LA

Friday Night Is For The Good Boys

FOURTH FRIDAYS: DOG DAYS OF SUMMER Retro Row Long Beach Aug. 23, 2024 For small-business patrons, Long Beach’s 4th Street Corridor (a.k.a. Retro Row) has become the

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A.J. Urquidi

27 Aug 2024 · 3 min read

Hartford

The Feat Of The Feet

Rapid Fire 4 Speed Double Dutch Competition and Health Fair Dunkin’ Donuts Park Hartford Aug. 25, 2024 What do you get when you combine one of the most entertaining sports

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Jamil Ragland

27 Aug 2024 · 3 min read

New Haven

Three Albums Welcome The Young Guard

Short chords from electric piano and synthesizer set the mood, contemplative but with a pulse. “Estoy aquí / ya estuve allá / ya fui feliz / y acaba mal,” Ene de Nadie croons

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Brian Slattery

27 Aug 2024 · 1 min read

New Haven

Do Try This (Recipe) At Home: Choupette’s Crêpe

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Liz Grace

26 Aug 2024 · 1 min read

LA

Mortal Coil Shuffle

LABYRINTH WALK Christ the King Lutheran Church Torrance August 15, 2024 During a recent downward spiral, I drove south to Torrance for a labyrinth walk at Christ the King Lutheran

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Tosten Burks

26 Aug 2024 · 2 min read

Chicago

DNC Diary Day 4: Interfaith Council Discussion

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Frederick Noland

26 Aug 2024 · 1 min read

Tulsa

Misery Wrapped In A Pink Bow

Charlotte Bumgarner: “Promise” EP Release Show LowDown Tulsa Aug. 16, 2024 For a singer-songwriter whose songs feature on a Spotify playlist named “broken love songs to feed your misery,” Charlotte

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Z.B. Reeves

25 Aug 2024 · 2 min read

Oakland

A Breathtaking Sax Summit

The café tables and booths at Geoffrey’s filled quickly at the 6 p.m. start time on a recent Sunday for what was billed as The Great Saxophone Summit, hosted by Faye, with Joe sharing house…

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Jeff Kaliss

25 Aug 2024 · 2 min read

Hartford

Snack Time Ripe-ns With A Dance Party

Ripe Hartford Live Old State House Aug. 22, 2024 I arrived seven minutes late to the area between the Old State House and the food court to see the band

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Jamil Ragland

25 Aug 2024 · 3 min read

Oakland

Bahn Mi Brings It, Sans Sriracha

Just a few short blocks from Lake Merritt, this low profile all-day cafe makes good on its name...[with] sandwiches and salads, wraps, rice bowls, breakfast bites, a handful of pastries, and smoothies and juices a plenty, the small kitchen has something for many palates.

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Sarah Bass

25 Aug 2024 · 4 min read

Tulsa

Tulsa’s Vibrant, Homegrown ​“Fiddler” Has It All

TPAC Produces: Fiddler On The Roof Tulsa Performing Arts Center Tulsa August 18, 2024 “I didn’t know Tulsa theatre could do that.” It’s a sentence I regularly hope

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Alicia Chesser

25 Aug 2024 · 6 min read

New Haven

Black & Brown Artists Abstract Origins

Howard el-Yasin’s My Mother’s Hose hangs at one end of Orchid Gallery in The Lab at ConnCORP, redolent with associations without landing definitively on a single one. From

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Brian Slattery

25 Aug 2024 · 1 min read

New Haven

Artist Makes The Mythology

Ralph Levesque’s Match Maker, at first glance, looks like religious art, from the halo encircling one of the figures to the positions of the figures in relation to each

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Brian Slattery

25 Aug 2024 · 1 min read

New Haven

Photography Show Sees Through Younger Eyes

Bethany Edwards’s The Eye of the Beholder is both formal and relaxed. It’s formal in the staged positioning of the two subjects, the way that (it appears) they

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Brian Slattery

25 Aug 2024 · 1 min read

Hartford

One Character Short For A Love Story

Touch Cinestudio Hartford Aug. 19, 2024 This review contains spoilers for the movie. “What’s going on, Miko? Can you tell me what you’re thinking?” Kristófer, the main character

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Jamil Ragland

23 Aug 2024 · 3 min read

Chicago

DNC Diary Day 4: Signs of the Times

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Frederick Noland

23 Aug 2024 · 1 min read

Oakland

DNC Diary Day 3

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Frederick Noland

22 Aug 2024 · 1 min read

LA

Are You Okay, My Love?

St. Vincent w/ Eartheater & Maiah Manser The Greek Theater Los Angeles Aug. 16, 2024 Halfway through her concert at Griffith Park’s Greek Theatre, I decide St. Vincent is

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Madeline Connors

22 Aug 2024 · 2 min read