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Hit The Bowl, Mac New Haven

Hit The Bowl, Mac

Liz Grace picks up the recipe for plant-based mac & cheese from a vegan-trending Soul Greenery.

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Liz Grace
22 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
A Gory Substance Oakland

A Gory Substance

We say body horror, I believe, because we have no better words. The production’s heavy use of intricate prosthetics exaggerate the horror that is a human form, with silicone rearing its ugly head in an unexpected ways for Hollywood.

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Sarah Bass
22 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Blues and Culture in a West Oakland Lot Oakland

Blues and Culture in a West Oakland Lot

Remember — Dance is good for your mind, body, spirit, and mental health.

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Frederick Noland
22 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
A Question For The (Sub)Culture LA

A Question For The (Sub)Culture

Brittany Menjivar enters the Void to get slizzard at the Subculture anniversary party in Mid-City.

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Brittany Menjivar
22 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Through A Glass, Brightly New Haven

Through A Glass, Brightly

At Kehler Liddell Gallery's "overtones" and "bold as Love" shows.

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Brian Slattery
22 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
We Lived to Tell LA

We Lived to Tell

A. J. Urquidi splurges on emo guyliner at his mall’s Hot Topic before watching Saosin play their timeless debut record live in Garden Grove.

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A.J. Urquidi
22 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Dancing Outside The Lines Philadelphia

Dancing Outside The Lines

“My name is Donkey, I use they/ them pronouns, and I am your host for the night,” a denim-clad cow-dude told a room full of non-conforming honky-tonkers before leading a lesson on line dancing for dummies.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
21 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
A Holocaust Morality Tale, With One Hitch Hartford

A Holocaust Morality Tale, With One Hitch

In the film White Bird, wolves bring individual culpability into focus.

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Jamil Ragland
21 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
Yes, I’m ​“Bored of the Negro Problem” Hartford

Yes, I’m ​“Bored of the Negro Problem”

HartBeat Ensemble’s production of Jimmy and Lorraine: A Musing, which chronicles the friendship of famed African-American writers James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry, brings two of the giants of American literature to a present day...

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Jamil Ragland
21 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Chopped Glass & Palm-Sized Homes New Haven

Chopped Glass & Palm-Sized Homes

This weekend was the turn of artists at Willow Street's Marlin Works complex to invite the public in for Open Studios.

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Karen Ponzio
21 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
Hey Erector Square: Who You Calling Meat Face? New Haven

Hey Erector Square: Who You Calling Meat Face?

Amelia Ingraham's "MeatFace" captures the vibe of the artwork being put together in studios where workers once produced America's erector sets.

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Brian Slattery
21 Oct 2024 · 8 min read
Style Shines Bright on Oakland Rooftop Oakland

Style Shines Bright on Oakland Rooftop

The High 5ive Rooftop Bar at the Kissel Uptown Oakland boasts a stunning view of Oakland; currently in more ways than one. 100 Faces of Oakland, an ambitious project sponsored by Visit Oakland and created by photographers Anthony Weaver and Patanisha Williams, is on display through October 31st.

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Vita Hewitt
20 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa Is Not-So-Secretly Fond Of Orville Peck Tulsa

Tulsa Is Not-So-Secretly Fond Of Orville Peck

What do you call a gay cowboy? Until recently, your uncle might have said ​“a jolly rancher,” but the collective pop culture mind now turns immediately to THE gay cowboy: Orville Peck.

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Mitch Gilliam
20 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
The Hell We’ve Allowed Ourselves To Fall Into Hartford

The Hell We’ve Allowed Ourselves To Fall Into

Photographer Peter Brown has transformed a harrowing experience into a mind-bending display of resilience and recovery with Memories Misused at Real Art Ways.

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Jamil Ragland
20 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
TheaterWorks Season Opens With A Promising Extinction-Level Event Hartford

TheaterWorks Season Opens With A Promising Extinction-Level Event

Fever Dreams tells the story of Zach and Adele, two lovers who have absconded away to a cabin in the woods for a weekend of passionate sex and food. Eventually Adele’s husband, and Zach’s former best friend, Miller shows up, and a series of revelations rock Zach’s world

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Jamil Ragland
20 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Idora Idora: Echoes from the Past Oakland

Idora Idora: Echoes from the Past

Fred's review in comics of Idora Idora. Saturdays, October 12 through November 9, 2024

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Frederick Noland
20 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
Sopranos’ Still Photographer Searches For Drama In The Shadows Philadelphia

Sopranos’ Still Photographer Searches For Drama In The Shadows

The silhouette of a cigarette-smoking man caught my eye — after Craig Blankenhorn’s camera captured his shadow.

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Nora Grace-Flood
20 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Crohn’s Disease Comedy Takes Care Philadelphia

Crohn’s Disease Comedy Takes Care

“Oh, god,” I thought as the lights dimmed — had I accidentally signed up for stand-up?

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Leo David
19 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
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