Hartford Is Disney Skating Past Me? Disney on Ice Presents: Magic in the Stars XL Center Hartford Jan/ 4, 2024 Being a reviewer means that I get to experience so many wonderful events, but sometimes even Jamil Ragland 5 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford First Thursday Starts 2024 With An Art-counter Art Escape First Thursday Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford Jan, 4, 2024 “Excuse me, what kind of camera is that?” I looked up to see a fresh face bracketed by overflowing curly Jamil Ragland 5 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
LA Reporting Live from Hell SQUID GAME: THE TRIAL EXPERIENCE Television City Los Angeles Ongoing since Dec. 6, 2023 I am not the first person to say this: we are living in hell. It’s Madeline Connors 5 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
LA Revolutionary Blake-splaining WILLIAM BLAKE: VISIONARY Getty Center Los Angeles Through Jan. 14, 2024 The word “prophet” gets tossed around. But in the case of William Blake (1757 – 1827), it renews itself daily. Jack Skelley 5 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Kevin Saint James Smokes The Owl Shop It was 9:30 on Wednesday evening at the Owl Shop on College Street and already the Kevin Saint James Band had relaxed into an easy swing. Plumes of smoke Brian Slattery 4 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Vinyl Breathes Anew, With A Whiskey Chaser Bar Shiru Selector Series 1611 Telegraph Ave. Oakland Dec. 20th, 2023 Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Oakland’s poet laureate, closed out season seven of Bar Shiru’s Selector Series by selecting Lisa Gray 3 Jan 2024 · 5 min read
Tulsa et al. Is Serving Way More Than What’s On Your Plate et al.: Sufra Dinner Series December 23, 2023 Foolish Things Coffee Company There is no analogy in Tulsa for what the culinary team at et al. is doing. Each new Becky Carman 3 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
Reno Bluesman Trent Brings Warbling Sound To Black Rabbit Bluesman Trent Black Rabbit Mead Company Dec. 22, 2023 I just finished reading the bawdy, anti-Western novel The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. Later turned into a movie starring Joaquin Jose Davila IV 3 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Boston Things Delicate and Fierce: Xuan Hui Ng at the Griffin Museum of Photography Transcendence: Awakening the Soul Griffin Museum of Photography 67 Shore Rd. Winchester, Mass. Through Jan. 7, 2024 It’s often said that photography is one of the hardest art forms Sasha Patkin 2 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
Nashville Music City Bar and Grill Makes Another World On Old Ground Nathan Belt Music City Bar and Grill Nashville Dec. 30, 2023 “It’s music from outer space,” my show-going companion Will Johnson said to me. It’s difficult to convey Libby Weitnauer 2 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Good Things Lurk at Gearbox Gallery “Press Play: Remain Creative“ Malik Seneferu Gearbox Gallery 770 W. Grand Ave. Oakland Through Jan. 6, 2024 African mask paintings stare down family portraits, a wall of small sculptures arranged Sarah Bass 2 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Celestials & Tricky Bits The penultimate night of the year can be a tricky one, especially if it falls on a weekend. Do you go out and do something fun, or do you stay Karen Ponzio 2 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven A Year Of Reckoning In The Arts Organizational chaos. Art spaces closing their doors. And new collectives of artists forming to take matters into their own hands. For many in the arts scene, the year 2023 was Brian Slattery 22 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
NYC A True Fabel: East Village Turns Out For A Hip-Hop Legend In Hour Of Need Fundraiser Party for Jorge “PopMaster Fabel” Pabone Big Bar East Village, Manhattan Dec. 20, 2023 Lower Manhattan’s Big Bar is a place well known for the being a center K Hank Jost 22 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
Tulsa Altered States: Tulsa’s Hidden Psychedelic Past Michael Mason: The Secret Psychedelic History of Tulsa 101 Archer Tulsa Dec.14, 2023 Any free seminar about psychedelic drugs probably attracts an eclectic crowd. At least a hundred people Kathryn Parkman 22 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
Boston Post-“Normal” World Glimpsed The Myth of Normal: A Celebration of Authentic Expression MassArt Art Museum 621 Huntington Ave. Through May 19, 2024 Sitting in the middle of a gallery at MassArt Art Museum Sasha Patkin 21 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Nashville “Quilty Pleasures” Indulged Quilty Pleasures Elephant Gallery Buchanan Arts District Nashville Through Jan. 27 Through the windows of Elephant Gallery, I saw an elephant, a lamp toilet, Tweety Bird. I cursed myself for Libby Weitnauer 21 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Oakland House Of Plenty (Of Veggies) Plenty 1825 San Pablo Ave. Oakland Unassuming but delightfully fresh, with pre-pandemic pricing, imposter cocktails (Sochu in place of hard liquor), friendly staff, and a lived-in feel, downtown Oakland’s Sarah Bass 21 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
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