Tulsa “Lucky Bubby” Inspires A Feast Of A Show June Kosloff: “Recipes For Life: The Lucky Bubby Cookbook” Positive Space Tulsa May 4, 2024 Quietly but persistently, Positive Space has become one of Tulsa’s most vital art spaces, Alicia Chesser 12 May 2024 · 5 min read
LA Punk’s Promise PUNKCON 3 California State University Fullerton, Cal. May 4, 2024 It’s been a landmark week for US universities dusting off their suppression manuals and calling for armed backup to A.J. Urquidi 12 May 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Moms In Bands, Outnumbered By Dads In Bands, Chase Rockstar Dreams Grace Yukich picked up her first acoustic guitar in high school, in Opelika, Alabama, in the mid 1990s. Women like Alanis Morissette and Courtney Love ruled the burgeoning alt-rock music Marisa Torrieri Bloom 10 May 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Talking To God In A Tulsa Jazz Club The John Hanrahan Quartet Performs “A Love Supreme” LowDown May 4, 2024 The liner notes to John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme are sublime. Coltrane describes his album as a Z.B. Reeves 10 May 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Hip Hip And Folk Punk Bring Hope To The Stage Hip hop and folk punk came together Wednesday night at Cafe Nine to offer stories of persistence, hope, and detective work as DJ Halo, Tommy V, MJ Bones, Indigaux, MC Brian Slattery 9 May 2024 · 1 min read
LA Most Valuable Pfeiffer PAUL PFEIFFER: PROLOGUE TO THE STORY OF THE BIRTH OF FREEDOM Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles Through June 16, 2024 I hate sports. I’ve come around to physical Brandon Sward 8 May 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Down The Rabbit Hole … Of Cocktails And Dancing Mad Tea Party Children’s Fairyland Oakland May 4, 2024 My friend Dorothy was stuck in the slide at Children’s Fairyland in Oakland. I couldn’t see her, but Robin Lapid 8 May 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Breakfast Is Other People Ashley’s Breakfast and Lunch Hartford May 8, 2024 I’ve been going to Ashley’s on Main Street since I was a kid. It was a special treat when Jamil Ragland 8 May 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Deadline Poet Reports: Encampment Sweep Triggers Eviction Memory Philadelphia’s Parker administration took action Wednesday to remove 50 people remaining at a Kensington Avenue tent city, the final push in a month-long “encampment resolution” that’s cracking down Lindo Yes 8 May 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland A Bright, Bright Dark Dance With The Dark Works by J. Brian @ BOOK/SHOP 485 9th St. Oakland May 3, 2024 Four oversized canvases on display at Book/Shop both dwarfed their cozy surroundings Sarah Bass 8 May 2024 · 4 min read
Philadelphia “Attack Dog” Delivers Puppy Love Attack Dog PhilaMOCA 531 N. 12th St. Philadelphia May 2, 2024 Attack Dog ambushed an avant-garde audience inside PhilaMOCA — not with snarling words or slobbery chops, but with catchy riffs Nora Grace-Flood 7 May 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Who Said Pro Wrasslin’ Isn’t Real? “Hoodslam” Re-Suspends Disbelief Hoodslam The Continental Club 1658 12th Street Oakland May 3, 2024 Frederick Noland 7 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “Black Book” Opens Armed Teacher Debate It was just a read-through of a scene, without a costume or stage blocking, but the switches in writer and actor Austin Dean Ashford’s tone of voice were more Brian Slattery 7 May 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Live Band Ups The Karaoke Game Live Band Karaoke Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom St. Philadelphia May 4, 2024 Backed by a guitarist, bassist, drummer and a harmonizing hostess, the pony-tailed sequined woman who had introduced Nora Grace-Flood 6 May 2024 · 5 min read
Oakland Still Lifes Of A Wounded City “Revisiting Oakland: A Post-Pandemic Photographic Survey of Urban Landscapes“ Works by Gina Gaiser Manna Gallery 473 25th Street, Oakland Through June 1 Only four years ago we were washing our Agustín Maes 6 May 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven The Decemberists Make it Better The Decemberists brought May to a magnificent start on Saturday night when they returned to College Street Music Hall for the fourth show of their 2024 A Peaceable Kingdom North Karen Ponzio 6 May 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Her Tea: The R&B Open Mic Night Brewing In Tulsa Mi Tea + R&B Mi Tea Lounge April 24, 2024 Hip-hop’s dominance on Tulsa’s airwaves and stages has inadvertently created a void for R&B lovers. Ryan Anderson 5 May 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford All My Sons Goes Out With A Bang All My Sons Hartford Stage Hartford May 3, 2024 Warning: This review contains significant plot spoilers. There’s so much to say about this wonderful play, but I want to Jamil Ragland 3 May 2024 · 3 min read
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