All Over R&B Love On Tour, With All Its Facets K. Michelle, Jaheim, Trey Songz, and Keyshia Cole Love Hard Tour CFG Bank Arena Baltimore March 8, 2024 With lights beaming from the stage, Jaheim’s popular throwback “Fabulous” blared Synclaire Cruel 13 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
A Tropical — Not “Tiki” — Interlude in the Oakland Hills Tonga in the Hills The Lobby Bar at Claremont Club & Spa Oakland March 7, 2024 In the Lobby Bar at the storied Claremont Hotel in the Oakland Hills, my Stacey Peters 12 Mar 2024 · 5 min read
New Haven Ever-Expanding Pita Pocket Stuffed Would all those fixings fit into that palm-plus-sized pocket of flexible flatbread? “We’re gonna learn,” Eddie Eckhaus said, “right now.” Paul Bass 12 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Filthy Riffs, Fists Fly At Death Fest Hubert Smith took to the stage for the second time in two nights. The night before, he was playing drums for Necrocunt, something of a supergroup within Connecticut’s death Jasmine Wright 12 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford Swanky Steakhouse Doesn’t Cut It Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar West Hartford March 11, 2024 As you’ve read before, dear reader, I’m pretty content eating Cheesecake Factory. But there’s another Jamil Ragland 11 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
LA Glass House Is A Smash GLASS HOUSE VOLTA COLLECTIVE and CENTRAL SERVER WORKS G‑SON Studios Los Angeles Closed You enter not a room but a realm. Dreamlike, the space is bathed in deep, indigo Jack Skelley 11 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Thrift Store Folk Punk, For All Ages A lone child in a Rubik’s Cube hoodie stood in the middle of the small black box space at Witch Bitch Thrift on Saturday night, trying and failing with Leo Slattery 11 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
NYC The Joys of J‑Horror Blind Woman’s Curse Film Forum’s Japanese Horror Programming West Village, NYC 3/8/2024 Film Forum just can’t be beat, if I’m being honest. There’s K Hank Jost 11 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Oklahoma Fashion Alliance Wants To Hear (And See) Your Story “Is The Earth Just A Body Too?” Oklahoma Fashion Alliance Artisan Hall Tulsa Feb. 24, 2024 Think you don’t belong in a room full of cool kids? If the Alicia Chesser 10 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
NYC Mag-Launch Party-Goer Gets Caught In Heavy Traffic Heavy Traffic Magazine Launch Mast Books East Village, NYC 3/8/2024 It behooves any artist of any stripe to move through their milieu with mind questing to understand. One K Hank Jost 10 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
The Road To Self-Discovery Involves Funny Sounds The Wholesome Circle Groundfloor Oakland March 4, 2024 “I’m Robin… whoosh!” I said as I introduced myself to a group of five strangers standing in a circle around me. Stacey Peters 10 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Come For The Art, Stay For The History (And The Historian) Spring Art Exhibit Garmany Visitor Center Elizabeth Park Hartford March 7, 2024 When I go to galleries, I’m usually self-guided and left to contemplate the artwork by myself. That’ Jamil Ragland 8 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Jazz Millions And Beyond Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey LowDown Tulsa March 2, 2024 Thirty years ago, a group of local high school and college musicians got together to share their collective love of jazz, Alicia Chesser 8 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven The End Of The Art World Thursday night the Yale Film Archive added two new jewels to their Treasures series: a new 35 mm print of Daisies, the 1966 Czech New Wave film directed by Vera Karen Ponzio 8 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Cut Fruit, Family Photos And Vietnamese Ancestral Worship “I Bear the Fruit of My Ancestors“ Belafonte Tulsa March 1, 2024 A dimly lit space permeated with the smell of burning incense greeted visitors, many of whom waited in Becky Carman 8 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland A Day Focused On The Plant-Based Future Plant Futures Fest Oakstop 2325 Broadway Ave. Oakland Feb. 24, 2024 Nine a.m. on an unseasonably sunny Saturday morning, a small line of sleepy people waiting for coffees from Sarah Bass 8 Mar 2024 · 5 min read
Nashville Dive Bar Magic As Betty’s Grill Gets Weird Sam Petschulat, Ziona Riley, Frank Hurricane, and The Cherry Blossoms Betty’s Grill Nashville 3/5/24 During Sam Petschulat’s opening set, I was mostly orienting myself to the Libby Weitnauer 7 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Inside Mussel Bag Job Hook and Reel Cajun Seafood and Bar Hartford March 6, 2024 Hook and Reel Cajun Seafood and Bar in Hartford has a great deal for the seafood enjoyer on a Jamil Ragland 7 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
