Philadelphia

TikToker Tour Turnout Serves Boy Band A Second Shot

Resuscitated by the Internet, Panchiko roars into a sea of awkward acne.

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Nora Grace-Flood

13 Nov 2024 · 4 min read

Oakland

Oakland Symphony's Carmina Burana and Two Black Churches Pack a Powerful Message

More than a hundred voices accompanied by a full orchestra gave our our soul a sense of elation that we didn't know it was missing.

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Vita Hewitt

11 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Philadelphia

DIY Love

A Mickalene Thomas exhibition inspired by French Black erotica from the 1950s shows It’s up to us to collage together the truths of our existence — and show everyone else what we’re made of.

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Nora Grace-Flood

11 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Philadelphia

Tabla Tag Tugs At Heartstrings

Anirudh watches Vinay closely and catches him expertly. There is so much charisma in these exchanges, it's a game they are playing together.

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Izzy True

10 Nov 2024 · 1 min read

Tulsa

The Vampire Business Is Booming

Tulsa Ballet's "Dracula" plays it straight. But that cape is fabulous.

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Alicia Chesser

8 Nov 2024 · 5 min read

Tulsa

There Was Very Little Día de Los Muertos at the Día de Los Muertos Pickleball Tournament

If we’re fortunate, the ancestors might still look down and smile.

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Z.B. Reeves

8 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Hartford

How An Alcoholic Asshole Made Me Cry

The new film The Outrun gets past the cliches about substance abuse and recovery.

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Jamil Ragland

8 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Philadelphia

Rohrer or Rorschach?

Return to the Land puts the viewer to the test.

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Nora Grace-Flood

7 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Philadelphia

Survival Playlist: Dirty Frank's Dances Election Night Away

While the TV showed their presidential candidate losing, the crowd at a Philly dive bar turned the jukebox up.

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Nora Grace-Flood

6 Nov 2024 · 5 min read

Oakland

Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts: A Tour Through the Past Looking to the Future

The Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts, idle since 2005 is a stately reminder of a bygone era and a magnet for tagging and encampments. When I saw a guided tour annonced, I jumped at it.

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Frederick Noland

5 Nov 2024 · 1 min read

Oakland

Musically Haunting: "Ghost Quartet" Gives us Life

Ghost Quartet Oakland Theater Project 1501 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Oakland If you could be any kind of dead person, what kind would you be? Spoiler: you want to

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Vita Hewitt

5 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Oakland

California Against the Sea: Rosanna Xia Takes the High Road on Sea Level Rise

An author's chat at Clio's Books offers a clear-eyed look at the storms brewing outside.

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Frederick Noland

5 Nov 2024 · 1 min read

Oakland

Feet Fleet & Supple

The Sanskrit word 'Sangam' means “confluence of rivers,” or “coming together." "Sangam: A Diwali Odissi Recital," performed at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in west Oakland, left me in sweet spirits.

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Agustín Maes

4 Nov 2024 · 4 min read

Philadelphia

No Future/ No Past

I hear shades of Sabbath with a dose of shoegaze-y sensuality.

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Izzy True

4 Nov 2024 · 1 min read

Philadelphia

Disabled Joy Hits The Runway

Oftentimes abled folks cannot conceive of Disabled joy without pity; they get lost in their own imaginations, stumbled by the disorders and wrongness they believe our bodies are burdened by. But on Saturday, celebration took center stage through flexibility of form and fashion.

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Clay Davies

3 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Tulsa

It's Giving Rodeo

Oklahoma, even at its most “country,” is more than just angry white men in MAGA hats.

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Mitch Gilliam

1 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Tulsa

I’m Shifting Into Fall Soup Mode

Tulsans are spoiled by soup choice, and these five selections are just a drop in the stockpot.

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Becky Carman

1 Nov 2024 · 5 min read

New Haven

Stop! … Thief?

Frank Critelli was looking for lemons and toilet paper at Stop & Shop. He wasn’t looking to steal anything. Honest.

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Paul Bass

1 Nov 2024 · 3 min read