Philadelphia

Survival Playlist: Dirty Frank's Dances Election Night Away

While the TV showed their presidential candidate losing, the crowd at a Philly dive bar turned the jukebox up.

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Nora Grace-Flood

6 Nov 2024 · 5 min read

Oakland

Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts: A Tour Through the Past Looking to the Future

The Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts, idle since 2005 is a stately reminder of a bygone era and a magnet for tagging and encampments. When I saw a guided tour annonced, I jumped at it.

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Fred Noland

5 Nov 2024 · 1 min read

Oakland

Musically Haunting: "Ghost Quartet"Gives us Life at Oakland Theater Project

If you could be any kind of dead person, what kind would you be? Spoiler: you want to be a ghost, the kind that goes “hoo hoo hoo all night

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Vita Hewitt

5 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Oakland

California Against the Sea: Rosanna Xia Takes the High Road on Sea Level Rise

An author's chat at Clio's Books offers a clear-eyed look at the storms brewing outside.

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Fred Noland

5 Nov 2024 · 1 min read

Oakland

Feet Fleet & Supple

The Sanskrit word 'Sangam' means “confluence of rivers,” or “coming together." "Sangam: A Diwali Odissi Recital," performed at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in west Oakland, left me in sweet spirits.

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Agustín Maes

4 Nov 2024 · 4 min read

Philadelphia

No Future/ No Past

I hear shades of Sabbath with a dose of shoegaze-y sensuality.

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Izzy True

4 Nov 2024 · 1 min read

Philadelphia

Disabled Joy Hits The Runway

Oftentimes abled folks cannot conceive of Disabled joy without pity; they get lost in their own imaginations, stumbled by the disorders and wrongness they believe our bodies are burdened by. But on Saturday, celebration took center stage through flexibility of form and fashion.

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Clay Davies

3 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Tulsa

It's Giving Rodeo

Oklahoma, even at its most “country,” is more than just angry white men in MAGA hats.

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Mitch Gilliam

1 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Tulsa

I’m Shifting Into Fall Soup Mode

Tulsans are spoiled by soup choice, and these five selections are just a drop in the stockpot.

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Becky Carman

1 Nov 2024 · 5 min read

New Haven

Stop! … Thief?

Frank Critelli was looking for lemons and toilet paper at Stop & Shop. He wasn’t looking to steal anything. Honest.

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Paul Bass

1 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Tulsa

An Evening of Ceremony: Joy Harjo’s Native Jazz-Rock

Our world moves fast, and something special happens when these four focus on a center point—almost like an incantation.

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Kathryn Parkman

1 Nov 2024 · 2 min read

Philadelphia

Korean Punk Revives The Rage

Once a spiritually bereft American, I’m now a disciple of the subversive school girl.

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Nora Grace-Flood

31 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Philadelphia

Place Show Win

As we travel through life, place echoes forward through us, making itself known no matter what.

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Nora Grace-Flood

30 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

Oakland

Pooches on Parade: Dogfest Brings the Party

Who doesn't love a dog in a tutu? Or a cape? Or just a basic bitch bandana? All that and more were on parade at Dogfest, a Halloween-themed pet event in Oakland's Jack London Square.

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Fred Noland

30 Oct 2024 · 1 min read

Oakland

The Pleasure of Pure Form

“Layers,” is the superbly curated new show on view at Slate Contemporary Gallery. The group exhibit allows the pieces to play off one another other in a silent symphony of pure form that enraptured me like a charmed serpent.

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Agustín Maes

29 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

Philadelphia

Like It Or Not, Wing Bowl Wows

The only thing more spectacular than Wing Bowl itself might be the Wing Bowl movie.

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Nora Grace-Flood

29 Oct 2024 · 5 min read

Philadelphia

Rolling through Unseeing Eyes

I feel uneasy, and so does the boy in the photograph. He looks sick, on the edge of consciousness. He lays out on a chaise lounge, his face blank, while his twin brother holds onto his hand with an intensity I am familiar with when I am slipping unconscious.

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Clay Davies

28 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

Oakland

The Strike: The Fight for Freedom Behind Bars

The Strike, a documentary by Berkeley grad filmmakers Joebill Muñoz and Lucas Guilkey, screened to a sold-out and enthusiastic audience at The Grand Lake Theatre on October 23rd.

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Fred Noland

28 Oct 2024 · 1 min read