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You MexiCan’t Beat This Great Food Hartford

You MexiCan’t Beat This Great Food

Frontera Grill Manchester June 28, 2024 I’ve had the opportunity to try many different kinds of foods and restaurants, but Mexican food remains my favorite. Visiting Frontera Grill in

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Jamil Ragland
2 Jul 2024 · 3 min read
Electric Jazz For Lunch Oakland

Electric Jazz For Lunch

David Lechuga AMP/Oakland Central Lunch and Listen Latham Square 1500 Broadway Ave. Oakland June 20, 2024 Intermittent sunshine broke through, illuminating four men in varying states of dress for

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Sarah Bass
2 Jul 2024 · 2 min read
Philadelphia

“Gifted” Schools Crowd On Hip-Hop

The School of the Gifted World Cafe Live 3025 Walnut St. Philadelphia June 25, 2024 The School of the Gifted — a Philly-based hip hop troupe composed of eight members — performed

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Lindo Yes
1 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
Connection Found In Another Country Called Home Oakland

Connection Found In Another Country Called Home

‘Searching for Kapwa’ Film Screening and Discussion Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St., Suite 290, Oakland June 22, 2024 At the Oakland Asian Cultural Center’s screening for Searching

  • Go to the profile of  Robin Lapid
Robin Lapid
1 Jul 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven

Salsa & Afropop Find Unity In Rhythm

At the very beginning of the evening on the New Haven Green on Friday night, percussionist Nino Ciampa asked a fundamental question: what is salsa? “Salsa is flavor and spice,

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
1 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
Quality Control LA

Quality Control

LUCY BULL: ASH TREE David Kordansky Gallery Los Angeles May 11 – June 15, 2024 This is a really good summer for art in LA. It was white text against black,

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Eli Diner
1 Jul 2024 · 3 min read
Nature, Order, and Disorder in the Art of Life and Death Oakland

Nature, Order, and Disorder in the Art of Life and Death

Artists’ Reception: Tara Esperanza, Christine Meuris, Dalar Alahverdi, Leah Korican, and Elizabeth Sher Mercury 20 Gallery 475 25th St. Oakland June 22, 2024 I was wilting under the heat of

  • Go to the profile of  Robin Lapid
Robin Lapid
30 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
For The East, By The East Tulsa

For The East, By The East

Face The East Lil Brown’s Bar Tulsa June 18 – 19, 2024 Everybody thinks of the north side when they think about Tulsa hip-hop. But it’s a little known

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Ryan Anderson
30 Jun 2024 · 4 min read
Birthright Made Modern Hartford

Birthright Made Modern

Birthright Cinestudio Hartford June 26, 2024 One of the best ways to beat the summer heat is to retreat into the cool darkness of a movie theater. I ducked into

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
30 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Every Song Has To Start Somewhere Tulsa

Every Song Has To Start Somewhere

I Can’t… Write a Song! Workshop TCC McKeon Center for Creativity Tulsa June 22, 2024 Songwriting is a strange art, hard to explain, harder to practice. The art of

  • Go to the profile of  Z.B. Reeves
Z.B. Reeves
30 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
A Presidential Candidate Walks Into A Bookstore … Oakland

A Presidential Candidate Walks Into A Bookstore …

Presidential hopeful Cornel West and running mate Oakland local Dr. Melina Abdullah in conversation at Clio’s Books.

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Frederick Noland
28 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Satire Is Dead. What About Political Cartoons? Philadelphia

Satire Is Dead. What About Political Cartoons?

Cartoons as Political Speech in Colonial and Contemporary America Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1300 Locust St. Philadelphia Through Aug. 2, 2024 You’re looking at a black and white cartoon

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
28 Jun 2024 · 5 min read
Hope and History Celebrated Through Dance Oakland

Hope and History Celebrated Through Dance

Fallen Heroes, Rising Stars: A Juneteenth Celebration Through Dance 494 9th St., Oakland June 22, 2024 On a closed-off block of 9th Street in Old Oakland, even the sun seemed

  • Go to the profile of  Robin Lapid
Robin Lapid
28 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Our Pun-dolences To The Losers Tulsa

Our Pun-dolences To The Losers

Welcome To PUNderland: The Great Philbrook Pun-Off Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa June 21, 2024 I love it when Philbrook does something outside their realm of expertise. During his eight

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Z.B. Reeves
28 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
Philadelphia

Judas Iscariot Resurrected

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot The Stagecrafters Theater 8130 Germantown Ave Philadelphia June 21, 2024 In the video above, Deadline Poet LindoYes reviews The Stagecrafters Theater’s production of

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Lindo Yes
28 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Bossa Nova Energizes, As Arts & Ideas Fest Nears Finish New Haven

Bossa Nova Energizes, As Arts & Ideas Fest Nears Finish

The evening was warm but not too warm, the New Haven Green was packed full of people, and the sweet sounds of Brazilian bossa nova perfumed the air. Caro Pierotto,

  • Go to the profile of  Eleanor Polak
Eleanor Polak
28 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia

People I Love Embrace Imperfection

People I Love PhilaMoca 531 N 12th St. Philadelphia June 26, 2024 Dan Poppa winced during the soundcheck as he requested some fine-tuning on the guitar levels. From my front

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
28 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Nothing Is Trivial LA

Nothing Is Trivial

WEDNESDAY NIGHT TRIVIA Bigfoot Lodge Los Angeles Every Wednesday Every time I visit the East Coast, I’m subjected to rumors of some strange new insect sweeping the area. First,

  • Go to the profile of  Brittany Menjivar
Brittany Menjivar
27 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
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