Hartford Happy Hour Becomes Happy Birthday Beacon Cafe Hartford Jan. 30, 2024 How good does a happy hour have to be for someone to fly a thousand miles just to experience it again? I found that Jamil Ragland 2 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Troy/Albany Taína Asili Finds The Beat In Climate Crisis Fever Pitch The Linda, WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio Albany, N.Y. Jan. 27, 2024 The most striking feature of Taína Asili’s evolving multimedia concert/performance piece Fever Pitch, RS Benedict 2 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Hartford Black Inventors Tour Reflects Need For Black History Month, After All The start of Black History Month always elicits competing feelings for me. On the one hand, I enjoy learning in general, and specifically about my people and what they’ve Jamil Ragland 2 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Abandon All Bummers, Ye Who Karaoke Here Karaoke Mondays Whittier Bar Tulsa Jan. 29, 2024 The Whittier Bar’s front door is emblazoned with an all-caps warning: NO BUMMERS. It’s a good reminder for a Monday, Becky Carman 1 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
NYC I Couldn’t Hear The Poets Amid The Unironic Fascism-fetishists At The Sports Bar The Writer’s Circle at Offside NYC East Village Manhattan Jan. 31, 2024 Something’s happening in NYC right now. Whether it’s a blending of scenes that previously had K Hank Jost 1 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA Comic Convo: Hello, RX-24 PASADENA COMIC CON Pasadena Convention Center Pasadena Jan. 28, 2024 Comic cons are like chain restaurants: everywhere the same. Whether held in sleepy suburbs or busy cities, comic cons share Brittany Menjivar 1 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven 3 New (Haven) Albums “Unity in the Community” begins with a classic hymn-like statement from Warren Byrd’s piano, carried aloft by a chorus of voices, bubbling bass and percussion, and horns passing a Brian Slattery 1 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
LA Couldn’t We Pretend It Was 2008 For Just 1 Night? CRIME WAVE: AN INDIE SLEAZE PARTY Los Angeles Jan. 25, 2024 The indie sleaze event was advertised as a comedy show/birthday party; it took place in a secluded warehouse Madeline Connors 31 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Raleigh/ Durham/ Chapel Hill Wisdom Captured At African American Cultural Celebration 23rd Annual African American Cultural Celebration North Carolina Museum of Natural History Raleigh, N.C. Jan. 27, 2024 Excitement filled the air at the North Carolina Museum of Natural History Synclaire Cruel 31 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Grandmas Duke It Out In The Ring Winner Winner TV Dinner Sensational 7 Wrestling 7th West Oakland CA Jan. 27, 2024 The smell of burning gasoline filled my nostrils, begging for fresh air. “That’s not OSHA Sarah Bass 30 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Chinatown Diner Cracks The Pancake-Syrup Code Golden Diner 123 Madison St. New York, N.Y. I am not immune to brunch propaganda. As I come up on almost a year in NYC, all my algorithms seem Adam Wassilchalk 30 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Rattos-touille Ratto’s Deli 821 Washington St. Oakland Surrounded by other locally owned shops and restaurants, Ratto’s charm lies in the understated, no-frills-but-all-quality take on the Italian-American deli. A fourth-generation Sarah Bass 30 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Improvisers Teach How To Listen It was 7:30 p.m. on Monday at Never Ending Books, and Bob Gorry of the New Haven Improvisers Collective had a few instructions for the musicians gathered in Brian Slattery 30 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland How The West Was Wrung Alta Journal Issue 26 Party Clio’s Bookstore and Bar Oakland Jan. 24, 2024 In the bowels of what feels like the coziest Manhattan bookstore not in Manhattan, I thumbed Stacey Peters 29 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Minneapolis Drone Not Drones: 28-Hour Music Happening vs. Military-Industrial Complex Drone Not Drones Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis 1/26 – 1/27, 2024 By 6 a.m. on Jan. 27 at the Cedar Cultural Center, Drone Not Drones had been going Alexis Zanghi 29 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Heaven Can’t Wait, For Luke Herbermann Luke Herbermann Heaven Can Wait East Village, NYC 1/26/24 Just kitty-corner to Tompkins Square Park is a music venue that never once in my four, five, six, or K Hank Jost 29 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Mixed Company Digs Deep At Jazzy’s The music and meal were part of the package at Jazzy’s on Orange Street, as the restaurant served up signature platters while the Hartford-based band served up one smoking Brian Slattery 29 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Nashville Pound Cake, Sound Takes: How Brown’s Diner Defies Nashville’s Sterilization Ziona Riley, Neil O’Neil, Dylan Whitlow Brown’s Diner Nashville 1/25/24 With a strip of computer paper taped on the shelves behind the bar that reads “booking Libby Weitnauer 28 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
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