Hartford Gauntlet Thrown: TheKidTheBoy Takes On antiv3nom Gauntlet at the Market Parkville Market Hartford Feb. 3, 2024 I’ve alternated between being a teacher and tutor, off and on for the last 20 years. And many, many Jamil Ragland 6 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Chicago Chicago Brands Mix With Bands As Smashed Plastic Turns 5 Smashed Plastic Undisclosed venue Chicago Feb. 3, 2024 Smashed Plastic’s logo says it all: the Chicago-born vinyl pressing plant’s insignia features one of the ubiquitous red, six-point stars Allison HadleyDaniel Shoemaker 6 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven City Gallery Keeps It In The Family WIlliam Frucht’s photograph from Coney Island combines rigor and humor to make for an engrossing image. On the rigorous side, there’s the strict geometry of the workout equipment, Brian Slattery 6 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
LA When The Audience Comes Onstage THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS Near Los Globos Through April 14, 2024 I have asked immersive audiences many times what they felt just before an immersive experience begins. There are only Erik Blair 6 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Hartford Spiritualism And Slavery At The Stowe Center Spiritualism as Resistance: Spirits at Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Hartford Feb. 2, 2024 The central truth of American history is that every question you can ask has its answer Jamil Ragland 5 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Easy Like Sunday Morning, On Tuesday Night Karaoke Night Baba’s House Oakland Jan. 30, 2024 It was another not-so-secret party at Baba’s House, and everyone was welcome. I was back in downtown Oakland, on yet Robin Lapid 5 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
NYC Brass Busts Into Hidden DIY Spot Fly By Brass Band Rubulad Brooklyn Feb. 4, 2024 In my years in NYC I’ve spent many a Saturday night in Bushwick’s Rubulad — address to remain undisclosed. It’ K Hank Jost 5 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Checkmate, Black History Month How does a young girl from Uganda go from beginning chess player to champion? Disney’s Queen of Katwedocuments the journey from one to the other as well as the Karen Ponzio 5 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Roll Over, Steinway Paolo Fazioli Talk on Fazioli Pianos Piedmont Piano Company Oakland Jan. 30, 2024 I was among a few dozen guests milling about Piedmont Piano Company when a bottle of Prosecco Robin Lapid 4 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa Dreams Meet Drums As Tulsa Hip-Hop Legends Come Full Circle The Oilhouse Drummer Show Soundpony Tulsa Jan. 27, 2024 Hip-hop has always been a young person’s sport. Unlike in other genres, the pioneers don’t often get the same Ryan Anderson 4 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA Kate Means It KATE Pasadena Playhouse Pasadena, Cal. Through Feb. 11, 2024 Kate is for everyone. Comedian Kate Berlant’s one-woman show is a rousing send-up of contemporary theater that has united industry Rebecca Giordano 4 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
NYC The Beautiful Darkness Of Dario Argento Dario Argento’s Inferno (1980) IFC Center Part of the Panic Attacks: The Films of Dario Argento series IFC Center West Village, NYC Feb. 2, 2024 Among the great Italian K Hank Jost 4 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Happy Hour Becomes Happy Birthday Beacon Cafe Hartford Jan. 30, 2024 How good does a happy hour have to be for someone to fly a thousand miles just to experience it again? I found that Jamil Ragland 2 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Troy/Albany Taína Asili Finds The Beat In Climate Crisis Fever Pitch The Linda, WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio Albany, N.Y. Jan. 27, 2024 The most striking feature of Taína Asili’s evolving multimedia concert/performance piece Fever Pitch, RS Benedict 2 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Hartford Black Inventors Tour Reflects Need For Black History Month, After All The start of Black History Month always elicits competing feelings for me. On the one hand, I enjoy learning in general, and specifically about my people and what they’ve Jamil Ragland 2 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Abandon All Bummers, Ye Who Karaoke Here Karaoke Mondays Whittier Bar Tulsa Jan. 29, 2024 The Whittier Bar’s front door is emblazoned with an all-caps warning: NO BUMMERS. It’s a good reminder for a Monday, Becky Carman 1 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
NYC I Couldn’t Hear The Poets Amid The Unironic Fascism-fetishists At The Sports Bar The Writer’s Circle at Offside NYC East Village Manhattan Jan. 31, 2024 Something’s happening in NYC right now. Whether it’s a blending of scenes that previously had K Hank Jost 1 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA Comic Convo: Hello, RX-24 PASADENA COMIC CON Pasadena Convention Center Pasadena Jan. 28, 2024 Comic cons are like chain restaurants: everywhere the same. Whether held in sleepy suburbs or busy cities, comic cons share Brittany Menjivar 1 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
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