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The Art of Looking (Alike) Philadelphia

The Art of Looking (Alike)

Close to 300 Jalen Hurts fans attend a grassroots look-alike contest organized in the star quarterback’s honor.

  • Go to the profile of  Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
16 Dec 2024 · 4 min read
Readymades and Rollers Oakland

Readymades and Rollers

How does one make what’s already present newly present? Prick up your visual ears.

  • Go to the profile of  Agustín Maes
Agustín Maes
16 Dec 2024 · 4 min read
Dungeons, Dragons, and Drag Queens: Let’s Ride Oakland

Dungeons, Dragons, and Drag Queens: Let’s Ride

Not your average—if there is such a thing—game of D&D. These magical queens take things to the next level at Rockridge Improvement Club monthly.

  • Go to the profile of  Vita Hewitt
Vita Hewitt
16 Dec 2024 · 4 min read
Punxmas Descends Into The Cellar New Haven

Punxmas Descends Into The Cellar

It was max hysteria all afternoon and night on Treadwell.

  • Go to the profile of  Karen Ponzio
Karen Ponzio
16 Dec 2024 · 3 min read
Beer, Pizza And—What the Hell—Prose Tulsa

Beer, Pizza And—What the Hell—Prose

A beloved prose-centered reading series (not a makeout sesh) makes a comeback.

  • Go to the profile of  Cassidy McCants
Cassidy McCants
13 Dec 2024 · 4 min read
Welcome Aboard, Motor City! Detroit

Welcome Aboard, Motor City!

Midbrow is expanding to Detroit! Founder Paul Bass reports from the scene of the latest "scrappy, soulful underdog city" boasting reviewers ready to start reporting on their community's arts and culture.

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Paul Bass
13 Dec 2024 · 7 min read
tulsa, music, theater, off-broadway, musical Tulsa

For a Good Time Call Caitlin Cook

“Since writing on toilet walls is done neither for critical acclaim nor financial reward, it is the purest form of art. Discuss.”

  • Go to the profile of  Cassidy McCants
Cassidy McCants
13 Dec 2024 · 3 min read
tulsa, music, cain's ballroom, wilco Tulsa

Wilco Played 66 Songs On Route 66

Why did we bravely ignore our lower back pain, stay up past 11:00pm and suffer the indignity of an early alarm clock to do this, not once but twice?

  • Go to the profile of  Matt Carney
Matt Carney
13 Dec 2024 · 5 min read
A Journey Through Memory and Displacement Oakland

A Journey Through Memory and Displacement

Artist Shirin Towfiq shared “images as ghostly as long forgotten memories” at Clio’s Books for this month’s installation of See(d) Art Series.

  • Go to the profile of  Vita Hewitt
Vita Hewitt
13 Dec 2024 · 5 min read
The Snow Balls Fight Back Philadelphia

The Snow Balls Fight Back

A series of eerily etched snowman smiles in a holiday-season exhibit show the menacing underbelly of made-to-melt-away society.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
13 Dec 2024 · 2 min read
Jazz Heads Take Over Detroit

Jazz Heads Take Over

Elew lets loose at a Detroit spot that changes character as the weekend begins.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
13 Dec 2024 · 2 min read
Crisis Averted? New Haven

Crisis Averted?

Or only just begun, as viewed in new City Gallery exhibition.

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
13 Dec 2024 · 3 min read
Pieces of Pieces into New Pieces Oakland

Pieces of Pieces into New Pieces

One can easily get lost in these collages: every detail a world unto itself. Welcome to Open Studios with Katie McCann and Marsha Balian.

  • Go to the profile of  Agustín Maes
Agustín Maes
12 Dec 2024 · 4 min read
A Reason To Like Mondays Detroit

A Reason To Like Mondays

A deejay at Motor City Wine showed that Detroit can be a seven-night-a-week music town.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
12 Dec 2024 · 2 min read
The Gloved One Hartford

The Gloved One

Jamaal Fields-Green captures the King of Pop onstage in MJ.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
12 Dec 2024 · 3 min read
Bathroom Behavior New Haven

Bathroom Behavior

Can be pretty revealing, and intriguing, especially as photographed by Merik Goma.

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
12 Dec 2024 · 8 min read
A Hard Nutcracker Philadelphia

A Hard Nutcracker

Chris Davis challenges his 42-year-old dad quads to a comedic solo rendition of a holiday family favorite.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
11 Dec 2024 · 4 min read
Craft Day at the Crazy House Oakland

Craft Day at the Crazy House

At Jingletown Art Studios, artists Patricia Guthrie and Shellz share a spirit of transformative boldness, spanning media and tradition. Guthrie’s quilts challenge traditional craft and Shellz’s vivid animal portraits speak urgently to environmental issues.

  • Go to the profile of  Vita Hewitt
Vita Hewitt
11 Dec 2024 · 4 min read
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