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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.

  • Go to the profile of  Vita Hewitt
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.

  • Go to the profile of  Mitch Gilliam
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.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
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

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
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

  • Go to the profile of  Frederick Noland
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.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
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?

  • Go to the profile of  Leo David
Leo David
19 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
Ten Tulsa Rappers Share Whys And Rhymes Tulsa

Ten Tulsa Rappers Share Whys And Rhymes

Go big or go home. That’s the sentiment I always get watching an Aaron Sawyer performance. The emcee, battle rapper, and mental health advocate has performed on many Tulsa stages throughout his career, all while helping to build platforms and cultivate relationships within Tulsa hip-hop.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Anderson
Ryan Anderson
18 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
Philbrook’s New Show Gets Much Of America Right Tulsa

Philbrook’s New Show Gets Much Of America Right

When people talk about being American, they’re inevitably talking about the flavor of American that they themselves are. Being an American is different for the recently-arrived Hmong mother of two than it is for the white suburban housewife whose British ancestors colonized Native land.

  • Go to the profile of  Z.B. Reeves
Z.B. Reeves
18 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
How We Mourn Four-Legged Family Hartford

How We Mourn Four-Legged Family

Death is inevitable for all living things. Humans have a wide range of ceremonies across cultures and religions that lay out strict rules for what to do with other humans who are dead. But what about our pets?

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
18 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
“Falcon Girls” Portrays Adolescence On The Wing New Haven

“Falcon Girls” Portrays Adolescence On The Wing

Hilary, a middle-school student, has just moved to Falcon, Colorado. She wears all the wrong clothes, says all the wrong things, and most of the other students are ready to tease her for it, except one, who reminds them to ask themselves what Jesus would do.

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
18 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
Go Fish, Yale Film Archive New Haven

Go Fish, Yale Film Archive

The 1994 film Go Fish opens in a classroom where the teacher asks the class to make a list of ​“women that you think are lesbians or that you know are lesbians.”

  • Go to the profile of  Karen Ponzio
Karen Ponzio
17 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
Prints From The Underground New Haven

Prints From The Underground

It’s a transfixing stare, made more intense by the medium. A woodcut hearkens back to an earlier time — and, in German Expressionism, an earlier mode of expressing anxiety.

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
16 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
This Is the Way to Exit Your Youth LA

This Is the Way to Exit Your Youth

WALLOWS with BENEE, Kia Forum, Inglewood, September 12, 2024. A band’s homecoming can’t help but be special: musicians fresh-eyed from sleeping in their own bed, an audience studded

  • Go to the profile of  Emily Quintanilla
Emily Quintanilla
16 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
Megalopolis: A Mega Mess Hartford

Megalopolis: A Mega Mess

Major studios spent years telling Francis Ford Coppola ​“no” when he tried to get Megalopolis made. The movie spent decades in development hell before Coppola spent $120 million of his own money to make it, financed by his winemaking business.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
16 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Custom Kicks and Sustainable Style: The Art of Sneakers Oakland

Custom Kicks and Sustainable Style: The Art of Sneakers

The Art of Sneakers, Vol. 1 offered an alternative and a tantalizing glimpse into that topic, into the ever-growing field of sustainable fashion, this past weekend in Oakland.

  • Go to the profile of  Vita Hewitt
Vita Hewitt
15 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
Sew Tasty New Haven

Sew Tasty

Liz takes matters, and pants, into her own hands.

  • Go to the profile of  Liz Grace
Liz Grace
15 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
Shiraz Ensemble Breaks Form Philadelphia

Shiraz Ensemble Breaks Form

Izzy's review in comics of Shiraz Ensemble at Icebox Project Space

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Izzy True
14 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
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