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DJ Ryan's New Release Of The Week: Madison McFerrin, “Ain’t It Nice” All Over

DJ Ryan's New Release Of The Week: Madison McFerrin, “Ain’t It Nice”

Funky synths add weight to a slowly unraveling gem

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
26 Oct 2025 · 2 min read
For Sport or For Self? Philadelphia

For Sport or For Self?

A pop-up pub play explores the limits of competitive sport's spirit — through an-all-too abrupt ending to both the game and the show.

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Leo David
25 Oct 2025 · 3 min read
Face Me. Don't Arrest Me Hartford

Face Me. Don't Arrest Me

Widener Gallery exhibit explores being a person of color in a new age of automated and algorithmic surveillance

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Jamil Ragland
24 Oct 2025 · 3 min read
Improv 101: Learning How To Be There For Each Other Baton Rouge

Improv 101: Learning How To Be There For Each Other

Newly minted comics showed their skills at a Boomerang Theater showcase

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Serena Puang
24 Oct 2025 · 4 min read
Prints of Darkness New Haven

Prints of Darkness

Printmakers find the light in Yale gallery show.

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Brian Slattery
24 Oct 2025 · 5 min read
Today’s Special: Bryan Burke’s Gabagool Detroit-style Pizza New Haven

Today’s Special: Bryan Burke’s Gabagool Detroit-style Pizza

When owner Ankit Chellani first broached the idea of a new Detroit-style pizza joint, his executive chef Bryan Burke had reservations. Sure, he was a pizza guy, having found his

  • Go to the profile of  Lisa Reisman
Lisa Reisman
24 Oct 2025 · 3 min read
Don't Be That Person Detroit

Don't Be That Person

A cellphone ring ruins a moment, but not the evening, of "American Ballet"

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Erica Hobbs
24 Oct 2025 · 3 min read
Past, Present, and Future of Detroit Fine Art on Full Display Detroit

Past, Present, and Future of Detroit Fine Art on Full Display

Multigenerational team of curators brings together historic and contemporary Detroit works in a powerful creative dialogue

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Layla McMurtrie
24 Oct 2025 · 4 min read
Rocking The Aging Trail With Pierce The Veil Hartford

Rocking The Aging Trail With Pierce The Veil

Nearly two decades later, they can still electrify an arena

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Jamil Ragland
23 Oct 2025 · 2 min read
Onstage, Wednesday Addams Falls In Love Baton Rouge

Onstage, Wednesday Addams Falls In Love

Touring musical doesn't completely add up.

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Serena Puang
23 Oct 2025 · 3 min read
Like The Restaurant Workers She Portrays, Sophia del Rio’s “Mise en Place” Accomplishes A Lot With A Little Tulsa

Like The Restaurant Workers She Portrays, Sophia del Rio’s “Mise en Place” Accomplishes A Lot With A Little

The show at Positive Space is a reflection—and indictment—of the restaurant industry

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Alicia Chesser
23 Oct 2025 · 4 min read
"Catch Me If You Can" Doesn't Catch Detroit

"Catch Me If You Can" Doesn't Catch

At the Meadow Brook.

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Erica Hobbs
23 Oct 2025 · 2 min read
If Eyebrows Could Talk Detroit

If Eyebrows Could Talk

Richard Thomas brings Mark Twain to life at the Fisher Theatre.

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Erica Hobbs
23 Oct 2025 · 2 min read
Ukrainian Soldiers’ Art Raises Monday For Wounded Vets New Haven

Ukrainian Soldiers’ Art Raises Monday For Wounded Vets

At a New Haven Ukrainian church.

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Midbrow Editor
23 Oct 2025 · 3 min read
Noise Music Isn't Just Noise—Even When It Is Tulsa

Noise Music Isn't Just Noise—Even When It Is

In Owen Park’s new Drifters Theater, local musicians and a touring heavyweight conjured up something new.

  • Go to the profile of  Henry Roanhorse Gray
Henry Roanhorse Gray
22 Oct 2025 · 7 min read
African American Art Reimagined Detroit

African American Art Reimagined

At Detroit Institute of Arts.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
22 Oct 2025 · 3 min read
Dispatches from DeFremery Oakland

Dispatches from DeFremery

Life is Living makes its annual offering to the community.

  • Go to the profile of  Sarah Bass
Sarah Bass
21 Oct 2025 · 3 min read
MENDAX, And The Familial Joy Of Detroit Hip Hop Detroit

MENDAX, And The Familial Joy Of Detroit Hip Hop

Were on display at the Meltdown Festival.

  • Go to the profile of  Layla McMurtrie
Layla McMurtrie
21 Oct 2025 · 3 min read
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