NYC The Tarkovsky Test: Hang In For The Long Shots Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia Film Forum West Village, NYC Feb. 23, 2024 The average shot length in contemporary, big-budget films — both your Marvel slogs and flacccid A24 pseudo-arthouse meanderings — is, K Hank Jost 25 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa The Lovingly Assembled Mortadella Sandwich Of Your Dreams Prism Cafe 217 W. Latimer St. Tulsa There are few better places in Tulsa to feel the tug-of-war between preservation and progress than the Heights district, just north of downtown. Becky Carman 25 Feb 2024 · 5 min read
Oakland Black Joy On The Block Fourth Annual “Love the People” Block Party Black Panther Mini Museum Oakland Feb. 18, 2024 I’m always on the lookout for pockets of joy, specifically in the form of Robin Lapid 23 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA Shakespeare In The Mental Institution MATTHEW BOURNE’S ROMEO AND JULIET Ahmanson Theater Los Angeles Feb. 4, 2024 The Ahmanson Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, twinkling with warm light and towering like a 20th-century castle, Brook Metayer 23 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland At Hi-Fi Listening Bar, All Other Sound Stops Silent Sunday Bar Shiru Oakland Feb. 18, 2024 “Just a reminder… once the needle drops, the talking stops.” You might not expect a bar that calls itself “the Bay Area’ Robin Lapid 23 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Anchorage Salsa In The Snow Alaska Salsa Festival Anchorage, Alaska Feb. 9 – 11, 2024 The presence of a Latin dance festival in Anchorage, Alaska, might come as a surprise to many, but this year’s Jacqi Jones 23 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Lunar Parading Between Prosperity and Privation 2024 Lunar New Year Parade Chinatown near Wilma Chan Park Oakland Feb. 18, 2024 I was unsure the weather would cooperate for this year’s Lunar New Year’s Parade Robin Lapid 23 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven New Haven Theater Company Cries It Out New Haven Theater Company’s production of Cry It Out, by Molly Smith Metzler, is a finely tuned performance of a play about early motherhood that starts light and ends Brian Slattery 23 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford Running With The Wolf Pack Hartford Wolf Pack vs. Bridgeport Islanders XL Center Hartford Feb. 21, 2024 My last hockey game was back in the 1990s. Obsessed with the movie The Mighty Ducks 2, I Jamil Ragland 22 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
NW Arkansas El Dorado Film Fest Shows Triumphs, Struggles Of Indie Movie Makers El Dorado Film Festival South Arkansas Arts Center El Dorado, Arkansas Feb. 8 – 11, 2024 Independent filmmakers converged on the El Dorado Film Festival in Arkansas to show their work Mickey Mercier 22 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Ailey II Rocks Tulsa’s Soul Ailey II Tulsa Performing Arts Center Feb. 13, 2024 “I go every December in New York; I’ve probably seen Revelations 25 times,” said the woman behind me in the Alicia Chesser 22 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Two Dogs On A Date Soul Sunday Session Zanzi Oakland Feb. 18, 2024 Two dogs on a date walk into a bar… That’s not the beginning of a joke. It’s what happened at Robin Lapid 22 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
NYC All Blister, No Bluster Ingrid Laubrock’s Lilith The Jazz Gallery Flatiron, Manhattan Feb. 21, 2024 Ears on a swivel and eyes wide, we all hold our breath for the moment pianist Yvonne Rogers’ K Hank Jost 22 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Artists Walk The Path The view of a mountain in Sichuan, China is breathtaking, though not for the usual reasons. Photographer Roy Money doesn’t train his camera on the usual kind of tourist Brian Slattery 22 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland The Library of Broken Hearts Broken Hearts Party and Shrine Launch Oakland Public Library Oakland, CA Feb. 13, 2024 At The Alcove cafe on the east side of Los Angeles, there was a secret desk Robin Lapid 22 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Art Imitates … Books Books as Art, and Art of Books. At Book/Shop. Sarah Bass 22 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
NYC Crew Loads-in The House Before Bringing It Down Arts Workers Are Artists Too Performance Space New York Feb. 8, 2024 Assemble the stage. Hang the soft goods. Focus the lights. Focus the projector. Coffee break. Usually, when I Adam Wassilchalk 21 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven Ross Gay Incites Joy Ross Gay practiced what he preaches last night at Possible Futures, as the poet, essayist, and teacher offered a grateful crowd a selection of his work encompassing joy and tenderness Karen Ponzio 21 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
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