New Haven Guyanese-Born Artists Consider Revival, History, & The Body It’s not just the large paintings covering the walls that suffuse the gallery with color, though they go a long way toward transforming the space around them by themselves. Brian Slattery 13 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven James Ivory Pays A Visit Friday night’s installment of Yale Film Archive’s The World of James Ivory series offered another type of double feature: a viewing of the 1965 film Shakespeare Wallah, followed Karen Ponzio 12 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland In the Mood for Movies and Lumpia Cozy Cinema: Movie Night 7th West Oakland Feb. 8, 2024 A movie night in Oakland with films by auteurs inspired by filmmakers I love — Godard, Varda, Ozu, Tarkovsky—and Filipino Stacey Peters 12 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Chicago Podcast So Fun It’s “Criminal” Phoebe Judge Vic Theatre Chicago 2/10/24 “I’m Phoebe Judge,” said Phoebe Judge, and the entire audience burst into applause. It was recognition from a room full of Allison Hadley 12 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA The Lord Unleashes A Punk Club Full Of Caterwauling Masochists QUITS with TUDORS, DROSS, and GLUT Supply and Demand Long Beach Feb. 5, 2024 This weekend, I was catching up with my old roommate God, an entitled prick. After a A.J. Urquidi 11 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Jazz Jewels From The Edge Extreme Exhibit Donald O. Greene E14 Gallery 969 Broadway Ave. Oakland Closed At the E14 Gallery, poured concrete floors and walls with exposed metal beams dotting the space. Temporary easels, Sarah Bass 11 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa Low-Brow and High-Brow Come Together At Philbrook’s New Show Collidoscope: de la Torre Brothers Retro-Perspective Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa Through April 28 Remember lenticular? It’s that style of art with a glossy, shifting surface, where the image Z.B. Reeves 9 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA Reject The Canon RARE BOOKS LA Pasadena Convention Center Pasadena Feb. 4, 2024 If you’ve ever told someone it was your New Year’s resolution to read more books, know that I Brittany Menjivar 9 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Oklahoma Stories Brought Out Of The Shadows Live Lit Night Heirloom Rustic Ales Tulsa Jan. 25, 2024 If, like me, you sometimes harbor romantic fantasies about literary experiences that happen in dark, gritty, hole-in-the-wall venues (probably with Alicia Chesser 9 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Sip While The Sun Sets; Just Don’t Wing It At The Mall Happy Hour Market Grille Manchester Feb. 7, 2024 Market Grille is one of those restaurants that I’ve always noticed during my trips to the mall but assumed was too Jamil Ragland 9 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Would You Believe … ? The Connector MCC Theater 511 W. 52nd St. New York Runs through March 4 Just under halfway through The Connector, we see Ethan Dobson, a wunderkind magazine writer, on a Rebecca Salzhauer 9 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven Yale Opera Plays Its Cards Right At Shubert A member of the stage crew was doing some last-minute cleanup of the set at the Shubert, in preparation for a rehearsal of Yale Opera’s The Rake’s Progress, Brian Slattery 9 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford People Are The News The Stories Behind the Big Stories of 2023 Elmwood Community Center West Hartford Feb. 8, 2024 Until about two weeks ago, I didn’t consider myself a journalist. I’ve Jamil Ragland 9 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland You’ll Poke Your Eye Out Stop Men Studio Open House 337 13th St. Oakland Feb. 1, 2024 Looking for the Stop Men Studio, I doubled, or rather tripled, up on the right block and turned Sarah Bass 8 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA Remember World Peace? WORLD PEACE, SCALP, KIND EYES, and friends Bricks Rock Bar Maywood, Cal. Jan. 26, 2024 When I’m an old biddy in a rocking chair on a porch overlooking the David Diaz 8 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Nashville Sweet Megg and John Mailander’s Forecast at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge Sweet Megg and John Mailander’s Forecast Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge Nashville 1/28/24 “Enjoy the bar!” said the bouncer, as he stamped my hand on my way Libby Weitnauer 8 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Americana Keeps The Room Warm Cafe Nine on Wednesday night was the scene for delicate ballads, bright harmonies, and gritty rhythms as three bands — Pyramid Rose, Dallas Ugly, and the Split Coils — played sets with Brian Slattery 8 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Chicago Puerto Rican Identity & The Diaspora Entre horizontes: Art and Activism between Chicago and Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Through May 5 Entre horizontes: Art and Activism between Chicago and Puerto Rico at the Stacey Peters 7 Feb 2024 · 6 min read