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Clear-Eyed Humanity In Two New Plays Tulsa

Clear-Eyed Humanity In Two New Plays

Heller Theatre Company: Double Feature Lynn Riggs Theatre Tulsa March 8, 2024 What does it mean to be “good”? Two new plays presented by Heller Theatre Company last weekend raised

  • Go to the profile of  Alicia Chesser
Alicia Chesser
17 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Charmagne Tripp Returns To Form In The Living Room Hartford

Charmagne Tripp Returns To Form In The Living Room

The Living Room Series Presents: Charmagne Tripp and The High Theaterworks Hartford March 14, 2024 I’ve known Charmagne Tripp for several years, because I’ve been friends with her

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
15 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
This Is Me on Top of You LA

This Is Me on Top of You

VAL + THE AMATEURIST NOW INSTANT IMAGE HALL Chinatown, Los Angeles March 9, 2024 Getting ready for the screening, everything felt like a performance. I slipped on a pair of black

  • Go to the profile of  Brittany Menjivar
Brittany Menjivar
15 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Caryl Churchill’s ​“Escaped Alone” Lets Everyone Understand New Haven

Caryl Churchill’s ​“Escaped Alone” Lets Everyone Understand

Escaped Alone Yale Repertory Theatre 1120 Chapel St. Through March 30, 2024 A group of women are talking together in a garden, under the shade of a tree. In the

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Brian Slattery
15 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Clothes, Cops, & Weddings Hartford

Clothes, Cops, & Weddings

No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor Real Art Ways Hartford March 11, 2024 The clothes we wear say a lot about who we are. But instead of focusing on culture or

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
14 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Liquor Is Quicker But Butter Is Better LA

Liquor Is Quicker But Butter Is Better

LOS ANGELES BAR: SECOND POUR, EARTH Los Angeles Feb. 27 – March 30, 2024 If you needed me the first weekend of March, I was likely in a smallish concrete box.

  • Go to the profile of  Brandon Sward
Brandon Sward
14 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
House Packed For Musical Science Theater Tulsa

House Packed For Musical Science Theater

David Alan Broome: “Music Of The Senses” LowDown March 9, 2024 I never thought I’d see an overflow crowd show up for an experimental music gig in Tulsa, but

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Alicia Chesser
14 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven

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Hi Pi Day! To celebrate, you’re invited on a journey in search of patterns in the randomness of the putatively infinitely-expressed ratio of a circle’s circumference to its

  • Go to the profile of  Paul Bass
Paul Bass
14 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Pie Not? Oakland

Pie Not?

Edith’s Pie 412 22nd St. Oakland Pie for lunch? Why yes! Why not? Edith’s Pie now offers that option from a sweet storefront in downtown Oakland. You’ve

  • Go to the profile of  Sarah Bass
Sarah Bass
14 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Masks Fall; Love Emerges Oakland

Masks Fall; Love Emerges

The Cost of Living Oakland Theater Project at FLAX Art & Design 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way Oakland Through March 24, 2024 People are people, despite how they might

  • Go to the profile of  Agustín Maes
Agustín Maes
13 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Honey’s, Get Them Readwrite NYC

Honey’s, Get Them Readwrite

Lily Lady Presents Honey’s Brooklyn, NYC 3/12/2024 In writing this review, I’m struggling up front with where to put my focus. A six-person bill is quite

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K Hank Jost
13 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
All Over

R&B Love On Tour, With All Its Facets

K. Michelle, Jaheim, Trey Songz, and Keyshia Cole Love Hard Tour CFG Bank Arena Baltimore March 8, 2024 With lights beaming from the stage, Jaheim’s popular throwback “Fabulous” blared

  • Go to the profile of  Synclaire Cruel
Synclaire Cruel
13 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
A Tropical — Not ​“Tiki” — Interlude in the Oakland Hills Oakland

A Tropical — Not ​“Tiki” — Interlude in the Oakland Hills

Tonga in the Hills The Lobby Bar at Claremont Club & Spa Oakland March 7, 2024 In the Lobby Bar at the storied Claremont Hotel in the Oakland Hills, my

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Robin Lapid
12 Mar 2024 · 5 min read
Ever-Expanding Pita Pocket Stuffed New Haven

Ever-Expanding Pita Pocket Stuffed

Would all those fixings fit into that palm-plus-sized pocket of flexible flatbread? “We’re gonna learn,” Eddie Eckhaus said, “right now.”

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Paul Bass
12 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Filthy Riffs, Fists Fly At Death Fest New Haven

Filthy Riffs, Fists Fly At Death Fest

Hubert Smith took to the stage for the second time in two nights. The night before, he was playing drums for Necrocunt, something of a supergroup within Connecticut’s death

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Jasmine Wright
12 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Swanky Steakhouse Doesn’t Cut It Hartford

Swanky Steakhouse Doesn’t Cut It

Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar West Hartford March 11, 2024 As you’ve read before, dear reader, I’m pretty content eating Cheesecake Factory. But there’s another

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
11 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Glass House Is A Smash LA

Glass House Is A Smash

GLASS HOUSE VOLTA COLLECTIVE and CENTRAL SERVER WORKS G‑SON Studios Los Angeles Closed You enter not a room but a realm. Dreamlike, the space is bathed in deep, indigo

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Jack Skelley
11 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
Thrift Store Folk Punk, For All Ages New Haven

Thrift Store Folk Punk, For All Ages

A lone child in a Rubik’s Cube hoodie stood in the middle of the small black box space at Witch Bitch Thrift on Saturday night, trying and failing with

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Leo Slattery
11 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
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