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All-You-Can-Eat Arcade Buffet

Otakon Walter E. Washington Convention Center Washington, D.C. Aug 3, 2024 In his latest summer vacation nerd excursion, Deadline Poet Lindo Yes visits Otakon, a celebration of Asian pop

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Lindo Yes
8 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
“Tell Them We Were Here”: Artists Talk to Artists About Arting Oakland

“Tell Them We Were Here”: Artists Talk to Artists About Arting

“Tell Them We Were Here” Screening with filmmaker Q&A East Bay Photo Collective 302 8th St, Oakland July 7th, 2024

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Frederick Noland
7 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Double Feature: Jewish Film Fest In Town Oakland

Double Feature: Jewish Film Fest In Town

A Photographic Memory and Under the Shadow of the Sun 44th SF Jewish Film Fest Landmark’s Piedmont Theatre 4186 Piedmont Ave, Oakland July 18-August 4, 2024 Just two of

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Sarah Bass
7 Aug 2024 · 5 min read
Ashley The Creator’s Art Bears Fruit New Haven

Ashley The Creator’s Art Bears Fruit

According to legend — and poet Christina Rossetti — one should never eat fruit offered by fairies. It’s considered illicit, otherworldly, and so good that one taste will leave you hankering

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Eleanor Polak
6 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Revenge Of The Horror Comic LA

Revenge Of The Horror Comic

EC COMICS LAUNCH PARTY Revenge Of Los Angeles July 23, 2024 It was a dark and stormy night when I discovered EC Comics. Perusing my college library’s bookstacks during

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Brittany Menjivar
6 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
Car Troubles, An Ill-Fated Tour & Not That Kind Of Swim Meet Tulsa

Car Troubles, An Ill-Fated Tour & Not That Kind Of Swim Meet

First Annual Swim Meet Chimera Tulsa July 27, 2024 I’m writing this at noon on a 95° Thursday from an Iron Skillet in Weatherford, Texas. AAA should be here

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Mitch Gilliam
6 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
Valauskas Experience Gets Ardent New Haven

Valauskas Experience Gets Ardent

The background singers were back in Memphis. So were the bass and drums. Shellye Valauskas and Dean Falcone brought just their acoustic guitars to the WNHH FM studio, and poured

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Paul Bass
4 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Matisse Makes Way For Pink Handcuffs Philadelphia

Matisse Makes Way For Pink Handcuffs

Visions The Barnes Foundation 2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy Philadelphia Aug. 1, 2024 Meandering through a maze of Matisse — meaning through a wave of 20th century women generously sprawled across colorful

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Nora Grace-Flood
2 Aug 2024 · 5 min read
The Clarinet Speaks: Ragtime Endures Hartford

The Clarinet Speaks: Ragtime Endures

Summer Concert Series: Elite Syncopation with Roy Wiseman Elizabeth Park Rose Garden West Hartford Aug. 1, 2024 After thunderstorms postponed a regularly scheduled Wednesday performance, I rang in August on

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Jamil Ragland
2 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
Living Memory Tulsa

Living Memory

“Living” Living Arts of Tulsa Tulsa Through Aug. 24, 2024 I’m not sure how, growing up in the Tulsa burbs, I got so obsessed with the fringes of art.

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Alicia Chesser
2 Aug 2024 · 6 min read
¡Vamos Ballers! Oakland

¡Vamos Ballers!

Yolo High Wheelers vs. Oakland Ballers Raimondi Park 1800 Wood Street Oakland July 28, 2024 We all like hanging out with one another at sporting events. When the sport is

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Agustín Maes
2 Aug 2024 · 6 min read
Philadelphia

Smoke and Mirrors Sprout Money Tree

Magician John Graham Smoke & Mirrors 2840 Pine Rd Huntingdon Valley, PA July 27, 2024 Deadline Poet LindoYes stopped by Huntingdon Valley magic theater Smoke & Mirrors to watch magician

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Lindo Yes
2 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
The Holocaust, In The First Person New Haven

The Holocaust, In The First Person

How do we talk about something for which we have no words? How do we develop a vocabulary for a tragedy of such volume that the human language does not

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Eleanor Polak
1 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
X‑FOLX ASSEMBLE! Superheroes Reframed Oakland

X‑FOLX ASSEMBLE! Superheroes Reframed

X‑FOLX Hella Positive 1606 7th St. Oakland July 27th, 2024

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Frederick Noland
1 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Finally, Crying for Megan Hartford

Finally, Crying for Megan

I only found you when I stopped looking Real Art Ways Hartford July 31, 2024 I’m sure that there’s more to Denisse Griselda Reyes’ exhibit, I only found

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Jamil Ragland
1 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
Star Secrets Revealed, As Chinese Lanterns Light Up Franklin Square Philadelphia

Star Secrets Revealed, As Chinese Lanterns Light Up Franklin Square

Chinese Lantern Festival Franklin Square 700 Arch St. Philadelphia July 30, 2024 A live rat ran past my shoe while I was lacing up to walk through Philly’s Chinese

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Nora Grace-Flood
31 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
MIY: The Secret To The Creamsicle Smoothie New Haven

MIY: The Secret To The Creamsicle Smoothie

(Click here to read a previous story about Cultured Cafe’s other notable offerings.)

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Liz Grace
31 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
That’s Bananas Philadelphia

That’s Bananas

E.T. And Some Bananas Fleisher/ Ollman Gallery 915 Spring Garden St. Philadelphia July 24, 2024 I took in a wall of misshapen, flat figures with stone faced expressions — and

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Nora Grace-Flood
31 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
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