New Haven 3 New (Haven) Albums “Unity in the Community” begins with a classic hymn-like statement from Warren Byrd’s piano, carried aloft by a chorus of voices, bubbling bass and percussion, and horns passing a Brian Slattery 1 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
LA Couldn’t We Pretend It Was 2008 For Just 1 Night? CRIME WAVE: AN INDIE SLEAZE PARTY Los Angeles Jan. 25, 2024 The indie sleaze event was advertised as a comedy show/birthday party; it took place in a secluded warehouse Madeline Connors 31 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Raleigh/ Durham/ Chapel Hill Wisdom Captured At African American Cultural Celebration 23rd Annual African American Cultural Celebration North Carolina Museum of Natural History Raleigh, N.C. Jan. 27, 2024 Excitement filled the air at the North Carolina Museum of Natural History Synclaire Cruel 31 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Grandmas Duke It Out In The Ring Winner Winner TV Dinner Sensational 7 Wrestling 7th West Oakland CA Jan. 27, 2024 The smell of burning gasoline filled my nostrils, begging for fresh air. “That’s not OSHA Sarah Bass 30 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Chinatown Diner Cracks The Pancake-Syrup Code Golden Diner 123 Madison St. New York, N.Y. I am not immune to brunch propaganda. As I come up on almost a year in NYC, all my algorithms seem Adam Wassilchalk 30 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Rattos-touille Ratto’s Deli 821 Washington St. Oakland Surrounded by other locally owned shops and restaurants, Ratto’s charm lies in the understated, no-frills-but-all-quality take on the Italian-American deli. A fourth-generation Sarah Bass 30 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Improvisers Teach How To Listen It was 7:30 p.m. on Monday at Never Ending Books, and Bob Gorry of the New Haven Improvisers Collective had a few instructions for the musicians gathered in Brian Slattery 30 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland How The West Was Wrung Alta Journal Issue 26 Party Clio’s Bookstore and Bar Oakland Jan. 24, 2024 In the bowels of what feels like the coziest Manhattan bookstore not in Manhattan, I thumbed Robin Lapid 29 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Minneapolis Drone Not Drones: 28-Hour Music Happening vs. Military-Industrial Complex Drone Not Drones Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis 1/26 – 1/27, 2024 By 6 a.m. on Jan. 27 at the Cedar Cultural Center, Drone Not Drones had been going Alexis Zanghi 29 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Heaven Can’t Wait, For Luke Herbermann Luke Herbermann Heaven Can Wait East Village, NYC 1/26/24 Just kitty-corner to Tompkins Square Park is a music venue that never once in my four, five, six, or K Hank Jost 29 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Mixed Company Digs Deep At Jazzy’s The music and meal were part of the package at Jazzy’s on Orange Street, as the restaurant served up signature platters while the Hartford-based band served up one smoking Brian Slattery 29 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
Nashville Pound Cake, Sound Takes: How Brown’s Diner Defies Nashville’s Sterilization Ziona Riley, Neil O’Neil, Dylan Whitlow Brown’s Diner Nashville 1/25/24 With a strip of computer paper taped on the shelves behind the bar that reads “booking Libby Weitnauer 28 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland I Run This Spelling Bee Like Cardio Cardi Spelling Bee Baba’s House Oakland Jan. 24, 2024 After all these years, I still recall it like it was yesterday: Dan Mini Elementary School. Fourth grade. I’m Robin Lapid 28 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
NYC Drum + Drum + 6 = 1 Jake Richter’s Double Drum Octet Barbès Brooklyn 1/25/24 What would possess a drummer so lighting-limbed as Jake Richter to enlist the aid of second percussionist? I wondered K Hank Jost 28 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Opening Act Steals The Show Bandelier and David Hernandez Thelma’s Peach Tulsa Jan. 20, 2024 What could have been Bandelier’s triumphant re-entry into 2024 show life was, both by accident and by fault, Z.B. Reeves 28 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
LA Grandmas Gone Wild YOSHIE SAKAI: GRANDMA ENTERTAINMENT FRANCHISE Vincent Price Art Museum Monterey Park, Cal. Through Feb. 3, 2024 Like the siren song of a real nightclub, a karaoke version of “Fergalicious” lures Rebecca Giordano 28 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
Hartford Happy Hour At The Flying Monkey: BBQ Chicken Bombs The Asian Pear Martini The Flying Monkey Newington, Conn. January 24, 2024 Welcome back to my search for the perfect Happy Hour in the Greater Hartford area! This time I found myself on the Jamil Ragland 26 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Graffiti Art On The Fly — And Everyone’s Welcome Jazman’s zine sale Pigment Art Supply 304 15th St. Oakland Jan. 20, 2024 I wasn’t aware of how big the graffiti scene is in the Bay Area until Robin Lapid 26 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
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