New Haven Lost Tribe Performs, Screens Diaspora Stories The Hartford-based Afro-funk fusion ensemble The Lost Tribe returned to Best Video on to screen the completed three-part series Diaspora Stories: Hartford a year and a half after sharing a Karen Ponzio 27 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Salt Lake City Plan‑B Brings Shakespearean Gender Fluidity To The Stage Balthazar Plan‑B Theatre at the Studio Theatre in the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Salt Lake City Feb. 22, 2024 I couldn’t have gotten a better first taste Jose Davila IV 27 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Nashville Regi Wooten & Friends at Rudy’s Jazz Room Regi Wooten & Friends Rudy’s Jazz Room Nashville Feb. 21, 2024 Much to my surprise, the hostess clicked around on her computer trying to see if she could fit Libby Weitnauer 27 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Black Joy Beams and Blooms: Scenes From A Parade 7th Annual Black Joy Parade Oakland Feb. 25, 2024 Sarah Bass 27 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Joan Jett Blakk Spills The Tea At Queer BIPOC Short-Film Fest Black Queer History Spotlight: Shorts Grand Lake Theatre 3200 Grand Lake Ave. Oakland Feb. 22, 2024 It’s not always easy to find events falling at the intersection of Black Stacey Peters 26 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Tulsa, Oakland Metal Bands Rip & Tear In Unlikely Space Necrot / Ectospire / Dust Lord Whittier Bar Tulsa Feb. 11, 2024 Oklahoma has long harbored a love for the Heavy Arts. Black Sabbath played their second to last show here in Mitch Gilliam 25 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
NYC The Tarkovsky Test: Hang In For The Long Shots Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia Film Forum West Village, NYC Feb. 23, 2024 The average shot length in contemporary, big-budget films — both your Marvel slogs and flacccid A24 pseudo-arthouse meanderings — is, K Hank Jost 25 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa The Lovingly Assembled Mortadella Sandwich Of Your Dreams Prism Cafe 217 W. Latimer St. Tulsa There are few better places in Tulsa to feel the tug-of-war between preservation and progress than the Heights district, just north of downtown. Becky Carman 25 Feb 2024 · 5 min read
Oakland Black Joy On The Block Fourth Annual “Love the People” Block Party Black Panther Mini Museum Oakland Feb. 18, 2024 I’m always on the lookout for pockets of joy, specifically in the form of Stacey Peters 23 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA Shakespeare In The Mental Institution MATTHEW BOURNE’S ROMEO AND JULIET Ahmanson Theater Los Angeles Feb. 4, 2024 The Ahmanson Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, twinkling with warm light and towering like a 20th-century castle, Brook Metayer 23 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland At Hi-Fi Listening Bar, All Other Sound Stops Silent Sunday Bar Shiru Oakland Feb. 18, 2024 “Just a reminder… once the needle drops, the talking stops.” You might not expect a bar that calls itself “the Bay Area’ Stacey Peters 23 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Anchorage Salsa In The Snow Alaska Salsa Festival Anchorage, Alaska Feb. 9 – 11, 2024 The presence of a Latin dance festival in Anchorage, Alaska, might come as a surprise to many, but this year’s Jacqi Jones 23 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Lunar Parading Between Prosperity and Privation 2024 Lunar New Year Parade Chinatown near Wilma Chan Park Oakland Feb. 18, 2024 I was unsure the weather would cooperate for this year’s Lunar New Year’s Parade Stacey Peters 23 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven New Haven Theater Company Cries It Out New Haven Theater Company’s production of Cry It Out, by Molly Smith Metzler, is a finely tuned performance of a play about early motherhood that starts light and ends Brian Slattery 23 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford Running With The Wolf Pack Hartford Wolf Pack vs. Bridgeport Islanders XL Center Hartford Feb. 21, 2024 My last hockey game was back in the 1990s. Obsessed with the movie The Mighty Ducks 2, I Jamil Ragland 22 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
NW Arkansas El Dorado Film Fest Shows Triumphs, Struggles Of Indie Movie Makers El Dorado Film Festival South Arkansas Arts Center El Dorado, Arkansas Feb. 8 – 11, 2024 Independent filmmakers converged on the El Dorado Film Festival in Arkansas to show their work Mickey Mercier 22 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Ailey II Rocks Tulsa’s Soul Ailey II Tulsa Performing Arts Center Feb. 13, 2024 “I go every December in New York; I’ve probably seen Revelations 25 times,” said the woman behind me in the Alicia Chesser 22 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Two Dogs On A Date Soul Sunday Session Zanzi Oakland Feb. 18, 2024 Two dogs on a date walk into a bar… That’s not the beginning of a joke. It’s what happened at Stacey Peters 22 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
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