Tulsa Low-Brow and High-Brow Come Together At Philbrook’s New Show Collidoscope: de la Torre Brothers Retro-Perspective Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa Through April 28 Remember lenticular? It’s that style of art with a glossy, shifting surface, where the image Z.B. Reeves 9 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA Reject The Canon RARE BOOKS LA Pasadena Convention Center Pasadena Feb. 4, 2024 If you’ve ever told someone it was your New Year’s resolution to read more books, know that I Brittany Menjivar 9 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Oklahoma Stories Brought Out Of The Shadows Live Lit Night Heirloom Rustic Ales Tulsa Jan. 25, 2024 If, like me, you sometimes harbor romantic fantasies about literary experiences that happen in dark, gritty, hole-in-the-wall venues (probably with Alicia Chesser 9 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Sip While The Sun Sets; Just Don’t Wing It At The Mall Happy Hour Market Grille Manchester Feb. 7, 2024 Market Grille is one of those restaurants that I’ve always noticed during my trips to the mall but assumed was too Jamil Ragland 9 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Would You Believe … ? The Connector MCC Theater 511 W. 52nd St. New York Runs through March 4 Just under halfway through The Connector, we see Ethan Dobson, a wunderkind magazine writer, on a Rebecca Salzhauer 9 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven Yale Opera Plays Its Cards Right At Shubert A member of the stage crew was doing some last-minute cleanup of the set at the Shubert, in preparation for a rehearsal of Yale Opera’s The Rake’s Progress, Brian Slattery 9 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford People Are The News The Stories Behind the Big Stories of 2023 Elmwood Community Center West Hartford Feb. 8, 2024 Until about two weeks ago, I didn’t consider myself a journalist. I’ve Jamil Ragland 9 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland You’ll Poke Your Eye Out Stop Men Studio Open House 337 13th St. Oakland Feb. 1, 2024 Looking for the Stop Men Studio, I doubled, or rather tripled, up on the right block and turned Sarah Bass 8 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA Remember World Peace? WORLD PEACE, SCALP, KIND EYES, and friends Bricks Rock Bar Maywood, Cal. Jan. 26, 2024 When I’m an old biddy in a rocking chair on a porch overlooking the David Diaz 8 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Nashville Sweet Megg and John Mailander’s Forecast at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge Sweet Megg and John Mailander’s Forecast Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge Nashville 1/28/24 “Enjoy the bar!” said the bouncer, as he stamped my hand on my way Libby Weitnauer 8 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Americana Keeps The Room Warm Cafe Nine on Wednesday night was the scene for delicate ballads, bright harmonies, and gritty rhythms as three bands — Pyramid Rose, Dallas Ugly, and the Split Coils — played sets with Brian Slattery 8 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Chicago Puerto Rican Identity & The Diaspora Entre horizontes: Art and Activism between Chicago and Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Through May 5 Entre horizontes: Art and Activism between Chicago and Puerto Rico at the Stacey Peters 7 Feb 2024 · 6 min read
Oakland The Trims Turn Up The Sound And Turn On The Bright Lights Mod80s Disco Presents The Trims Elbo Room Oakland Oakland Feb. 2, 2024 I have fond memories of late nights-into-early mornings spent dancing the night away at the Elbo Room in Robin Lapid 7 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Garbologists Fails To Kill Its Darlings The Garbologists TheaterWorks Hartford February 6th, 2024 WARNING: THIS REVIEW SPOILS THE BIG TWIST. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! The Garbologists is a two-person play that tells the story of Danny Jamil Ragland 7 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Trashy Treasures, Uncovered Garbage Art — One Person’s Trash Rock Paper Scissors Oakland Feb. 2, 2024 Is there treasure to be found in garbage? I sometimes walk around the streets in Oakland and Robin Lapid 7 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven New Open Mic Takes Off Performers and audience members arrived at Cantean on Whitney Avenue in Hamden en masse Tuesday evening before the posted start time of 6 p.m., quickly filling the space and Brian Slattery 7 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland It Was A Dark Aand Rainy Crawl Friday Night Crawl Downtown, various locations Oakland Feb. 2, 2024 I walked around the rain-slicked streets of Old Oakland on Friday night, wondering if the Night Crawl might have been Robin Lapid 6 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Leela James Rocks The Fox Leela James Fox Theater Oakland Jan. 26, 2024 Leela James, aka The Goddaughter of Soul, took the stage at the Fox Theater and, let me tell you, she didn’t Lisa Gray 6 Feb 2024 · 3 min read