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Small Sculptures Steal the Show Oakland

Small Sculptures Steal the Show

Ever lost hours in search of a sculpture you saw a decade ago and only vaguely recall, both online and among your own poorly archived history? She’s bronze, just smaller than life-sized, arms behind her back, facing the vista, standing on the side of a hill. She may be getting ready to swim…

  • Go to the profile of  Sarah Bass
Sarah Bass
25 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Talk About A Bargain Hartford

Talk About A Bargain

Hartford’s Audio Feed concert series moved back indoors this week with The Bargain performing at the Old State House Food Court.

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Jamil Ragland
25 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
Sausage Queen Breaks The Casing Philadelphia

Sausage Queen Breaks The Casing

All Hail The Sausage Queen The Nest 1615 N. Delaware Ave. Philadelphia Sept. 23, 2024 Claire Pitts made free, vegan hot dogs for everyone who came to her avant garde

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
24 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
Artist Shoots Artwork New Haven

Artist Shoots Artwork

Many of the pieces at the latest show at Creative Arts Workshop push at the boundaries of what printmaking can do; among those are works by Kim Tester, like Witness

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Brian Slattery
24 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
Journey Back To The (Rose) Garden Philadelphia

Journey Back To The (Rose) Garden

John Jarboe: The Rose Garden The Fabric Workshop and Museum 1214 Arch St. Philadelphia Sept. 21, 2024 When artist John Jarboe came out as trans, her aunt didn’t hesitate

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Leo David
23 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
Hip-Hop’s New Area Code Tulsa

Hip-Hop’s New Area Code

Hip Hop 918 Guthrie Green Tulsa Sept. 14, 2024 It’s been 23 years since Ludacris and the late Nate Dogg dropped their hit single “Area Codes.” 918 wasn’t

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Ryan Anderson
23 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
What Steve Ballmer Can’t Buy LA

What Steve Ballmer Can’t Buy

INTUIT DOME ART PREVIEW Intuit Dome Inglewood We made long, slow shadows, watched them bleed into the pallid concrete. For what felt like an hour, we’d be waiting for

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Eli Diner
23 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
The Accordion Can Get You Moving Hartford

The Accordion Can Get You Moving

Los Super Gs Old State House Summer Concert Series Connecticut Old State House Hartford September 20, 2024 The accordion may not be the first instrument you think of when you

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Jamil Ragland
23 Sep 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven

“Unleash My High-School Angst”

Deerlady — a songwriting project of Abrego and Obomsawin, which started its tour in August in New Mexico and wound its way here in New Haven this past weekend — established itself

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Brian Slattery
23 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
May We Interest You In Some Tasteful Trombone Sliding? Tulsa

May We Interest You In Some Tasteful Trombone Sliding?

Tulsa Symphony Orchestra: Coleman, Ravel, and Tchaikovsky Tulsa Performing Arts Center Tulsa Sept. 14, 2024 I first heard the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra at the final concert of their 2023 – 2024

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Yvonne Hazelton
20 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
Queering The Way LA

Queering The Way

SCI-FI, MAGICK, QUEER L.A.: SEXUAL SCIENCE AND THE IMAGI-NATION OPENING RECEPTION Fisher Museum of Art at University of Southern California Los Angeles Sept. 5, 2024 A map at the

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Melissa Saywell
20 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
The Fiddler Was Playing — & Praying New Haven

The Fiddler Was Playing — & Praying

Austin Scelzo hit the two bottom strings of his violin, struck a couple higher notes, launched a high-lonesome lament that seemed to stretch back eight decades to rural Appalachia. Trouble

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Paul Bass
20 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
Everything Fits Together For Creations In Studio K Tulsa

Everything Fits Together For Creations In Studio K

Tulsa Ballet: Creations In Studio K Tulsa Ballet Sept. 14, 2024 Blink and you’ll miss it: the moment when, at the end of one of the most irresistible duets

  • Go to the profile of  Alicia Chesser
Alicia Chesser
20 Sep 2024 · 5 min read
Philadelphia

Sham! Bam! Thank You Ma’am!

Yung Sham PhilaMOCA 531 N 12th St. Philadelphia Sept. 18, 2024 Yung Sham stumbled between songs, searching for a lost paper. “I have the lyrics written down somewhere,” he told

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
19 Sep 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven

Dance Yourself Clean

As 3 bands make room for pop at Cafe 9.

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Brian Slattery
19 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
Prescott Not-Quite-Night Market’s Got the Golden Goods Oakland

Prescott Not-Quite-Night Market’s Got the Golden Goods

Thirsty, not a little sweaty, and determined to fill up on some fried and salty food: a perfect recipe for enjoying an evening at West Oakland’s successful new-ish night market, now in its fourth month.

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Sarah Bass
19 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Proud to be Scratchy Oakland

Proud to be Scratchy

At the opening of the special exhibition ​“Creative Growth at 50: A Visual History,” a woman with a guide cane asked if I’d seen her reflectors. I didn’t know who she was, and I didn’t know what reflectors she was referring to. She held out her hand…

  • Go to the profile of  Agustín Maes
Agustín Maes
19 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
The ​“Dumbass” Is The Play, Not The President Philadelphia

The ​“Dumbass” Is The Play, Not The President

POTUS: Or, behind every great dumbass are seven women trying to keep him alive Arden Theatre Company 40 N 2nd St. Philadelphia Sept. 17, 2024 An intentionally timely Broadway hit,

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
18 Sep 2024 · 5 min read
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