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The Bore On Christmas All Over

The Bore On Christmas

Red One starts the holiday movie season with a militaristic misfire.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
20 Nov 2024 · 2 min read
Kaleidoscopic Mural Unveiled New Haven

Kaleidoscopic Mural Unveiled

Philly muralists bring a dazzling new canvas to a 240-foot blank warehouse wall in a faded industrial stretch of New Haven primed for revival.

  • Go to the profile of  Lisa Reisman
Lisa Reisman
20 Nov 2024 · 4 min read
(Do!) Touch The Art Philadelphia

(Do!) Touch The Art

The word “haptic” is derived from the Greek "haptikos," which translates to “able to touch or grasp.” For anyone with a Disability that affects one or more of their five senses, the ability to touch visual artwork can be a key means of gripping the creator’s sense of style, intent and meaning.

  • Go to the profile of  Clay Davies
Clay Davies
19 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
Swipe Not Right Philadelphia

Swipe Not Right

Amiko Li's slide-deck photo exhibit captures the dark and light of dating-app culture.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
18 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
tulsa, music, hip hop, dreamland, steph simon, greenwood Tulsa

As A Dream Gets Reimagined, The Dreamland Festival Levels Up

The festival felt like a Summer Jam or a SXSW, with panel discussions and multi-venue community activations that celebrated hip-hop through art, music and film.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Anderson
Ryan Anderson
17 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
tulsa, art, visual art, indigenous, bipoc, women, 2-spirit Tulsa

Tradition As Transmission

What if we thought about traditions as active, living things—less like ossified forms and more like natural organisms?

  • Go to the profile of  Alicia Chesser
Alicia Chesser
17 Nov 2024 · 5 min read
Doing It Apocalypse Style Philadelphia

Doing It Apocalypse Style

This week's round-up with a comic from Izzy True.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
  • Go to the profile of  Izzy True
Nora Grace-Flood, Izzy True
16 Nov 2024 · 1 min read
Hovering Above the Baseboards, Peering Down from Above Oakland

Hovering Above the Baseboards, Peering Down from Above

The strange curation of this show lends to the exhibit’s whimsy and playfulness: delightfully eccentric and bizarro.

  • Go to the profile of  Agustín Maes
Agustín Maes
14 Nov 2024 · 4 min read
How To Sew A Seamless Story Philadelphia

How To Sew A Seamless Story

Arden Theatre stitches together Lynn Nottage's "Intimate Apparel."

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
14 Nov 2024 · 4 min read
tulsa, music, experimental, improv Tulsa

Descend Into The Sonic Abyss In The Heart Of Midtown Tulsa

Spatially engaged composition at its finest from local string weirdos Snobug.

  • Go to the profile of  CARL ANTONOWICZ
CARL ANTONOWICZ
14 Nov 2024 · 1 min read
TikToker Tour Turnout Serves Boy Band A Second Shot Philadelphia

TikToker Tour Turnout Serves Boy Band A Second Shot

Resuscitated by the Internet, Panchiko roars into a sea of awkward acne.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
13 Nov 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland

Oakland Symphony's Carmina Burana and Two Black Churches Pack a Powerful Message

More than a hundred voices accompanied by a full orchestra gave our our soul a sense of elation that we didn't know it was missing.

  • Go to the profile of  Vita Hewitt
Vita Hewitt
11 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
DIY Love Philadelphia

DIY Love

A Mickalene Thomas exhibition inspired by French Black erotica from the 1950s shows It’s up to us to collage together the truths of our existence — and show everyone else what we’re made of.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
11 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
Tabla Tag Tugs At Heartstrings Philadelphia

Tabla Tag Tugs At Heartstrings

Anirudh watches Vinay closely and catches him expertly. There is so much charisma in these exchanges, it's a game they are playing together.

  • Go to the profile of  Izzy True
Izzy True
10 Nov 2024 · 1 min read
tulsa, dance, ballet, vampires, dracula, tulsa ballet, houston ballet Tulsa

The Vampire Business Is Booming

Tulsa Ballet's "Dracula" plays it straight. But that cape is fabulous.

  • Go to the profile of  Alicia Chesser
Alicia Chesser
8 Nov 2024 · 5 min read
tulsa, sports, tournament, pickleball, day of the dead, dia de los muertos Tulsa

There Was Very Little Día de Los Muertos at the Día de Los Muertos Pickleball Tournament

If we’re fortunate, the ancestors might still look down and smile.

  • Go to the profile of  Z.B. Reeves
Z.B. Reeves
8 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
How An Alcoholic Asshole Made Me Cry Hartford

How An Alcoholic Asshole Made Me Cry

The new film The Outrun gets past the cliches about substance abuse and recovery.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
8 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
Rohrer or Rorschach? Philadelphia

Rohrer or Rorschach?

Return to the Land puts the viewer to the test.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
7 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
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