Oakland “Symphony Dance Party”? I Left Breathless Oakland Civic Orchestra: Symphonic Dance Party First Presbyterian Church of Oakland Oakland Feb. 25, 2024 Classical music on the grounds of a church on a sunny Sunday afternoon — it just Stacey Peters 1 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Fathers, Sons And Chicken Wings At Hartford Stage The Hot Wing King Hartford Stage Hartford Through March 24, 2024 We got an extra day of Black History Month this year, so I celebrated by going to see the Jamil Ragland 1 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Dancer of Motion and Illusions Madeline Hollander: Entanglement Bortolami 39 Walker Through March 2 From the Tribeca Bortolami gallery room’s entrance, rows of cylindrical plinths, topped with flying saucer-like disks invite a remarkably unremarkable Betsy Kim 1 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Want Some Organ Meat With That Smoothie? The thick, tawny mason jar smoothie I ordered from The Remedy’s Cultured Cafe on State Street looked, smelled and tasted like soft, cinnamon cream — despite the fact that it Nora Grace-Flood 1 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Nashville Sean Brock’s Bar Continental Bar Continental Nashville 2/28/24 I wondered about the man rummaging through records in the corner as the DJ fussed with the turntables. He was spinning some relatively unengaging Libby Weitnauer 1 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Grand Rapids Maps And Consequences Thereof Uncharted Ways Through: Maps, Land, and the Image Grand Rapids Art Museum Grand Rapids, Mich. Through April 7, 2024 Border Cantos | Sonic Border Grand Rapids Art Museum Grand Rapids, Mich. Stacey Peters 1 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Lights, Camera, Soulbody Cyphers Soulbody Cyphers Presents: The Cinematic Showdown Circle Cinema Tulsa Feb. 22, 2024 From the big stage of collegiate sports to the big screen of Circle Cinema, Marshall Moses has always Ryan Anderson 1 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Loud And Sour Stimmerman TV Eye Ridgewood, Queens 2/28/2024 For a long-enough-time fan of a band, there’s pique little joy in witnessing them play to a small crowd. All the K Hank Jost 1 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa A Christening For A Listening Room John Moreland, Ken Pomeroy, and Justin Bloss Saint Cecilia’s Tulsa Feb. 23, 2024 One of my favorite shows in the last decade took place at Old Church Center, a Cassidy McCants 29 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Happy Joe Young Day A Night of the Arts: A Black History Month Event Alvin & Beatrice Wood Human Services Center Bloomfield Feb. 28, 2024 Although I’ve lived the majority of my life Jamil Ragland 29 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA Velcro Shoes & Moons Over My Hammy CEREMONY with INFEST, GOUGE AWAY, and friends Hollywood Palladium Los Angeles Feb. 24, 2024 There’s something serene about a diner after a show. When you saunter through the front David Diaz 29 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
NYC What We Have Become Thomas Hirschhorn: Fake it, Fake it —till you Fake it Gladstone Gallery 530 West 21st Street Through March 2, 2024 Stepping through cluttered aisles of warfare, punctuated by the ubiquitous Betsy Kim 29 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Theatre North Has A Win With “Topdog” Theatre North “Topdog/Underdog“ Tulsa Performing Arts Center Feb. 25, 2024 There’s no winning in the game explored in Topdog/Underdog, Suzan-Lori Parks’ 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which Theatre Alicia Chesser 29 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford I Breakfast, Therefore I Am … Not Hungry? Blue Plate Kitchen West Hartford Febr. 28, 2024 What is a breakfast food? Simple enough question, but there are as many different answers as there are people to ask. Is Jamil Ragland 29 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Chattanooga Con Nooga Has Fun With Coexistence Con Nooga Chattanooga Convention Center 2/24/24 I didn’t expect to meet an exorcist at Con Nooga. But there she was: Jeni Tanner, in a homemade priest’s Drew Bunting 28 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Chicago The Vitality Of The Abstract Rebecca Morris: 2001 – 2022 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois Through April 7, 2024 It feels strange to consider that coming out of the 1990s, painting was the pariah of Allison HadleyDaniel Shoemaker 28 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Secret Concert Reveal: Sofar Spirit So Good SoFar Sounds Black History Month Show Ramsess Art Garden 2511 Broadway Feb. 24, 2024 As February’s Snow Moon lit up the sky, I drifted my way downtown towards the Stacey Peters 28 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland One Ramen Bowl To Rule Them All Marufuku Ramen 4828 Telegraph Ave. Oakland Ramen — the real deal, not the packaged bricks — was an adult discovery for me. Turned off by meaty or overly sweet and uncomplicated broths Sarah Bass 28 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
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