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Freedom Dreamed New Haven

Freedom Dreamed

At 29th MLK Day poetry slam.

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
21 Jan 2025 · 6 min read
Underground Railroad Revisited Detroit

Underground Railroad Revisited

A "Flight To Freedom" tour sparked parallels to today's journeys to freedom.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
21 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
Last Dance At The Auto Prom Detroit

Last Dance At The Auto Prom

I rented a tux -- and barely got out alive.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
20 Jan 2025 · 4 min read
A Breath Of Fresh Air In A Polluted Art World Detroit

A Breath Of Fresh Air In A Polluted Art World

"Lay of the Land" group exhibition turns environmentalism into abstraction.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
20 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
Cynicism and Singing: David Cross Mildly Amuses Oakland

Cynicism and Singing: David Cross Mildly Amuses

An old dog with old bits - David Cross‘s brand of "alternative comedy" is now only reminiscent of his once-edgy standup from twenty years ago.

  • Go to the profile of  Frederick Noland
Frederick Noland
20 Jan 2025 · 1 min read
Swimming With Trash Fish Philadelphia

Swimming With Trash Fish

Jedediah Morfit's exhibit, "Your Myths are Trash," is a sculptural dumpster-dive into the lies we're living through.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
20 Jan 2025 · 4 min read
Synchronicity Set New Haven

Synchronicity Set

Jazz trio Clutchtet brings the underground aboveground to a popular New Haven bar

  • Go to the profile of  Etai Smotrich-Barr
Etai Smotrich-Barr
20 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
From The Banks Of God's River Hartford

From The Banks Of God's River

A gallery awakening.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
19 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
Afro Bowie: A Gathering of Glamblerds Deferred Oakland

Afro Bowie: A Gathering of Glamblerds Deferred

Afro Bowie brings together Bowie-loving musicians and fans to celebrate David Bowie’s birthday and memorialize his passing. This year, however, LA’s fires ground the planned celebration to a halt.

  • Go to the profile of  Frederick Noland
Frederick Noland
17 Jan 2025 · 1 min read
Young Man Sings "Old Man" Hartford

Young Man Sings "Old Man"

At warmed-up Winter Blues Fest.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
17 Jan 2025 · 2 min read
Ever Seen A Man Boiled To Death? Philadelphia

Ever Seen A Man Boiled To Death?

Musician Geordie Greep in concert strikes cartoonist Izzy True as "one of the strangest men I have seen in a long time."

  • Go to the profile of  Izzy True
Izzy True
17 Jan 2025 · 1 min read
Downsizing "Miss Daisy" Philadelphia

Downsizing "Miss Daisy"

A slimmed-down restaging lands just as the world prepares to change again.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
16 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
You Can’t Have Tenacity Without Triangles or Timpani Tulsa

You Can’t Have Tenacity Without Triangles or Timpani

The concert was subtle, until it was exciting, until it was hard as hell, in a good way.

  • Go to the profile of  Z.B. Reeves
Z.B. Reeves
16 Jan 2025 · 2 min read
A Tender Portrait of California Indigenous Life Oakland

A Tender Portrait of California Indigenous Life

Duncan Agulair’s photographs of Native California life stand as a direct challenge to the pervasive narrative that Indigenous communities are relics of the past. On view at OMCA now.

  • Go to the profile of  Vita Hewitt
Vita Hewitt
16 Jan 2025 · 4 min read
MINKA Goes Glam for Bowie Week Philadelphia

MINKA Goes Glam for Bowie Week

A local, millennial synth-pop band brings back the Bowie spirit during a masquerade party at Brooklyn Bowl.

  • Go to the profile of  Jessica Galletta
Jessica Galletta
15 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
An Older Self Entranced Oakland

An Older Self Entranced

A couple decades down the line, the craft of Viola Frey’s intricate and towering ceramic sculptures is now hitting home.

  • Go to the profile of  Agustín Maes
Agustín Maes
15 Jan 2025 · 4 min read
Ma Rainey Isn’t The Only One Showing Her Black Bottom At The Detroit Rep Detroit

Ma Rainey Isn’t The Only One Showing Her Black Bottom At The Detroit Rep

Even the small roles in this production of ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ shine

  • Go to the profile of  Randiah Camille Green
Randiah Camille Green
15 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
Burning The Corners Of Memory Philadelphia

Burning The Corners Of Memory

Jill Adler's visual reconstructions of her family's apartment at Blah Blah Gallery probe the erosion of our minds and environments.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
14 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
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