

Short Dog, That’s Oakland Baby

Professional sports is alive and well in the Town, and you already know how Oakland it is. With the long term future of the coliseum in question, soccer fans show out in open defiance of the doom loop narrative, and of course Too $hort performed at halftime.

  • Go to the profile of  Tony Daquipa
Tony Daquipa
2 Apr 2025 · 4 min read
The 6-Hour Gelato New Haven

The 6-Hour Gelato

New caffe’s owners take their time to craft an Old Country treat.

  • Go to the profile of  Paul Bass
Paul Bass
2 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
The Eggbeater Revolution Philadelphia

The Eggbeater Revolution

A retrospective on Wanda Gag sets an old world in motion.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
1 Apr 2025 · 4 min read
Women-Only Exhibition Centers 'Female Gaze' Detroit

Women-Only Exhibition Centers 'Female Gaze'

Show curated by gallery-owner Paulina Petkoski for Women’s History Month features work by 30+ artists

  • Go to the profile of  Randiah Camille Green
Randiah Camille Green
1 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
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