Hartford A Split Decision At The Sports Bar XL Center Sports Bar & Fanatics Sportsbook Hartford February 16, 2024 I love sports, and I love food, so checking out the newest sports bar in Hartford was a no-brainer. Jamil Ragland 16 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Rectangular Bread Casserole — aka “Detroit Pizza” — Takes the Cake Square Pie Guys 499 9th St. Oakland Simplicity and good ingredients treated with care bring a lot to the table. In the case of the Bay Area mini-chain Square Pie Sarah Bass 15 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford The Black History Past Is Present “I’m Black and I’m Proud” Black History Month Meet and Greet Alvin & Beatrice Wood Human Services Center Bloomfield Feb. 14, 2024 Black History Month, by its very Jamil Ragland 15 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
LA We Chanted Kobe’s Name KOBE BRYANT STATUE UNVEILING CEREMONY Crypto.com Arena Los Angeles Feb. 8, 2024 I had come for the reveal, true, but was not there to see the veil lifted. I Julian Castronovo 15 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Red and Gold: Dragons Prevail Lunar New Year Celebrations Jack London Square Oakland Feb. 10, 2024 The Bay Area had a lot to celebrate this past weekend, so one was hard-pressed to decide what should Robin Lapid 15 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford We’ll Always Have Casablanca Casablanca Cinestudio Hartford Through Feb. 15, 2024 I’d heard about Casablanca so many times. I’ve seen all the references and parodies, but never the movie itself. When I Jamil Ragland 14 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Valdez Street Vibe Captures Soul Of The city Valdez Street Vibes Valdez Street between 23rd and 24th Streets Oakland Feb. 10, 2024 I was surprised that, even if I was only there a short while, I caught it. Robin Lapid 14 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven “Embroidery Resistance” Meets Atticus On the walls of Atticus on Chapel Street, just above diners’ heads, is a row of mixed-media artworks that brighten and enrich the space, making it feel both more vibrant Brian Slattery 14 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Artist? Curator? Viewer? You Can Be All Three What Is Spurious Is Also Precious Through February 24, 2024 Positive Space Tulsa Artists often get through the hard part of starting a new work by relying on a preconceived Cassidy Petrazzi 14 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Super Sew Sunday by Robin Lapid Rock Paper Scissor Collective’s Community Art Workshop Series Oakland Public Library Oakland Feb. 11, 2024 Super Bowl Sunday in the basement of the downtown Oakland library, Robin Lapid 14 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA Freaks Come Out At Night CREEPY GALS LAND Superchief Gallery Los Angeles Feb. 10, 2024 Is there any holiday Angelenos won’t use as an excuse to dress up like fabulous little freaks? Just when Eloise Rollins-Fife 13 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland Comedic Insights: Beans, Being Uncool, & The Perils of Masturbation Stoney McBlaze Comedy Drake’s Dealership 2325 Broadway Oakland Feb. 3, 2024 Comedy is an art form I revere with profound admiration. Maybe it’s because I can’t tell Agustín Maes 13 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven Guyanese-Born Artists Consider Revival, History, & The Body It’s not just the large paintings covering the walls that suffuse the gallery with color, though they go a long way toward transforming the space around them by themselves. Brian Slattery 13 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven James Ivory Pays A Visit Friday night’s installment of Yale Film Archive’s The World of James Ivory series offered another type of double feature: a viewing of the 1965 film Shakespeare Wallah, followed Karen Ponzio 12 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland In the Mood for Movies and Lumpia Cozy Cinema: Movie Night 7th West Oakland Feb. 8, 2024 A movie night in Oakland with films by auteurs inspired by filmmakers I love — Godard, Varda, Ozu, Tarkovsky—and Filipino Robin Lapid 12 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Chicago Podcast So Fun It’s “Criminal” Phoebe Judge Vic Theatre Chicago 2/10/24 “I’m Phoebe Judge,” said Phoebe Judge, and the entire audience burst into applause. It was recognition from a room full of Allison Hadley 12 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA The Lord Unleashes A Punk Club Full Of Caterwauling Masochists QUITS with TUDORS, DROSS, and GLUT Supply and Demand Long Beach Feb. 5, 2024 This weekend, I was catching up with my old roommate God, an entitled prick. After a A.J. Urquidi 11 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Jazz Jewels From The Edge Extreme Exhibit : The Art of Donald O. Greene E14 Gallery 969 Broadway Ave., Oakland Closed At the E14 Gallery, poured concrete floors and walls with exposed metal beams dotting the Sarah Bass 11 Feb 2024 · 2 min read