New Haven Valauskas Experience Gets Ardent The background singers were back in Memphis. So were the bass and drums. Shellye Valauskas and Dean Falcone brought just their acoustic guitars to the WNHH FM studio, and poured Paul Bass 4 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Matisse Makes Way For Pink Handcuffs Visions The Barnes Foundation 2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy Philadelphia Aug. 1, 2024 Meandering through a maze of Matisse — meaning through a wave of 20th century women generously sprawled across colorful Nora Grace-Flood 2 Aug 2024 · 5 min read
Hartford The Clarinet Speaks: Ragtime Endures Summer Concert Series: Elite Syncopation with Roy Wiseman Elizabeth Park Rose Garden West Hartford Aug. 1, 2024 After thunderstorms postponed a regularly scheduled Wednesday performance, I rang in August on Jamil Ragland 2 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa Living Memory “Living” Living Arts of Tulsa Tulsa Through Aug. 24, 2024 I’m not sure how, growing up in the Tulsa burbs, I got so obsessed with the fringes of art. Alicia Chesser 2 Aug 2024 · 6 min read
Oakland ¡Vamos Ballers! Yolo High Wheelers vs. Oakland Ballers Raimondi Park 1800 Wood Street Oakland July 28, 2024 We all like hanging out with one another at sporting events. When the sport is Agustín Maes 2 Aug 2024 · 6 min read
Philadelphia Smoke and Mirrors Sprout Money Tree Magician John Graham Smoke & Mirrors 2840 Pine Rd Huntingdon Valley, PA July 27, 2024 Deadline Poet LindoYes stopped by Huntingdon Valley magic theater Smoke & Mirrors to watch magician Lindo Yes 2 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven The Holocaust, In The First Person How do we talk about something for which we have no words? How do we develop a vocabulary for a tragedy of such volume that the human language does not Eleanor Polak 1 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland X‑FOLX ASSEMBLE! Superheroes Reframed X‑FOLX Hella Positive 1606 7th St. Oakland July 27th, 2024 Fred Noland 1 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford Finally, Crying for Megan I only found you when I stopped looking Real Art Ways Hartford July 31, 2024 I’m sure that there’s more to Denisse Griselda Reyes’ exhibit, I only found Jamil Ragland 1 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Star Secrets Revealed, As Chinese Lanterns Light Up Franklin Square Chinese Lantern Festival Franklin Square 700 Arch St. Philadelphia July 30, 2024 A live rat ran past my shoe while I was lacing up to walk through Philly’s Chinese Nora Grace-Flood 31 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven MIY: The Secret To The Creamsicle Smoothie (Click here to read a previous story about Cultured Cafe’s other notable offerings.) Liz Grace 31 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia That’s Bananas E.T. And Some Bananas Fleisher/ Ollman Gallery 915 Spring Garden St. Philadelphia July 24, 2024 I took in a wall of misshapen, flat figures with stone faced expressions — and Nora Grace-Flood 31 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
Philadelphia 75-Cent Pierogi Taste Better, Round By Round Tattooed Mom: Pierogi Thursday 530 South St. Philadelphia July 25, 2024 Mint lemonade, mango boba, peach brandy, and pineapple juice all scream summer — but a steaming hot pierogi beats a Nora Grace-Flood 31 Jul 2024 · 5 min read
Hartford With River In Sight, I Didn’t Call Her Shirley River: A Waterfront Restaurant and Bar Wethersfield July 30, 2024 River restaurant is located in an unassuming location in Old Wethersfield: the back of an office building. It’s well-hidden Jamil Ragland 31 Jul 2024 · 3 min read
Artists Blast Blerdcon BlerDCon Hyatt Regency Crystal City Arlington, Virginia July 12 – 14, 2024 Deadline Poet LindoYes took a break from Philly last week to attend BlerDCon — a convention celebrating and selling Black Lindo Yes 31 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Global Citizens, Local Fashions Oakland Renaissance: Saint Maurice Fashion Show West Oakland Matters 7th West 1255 7th St, Oakland July 27, 2024 Local art matters, and so do your neighbors. Produced in “The New Sarah Bass 31 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
LA Who Took the Gothic from the Cookie Jar? AMERICAN GOTHIC READING Night Gallery Los Angeles July 25, 2024 The United States is definitely haunted. I mean, the whole country is built on an “Indian” graveyard. And it has Brandon Sward 30 Jul 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Shaunda Holloway Shows Up For Shaunda Holloway, art is all about getting yourself a seat at the table. It’s a way to be seen, to be heard, to express yourself and then have Eleanor Polak 30 Jul 2024 · 1 min read