NYC Public-Housing Art Creates Bridges To Somewhere, And A Right To Dream Public art displays Carver Houses, Madison Avenue and East 100th Street Saint Nicholas Houses, 230 West 131st St. Elliott Houses, 420 West 26th St. On view year-round, until Elliott-Chelsea Houses Betsy Kim 15 Nov 2023 · 6 min read
Oakland Oh (Po’) Boy Brenda’s 4045 Broadway St. Oakland CA Brenda’s, a new New Orleans kitchen (as in new food, not new restaurant) in Oakland, offers the expected Southern charm and disposition Sarah Bass 15 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
LA Words Nerds, Scenesters Keep It Lit CASUAL ENCOUNTERSZ alt-lit reading No Moon LA Los Angeles Nov. 2, 2023 Strip poker with a blow-up doll, Minnesota meth murder, sub sex addiction, Jet Blue fuckups, a bloody foot Jack Skelley 15 Nov 2023 · 2 min read
Oakland Black Women Power, Shown Large Throughline: An Art and Culinary Experience 1500 Broadway St, Oakland Through Nov. 19 In a city like Oakland, damn near everyone, especially in the arts, is connected in some way Sarah Bass 14 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford A Trip to the Emerald Isle, by Way of Hartford Music Mondays: Celtic Sounds Parkville Market, Hartford Nov. 13, 2023 “Make sure you come back, if you want to go even further down the rabbit hole.” That’s what Carol Jamil Ragland 14 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Look Out For Ian Taylor Sisters (feat. guitarist Ian Taylor) Park Side Lounge East Village, NYC Nov. 3, 2023 “It’s funny you say playing, because it’s all just that … It’s all playing. K Hank Jost 14 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Boston “The White Children Who Tormented Me Eat Kimchi Now”: Lunchbox “Moments” Pack a Punch Lunchbox Moments: Seek Understanding. Share Stories. Stop Hate Pao Arts Center 99 Albany St., Boston Through Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024 When did you realize that you were different? For most Sasha Patkin 13 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford Conventioneers Toy With Memory Trek Manchester Comic and Toy Convention Army and Navy Club, Manchester, Conn. Nov. 12, 2023 I’ve been a Gundam fan since Gundam Wing premiered on Cartoon Network almost 30 years Jamil Ragland 13 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Zines Create Scene Tiny Ghosts Haunting Small Things, The Band Plays in Front of a Big Audience, and Cars Go Too Fast (and our road design encourages it) are not titles you might Karen Ponzio 13 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
NYC Serious — Or Not — Petey Guns For The Crescendo Petey Warsaw Greenpoint, Brooklyn Nov. 10, 2023 “I read the Bible sometimes/ Please don’t make fun of me!” sang Petey’s front man, who I assumed goes by Pete. K Hank Jost 12 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Why “Enslaved” Individuals of Connecticut’s Colored Regiments New Haven Museum New Haven Nov. 11 One of the first things I noticed while listening to John Mills’s lecture about the experience Jamil Ragland 10 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa The Festival That Started With A Dream Dreamland Festival Guthrie Green Nov. 4, 2023 “If you build it, they will come”: This could be Steph Simon’s mantra. The Dreamland Festival (originally the World Culture Music Festival) Ryan Anderson 10 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Can You Capture A Mass Shooting In Dance, Music & Poetry All At Once? Watch Night The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) 251 Fulton Street, New York, NY Through Nov. 18, 2023 “Start with the white savior teacher? Or maybe the slick Black Adam Wassilchalk 10 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Boston Noodle Heaven Home Taste 58 Mt Auburn St. Watertown, Mass. When we think of comfort food — food that warms our hearts and bodies and makes the world OK again — we think of Sasha PatkinKelley McLaughlin 10 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Shubert Opens Broadway Season With Hope A bus driver has brought a busload full of stranded airline passengers to a camp in Newfoundland, in the middle of the night. The passengers don’t really know why Brian Slattery 10 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa Relentless Absurdity On the Oregon Trail The Trail To Oregon! Theatre Tulsa Studios Tulsa Nov. 2, 2023 I didn’t actually mean to see all the theatre productions happening in Tulsa in the past three weeks. Alicia Chesser 9 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford Death Be Not Cowed Riverfront Poetry Series Real Art Ways Hartford Nov. 8, 2023 When one of my friends died during the pandemic, I couldn’t bring myself to go to his wake. He Jamil Ragland 9 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
LA “King Of The Lesbians” Takes The Hollywood Bowl To Church HOZIER with MADISON CUNNINGHAM, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, November 4, 2023. From the sun-bleached stands of the Hollywood Bowl, the Hollywood Cross looms over the skyline, shiny as a warning. Avery Poznanski 9 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
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