LA Pay Pigs, Incels, and Young Sociopaths PARASOCIALITE BOOK LAUNCH WITH BRITTANY MENJIVAR Stories Books & Café Los Angeles March 15, 2024 Last year, Brittany Menjivar co-founded the late-night reading series Car Crash Collective. This year, the A.J. Brown 24 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa Discomfort Breeds Discovery At A Tulsa Music-Poetry Smash Poetry & Music Smash-Up Living Arts of Tulsa March 13, 2024 Apparently Zhenya Yevtushenko, our emcee for last Friday’s Poetry & Music Smash-Up, had been dreaming of this “one-night-only” Cassidy McCants 24 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Chamber Music, Tulsa Style Chamber Music Tulsa Friday Gallery Concert: Horszowski Trio 101 Archer March 15, 2024 When I moved to Tulsa from Paris last year, I knew I’d have to make some Yvonne Hazelton 24 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Metalhead Journey Avenged Avenged Sevenfold with Poppy and Sullivan King Mohegan Sun Casino Uncasville March 21, 2024 The last time I wrote about attending a metal show, I talked about how I’d Jamil Ragland 22 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Yale Gallery Goes Beyond“The Scream” The Yale University Art Gallery’s show “Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression” — running now through June 23 on the gallery’s fourth floor at 1111 Chapel St. — begins with Brian Slattery 22 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Mouth Music Oakland Restaurant Week Burma Superstar 4721 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland When a guy emphasizes how much he doesn’t like eggplant each time he goes for another spoonful — again and again Agustín Maes 22 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Atomic Blondes And Gothic Angels Stalk The Fox The Kills and Heartworms The Fox Theater Oakland March 16, 2024 If you’ve ever wondered whether a band consisting of just two people could make enough of a racket Stacey Peters 21 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
LA Towards a New Plastic Order ONLY THE YOUNG: EXPERIMENTAL ART IN KOREA, 1960s – 1970s Hammer Museum Los Angeles Through May 24, 2024. Inside the collegiate enclave that is the UCLA-adjacent neighborhood of Westwood, art history Emma dePaulo Reid 21 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Angel Food Blowout Angel Food Magazine Launch Sisters Brooklyn, NYC March 20, 2024 Here we continue documentation of the early 2020s NYC literary magazine boom. I was genuinely excited for this one, the K Hank Jost 21 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Troy/Albany Suzan-Lori Parks’ Scarlet Update Draws Blood In the Blood Saint Rose Theater Albany N.Y. March 15, 2024 Suzan-Lori Parks’ In the Blood, a gritty urban remix of The Scarlet Letter, presents the struggles of a RS Benedict 21 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Sake Sizzles, Lychee Livens Steakhouse Happy Hour Koma Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi West Hartford March 20, 2024 I found myself in West Hartford on a Wednesday afternoon, with a taste for something different than the usual. I Jamil Ragland 21 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Artists Explode The Runway Sandy Clafford’s trio of paintings take over the space near the window of the Institute Library’s upstairs gallery for the show “Look Book” — running now through May 23 Brian Slattery 21 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Is This the Future of Oakland? The Exhibit A: A Town Hall on AntiBlackness in the City of Oakland James Moore Theater at Oakland Museum of California March 14, 2024 “What does it say about a Stacey Peters 21 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Punks Rock For Choice Addie and Jacey of the Connecticut Democratic Socialists of America declared themselves “thrilled” to be on Cafe Nine’s stage Tuesday night. The DSA is involved in a number of Brian Slattery 20 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Afghan Food In Oaktown: Just Drink the Yogurt Saffron Kitchen 5940 College Ave. Oakland “Oh! That’s not good for business!” A closed sign flipped to open, and an large, airy, open, and empty restaurant was ours. Saffron Sarah Bass 20 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
NYC A Castle To Return To For The Spoken Word The Palace Reading Series Greenpoint, Brooklyn 2/19/24 I do my best in these articles to avoid reviewing the same folks. In a city like this one there’s K Hank Jost 20 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
Hartford Organist Moves Us Beyond Thunderous Calamity Trinity College Organ Series: Twilight Tuesdays Christopher Houlihan Trinity College Chapel Hartford March 19, 2024 Despite being a student and an employee at Trinity College for seven years, I never Jamil Ragland 20 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Firehouse 12 Ignites New Jazz Season Ingrid Laubrock’s Lilith opened Firehouse 12’s spring season of shows at its concert space, recording studio, and bar on Crown Street with a fiery set of Laubrock’s Brian Slattery 19 Mar 2024 · 1 min read