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A Hip-Hop Birthday Party For The Ages Tulsa

A Hip-Hop Birthday Party For The Ages

Tulsa's hip-hop DJs come together to celebrate one of their own.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Anderson
Ryan Anderson
23 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
"Bernhardt/Hamlet" Goes Meta Detroit

"Bernhardt/Hamlet" Goes Meta

A play about Sarah Bernhardt playing the Prince of Denmark onstage aims high, comes up short

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
22 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
The Wisdom Of Our Plantcestors Detroit

The Wisdom Of Our Plantcestors

Memory and emotion, in color, connect in "Lay of the Land" group exhibition.

  • Go to the profile of  Randiah Camille Green
Randiah Camille Green
22 Jan 2025 · 2 min read
The Best & Brightest Have ​“One of Them Days” All Over

The Best & Brightest Have ​“One of Them Days”

New film showcases talents some of today’s best and brightest African American stars

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
22 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
Overdressed Symphony Philadelphia

Overdressed Symphony

An infusion of contemporary poetry into an orchestral concert at the Kimmel Center underscores the importance of letting music speak for itself.

  • Go to the profile of  Leo David
Leo David
22 Jan 2025 · 2 min read
First In Show Oakland

First In Show

Oakland artist Marsha Balian’s collages offer an alternate reality, one in which fantastical histories and cat-men can coexist.

  • Go to the profile of  Sarah Bass
Sarah Bass
21 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
Philly Stands Up for Cumbia Philadelphia

Philly Stands Up for Cumbia

The legacies of Colombian music legends lit and lifted up Philly's Fire Museum in concert.

  • Go to the profile of  Izzy True
Izzy True
21 Jan 2025 · 1 min read
Freedom Dreamed New Haven

Freedom Dreamed

At 29th MLK Day poetry slam.

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
21 Jan 2025 · 6 min read
Underground Railroad Revisited Detroit

Underground Railroad Revisited

A "Flight To Freedom" tour sparked parallels to today's journeys to freedom.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
21 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
Last Dance At The Auto Prom Detroit

Last Dance At The Auto Prom

I rented a tux -- and barely got out alive.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
20 Jan 2025 · 4 min read
A Breath Of Fresh Air In A Polluted Art World Detroit

A Breath Of Fresh Air In A Polluted Art World

"Lay of the Land" group exhibition turns environmentalism into abstraction.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
20 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
Cynicism and Singing: David Cross Mildly Amuses Oakland

Cynicism and Singing: David Cross Mildly Amuses

An old dog with old bits - David Cross‘s brand of "alternative comedy" is now only reminiscent of his once-edgy standup from twenty years ago.

  • Go to the profile of  Frederick Noland
Frederick Noland
20 Jan 2025 · 1 min read
Swimming With Trash Fish Philadelphia

Swimming With Trash Fish

Jedediah Morfit's exhibit, "Your Myths are Trash," is a sculptural dumpster-dive into the lies we're living through.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
20 Jan 2025 · 4 min read
Synchronicity Set New Haven

Synchronicity Set

Jazz trio Clutchtet brings the underground aboveground to a popular New Haven bar

  • Go to the profile of  Etai Smotrich-Barr
Etai Smotrich-Barr
20 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
From The Banks Of God's River Hartford

From The Banks Of God's River

A gallery awakening.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
19 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
Afro Bowie: A Gathering of Glamblerds Deferred Oakland

Afro Bowie: A Gathering of Glamblerds Deferred

Afro Bowie brings together Bowie-loving musicians and fans to celebrate David Bowie’s birthday and memorialize his passing. This year, however, LA’s fires ground the planned celebration to a halt.

  • Go to the profile of  Frederick Noland
Frederick Noland
17 Jan 2025 · 1 min read
Young Man Sings "Old Man" Hartford

Young Man Sings "Old Man"

At warmed-up Winter Blues Fest.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
17 Jan 2025 · 2 min read
Ever Seen A Man Boiled To Death? Philadelphia

Ever Seen A Man Boiled To Death?

Musician Geordie Greep in concert strikes cartoonist Izzy True as "one of the strangest men I have seen in a long time."

  • Go to the profile of  Izzy True
Izzy True
17 Jan 2025 · 1 min read
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