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Idora Idora: Echoes from the Past

Idora Idora: Echoes from the Past

Fred's review in comics of Idora Idora. Saturdays, October 12 through November 9, 2024

Fred Noland

20 Oct 2024 · 1 min read

Sopranos’ Still Photographer Searches For Drama In The Shadows

Sopranos’ Still Photographer Searches For Drama In The Shadows

The silhouette of a cigarette-smoking man caught my eye — after Craig Blankenhorn’s camera captured his shadow.

Nora Grace-Flood

20 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Crohn’s Disease Comedy Takes Care

Crohn’s Disease Comedy Takes Care

“Oh, god,” I thought as the lights dimmed — had I accidentally signed up for stand-up?

Leo David

19 Oct 2024 · 2 min read

Ten Tulsa Rappers Share Whys And Rhymes

Ten Tulsa Rappers Share Whys And Rhymes

Go big or go home. That’s the sentiment I always get watching an Aaron Sawyer performance. The emcee, battle rapper, and mental health advocate has performed on many Tulsa stages throughout his career, all while helping to build platforms and cultivate relationships within Tulsa hip-hop.

Ryan Anderson

18 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

Philbrook’s New Show Gets Much Of America Right

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

How We Mourn Four-Legged Family

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

“Falcon Girls” Portrays Adolescence On The Wing

“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

Go Fish, Yale Film Archive

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

Prints From The Underground

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

This Is the Way to Exit Your Youth

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

Megalopolis: A Mega Mess

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

Custom Kicks and Sustainable Style: The Art of Sneakers

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

Sew Tasty

Sew Tasty

Liz takes matters, and pants, into her own hands.

Liz Grace

15 Oct 2024 · 1 min read

Shiraz Ensemble Breaks Form

Shiraz Ensemble Breaks Form

Izzy's review in comics of Shiraz Ensemble at Icebox Project Space

Izzy True

14 Oct 2024 · 1 min read

Upcycling in Uptown

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

Human Animals Watch One Last Doc

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

“Open Studios” Steps Into West 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

Artists Get Amplified

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