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Endless Stories of Outsider Art

Cartoonist Kelechi Azu traces two brothers' careers as graffiti artists, from Brazil to the streets of NYC to their first museum retrospective in D.C.

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Kelechi Azu
30 Jun 2025 · 1 min read
Seven Minutes within the Heavens Oakland

Seven Minutes within the Heavens

An unexpectedly sacred moment of contemplative artistic ritual via VR headset.

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Sarah Bass
30 Jun 2025 · 2 min read
The Volunteers Didn't Do It Detroit

The Volunteers Didn't Do It

A rooftop murder mystery was loads of fun, when the professional actors were in charge.

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Erica Hobbs
29 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Dancing Puppet Divas Enter Limelight Detroit

Dancing Puppet Divas Enter Limelight

Puppet musical — featuring burlesque and a bodysuit-clad silent clown — is a "high energy, interactive acid trip."

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Erica Hobbs
27 Jun 2025 · 2 min read
Hardcore at Sundown with the Nicest People Oakland

Hardcore at Sundown with the Nicest People

Camaraderie, goodwill, and LOUDNESS at Oakland's Stay Gold Deli for a summer solstice show.

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Agustín Maes
27 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
Motion in Stillness Philadelphia

Motion in Stillness

Artist Jacqueline Cedar uses stacked and softly tessellating details to express movement in lazy still lifes.

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Nora Grace-Flood
27 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Philadelphia

Welcome to the Wasteland

Punk music and Toys-R-Us giraffes take the stage, or ring, at a wrestling showdown.

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Izzy True
27 Jun 2025 · 1 min read
Sound, Time, Memory, Wind New Haven

Sound, Time, Memory, Wind

Collaborative exhibit hits all the senses.

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Midbrow Editor
27 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Teens Take The Lens New Haven

Teens Take The Lens

“The way the sun is in a picture can make you feel some kind of way."

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Brian Slattery
27 Jun 2025 · 6 min read
Family History Looks To Future Hartford

Family History Looks To Future

A man finds his ancestors, for his kids.

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Jamil Ragland
27 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Giovanni's Room Opens The Door... Philadelphia

Giovanni's Room Opens The Door...

... To a modernized stage adaptation that integrates 21st century nuances into the 1956 James Baldwin novel.

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Leo David
25 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
25th Annual Malcolm X Jazz Festival Oakland

25th Annual Malcolm X Jazz Festival

For the twenty fifth year, Oakland got down to grooves, grub, and graffiti for Malcolm X Jazz Fest.

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Frederick Noland
25 Jun 2025 · 1 min read
Franklin's Keys to the Future Philadelphia

Franklin's Keys to the Future

A new play reimagines old Philadelphia lore — while sending a lesson about the importance of "STEAM" education in today's world.

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Jessica Galletta
24 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
Solid Ground Oakland

Solid Ground

A restricted color palette certainly does not damper strength of works: a solo show by Yameng Lee Thorp at Pt. 2 Gallery is filled with feeling.

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Sarah Bass
24 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Rosalíe Wants You To Feel New Haven

Rosalíe Wants You To Feel

New Haven-raised musician comes home to put on a show about love and freedom.

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Jisu Sheen
24 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Philadelphia

Everybody Gets A Car

Chicago-based Sen Morimoto brings jazz rap to Philly.

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Izzy True
24 Jun 2025 · 1 min read
Conspicuous Consumption All Over

Conspicuous Consumption

John Green deep-dives into TB.

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Jenn McKee
24 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Poet Pens Prose Punksounds All Over

Poet Pens Prose Punksounds

Greg Hewett tries to help his readers hear the music in his first novel.

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Paul Bass
23 Jun 2025 · 5 min read
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