Oakland “What, You Don’t Like Keyboards?” Fantastic Negrito & Friends Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak St, Oakland May 10, 2024 Seeing Fantastic Negrito & Friends at the latest Friday night event at Oakland Museum of Stacey Peters 15 May 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland #WeStillHere: A “510 Day” Love Letter to Oakland Amid Gentrification 510 Day Lake Merritt Oakland May 10, 2024 510 Day is a true celebration for Black Oakland and Oakland natives, a “cultural resilience” gathering of Oaklanders of all kinds. The Lisa Gray 14 May 2024 · 6 min read
Philadelphia Dave Cope Crafts A “Hidden World” Dave Cope and the Sass Dawson St. Pub 100 Dawson St. Philadelphia May 10, 2024 Shadows of cigarette smoke cha-cha’d alongside smooth-moving middle-agers on the makeshift dance floor of Nora Grace-Flood 14 May 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford “The Hartford Sound” Is A Real Thing Jazz 201: Unsung Legends and the Hartford Jazz Scene Hartford Public Library Hartford May 13, 2024 There’s a special sound that only jazz musicians trained in Hartford can perform. Jamil Ragland 14 May 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Artists Bend Time’s Arrow In Sean Patrick Gallagher’s series of paintings, the sea roils red. The image is clear enough, but the title brings home the allusions the artist is leaning toward. “Wine-dark, Brian Slattery 14 May 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Tommy Orange Goes There (There) Oakland Arts and Lectures: Tommy Orange and Dr. Darcie Littlefoot Hosted by Sistah Scifi Oakstop’s Broadway Gallery 1723 Broadway Ave. Oakland There There, published in 2018, was Tommy Orange’ Sarah Bass 14 May 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Today’s Special: Megan’s Garganelli Legend has it that garganelli originated with a Bolognese housewife was making tortellini for her guests when she realized her cat had devoured all the filling. So she took the Lisa Reisman 13 May 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Daring to Dream: Mx. Yaffa’s Utopia Inara: Light of Utopia Oakland Launch 510 Firehouse 815 Alice St. Oakland May 6, 2024 “No one ever stops to ask what a free Palestine looks like.” I got to Stacey Peters 13 May 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa “Lucky Bubby” Inspires A Feast Of A Show June Kosloff: “Recipes For Life: The Lucky Bubby Cookbook” Positive Space Tulsa May 4, 2024 Quietly but persistently, Positive Space has become one of Tulsa’s most vital art spaces, Alicia Chesser 12 May 2024 · 5 min read
LA Punk’s Promise PUNKCON 3 California State University Fullerton, Cal. May 4, 2024 It’s been a landmark week for US universities dusting off their suppression manuals and calling for armed backup to A.J. Urquidi 12 May 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Moms In Bands, Outnumbered By Dads In Bands, Chase Rockstar Dreams Grace Yukich picked up her first acoustic guitar in high school, in Opelika, Alabama, in the mid 1990s. Women like Alanis Morissette and Courtney Love ruled the burgeoning alt-rock music Marisa Torrieri Bloom 10 May 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Talking To God In A Tulsa Jazz Club The John Hanrahan Quartet Performs “A Love Supreme” LowDown May 4, 2024 The liner notes to John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme are sublime. Coltrane describes his album as a Z.B. Reeves 10 May 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Hip Hip And Folk Punk Bring Hope To The Stage Hip hop and folk punk came together Wednesday night at Cafe Nine to offer stories of persistence, hope, and detective work as DJ Halo, Tommy V, MJ Bones, Indigaux, MC Brian Slattery 9 May 2024 · 1 min read
LA Most Valuable Pfeiffer PAUL PFEIFFER: PROLOGUE TO THE STORY OF THE BIRTH OF FREEDOM Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles Through June 16, 2024 I hate sports. I’ve come around to physical Brandon Sward 8 May 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Down The Rabbit Hole … Of Cocktails And Dancing Mad Tea Party Children’s Fairyland Oakland May 4, 2024 My friend Dorothy was stuck in the slide at Children’s Fairyland in Oakland. I couldn’t see her, but Stacey Peters 8 May 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Breakfast Is Other People Ashley’s Breakfast and Lunch Hartford May 8, 2024 I’ve been going to Ashley’s on Main Street since I was a kid. It was a special treat when Jamil Ragland 8 May 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Deadline Poet Reports: Encampment Sweep Triggers Eviction Memory Philadelphia’s Parker administration took action Wednesday to remove 50 people remaining at a Kensington Avenue tent city, the final push in a month-long “encampment resolution” that’s cracking down Lindo Yes 8 May 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland A Bright, Bright Dark Dance With The Dark Works by J. Brian @ BOOK/SHOP 485 9th St. Oakland May 3, 2024 Four oversized canvases on display at Book/Shop both dwarfed their cozy surroundings Sarah Bass 8 May 2024 · 4 min read
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