Oakland Small Sculptures Steal the Show Ever lost hours in search of a sculpture you saw a decade ago and only vaguely recall, both online and among your own poorly archived history? She’s bronze, just smaller than life-sized, arms behind her back, facing the vista, standing on the side of a hill. She may be getting ready to swim… Sarah Bass 25 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Talk About A Bargain Hartford’s Audio Feed concert series moved back indoors this week with The Bargain performing at the Old State House Food Court. Jamil Ragland 25 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Sausage Queen Breaks The Casing All Hail The Sausage Queen The Nest 1615 N. Delaware Ave. Philadelphia Sept. 23, 2024 Claire Pitts made free, vegan hot dogs for everyone who came to her avant garde Nora Grace-Flood 24 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Artist Shoots Artwork Many of the pieces at the latest show at Creative Arts Workshop push at the boundaries of what printmaking can do; among those are works by Kim Tester, like Witness Brian Slattery 24 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Journey Back To The (Rose) Garden John Jarboe: The Rose Garden The Fabric Workshop and Museum 1214 Arch St. Philadelphia Sept. 21, 2024 When artist John Jarboe came out as trans, her aunt didn’t hesitate Leo David 23 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Hip-Hop’s New Area Code Hip Hop 918 Guthrie Green Tulsa Sept. 14, 2024 It’s been 23 years since Ludacris and the late Nate Dogg dropped their hit single “Area Codes.” 918 wasn’t Ryan Anderson 23 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
LA What Steve Ballmer Can’t Buy INTUIT DOME ART PREVIEW Intuit Dome Inglewood We made long, slow shadows, watched them bleed into the pallid concrete. For what felt like an hour, we’d be waiting for Eli Diner 23 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford The Accordion Can Get You Moving Los Super Gs Old State House Summer Concert Series Connecticut Old State House Hartford September 20, 2024 The accordion may not be the first instrument you think of when you Jamil Ragland 23 Sep 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven “Unleash My High-School Angst” Deerlady — a songwriting project of Abrego and Obomsawin, which started its tour in August in New Mexico and wound its way here in New Haven this past weekend — established itself Brian Slattery 23 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa May We Interest You In Some Tasteful Trombone Sliding? Tulsa Symphony Orchestra: Coleman, Ravel, and Tchaikovsky Tulsa Performing Arts Center Tulsa Sept. 14, 2024 I first heard the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra at the final concert of their 2023 – 2024 Yvonne Hazelton 20 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
LA Queering The Way SCI-FI, MAGICK, QUEER L.A.: SEXUAL SCIENCE AND THE IMAGI-NATION OPENING RECEPTION Fisher Museum of Art at University of Southern California Los Angeles Sept. 5, 2024 A map at the Melissa Saywell 20 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven The Fiddler Was Playing — & Praying Austin Scelzo hit the two bottom strings of his violin, struck a couple higher notes, launched a high-lonesome lament that seemed to stretch back eight decades to rural Appalachia. Trouble Paul Bass 20 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Everything Fits Together For Creations In Studio K Tulsa Ballet: Creations In Studio K Tulsa Ballet Sept. 14, 2024 Blink and you’ll miss it: the moment when, at the end of one of the most irresistible duets Alicia Chesser 20 Sep 2024 · 5 min read
Philadelphia Sham! Bam! Thank You Ma’am! Yung Sham PhilaMOCA 531 N 12th St. Philadelphia Sept. 18, 2024 Yung Sham stumbled between songs, searching for a lost paper. “I have the lyrics written down somewhere,” he told Nora Grace-Flood 19 Sep 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Dance Yourself Clean As 3 bands make room for pop at Cafe 9. Brian Slattery 19 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Prescott Not-Quite-Night Market’s Got the Golden Goods Thirsty, not a little sweaty, and determined to fill up on some fried and salty food: a perfect recipe for enjoying an evening at West Oakland’s successful new-ish night market, now in its fourth month. Sarah Bass 19 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Proud to be Scratchy At the opening of the special exhibition “Creative Growth at 50: A Visual History,” a woman with a guide cane asked if I’d seen her reflectors. I didn’t know who she was, and I didn’t know what reflectors she was referring to. She held out her hand… Agustín Maes 19 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Philadelphia The “Dumbass” Is The Play, Not The President POTUS: Or, behind every great dumbass are seven women trying to keep him alive Arden Theatre Company 40 N 2nd St. Philadelphia Sept. 17, 2024 An intentionally timely Broadway hit, Nora Grace-Flood 18 Sep 2024 · 5 min read