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It's A Family Affair Philadelphia

It's A Family Affair

Children and Nazi literature abound at Pennsylvania's biggest gun show.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
10 Feb 2025 · 7 min read
Killer Bowl Sunday New Haven

Killer Bowl Sunday

Killer Kin drowns out the Eagles and Chiefs at the Space Ballroom

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
10 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Into the Woods: A Sensory Journey Oakland

Into the Woods: A Sensory Journey

An immersive exhibition that combines woodcut artistry, found object sculptures, and a provocative installation by Rachel Major.

  • Go to the profile of  Vita Hewitt
Vita Hewitt
10 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Power To The Novelist All Over

Power To The Novelist

A search for Black Panther truth -- through fiction.

  • Go to the profile of  Paul Bass
Paul Bass
10 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
Nuyorican Superhero Hits New Haven New Haven

Nuyorican Superhero Hits New Haven

Long Wharf Theatre’s ​“El Coquí Espectacular” brings spandex and Puerto Rican mythology

  • Go to the profile of  Aster Aguilar
Aster Aguilar
10 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Choral Classic Reborn New Haven

Choral Classic Reborn

NHSO highlights Black American composers in moving program.

  • Go to the profile of  Adam Matlock
Adam Matlock
10 Feb 2025 · 4 min read
Prine-Tuned Folk New Haven

Prine-Tuned Folk

Vance Gilbert channels a late singer-songwriter who helped set him on his path.

  • Go to the profile of  Midbrow Editor
Midbrow Editor
9 Feb 2025 · 2 min read
It's OK To Laugh Sometimes Detroit

It's OK To Laugh Sometimes

Even when serious matters of race and sex are explored in Dominique Morisseau's "Confederates."

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
9 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Twyla Tharp Shows Off 60 Years of Dance Detroit

Twyla Tharp Shows Off 60 Years of Dance

Still going strong, with new collaborations minus some needed color.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
9 Feb 2025 · 2 min read
Poets Rise From The Dead Philadelphia

Poets Rise From The Dead

A new opera places poets Amy Lowell, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sappho and Emily Dickinson in conversation with one another.

  • Go to the profile of  Leo David
Leo David
7 Feb 2025 · 2 min read
Desert Hearts Sizzle As The Snow Falls New Haven

Desert Hearts Sizzle As The Snow Falls

At this month's Queer Film Club gathering.

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
7 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Artists Bloom In Darkness New Haven

Artists Bloom In Darkness

& bring together shared heritage and search for connections, at Ely Center.

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
7 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Gray in Black-and-White Oakland

Gray in Black-and-White

Coleen Gray graced the big screen back-to-back for night two of this year’s Noir City film festival.

  • Go to the profile of  Jeff Kaliss
Jeff Kaliss
6 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
"Super Normal" Throne Philadelphia

"Super Normal" Throne

At the Museum of Art, an on-display designer toilet flushes minimalism out of sight and mind.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
6 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Shoegaze Takes A Slowdive New Haven

Shoegaze Takes A Slowdive

College Street Music Hall show demonstrates the staying power of a genre.

  • Go to the profile of  Leo Slattery
Leo Slattery
6 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
What's Up, Mock? New Haven

What's Up, Mock?

A Bugs-inspired alcohol-free libation lives on past Dry January at the Anchor.

  • Go to the profile of  Liz Grace
Liz Grace
6 Feb 2025 · 1 min read
Resist ICE — With Alexis’s Tacos al Pastor New Haven

Resist ICE — With Alexis’s Tacos al Pastor

Today’s tasty take on helping defrost the ICE chill on immigrant food culture.

  • Go to the profile of  Midbrow Editor
Midbrow Editor
6 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Stellar, Defiant "Everyday People" Detroit

Stellar, Defiant "Everyday People"

Are on display in the latest Carr Center group exhibition.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
6 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
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