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From One Man, Multitudes

From One Man, Multitudes

American Renaissance art gets its due, at Yale University Art Gallery

Brian Slattery

23 Oct 2024 · 5 min read

Black Cowboys: Sparking the Imagination and Correcting the Historical Record

Black Cowboys: Sparking the Imagination and Correcting the Historical Record

How many Black movie cowboys can you remember? Danny Glover in Silverado, Morgan Freeman in Unforgiven, and, of course, Cleavon LIttle in Blazing Saddles. Arguably the best. If I asked the same of White cowboys, we would be here all day.

Fred Noland

23 Oct 2024 · 1 min read

Foot Tappers Touch The 1920s

Foot Tappers Touch The 1920s

Four-piece Gypsy swing band The West Philly Foot Tappers brought 1930s Prohibition-era sounds across state lines to Delaware speakeasy “Hummingbird to Mars” on Thursday.

Emily Cohen

22 Oct 2024 · 2 min read

Hit The Bowl, Mac

Hit The Bowl, Mac

Liz Grace picks up the recipe for plant-based mac & cheese from a vegan-trending Soul Greenery.

Liz Grace

22 Oct 2024 · 1 min read

A Gory Substance

A Gory Substance

We say body horror, I believe, because we have no better words. The production’s heavy use of intricate prosthetics exaggerate the horror that is a human form, with silicone rearing its ugly head in an unexpected ways for Hollywood.

Sarah Bass

22 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Blues and Culture in a West Oakland Lot

Blues and Culture in a West Oakland Lot

Remember — Dance is good for your mind, body, spirit, and mental health.

Fred Noland

22 Oct 2024 · 1 min read

A Question For The (Sub)Culture

A Question For The (Sub)Culture

Brittany Menjivar enters the Void to get slizzard at the Subculture anniversary party in Mid-City.

Brittany Menjivar

22 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Through A Glass, Brightly

Through A Glass, Brightly

At Kehler Liddell Gallery's "overtones" and "bold as Love" shows.

Brian Slattery

22 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

We Lived to Tell

We Lived to Tell

A. J. Urquidi splurges on emo guyliner at his mall’s Hot Topic before watching Saosin play their timeless debut record live in Garden Grove.

A.J. Urquidi

22 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Dancing Outside The Lines

Dancing Outside The Lines

“My name is Donkey, I use they/ them pronouns, and I am your host for the night,” a denim-clad cow-dude told a room full of non-conforming honky-tonkers before leading a lesson on line dancing for dummies.

Nora Grace-Flood

21 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

A Holocaust Morality Tale, With One Hitch

A Holocaust Morality Tale, With One Hitch

In the film White Bird, wolves bring individual culpability into focus.

Jamil Ragland

21 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

Yes, I’m “Bored of the Negro Problem”

Yes, I’m “Bored of the Negro Problem”

HartBeat Ensemble’s production of Jimmy and Lorraine: A Musing, which chronicles the friendship of famed African-American writers James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry, brings two of the giants of American literature to a present day...

Jamil Ragland

21 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Chopped Glass & Palm-Sized Homes

Chopped Glass & Palm-Sized Homes

This weekend was the turn of artists at Willow Street's Marlin Works complex to invite the public in for Open Studios.

Karen Ponzio

21 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

Hey Erector Square: Who You Calling Meat Face?

Hey Erector Square: Who You Calling Meat Face?

Amelia Ingraham's "MeatFace" captures the vibe of the artwork being put together in studios where workers once produced America's erector sets.

Brian Slattery

21 Oct 2024 · 8 min read

Style Shines Bright on Oakland Rooftop

Style Shines Bright on Oakland Rooftop

The High 5ive Rooftop Bar at the Kissel Uptown Oakland boasts a stunning view of Oakland; currently in more ways than one. 100 Faces of Oakland, an ambitious project sponsored by Visit Oakland and created by photographers Anthony Weaver and Patanisha Williams, is on display through October 31st.

Vita Hewitt

20 Oct 2024 · 2 min read

Tulsa Is Not-So-Secretly Fond Of Orville Peck

Tulsa Is Not-So-Secretly Fond Of Orville Peck

What do you call a gay cowboy? Until recently, your uncle might have said “a jolly rancher,” but the collective pop culture mind now turns immediately to THE gay cowboy: Orville Peck.

Mitch Gilliam

20 Oct 2024 · 2 min read

The Hell We’ve Allowed Ourselves To Fall Into

The Hell We’ve Allowed Ourselves To Fall Into

Photographer Peter Brown has transformed a harrowing experience into a mind-bending display of resilience and recovery with Memories Misused at Real Art Ways.

Jamil Ragland

20 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

TheaterWorks Season Opens With A Promising Extinction-Level Event

TheaterWorks Season Opens With A Promising Extinction-Level Event

Fever Dreams tells the story of Zach and Adele, two lovers who have absconded away to a cabin in the woods for a weekend of passionate sex and food. Eventually Adele’s husband, and Zach’s former best friend, Miller shows up, and a series of revelations rock Zach’s world

Jamil Ragland

20 Oct 2024 · 3 min read