Tulsa Swede Devotion: We May Not Get An IKEA But At Least We Got This Killer Dinner Tulsmå: An IKEA-Inspired Pop-Up Restaurant by Et Al. ONEOK Boathouse at the Gathering Place Tulsa June 16, 2024 Last week, I rearranged my office alone, thanks to 96 linear inches Becky Carman 21 Jun 2024 · 6 min read
Hartford Soap-Dwelling Alien Created At Juneteenth Cartoonist-Kids Confab Juneteenth Workshop Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts Hartford June 19, 2024 It’s not often that you can get free lessons from an award-winning cartoonist and writer, but that’ Jamil Ragland 20 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Low Eco-Energy Ecofutures Festival 2311 Magnolia St. Oakland June 15, 2024 Showing up “fashionably late” is perfectly acceptable for most evening fêtes, especially an outdoor event that runs until dusk during these Agustín Maes 20 Jun 2024 · 4 min read
All Over Brill Battles Bots To Rescue Truth The Death Of Truth: How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed To Destroy Trust and Polarize the World — And What We Paul Bass 20 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Ghost of King: A Reminder of Lessons Unlearned Ghost of King Michael Wayne Turner III Oakland Theater Project 1501 Martin Luther King Junior Way Oakland June 6 — 23 Fred Noland 19 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “I Won’t Miss My Human Form” Dying in hospice. Shedding the uniform known as your body. Name-checking Milford. All these topics and more flew through bar after bar of hip hop, as six acts from near Brian Slattery 19 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Night Market Boasts Baller Turnout Prescott Night Market 18th Street between Campbell and Peralta Oakland June 6, 2024 West Oakland’s landscape has been rapidly changing for more than a decade, but things towards the Sarah Bass 19 Jun 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven “Open-Mic Surgery” Successful When Brian Robinson entered the side room of Never Ending Books, he greeted everyone seated there as if they were old friends, and most of them probably were. Robinson’s Eleanor Polak 19 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
LA “I Don’t Want To Live Like This, But I Don’t Want To Die” VAMPIRE WEEKEND, ONLY GOD WAS ABOVE US TOUR Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles June 11, 2024 When I was 15 years old, I ran away from my hometown of Sonoma, California. Madeline Connors 18 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven The Fire This Time: Baldwin’s Words Woven Into New Jazz Performance What would you do to keep your reality intact? This was the question posed by composer, conductor, and jazz pianist Kevin Harris to a crowd of hundreds gathered in the Eleanor Polak 18 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Poet Slams U‑Arts Closing U‑Arts Closure Poetry Slam The Velvet Whip 11th and Vine St. Philadelphia June 16, 2024 In the aftermath of the historic University of the Arts abrupt announcement of imminent Lindo Yes 18 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven At Arts & Ideas Fest, Multitudes Contain Lear Compagnia de’ Colombari’s production of King Lear at University Theatre — whose first performance was part of Friday night’s big kickoff for the International Festival of Arts and Ideas Eleanor Polak 18 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford This Juneteenth, Young People Taught The Elders Juneteenth Freedom Day Celebration Bushnell Park Hartford June 16, 2024 This year’s Juneteenth celebration for the city of Hartford took place on Trinity Street in Bushnell Park, where the Jamil Ragland 17 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia As The World Burns, Kim Gordon Thrashes Anew Kim Gordon Union Transfer 1026 Spring Garden St June 14, 2024 “I’m a man, I’m a man, I’m a man,” 71-year-old Kim Gordon swore on repeat in Nora Grace-Flood 17 Jun 2024 · 7 min read
Hartford Never Mind Whodunit Sandra Theaterworks Hartford Through June 27, 2024 The following review contains spoilers. I went to see Sandra at Theaterworks on a Friday evening. The theater was packed, and we all Jamil Ragland 17 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Symphony Can Touch “This” Symphony in the Park Bushnell Park Hartford June 15, 2024 I love orchestral music, and I love being outside. Seeing the Hartford Symphony perform Symphony in the Park at Bushnell Jamil Ragland 17 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Ebony Hillbillies Hit The Green A pairing of two bands steeped in traditional music — Cécilia and the Ebony Hillbillies — showed the ways in which having deep roots in a particular musical style can lead to Brian Slattery 17 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford Eating In Stereo, He Grabbed For More Water Spice Venue 81 Asylum St. Hartford June 13, 2024 The only Indian food that I’m familiar with is naan, and that’s because I’m obsessed with bread no Jamil Ragland 16 Jun 2024 · 3 min read