Oakland The Power of Textures and Touch Artists Reception: Jessica Cadkin, Leah Korican, Monika Mayer, and Various Artists Mercury 20 Gallery Oakland Feb. 25, 2024 I have a friend who loves touching objects that look like they Robin Lapid 6 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven The Thing Is… With a new month comes a new Best Video movie series, and the March madness at the film and cultural center in Hamden has everything to do with horror and Karen Ponzio 6 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
LA Calamaric Euphoria, 20,000 Leagues Under The OC SQUID with WATER FROM YOUR EYES The Observatory Santa Ana, Cal. February 29, 2024 As a lifelong admirer of weird cryptids, sea monsters, and beings of potentially extraterrestrial origin, I’ A.J. Urquidi 5 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
Nashville The Taste Of An Indy Moviehouse The Taste of Things The Belcourt Theater Nashville 3/5/24 Showing up hungry to a movie called The Taste of Things was both unintentional and a mistake — salvageable only Libby Weitnauer 5 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford PBS Runs Armenia Through The Dull Machine Armenia, My Home Connecticut Public TV premiere; streaming on PBS I guess you could say that I have a fraught relationship with the idea of a homeland. I’m an Jamil Ragland 5 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
NYC A Dizzy Return Makes Sunday Night Magic Dizzy Ventilators Big Bar East Village, NYC 3/3/2024 During a prior tenure as Big Bar’s Sunday night bartender, I could always count on a relatively profitable late-night K Hank Jost 5 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
Raleigh/ Durham/ Chapel Hill Sheryl Underwood’s Straight Talk Hits Home Sheryl Underwood Raleigh Improv Raleigh, N.C. March 2, 2024 Laughter, cheers, and applause boomed from the Raleigh Improv Saturday night as Sheryl Underwood and quick-witted comedians stole the stage. Synclaire Cruel 5 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland The Warrior Who Saved a Dolphin Meet and Greet: Two-Time NBA Champion Clifford Ray African American Museum and Library Oakland Feb. 24, 2024 Some of my fondest memories with my father involved watching sports, since that’ Robin Lapid 4 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Black Planter Party Lifts Proud Parents (Like Me) Black Planter Party Hella Bee’s Oakland Feb. 24, 2024 I know a few people my age who are parents to human children, but I know many more who are Robin Lapid 3 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Troy/Albany Live Live Revelation: Middle-Age Uncool Is Fine Live Unplugged The Egg Albany, N.Y. 2/27/24 I ran into a work friend — a fellow civil servant — in the Egg’s subterranean entrance before the Live concert. RS Benedict 3 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Get Lost. You’re Uncool Forever Magazine’s Issue 6 Release Party 99 Canal St. Chinatown, Manhattan Something’s gone awry in NYC’s literary world. To be properly cynical, I’m sure it’s K Hank Jost 1 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Lunar New Year, Minus The Flash Lantern Festival 2024 Pacific Renaissance Plaza Oakland Feb. 24, 2024 Across the Bay, with great anticipation and fanfare, Awkwafina served as grand marshal of the San Francisco Chinese New Year Robin Lapid 1 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland “Symphony Dance Party”? I Left Breathless Oakland Civic Orchestra: Symphonic Dance Party First Presbyterian Church of Oakland Oakland Feb. 25, 2024 Classical music on the grounds of a church on a sunny Sunday afternoon — it just Robin Lapid 1 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Fathers, Sons And Chicken Wings At Hartford Stage The Hot Wing King Hartford Stage Hartford Through March 24, 2024 We got an extra day of Black History Month this year, so I celebrated by going to see the Jamil Ragland 1 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Dancer of Motion and Illusions Madeline Hollander: Entanglement Bortolami 39 Walker Through March 2 From the Tribeca Bortolami gallery room’s entrance, rows of cylindrical plinths, topped with flying saucer-like disks invite a remarkably unremarkable Betsy Kim 1 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Want Some Organ Meat With That Smoothie? The thick, tawny mason jar smoothie I ordered from The Remedy’s Cultured Cafe on State Street looked, smelled and tasted like soft, cinnamon cream — despite the fact that it Nora Grace-Flood 1 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Nashville Sean Brock’s Bar Continental Bar Continental Nashville 2/28/24 I wondered about the man rummaging through records in the corner as the DJ fussed with the turntables. He was spinning some relatively unengaging Libby Weitnauer 1 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Maps And Consequences Thereof Uncharted Ways Through: Maps, Land, and the Image Grand Rapids Art Museum Grand Rapids, Mich. Through April 7, 2024 Border Cantos | Sonic Border Grand Rapids Art Museum Grand Rapids, Mich. Stacey Peters 1 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
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