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Bleachers Are The Boss Of The Bowl New Haven

Bleachers Are The Boss Of The Bowl

Milling around the floor-level seating area at the Westville Music Bowl on Friday night, I had no particular idea what I was in for. I had come to review a

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Mark Oppenheimer
10 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia

Bus Stop Jam Sesh Jazzes Up Dollar Strollers

Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll June 6, 2024 Philadelphia The Dollar Stroll returned to West Philly last week, with businesses along Baltimore Avenue selling goods to the tune of between $1

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Lindo Yes
10 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Pride Was A Mosh Pit New Haven

Pride Was A Mosh Pit

The room was a sea of tattoos, fish nets, and dyed hair as three bands almost entirely composed of queer people performed at Witch Bitch Thrift. Their songs about acceptance

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Leo Slattery
10 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Screen Savors Philadelphia

Screen Savors

Dream House: Inside Music + Video Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine St. Philadelphia Through Aug. 3, 2024 At the exhibit Dream House: Inside Music + Video, I found myself surrounded by a

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
9 Jun 2024 · 4 min read
Border Towns, Unbound Stories, Irreverent Gods: A Celia Álvarez Muñoz Retrospective Tulsa

Border Towns, Unbound Stories, Irreverent Gods: A Celia Álvarez Muñoz Retrospective

Celia Álvarez Muñoz: Breaking The Binding Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa May 31, 2024 According to the ACLU, nearly two out of three people in the United States live within

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Cassidy Petrazzi
9 Jun 2024 · 6 min read
When the Sharks Meet The Warhawks Hartford

When the Sharks Meet The Warhawks

Shark Tank Pitch Competition Bloomfield High School Bloomfield June 6, 2024 I hadn’t been back to Bloomfield High School, my alma mater, in at least a decade. What better

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
9 Jun 2024 · 4 min read
Invitation To The Dance: An Original Adaptation of Pride & Prejudice Tulsa

Invitation To The Dance: An Original Adaptation of Pride & Prejudice

Pembroke Players: Pride & Prejudice 101 Archer Tulsa June 1, 2024 I couldn’t have been more charmed by an invitation if Mr. Darcy had delivered it to me himself.

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Alicia Chesser
9 Jun 2024 · 5 min read
Three’s Harmony New Haven

Three’s Harmony

“Everything’s meant to be broken / Everything’s meant to pass …” Alex Blair wrote those words back in junior high or high school; he’s not sure of the exact

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Paul Bass
7 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
LA

Syd Barrett Roosts In Robyn Hitchock’s Head

ROBYN HITCHCOCK Zebulon Los Angeles May 21, 2024 In the end, Pink Floyd was a gigantic rock band. But before that, under founder Syd Barrett, it was a deep and

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Jack Skelley
7 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
Walking on Wool Oakland

Walking on Wool

East Bay Open Studios The Loom 2150 Livingston St. Oakland June 1 & 2, 2024 In demonstration of the wool she uses in her work, Meghan Shimek stood atop one

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Agustín Maes
6 Jun 2024 · 4 min read
The Mutter Misses: ​“Unhoused” Exhibition Puts Humanity Behind Bars Philadelphia

The Mutter Misses: ​“Unhoused” Exhibition Puts Humanity Behind Bars

Unhoused: Personal Stories and Public Health The Mutter Museum 19 S. 22nd St. Philadelphia I walked by three people camped out on the few blocks of sidewalk between my bus

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
6 Jun 2024 · 9 min read
An Emotional Story, Without The Emotion Hartford

An Emotional Story, Without The Emotion

Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara Cinestudio Hartford June 5, 2024 Visiting Cinestudio has become one of my favorite activities, as the college-based theater offers some of the more interesting

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Jamil Ragland
6 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Me & Mom New Haven

Me & Mom

The photo is of Adil Mansoor when he was a child, in Pakistan. The scene was a family celebration, and a relative, on a lark, dressed the boy in a

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Brian Slattery
6 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Million Dollar Babyface LA

Million Dollar Babyface

SUKEBAN: JAPANESE FEMALE PRO-WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP Trinity Auditorium Los Angeles May 30 “Call her babyface,” proclaims an announcer in a black velvet suit and Ray-Bans. He looks slick, like a Japanese

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Madeline Connors
5 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
Musicians Lend A Hand New Haven

Musicians Lend A Hand

Chloe, of the Hartford-based band Cvmrats, told stories about deceased friends and the difficulties of being mistaken for a train hopper, but everyone at Cafe Nine on Tuesday night knew

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Brian Slattery
5 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Art For All: Open Studios Kick Off Oakland

Art For All: Open Studios Kick Off

East Bay Open Studios Salon Exhibition and Opening Party Studio One Arts Center 365 45th St. Oakland May 30, 2024 My friend Emily and I stared at the white and

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Sarah Bass
4 Jun 2024 · 6 min read
Open Mic Pigs Out On Talent Surplus Philadelphia

Open Mic Pigs Out On Talent Surplus

Open Mic Ortlieb’s 847 N 3rd St. Philadelphia May 29, 2024 There I was, pigging out on hot dogs, listening to the Viagra Boys, and watching the Phillies move

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
4 Jun 2024 · 4 min read
LA

Screamo? You Wouldn’t Understand

YOUR RENAISSANCE FEST: JEROMES DREAM, LOMA PRIETA, and friends 1720 Los Angeles May 24, 2024 Screamo is a fickle beast often fawned over by the hard-to-please. As a derivative of

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David Diaz
3 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
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