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tulsa, music, indigenous, poetry, jazz, rock, folk Tulsa

An Evening of Ceremony: Joy Harjo’s Native Jazz-Rock

Our world moves fast, and something special happens when these four focus on a center point—almost like an incantation.

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Kathryn Parkman
1 Nov 2024 · 2 min read
Korean Punk Revives The Rage Philadelphia

Korean Punk Revives The Rage

Once a spiritually bereft American, I’m now a disciple of the subversive school girl.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
31 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Place Show Win Philadelphia

Place Show Win

As we travel through life, place echoes forward through us, making itself known no matter what.

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Nora Grace-Flood
30 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
Pooches on Parade: Dogfest Brings the Party Oakland

Pooches on Parade: Dogfest Brings the Party

Who doesn't love a dog in a tutu? Or a cape? Or just a basic bitch bandana? All that and more were on parade at Dogfest, a Halloween-themed pet event in Oakland's Jack London Square.

  • Go to the profile of  Frederick Noland
Frederick Noland
30 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
The Pleasure of Pure Form Oakland

The Pleasure of Pure Form

“Layers,” is the superbly curated new show on view at Slate Contemporary Gallery. The group exhibit allows the pieces to play off one another other in a silent symphony of pure form that enraptured me like a charmed serpent.

  • Go to the profile of  Agustín Maes
Agustín Maes
29 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
Like It Or Not, Wing Bowl Wows Philadelphia

Like It Or Not, Wing Bowl Wows

The only thing more spectacular than Wing Bowl itself might be the Wing Bowl movie.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
29 Oct 2024 · 5 min read
Rolling through Unseeing Eyes Philadelphia

Rolling through Unseeing Eyes

I feel uneasy, and so does the boy in the photograph. He looks sick, on the edge of consciousness. He lays out on a chaise lounge, his face blank, while his twin brother holds onto his hand with an intensity I am familiar with when I am slipping unconscious.

  • Go to the profile of  Clay Davies
Clay Davies
28 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
The Strike: The Fight for Freedom Behind Bars Oakland

The Strike: The Fight for Freedom Behind Bars

The Strike, a documentary by Berkeley grad filmmakers Joebill Muñoz and Lucas Guilkey, screened to a sold-out and enthusiastic audience at The Grand Lake Theatre on October 23rd.

  • Go to the profile of  Frederick Noland
Frederick Noland
28 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
Cookbook for the Recently Deceased LA

Cookbook for the Recently Deceased

Brittany Menjivar departs Tinseltown for Halloween Town and gets her Edward Burger Hands dirty.

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Brittany Menjivar
27 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Blinded by the Frights

Blinded by the Frights

Aspiring It-ghoul Brittany Menjivar gets stabbed by the Grabber and barbed by Chucky at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights.

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Brittany Menjivar
27 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Kate Bollinger Induces Retro Vertigo Philadelphia

Kate Bollinger Induces Retro Vertigo

I feel a kind of vertigo. Is this kind of recursion something humans have always done, or is it something we do because we can watch films and hear music from these eras? The past is more alive than it used to be?

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Izzy True
26 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
tulsa, music, experimental, west tulsa Tulsa

The Soothing Sounds Of Gonkulation

Ten bucks got me a whole night of creative laboratory action, a few new pals, and—as usual—a fresh appreciation for the mischievous, investigative, risk-taking chops of the friendly artists who gather around the One Aux cable.

  • Go to the profile of  Alicia Chesser
Alicia Chesser
25 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
tulsa, books, literary, history Tulsa

The Founder of Sand Springs Might Have Been a Real Weirdo (Or Worse)

Russell Cobb’s newest history, Ghosts of Crook County, traces the life—and the alleged fraud—of Charles Page, that scion of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, whose name graces a statue and street signs along the Arkansas River.

  • Go to the profile of  Z.B. Reeves
Z.B. Reeves
25 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
tulsa, music, classical music, jazz Tulsa

It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Dang Clarinet!

The Austin-based Miró Quartet, along with clarinetist David Shifrin, delivered a show that was by turns technically thrilling, culturally edifying, emotionally satisfying, and—wouldn’t you know it—swinging.

  • Go to the profile of  Z.B. Reeves
Z.B. Reeves
24 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
Drunk on Film(s) Oakland

Drunk on Film(s)

Drunken Film Fest Oakland strikes again. Shorts from near and far served up with your favorite brews.

  • Go to the profile of  Sarah Bass
Sarah Bass
23 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
From One Man, Multitudes

From One Man, Multitudes

American Renaissance art gets its due, at Yale University Art Gallery

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
23 Oct 2024 · 5 min read
Black Cowboys: Sparking the Imagination and Correcting the Historical Record Oakland

Black Cowboys: Sparking the Imagination and Correcting the Historical Record

How many Black movie cowboys can you remember? Danny Glover in Silverado, Morgan Freeman in Unforgiven, and, of course, Cleavon LIttle in Blazing Saddles. Arguably the best. If I asked the same of White cowboys, we would be here all day.

  • Go to the profile of  Frederick Noland
Frederick Noland
23 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
Foot Tappers Touch The 1920s Philadelphia

Foot Tappers Touch The 1920s

Four-piece Gypsy swing band The West Philly Foot Tappers brought 1930s Prohibition-era sounds across state lines to Delaware speakeasy “Hummingbird to Mars” on Thursday.

  • Go to the profile of  Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
22 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
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