Tulsa Philbrook’s New Show Gets Much Of America Right When people talk about being American, they’re inevitably talking about the flavor of American that they themselves are. Being an American is different for the recently-arrived Hmong mother of two than it is for the white suburban housewife whose British ancestors colonized Native land. Z.B. Reeves 18 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford How We Mourn Four-Legged Family Death is inevitable for all living things. Humans have a wide range of ceremonies across cultures and religions that lay out strict rules for what to do with other humans who are dead. But what about our pets? Jamil Ragland 18 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven “Falcon Girls” Portrays Adolescence On The Wing Hilary, a middle-school student, has just moved to Falcon, Colorado. She wears all the wrong clothes, says all the wrong things, and most of the other students are ready to tease her for it, except one, who reminds them to ask themselves what Jesus would do. Brian Slattery 18 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Go Fish, Yale Film Archive The 1994 film Go Fish opens in a classroom where the teacher asks the class to make a list of “women that you think are lesbians or that you know are lesbians.” Karen Ponzio 17 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Prints From The Underground It’s a transfixing stare, made more intense by the medium. A woodcut hearkens back to an earlier time — and, in German Expressionism, an earlier mode of expressing anxiety. Brian Slattery 16 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
LA This Is the Way to Exit Your Youth WALLOWS with BENEE, Kia Forum, Inglewood, September 12, 2024. A band’s homecoming can’t help but be special: musicians fresh-eyed from sleeping in their own bed, an audience studded Emily Quintanilla 16 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
Hartford Megalopolis: A Mega Mess Major studios spent years telling Francis Ford Coppola “no” when he tried to get Megalopolis made. The movie spent decades in development hell before Coppola spent $120 million of his own money to make it, financed by his winemaking business. Jamil Ragland 16 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Custom Kicks and Sustainable Style: The Art of Sneakers The Art of Sneakers, Vol. 1 offered an alternative and a tantalizing glimpse into that topic, into the ever-growing field of sustainable fashion, this past weekend in Oakland. Vita Hewitt 15 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven Sew Tasty Liz takes matters, and pants, into her own hands. Liz Grace 15 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Shiraz Ensemble Breaks Form Izzy's review in comics of Shiraz Ensemble at Icebox Project Space Izzy True 14 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Upcycling in Uptown A habitué of thrift shops, flea markets, and similar bazaars near and far, artist Melanie Walas is attracted to stuffed animals and toys she finds at the discount emporia she visits. Agustín Maes 14 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven Human Animals Watch One Last Doc Prairie dogs have a word for “human.” They talk about us in a language with nouns, adjectives, and variable dialects — even though, to most of us, their words sound like unintelligible squeaks. Laura Glesby 14 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “Open Studios” Steps Into West Haven Inside Susan Clinard’s Gilbert Street studio on Sunday afternoon, the West Haven space was full of New Haven faces. Brian Slattery 14 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Get Amplified A multicolored fabric sculpture created by Kat Wiese seemed to float between the trees that framed one entrance to the Eli Whitney Barn. Karen Ponzio 14 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Musical Acts Buzz The Stacks Dan Greene, sometimes of the Mountain Movers, cast a dislocating spell on a rapt audience at the Institute Library Saturday night, with a tremolo guitar and his echo-drenched voice. Brian Slattery 14 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Talking Shop with Jad Abumrad The Lorton Performance Center’s 635 seats were all full as the former host of WNYC’s RadioLab took the stage as part of TU’s Presidential Lecture Series. Z.B. Reeves 13 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
LA Queer History Redux: “They Learned To Stop Interrupting” The rich queer history of Los Angeles has long been overshadowed by that of San Francisco and New York. Elissa Saywell 13 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia PSA: Deerhoof Asks For Masks Deerhoof reminds us to mask, at Underground Arts Izzy True 11 Oct 2024 · 1 min read