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Murder At the Masquerade Ball Hartford

Murder At the Masquerade Ball

Was it Ms. Bertha? Dr. Feelgood? Jamil Ragland hunts for the "culprit" at the Wadsworth.

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Jamil Ragland
3 Oct 2025 · 3 min read
Quitting Pedal Steel Cold Turkey? Philadelphia

Quitting Pedal Steel Cold Turkey?

There's a twangification crisis — and prowling pedal steel player Sam Wenc is on the hunt for a fresh sound.

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Tyler Maxwell
1 Oct 2025 · 3 min read
All the Way to Recovery: Elizabeth Gilbert's New Memoir Explores Loss and Addiction Detroit

All the Way to Recovery: Elizabeth Gilbert's New Memoir Explores Loss and Addiction

Elizabeth Gilbert's new memoir explores loss and addiction

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Erica Hobbs
1 Oct 2025 · 5 min read
“Y’all Sound Hella Good” Oakland

“Y’all Sound Hella Good”

Bay local returns to Yoshi’s for second year running, rocks out.

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Sarah Bass
1 Oct 2025 · 3 min read
Mentorship And Community Make ‘In The Red’ An Inspiration Oakland

Mentorship And Community Make ‘In The Red’ An Inspiration

‘In The Red’ offers a glimmer of hope in the still-beating heart of civilization with a decidedly Oakland local take.

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Frederick Noland
1 Oct 2025 · 1 min read
Vessels of Memory Oakland

Vessels of Memory

Holly Wong’s “Full Circle” at Slate Gallery seems to draw from mythic sources, creating vessels of time and remembrance.

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Vita Hewitt
30 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
Samantha Bee Presses The (Meno)Pause Button Detroit

Samantha Bee Presses The (Meno)Pause Button

On latest tour.

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
30 Sep 2025 · 2 min read
Starboard Vow All Over

Starboard Vow

The true story of an English couple's unlikely survival at sea

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Jenn McKee
30 Sep 2025 · 4 min read
PMS Manifesto All Over

PMS Manifesto

I wish they'd taught "The Period Brain" in health class

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Serena Puang
30 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
Visions Between Life and & Death Visual Art

Visions Between Life and & Death

After a near-death experience, an artist puts on a rescheduled exhibition with the help of a chef.

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Jisu Sheen
29 Sep 2025 · 5 min read
"Jaws" Returns with a Vengeance Detroit

"Jaws" Returns with a Vengeance

Through a staged backstory, at the Tipping Point.

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Erica Hobbs
29 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
"Earnest" Envelope Pushed Baton Rouge

"Earnest" Envelope Pushed

Sullivan Theater's revival of Wilde's play resonates in modern-day America.

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Serena Puang
29 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
A man in a graphic t-shirt and cap dances under green lights at an outdoor night event. Detroit

Eastern Market After Dark

A celebration of Detroit's art & culture.

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Caria Taylor
29 Sep 2025 · 4 min read
Fringe Frenzy Philadelphia

Fringe Frenzy

It's the Fringe Festival finale!

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Leo David, Clay Davies
28 Sep 2025 · 1 min read
A Midsummer Night's Fever Dream Philadelphia

A Midsummer Night's Fever Dream

Shakespeare's favorite characters try to free themselves from the shackles of their author's imagination in a hard-to-follow DIY-film project.

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Clay Davies
28 Sep 2025 · 2 min read
DJ Ryan's New Release Of The Week: MRKT's “Monotropa” All Over

DJ Ryan's New Release Of The Week: MRKT's “Monotropa”

This week's new-music pick from Midbrow's resident spinner .

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
28 Sep 2025 · 2 min read
Louisiana Creole Folktales, Explored Through Art Baton Rouge

Louisiana Creole Folktales, Explored Through Art

By Creole artists, at West Baton Rouge Museum

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Serena Puang
28 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
Will the Wallflowers Please Stand Up Philadelphia

Will the Wallflowers Please Stand Up

A one-man performance of social anxiety makes comedy out of awkward audience encounters.

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Leo David
28 Sep 2025 · 4 min read
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