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Allen Dennard Arrives Detroit

Allen Dennard Arrives

Red-hot Detroit jazz trumpeter and composer returns Motor City Wine for release of album he recorded there.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
12 Jun 2025 · 2 min read
Bonni Frees Her Imagination Hartford

Bonni Frees Her Imagination

While a reporter struggles to keep up, at a daytime paint.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
11 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Clay Glory Days Live On Detroit

Clay Glory Days Live On

Pewabic opens its doors to reveal a proud Detroit tradition that's still going strong.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
11 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Tribal Tradition Shines Through Oakland

Tribal Tradition Shines Through

Open Studios Wrap: Basketry and the fauna of the tribal homeland inspire many designs at the California Native Glass studio.

  • Go to the profile of  Jeff Kaliss
Jeff Kaliss
11 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
I Take Very Seriously This Review Of Grade Schoolers Performing “The Hobbit” As An Opera Tulsa

I Take Very Seriously This Review Of Grade Schoolers Performing “The Hobbit” As An Opera

Tulsa Youth Opera’s version was quick, easy, and fun—something I’d return to and watch again, unlike the movies.

  • Go to the profile of  Z.B. Reeves
Z.B. Reeves
11 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
Drilling "In Des Lebens" in the Park Philadelphia

Drilling "In Des Lebens" in the Park

Beethoven's sole opera got a special showing in Philadelphia — by a touring singer practicing the tenor aria while playing tennis with his pup.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
11 Jun 2025 · 2 min read
T!LT Hates Us New Haven

T!LT Hates Us

Punk band slanders self, everyone else, to ​“stay true to who we are.”

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
10 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
Future Shlock Hartford

Future Shlock

Too much music smothers Back To The Future's stage adaptation.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
10 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Wicked Is Everything You've Heard It Is Tulsa

Wicked Is Everything You've Heard It Is

I didn't think it was going to be that good. I was wrong.

  • Go to the profile of  Z.B. Reeves
Z.B. Reeves
9 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Philadelphia

Staring Satan in the Eyes

Mourning [A] BLKstar promote their new record at West Philly's Rotunda.

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Izzy True
9 Jun 2025 · 1 min read
Film Fest Spotlights Assisted Suicide, Welcomes Protest New Haven

Film Fest Spotlights Assisted Suicide, Welcomes Protest

Sandra Luckow's "Vanishing" follows writer Cat Emmons' final six months as she battled ALS.

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Jisu Sheen
9 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
Brooke Borrows Pond For Space Ride New Haven

Brooke Borrows Pond For Space Ride

How a local collaboration turbocharged the opening at an indie concert.

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Jisu Sheen
9 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Summer Beats Hits Three Sheets New Haven

Summer Beats Hits Three Sheets

As big bands Solgyres and Fuselaje put on a party.

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Karen Ponzio
6 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
A "Creative" Gas Detroit

A "Creative" Gas

Latest "Drinks x Design" event combines networking with an opportunity to appreciate our city anew.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
6 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
As Summer As Cherry Pie Hartford

As Summer As Cherry Pie

A hot-weather series gets off to a rockabilly start.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
6 Jun 2025 · 2 min read
Layers of Our Collective History Oakland

Layers of Our Collective History

This is an artist who has a deep understanding of color and how they interact with one another: in the (open) studio with Alex da Silva.

  • Go to the profile of  Agustín Maes
Agustín Maes
6 Jun 2025 · 5 min read
Return To Copaco Hartford

Return To Copaco

Tokunboh (Toki) Talabi's new poetry collection taps memories of growing up here with an African-American mom and Nigerian dad.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
5 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Face To Facebook All Over

Face To Facebook

"Careless People" will change the way you view the granddaddy of social media.

  • Go to the profile of  Jenn McKee
Jenn McKee
5 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
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