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
LA All’s Fair At The Ren Faire ORIGINAL RENAISSANCE PLEASURE FAIRE Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area Through May 19, 2024 My ren faire experience began with a quest of fantastic proportions. After parking on a side street Brittany Menjivar 3 May 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Eat To The Beat: LoFi Pizza & Wine Bar Is Live LoFi Pizza & Wine Bar 1301 E 15th St Tulsa It’s been only seven months since a fire destroyed our beloved Hodges Bend and Lowood. The loss of those Becky Carman 3 May 2024 · 5 min read
New Haven Artists Take Time To Breathe Unbothered, a new exhibit in a coworking space in downtown New Haven, features works by Juliana Chavarria, Lauren Clayton, Shaunda Holloway, Kimberly Klauss, Melida McKenzie-Alford, Shanna T. Melton, Aisha Nailah, Brian Slattery 3 May 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Clogging, Cartwheeling, & Rocking Tapestry: Weaving the Community of Dance Oakland Temple Hill 4780 Lincoln Ave. Oakland April 27, 2024 I had seen the place a hundred times from other parts of the city, Breezy Bratton 3 May 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland My Posse’s On Grand Lake Outlaw Posse Red Carpet Premiere Grand Lake Theatre Tuesday, April 30, 2024 Frederick Noland 2 May 2024 · 1 min read
LA Melody From Noise HELMET: LOOK LEFT TOUR with CRO-MAGS Teragram Ballroom Los Angeles April 28, 2024 On Sunday in Central Los Angeles, I parked on one of Westlake’s copious skid rows, crunching A.J. Urquidi 2 May 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Rich Roti Aman Cafe 4021 Broadway Ave. Oakland Nestled unassumingly between other quietly popular restaurants on a wide stretch of Broadway at 40th is Aman Cafe, home to Malaysian roti that are Sarah Bass 2 May 2024 · 5 min read
New Haven “Hadestown” Keeps Up The Fight Orpheus is smitten with Eurydice before they even speak. Hermes, Orpheus’s wingman, helps him work up his courage to ask her out. “Orpheus,” he warns, “don’t come on Brian Slattery 2 May 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Humble Hip Hop Trumpeter Packs Out The New Parish Takuya Kuroda w/ Isaiah Mostafa & DJ Wonway Posibul The New Parish 1743 San Pablo Ave. Oakland April 25, 2024 Hip hop heads will grant Takuya Kuroda street cred from Breezy Bratton 2 May 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Metal Goes Mental For Meditation Savage Sisters Metal Meditation with Monks Pond PhilaMOCA 531 N. 12th St. Philadelphia April 28, 2024 *Extra credit: Test your focus (or flexibility) by reading this review while listening to Nora Grace-Flood 1 May 2024 · 4 min read
LA Mannequin Pussy Embraces Anger MANNEQUIN PUSSY: I GOT HEAVEN TOUR with SOUL GLO The Fonda Theater Los Angeles April 26, 2024 My millennial algorithm keeps pushing TikToks about the power of listening to nostalgic Emily VanKoughnett 1 May 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Transmasculine Experience Mythologized RED RED RED by Amelio García Oakland Theater Project 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way Oakland Through May 19 RED RED RED, “the alternate telling of a story no one Breezy Bratton 1 May 2024 · 3 min read
All Over A Trip to the Big City (Island) Sea Shore Restaurant & Marina City Island, The Bronx New York April 29, 2024 I am a proud Nutmegger, and an annoyingly outspoken proponent for Hartford and its development. But Jamil Ragland 1 May 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Melissa White’s Violin Sings Strings of Inspiration! Artists Collective Hartford April 30, 2024 Not to toot my own horn, but I’m not just a band geek — I was band president in high school. Jamil Ragland 1 May 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Gumball Poems Remind Readers: You’re Not A Robot The Poetry Gumball Machine Project Museum for Art in Wood 141 N. 3rd St. Philadelphia April 27, 2024 “Tough love is being punched until you don’t cry — and crying Nora Grace-Flood 1 May 2024 · 6 min read
New Haven Ceschi Keeps Hope Alive Like the rest of us, Ceschi, a.k.a. Julio Ramos, had long since emerged from the darkest days of the Covid-19 pandemic. But he hadn’t forgotten. Nor had Paul Bass 28 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
LA IKEA Panacea IKEA RESIDENCY RECEPTION Surely Work Studios Los Angeles April 20, 2024 Like the markers in the 22-acre IKEA in Burbank — second in size only to the flagship store in Stockholm Emily Ann Zisko 28 Apr 2024 · 2 min read