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Third time around Oakland

Third time around

Miniwatt delivered “Dinner Jazz”, adding a splash of color to a chill night out at Portal’s lakeside patio.

  • Go to the profile of  Frederick Noland
Frederick Noland
22 Sep 2025 · 1 min read
Garbage Brings The Love New Haven

Garbage Brings The Love

While Starcrawler wows news fans, at College Street Music Hall.

  • Go to the profile of  Karen Ponzio
Karen Ponzio
22 Sep 2025 · 4 min read
Silent Movie, Heavy Metal, City Relics New Haven

Silent Movie, Heavy Metal, City Relics

Lost in New Haven Museum hosts a screening of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" with live pit band

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
22 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
Britpop Re-landing Detroit

Britpop Re-landing

With an album 24 years in the making, Pulp plays first live Detroit show in 29 years

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
22 Sep 2025 · 2 min read
She Saw God. & Hell Hartford

She Saw God. & Hell

The crash that fueled Shannon McCarthy's visions.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
22 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
Butterr and Friends Build A World Of Their Own Baton Rouge

Butterr and Friends Build A World Of Their Own

In collider improv show.

  • Go to the profile of  Serena Puang
Serena Puang
22 Sep 2025 · 2 min read
Lens Test Baton Rouge

Lens Test

Women-lead film shorts succeed in quick world-building.

  • Go to the profile of  Serena Puang
Serena Puang
22 Sep 2025 · 2 min read
DJ Ryan's New Release Of The Week: The Womack Sisters "just don't want you" All Over

DJ Ryan's New Release Of The Week: The Womack Sisters "just don't want you"

To say good-bye -- via old-school retro-soul vinyl 45.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
22 Sep 2025 · 2 min read
Philadelphia

Blistering Into Defiant Screams

A fresh emo EP takes cartoonist Izzy True back to the era of Myspace and shopping malls.

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Izzy True
19 Sep 2025 · 1 min read
Concert Raises Funds For Laid-Off Cafe Workers New Haven

Concert Raises Funds For Laid-Off Cafe Workers

Baristas, abruptly laid off, pool talents together to raise money to keep each other afloat.

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
19 Sep 2025 · 6 min read
Choral grief All Over

Choral grief

A young rock star's death inspires a strange scavenger hunt (and alliance) in a debut novel

  • Go to the profile of  Jenn McKee
Jenn McKee
19 Sep 2025 · 4 min read
That’s Just Dandy Hartford

That’s Just Dandy

A "people's history" sheds light on a sartorial tradition.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
19 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
A piece of artwork lies on the table, arms reach out and contribute to the painting using pieces of charcoal. Detroit

Collaborative Canvas

Gilda Award-winning painter and muralist Oshun Williams led a workshop for the local community at the DIA

  • Go to the profile of  Caria Taylor
Caria Taylor
19 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
“BookArts: Beyond Expectation” Actually Delivers What It Promises Tulsa

“BookArts: Beyond Expectation” Actually Delivers What It Promises

The book-based exhibition at Liggett Studio offers a wealth of new ideas and formats

  • Go to the profile of  Z.B. Reeves
Z.B. Reeves
18 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
Jewels of Emerald Precision Oakland

Jewels of Emerald Precision

Painter Kelly Ording presents a unified green palette that's precise, conceptually centered, and geometrically bedazzling.

  • Go to the profile of  Agustín Maes
Agustín Maes
18 Sep 2025 · 4 min read
Lib Art: It’s Not Political Oakland

Lib Art: It’s Not Political

A library staff art show offers small—if marginally confusing—fun.

  • Go to the profile of  Sarah Bass
Sarah Bass
18 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
Remember Real Life? Baton Rouge

Remember Real Life?

"Disk Full" exhibit at Glassell Gallery pops a digital-age question.

  • Go to the profile of  Serena Puang
Serena Puang
18 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
Sexy Ben Frank Bends Too Far Philadelphia

Sexy Ben Frank Bends Too Far

A sex show about building a better a world — as told by a balding, horny Ben Franklin — didn't fail to insult its audience with dirty words.

  • Go to the profile of  Leo David
Leo David
18 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
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