New Haven Religious Artists Make The World A Gallery “Life could be black and white like the old TVs. Instead, God made it like an art gallery.” These are the words of Msgr. Paul Steimel on Aug. 27, 2020, Eleanor Polak 3 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Pho Meat Treat Phő Húóng Quê 200 International Blvd. Oakland Beloved neighborhood restaurant Phő Húóng Quê lies just a block from the edge of Lake Merritt, their unassuming, fast-weathered signage no signifier of Sarah Bass 3 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Memories of Home in a Far Away Land Journey of Memories Carriage House Theater Hartford July 2, 2024 The exhibit Journey of Memories showcases creative works of immigrant women from Afghanistan, Syria, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Jamil Ragland 2 Jul 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Open Studios with Favianna Rodriguez East Bay Open Studios Favianna Rodriguez West Oakland, Oakland June 15, 2024 Frederick Noland 2 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford You MexiCan’t Beat This Great Food Frontera Grill Manchester June 28, 2024 I’ve had the opportunity to try many different kinds of foods and restaurants, but Mexican food remains my favorite. Visiting Frontera Grill in Jamil Ragland 2 Jul 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Electric Jazz For Lunch David Lechuga AMP/Oakland Central Lunch and Listen Latham Square 1500 Broadway Ave. Oakland June 20, 2024 Intermittent sunshine broke through, illuminating four men in varying states of dress for Sarah Bass 2 Jul 2024 · 2 min read
Philadelphia “Gifted” Schools Crowd On Hip-Hop The School of the Gifted World Cafe Live 3025 Walnut St. Philadelphia June 25, 2024 The School of the Gifted — a Philly-based hip hop troupe composed of eight members — performed Lindo Yes 1 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Connection Found In Another Country Called Home ‘Searching for Kapwa’ Film Screening and Discussion Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St., Suite 290, Oakland June 22, 2024 At the Oakland Asian Cultural Center’s screening for Searching Robin Lapid 1 Jul 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Salsa & Afropop Find Unity In Rhythm At the very beginning of the evening on the New Haven Green on Friday night, percussionist Nino Ciampa asked a fundamental question: what is salsa? “Salsa is flavor and spice, Brian Slattery 1 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
LA Quality Control LUCY BULL: ASH TREE David Kordansky Gallery Los Angeles May 11 – June 15, 2024 This is a really good summer for art in LA. It was white text against black, Eli Diner 1 Jul 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Nature, Order, and Disorder in the Art of Life and Death Artists’ Reception: Tara Esperanza, Christine Meuris, Dalar Alahverdi, Leah Korican, and Elizabeth Sher Mercury 20 Gallery 475 25th St. Oakland June 22, 2024 I was wilting under the heat of Robin Lapid 30 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa For The East, By The East Face The East Lil Brown’s Bar Tulsa June 18 – 19, 2024 Everybody thinks of the north side when they think about Tulsa hip-hop. But it’s a little known Ryan Anderson 30 Jun 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Birthright Made Modern Birthright Cinestudio Hartford June 26, 2024 One of the best ways to beat the summer heat is to retreat into the cool darkness of a movie theater. I ducked into Jamil Ragland 30 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Every Song Has To Start Somewhere I Can’t… Write a Song! Workshop TCC McKeon Center for Creativity Tulsa June 22, 2024 Songwriting is a strange art, hard to explain, harder to practice. The art of Z.B. Reeves 30 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland A Presidential Candidate Walks Into A Bookstore … Presidential hopeful Cornel West and running mate Oakland local Dr. Melina Abdullah in conversation at Clio’s Books. Frederick Noland 28 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Satire Is Dead. What About Political Cartoons? Cartoons as Political Speech in Colonial and Contemporary America Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1300 Locust St. Philadelphia Through Aug. 2, 2024 You’re looking at a black and white cartoon Nora Grace-Flood 28 Jun 2024 · 5 min read
Oakland Hope and History Celebrated Through Dance Fallen Heroes, Rising Stars: A Juneteenth Celebration Through Dance 494 9th St., Oakland June 22, 2024 On a closed-off block of 9th Street in Old Oakland, even the sun seemed Robin Lapid 28 Jun 2024 · 3 min read