Tulsa

Misery Wrapped In A Pink Bow

Charlotte Bumgarner: “Promise” EP Release Show LowDown Tulsa Aug. 16, 2024 For a singer-songwriter whose songs feature on a Spotify playlist named “broken love songs to feed your misery,” Charlotte

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Z.B. Reeves

25 Aug 2024 · 2 min read

Oakland

A Breathtaking Sax Summit

The café tables and booths at Geoffrey’s filled quickly at the 6 p.m. start time on a recent Sunday for what was billed as The Great Saxophone Summit, hosted by Faye, with Joe sharing house…

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Jeff Kaliss

25 Aug 2024 · 2 min read

Hartford

Snack Time Ripe-ns With A Dance Party

Ripe Hartford Live Old State House Aug. 22, 2024 I arrived seven minutes late to the area between the Old State House and the food court to see the band

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Jamil Ragland

25 Aug 2024 · 3 min read

Oakland

Bahn Mi Brings It, Sans Sriracha

Just a few short blocks from Lake Merritt, this low profile all-day cafe makes good on its name...[with] sandwiches and salads, wraps, rice bowls, breakfast bites, a handful of pastries, and smoothies and juices a plenty, the small kitchen has something for many palates.

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Sarah Bass

25 Aug 2024 · 4 min read

Tulsa

Tulsa’s Vibrant, Homegrown ​“Fiddler” Has It All

TPAC Produces: Fiddler On The Roof Tulsa Performing Arts Center Tulsa August 18, 2024 “I didn’t know Tulsa theatre could do that.” It’s a sentence I regularly hope

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Alicia Chesser

25 Aug 2024 · 6 min read

New Haven

Black & Brown Artists Abstract Origins

Howard el-Yasin’s My Mother’s Hose hangs at one end of Orchid Gallery in The Lab at ConnCORP, redolent with associations without landing definitively on a single one. From

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Brian Slattery

25 Aug 2024 · 1 min read

New Haven

Artist Makes The Mythology

Ralph Levesque’s Match Maker, at first glance, looks like religious art, from the halo encircling one of the figures to the positions of the figures in relation to each

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Brian Slattery

25 Aug 2024 · 1 min read

New Haven

Photography Show Sees Through Younger Eyes

Bethany Edwards’s The Eye of the Beholder is both formal and relaxed. It’s formal in the staged positioning of the two subjects, the way that (it appears) they

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Brian Slattery

25 Aug 2024 · 1 min read

Hartford

One Character Short For A Love Story

Touch Cinestudio Hartford Aug. 19, 2024 This review contains spoilers for the movie. “What’s going on, Miko? Can you tell me what you’re thinking?” Kristófer, the main character

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Jamil Ragland

23 Aug 2024 · 3 min read

Chicago

DNC Diary Day 4: Signs of the Times

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Fred Noland

23 Aug 2024 · 1 min read

Oakland

DNC Diary Day 3

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Fred Noland

22 Aug 2024 · 1 min read

LA

Are You Okay, My Love?

St. Vincent w/ Eartheater & Maiah Manser The Greek Theater Los Angeles Aug. 16, 2024 Halfway through her concert at Griffith Park’s Greek Theatre, I decide St. Vincent is

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Madeline Connors

22 Aug 2024 · 2 min read

Hartford

Next Gen Rocks Under-21 Open Mic

Amplify: Under 21 Open Mic Hartford Aug. 20, 2024 One of the first events I covered this summer was the Under 21 open mic put on by the Hartford Business

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Jamil Ragland

22 Aug 2024 · 2 min read

Oakland

DNC Diary Day 2: Unite and Conquer

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Fred Noland

21 Aug 2024 · 1 min read

Oakland

Making Waves: New Barbers On the Block

The frenzy began, with a dozen students vying for aesthetic bragging rights, and all laser-focused on the model (often a fellow student) in their chair. Tools, spare hair, and gel flashed in hands, on hands, on the floor.

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Sarah Bass

21 Aug 2024 · 4 min read

LA

I Would Do Anything For Indie Sleaze

Amid all this talk about indie sleaze, there’s woefully little nostalgia for the exuberant indie pop of the late aughts and early 2010s. Think back: which bands played on

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Brittany Menjivar

20 Aug 2024 · 3 min read

Philadelphia

Want A Snack With Your Sculpture?

Rodin Garden Bar Rodin Museum Philadelphia Aug. 16, 2024 Over the summer months, the garden at the Rodin Museum transforms. Guests flock to what becomes the weekly Friday Pop-Up Garden

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Emily Cohen

20 Aug 2024 · 3 min read

Oakland

DNC Diary Day 1: Finding The Light In Chicago

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Fred Noland

20 Aug 2024 · 1 min read