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May Yang Is Speaking Tulsa

May Yang Is Speaking

In this robust and subtle solo show, a word becomes a situation, an environment, almost a dance.

  • Go to the profile of  Alicia Chesser
Alicia Chesser
14 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
Today In Inexplicable Contraptions Tulsa

Today In Inexplicable Contraptions

“Doug Cannell: Backstories,” 108|Contemporary's current show, is a perfect instance of everything this place is getting right.

  • Go to the profile of  Z.B. Reeves
Z.B. Reeves
14 Feb 2025 · 4 min read
A Bold Celebration of Truth, Community and Radical Acceptance Oakland

A Bold Celebration of Truth, Community and Radical Acceptance

A captivating blend of dance, song, and personal storytelling, the opera gives voice to the marginalized residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin, offering a raw and beautiful exploration of community and resilience.

  • Go to the profile of  Vita Hewitt
Vita Hewitt
13 Feb 2025 · 4 min read
Reasons Why I Hate Spotify Philadelphia

Reasons Why I Hate Spotify

"Mood Machine," journalist Liz Pelly's new book, lays out how a Swedish ad-tech company swallowed the music industry with the help of major labels.

  • Go to the profile of  Izzy True
Izzy True
13 Feb 2025 · 1 min read
Blight Chains Broken New Haven

Blight Chains Broken

As a grassroots mural duo steps in where NIMBY kept a neighborhood stuck in place.

  • Go to the profile of  Paul Bass
Paul Bass
13 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Burgin’ Out with Bad Mitch: Finding Tulsa’s Best Okie Burger Tulsa

Burgin’ Out with Bad Mitch: Finding Tulsa’s Best Okie Burger

Tulsa’s burger scene is massive, rich with lore, and worth exploring.

  • Go to the profile of  Mitch Gilliam
Mitch Gilliam
12 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
A Symphony Concert For Snobs and Non-Snobs Alike Tulsa

A Symphony Concert For Snobs and Non-Snobs Alike

Whether listening with attention to specifics or taking it all in as a wave of sound, everyone in my little party found something to enjoy.

  • Go to the profile of  Yvonne Hazelton
Yvonne Hazelton
12 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Loco-Bro Brings Bonkers Bingo Oakland

Loco-Bro Brings Bonkers Bingo

Bring out your bingo best, and maybe some earplugs too.

  • Go to the profile of  Sarah Bass
Sarah Bass
12 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Hope for Humanity Detroit

Hope for Humanity

"Come From Away" taps true tales from 9/11 to offer a tonic for our times.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
12 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
I Spy With AI Philadelphia

I Spy With AI

Margaret Koval's surveillance-inspired paintings capture society's eerie slippage into an uncanny valley.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
12 Feb 2025 · 4 min read
Funky Latin Getdown Grooves at Geoffrey’s Oakland

Funky Latin Getdown Grooves at Geoffrey’s

A showcase of Latin music takes on jazz and pop standards.

  • Go to the profile of  Jeff Kaliss
Jeff Kaliss
11 Feb 2025 · 4 min read
It's A Family Affair Philadelphia

It's A Family Affair

Children and Nazi literature abound at Pennsylvania's biggest gun show.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
10 Feb 2025 · 7 min read
Killer Bowl Sunday New Haven

Killer Bowl Sunday

Killer Kin drowns out the Eagles and Chiefs at the Space Ballroom

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
10 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Into the Woods: A Sensory Journey Oakland

Into the Woods: A Sensory Journey

An immersive exhibition that combines woodcut artistry, found object sculptures, and a provocative installation by Rachel Major.

  • Go to the profile of  Vita Hewitt
Vita Hewitt
10 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Power To The Novelist All Over

Power To The Novelist

A search for Black Panther truth -- through fiction.

  • Go to the profile of  Paul Bass
Paul Bass
10 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
Nuyorican Superhero Hits New Haven New Haven

Nuyorican Superhero Hits New Haven

Long Wharf Theatre’s ​“El Coquí Espectacular” brings spandex and Puerto Rican mythology

  • Go to the profile of  Aster Aguilar
Aster Aguilar
10 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Choral Classic Reborn New Haven

Choral Classic Reborn

NHSO highlights Black American composers in moving program.

  • Go to the profile of  Adam Matlock
Adam Matlock
10 Feb 2025 · 4 min read
Prine-Tuned Folk New Haven

Prine-Tuned Folk

Vance Gilbert channels a late singer-songwriter who helped set him on his path.

  • Go to the profile of  Midbrow Editor
Midbrow Editor
9 Feb 2025 · 2 min read
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