Troy/Albany Harp Meets The Dead: Mikaela Davis & Maybird, Lost in Wonderland, Lost in Time Mikaela Davis with special guest Maybird Lark Hall Albany, N.Y. Dec. 7, 2023 In the depths of dreary winter, after a week of short and sunless days, as intermittent RS Benedict 11 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford Reed Right Chamber Music Showcase Berkman Recital Hall, University of Hartford West Hartford Dec. 5, 2023 I played the clarinet for six years. I was first chair in my highschool band, and Jamil Ragland 11 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford Sister Act Brings Fire & Sass Sister Act: A Divine Musical Comedy ActUp Theater Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School Hartford Through Sunday, Dec. 10 I’m gonna cut to the chase: Go see ActUp Theater’ Jamil Ragland 8 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Origin Stories, Cherokee Americana And A Rare Full-Band Show For Kalyn Fay Kalyn Fay LowDown Tulsa Dec. 1, 2023 Kalyn Fay’s music seems to be made of open space and complicated questions. When the singer-songwriter took the stage at LowDown last Z.B. Reeves 8 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
NYC “You Cartoon Mascot For A Chalk-Flavored Candy Bar”: Battle Comedy Commences Roasted Comedy Battle Grove 34 31 – 83 34th St. Queens, NY Dec. 6, 2023 On Wednesday, all the way out in Queens, at the self-proclaimed eighth best comedy club in K Hank Jost 8 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa Cuban Rhythms, Frank Ocean And Whatever The Hell Else: A Night At The Colony Lil’ Big Band The Colony Nov. 24, 2023 Turkey and holiday starches are known to tank folks, but Thanksgiving is traditionally a huge day for Tulsa’s service industry. Expats Mitch Gilliam 8 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
Boston When “Awful” Rhymes With “Felafel” The Band’s Visit The Huntington Theatre 264 Huntington Ave. Boston, Mass. Through Dec. 17, 2023 “Once, not long ago, a group of musicians came to Israel from Egypt. You Sasha Patkin 8 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford Reviewer Takes The Reins Self-Curated Exhibit Jean Burr Smith Library Conn. State Community College Middlesex Dec. 7, 2023 This painting particularly caught my eye. So I decided to feature it in an exhibition. Initially, Jamil Ragland 8 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Indie-Folk Favorites Darlingside, Field Guide Bring Solace To Space As the temperature outside dropped to feeling downright wintery, Space Ballroom in Hamden on Wednesday was filled with warmth, as indie-folk favorites Darlingside, with Field Guide opening, created a night Brian Slattery 7 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
Oakland Persimmons Three Ways JooDooBoo 4201 Market St. Oakland You might think it’s holiday season, but the folks at Oakland’s JooDooBoo, a Korean banchan and house-made tofu deli and market, and I Sarah Bass 7 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Some Painted,Some Panted Music and visual art both went live Wednesday night at Cafe Nine when Color in Sound, an event organized and curated by local artist Andres Madariaga, brought together three musical Karen Ponzio 7 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
Boston T Retch T: An MBTA Musical The Rockwell 255 Elm St. Somerville, Mass. Dec. 1, 2023 Loving to hate the absurd incompetence of the T is a time-honored Boston tradition as old Sasha Patkin 6 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa A Slower Kind Of Knowing Darren Dirksen: November Grass Joseph Gierek Fine Art Tulsa Through Dec. 9 In the introduction to her “Best Music of 2023” list, the New Yorker music critic Amanda Petrusich wrote Alicia Chesser 6 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
LA From Guyana with Love CARIBBEAN TELEVISION Commonwealth and Council Los Angeles Through Dec. 23, 2023 Adam revealed his life to me in slivers over the course of our brief romance: his Muslim faith, the Brandon Sward 6 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
New Haven How An Artist Sparked An Institution The two friends in Ann Lehman’s sculpture — we only know they’re friends because the title tells us so — appear as though they’re deep in the middle of Brian Slattery 6 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
LA Big Shark Roams The Big Easy BIG SHARK WITH TOMMY WISEAU IN PERSON Landmark Westwood Los Angeles Nov. 11, 2023 Exactly 20 years since the premiere of writer-director Tommy Wiseau’s cine-magnum opus The Room, he A.J. Urquidi 5 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Paul Truly Springs Paul Spring Always Almost Home Record Release Show Bar Sundown Ridgewood, NYC Dec. 2, 2023 An artist friend of mine once relayed a piece of life-changing advice. The advice was K Hank Jost 5 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven “The Truth Is Out There” Ken Grimes’s pieces in “The Truth Is Out There” partake of the style of cartoons, woodblocks, and also — thanks to the associations from the X‑Files reference in the Brian Slattery 5 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
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