Oakland I Run This Spelling Bee Like Cardio Cardi Spelling Bee Baba’s House Oakland Jan. 24, 2024 After all these years, I still recall it like it was yesterday: Dan Mini Elementary School. Fourth grade. I’m Stacey Peters 28 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Drum + Drum + 6 = 1 Jake Richter’s Double Drum Octet Barbès Brooklyn 1/25/24 What would possess a drummer so lighting-limbed as Jake Richter to enlist the aid of second percussionist? I wondered K Hank Jost 28 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Opening Act Steals The Show Bandelier and David Hernandez Thelma’s Peach Tulsa Jan. 20, 2024 What could have been Bandelier’s triumphant re-entry into 2024 show life was, both by accident and by fault, Z.B. Reeves 28 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
LA Grandmas Gone Wild YOSHIE SAKAI: GRANDMA ENTERTAINMENT FRANCHISE Vincent Price Art Museum Monterey Park, Cal. Through Feb. 3, 2024 Like the siren song of a real nightclub, a karaoke version of “Fergalicious” lures Rebecca Giordano 28 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
Hartford Happy Hour At The Flying Monkey: BBQ Chicken Bombs The Asian Pear Martini The Flying Monkey Newington, Conn. January 24, 2024 Welcome back to my search for the perfect Happy Hour in the Greater Hartford area! This time I found myself on the Jamil Ragland 26 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Graffiti Art On The Fly — And Everyone’s Welcome Jazman’s zine sale Pigment Art Supply 304 15th St. Oakland Jan. 20, 2024 I wasn’t aware of how big the graffiti scene is in the Bay Area until Stacey Peters 26 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Rock ‘n Roll’s Not Dead A Thursday night of churning rhythms, big guitars, barked lyrics, and dancing feet at Cafe Nine made the case that New Haven’s rock ‘n’ roll scene is alive and Brian Slattery 26 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
LA Rosemary Mayer, Reconsidered Rosemary Mayer (1943 – 2014) was a New York artist well known in the 1970s for her drawings, large-scale fabric sculptures, and site-specific installations. By the end of her life, her Gillian Sneed 26 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Dark (And Long) Was The Night “They Made Me A Fugitive” and “Aimless Bullet” Noir City 21 Grand Lake Theater Oakland Jan. 23, 2024 Who knew watching films was exhausting? If you’ve ever been to Sarah Bass 25 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Grab A Kazoo On Your Way Into Knipple’s Moody Barnyard Knipple’s Variety of Games Show Thelma’s Peach Tulsa Jan. 16, 2024 Your next free Tuesday night begs to be taken up by the Knipple residency at Thelma’s Z.B. Reeves 25 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Ghosts & The Sisters Gibb The Science Behind Science Fiction with the Gibbs Sisters Chapter 510 Oakland Jan. 20, 2024 It’s a rainy Saturday afternoon, and Shawnee Gibbs is telling me a real-life ghost Stacey Peters 25 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Fire Master Quest for Fire Woodbine Queens, N.Y. Jan. 24, 2024 The other night I was arguing with a clown. We’d gotten into the heated weeds on a subject neither K Hank Jost 25 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Toru Sugita Transmits Toru Sugita Transmission Gallery Oakland Jan. 20, 2024 Is there a moment when a memory of a place changes color in the mind’s eye? When I conjure images of Stacey Peters 25 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Owed To A Poet Laureate New Year’s/Inauguration Day Twenty Twenty-Four Boring speeches Left us snoring Like captives wilting In the auditorium For an hour. Plus an hour Then Influence stepped up And spit Paul Bass 25 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Loose Threads Untangled Anne Garvey Keep It Together: Reception Manna Gallery Oakland Jan. 20, 2024 If you were to have driven past this particular block on 25th Street, just off Telegraph, on this Stacey Peters 25 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Theater “Cleansed” The plays of British playwright Sarah Kane (1971 – 99) are notoriously difficult — for staging, and for what they put an audience through. The warning distributed by the David Geffen School Donald Brown 25 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Nashville Steve Daly Slides In At The Underdog Steve Daly and The Cumberland Sliders The Underdog Nashville 1/23/24 “I wish I woulda quit this shit a long time ago/ but now I’m standing in a Libby Weitnauer 24 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford American Fiction Pulls A Switcheroo American Fiction (2023) Cinemark Buckland Hills 18 XD and IMAX Manchester, Conn. Jan. 23, 2024 Warning: This review contains spoilers. As soon as I saw the trailer for American Fiction, Jamil Ragland 24 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
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