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I ♥ Robot All Over

I ♥ Robot

Sci fi romance writer reports that love will survive.

  • Go to the profile of  Paul Bass
Paul Bass
8 Jul 2025 · 4 min read
Grab the Guitar and GO Philadelphia

Grab the Guitar and GO

Reviewer Ty Maxwell tags along for a spontaneous gig with collaborator and underground artist Emperor X.

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Tyler Maxwell
8 Jul 2025 · 4 min read
Artists Organize After World Cafe Live Chaos Philadelphia

Artists Organize After World Cafe Live Chaos

Bands relocated a recent show in solidarity with workers protesting new leadership and poor conditions at a longstanding venue.

  • Go to the profile of  Izzy True
Izzy True
5 Jul 2025 · 1 min read
Humanity In The Crosshairs Hartford

Humanity In The Crosshairs

An exhibit of immigrants' art summons a reflection on the political moment.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
4 Jul 2025 · 4 min read
Office Hour Art Oakland

Office Hour Art

Jessy Slim’s “Chickpea Landscapes” — yes, that chickpea — with the help of some reflective windows, are a choose-your-own adventure viewing at Roll Up Project.

  • Go to the profile of  Sarah Bass
Sarah Bass
4 Jul 2025 · 3 min read
Atomic Fireworks Philadelphia

Atomic Fireworks

An exhibit on art and design in the 1940s showcases postwar abstraction — and mirrors the nuclear anxieties of today.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
4 Jul 2025 · 4 min read
Strange Fruit Philadelphia

Strange Fruit

A room of rotting rinds remembers lives lost to an ‘80s epidemic — and wrestles with the inhumanity of ongoing mass casualties.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
2 Jul 2025 · 3 min read
Burial Bucks Hartford

Burial Bucks

Ancient grounds display what money can and can't buy.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
2 Jul 2025 · 3 min read
Finally, A "Man Among Men" Oakland

Finally, A "Man Among Men"

Anton Solomonik’s reading from new story collection underwhelmed, but notes of “nervous phallus” punched through, piqued interest.

  • Go to the profile of  Vita Hewitt
Vita Hewitt
2 Jul 2025 · 3 min read
Death Be Not Loud New Haven

Death Be Not Loud

On new album, The Almighty Yellow Star ponders mortality, faith.

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
2 Jul 2025 · 5 min read
Hear Sylva's Voice New Haven

Hear Sylva's Voice

NXTHVN Gallery's ​“Archival Altar” preserves the legacy of local Black cultural history ​“giants.”

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
1 Jul 2025 · 5 min read
Theatre Tulsa Has Something To Say With Its Immersive Production Of “Cabaret” Tulsa

Theatre Tulsa Has Something To Say With Its Immersive Production Of “Cabaret”

This Kit Kat Klub is bold, chilling, and unforgettable

  • Go to the profile of  Alex Isaak
Alex Isaak
30 Jun 2025 · 6 min read
Fashion Express Rides The Rails New Haven

Fashion Express Rides The Rails

Tea Montgomery & co. brings fashion event onto Metro North; poetry and music prevail after an attempt to quiet the car.

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
30 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
Philadelphia

Endless Stories of Outsider Art

Cartoonist Kelechi Azu traces two brothers' careers as graffiti artists, from Brazil to the streets of NYC to their first museum retrospective in D.C.

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Kelechi Azu
30 Jun 2025 · 1 min read
Seven Minutes within the Heavens Oakland

Seven Minutes within the Heavens

An unexpectedly sacred moment of contemplative artistic ritual via VR headset.

  • Go to the profile of  Sarah Bass
Sarah Bass
30 Jun 2025 · 2 min read
The Volunteers Didn't Do It Detroit

The Volunteers Didn't Do It

A rooftop murder mystery was loads of fun, when the professional actors were in charge.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
29 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Dancing Puppet Divas Enter Limelight Detroit

Dancing Puppet Divas Enter Limelight

Puppet musical — featuring burlesque and a bodysuit-clad silent clown — is a "high energy, interactive acid trip."

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
27 Jun 2025 · 2 min read
Hardcore at Sundown with the Nicest People Oakland

Hardcore at Sundown with the Nicest People

Camaraderie, goodwill, and LOUDNESS at Oakland's Stay Gold Deli for a summer solstice show.

  • Go to the profile of  Agustín Maes
Agustín Maes
27 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
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