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A hand arranges letters on a tote bag on a blue tarp that reads“Hey Detroit, what if the rest of the country looked like you? I think I would like that.” Detroit

Radiant Detroit celebrates youth with arts and culture in the heart of Detroit

The festival featured activity stations and student poetry readings from InsideOut’s creative writing programs

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Midbrow Editor
25 Sep 2025 · 2 min read
Hundreds of drones light up in the night sky and form a swan in flight. Detroit

Detroit’s Sky Becomes the Stage

Classical masterpieces, drone choreographies, and candlelit ambiance at the DroneArt Show

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Midbrow Editor
25 Sep 2025 · 2 min read
Leonia Slows Down The Stream Philadelphia

Leonia Slows Down The Stream

In March, the Philly artist released a new EP of dreamy, lush, well-paced indie-pop.

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Izzy True
24 Sep 2025 · 1 min read
Bad Bunny Brings Philly Home... Philadelphia

Bad Bunny Brings Philly Home...

... To the motherland of Puerto Rico, through a livestream of the last show of his island residency.

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Sabrina Iglesias
24 Sep 2025 · 5 min read
Philly Cheers To Women's Sports Philadelphia

Philly Cheers To Women's Sports

At opening of first bar dedicated to non-male athletics and queer community.

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Emily Cohen
24 Sep 2025 · 5 min read
The Historic Way to Boat the Bay Oakland

The Historic Way to Boat the Bay

It’s easy to see how at a glance passers through see a high/low binary between SF and the Town, but there’s so much more to see beyond the commuter water routes. And even better stories behind the sights.

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Frederick Noland
24 Sep 2025 · 5 min read
Orchestra Brings ​’80s Slasher To Life New Haven

Orchestra Brings ​’80s Slasher To Life

National "Evil Dead in Concert" tour highlights a genre classic and the importance of a movie's score.

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Jisu Sheen
24 Sep 2025 · 5 min read
Grief vs Love in "The Good Ones" Detroit

Grief vs Love in "The Good Ones"

"The Good Ones" shows potential in its portrayal of the complicated feelings that can accompany grief.

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Erica Hobbs
23 Sep 2025 · 4 min read
Tulsa Symphony Orchestra’s 20th Season Is Off To A Great Start Tulsa

Tulsa Symphony Orchestra’s 20th Season Is Off To A Great Start

Need comfort? Need catharsis? This orchestra can do both

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Yvonne Hazelton
23 Sep 2025 · 4 min read
Tulsa’s Contemporary Dance Scene Is Having A Moment Tulsa

Tulsa’s Contemporary Dance Scene Is Having A Moment

The Tulsa Contemporary Collective gave its debut performance earlier this month, underscoring a little boom for the art form

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Alicia Chesser
23 Sep 2025 · 4 min read
Third time around Oakland

Third time around

Miniwatt delivered “Dinner Jazz”, adding a splash of color to a chill night out at Portal’s lakeside patio.

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Frederick Noland
22 Sep 2025 · 1 min read
Garbage Brings The Love New Haven

Garbage Brings The Love

While Starcrawler wows news fans, at College Street Music Hall.

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Karen Ponzio
22 Sep 2025 · 4 min read
Silent Movie, Heavy Metal, City Relics New Haven

Silent Movie, Heavy Metal, City Relics

Lost in New Haven Museum hosts a screening of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" with live pit band

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Jisu Sheen
22 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
Britpop Re-landing Detroit

Britpop Re-landing

With an album 24 years in the making, Pulp plays first live Detroit show in 29 years

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
22 Sep 2025 · 2 min read
She Saw God. & Hell Hartford

She Saw God. & Hell

The crash that fueled Shannon McCarthy's visions.

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Jamil Ragland
22 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
Butterr and Friends Build A World Of Their Own Baton Rouge

Butterr and Friends Build A World Of Their Own

In collider improv show.

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Serena Puang
22 Sep 2025 · 2 min read
Lens Test Baton Rouge

Lens Test

Women-lead film shorts succeed in quick world-building.

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Serena Puang
22 Sep 2025 · 2 min read
DJ Ryan's New Release Of The Week: The Womack Sisters "just don't want you" All Over

DJ Ryan's New Release Of The Week: The Womack Sisters "just don't want you"

To say good-bye -- via old-school retro-soul vinyl 45.

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
22 Sep 2025 · 2 min read
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