Tulsa “Latch Is Love”: Beloved Bar Cat Honored With Second Annual Bar Fest Latch Fest 2024 Whittier Bar Tulsa Aug. 9 & 10, 2024 Sitting side by side at Whittier Bar on a slow afternoon, Latch Fest organizers Laura Voth and Bradley Metcalf Mitch Gilliam 16 Aug 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Global Citizens, Local Fashions Oakland Renaissance: Saint Maurice Fashion Show West Oakland Matters 7th West 1255 7th St, Oakland July 27, 2024 Local art matters, and so do your neighbors. Produced in “The New Sarah Bass 31 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Thunderwof’s Hip-Hop Is No Joke Thunderwof Mixtape Release: “Boys Don’t Cry But, Wofs Shed Tears.” Heirloom Rustic Ales Tulsa July 19, 2024 If you’ve been to a comedy show in Tulsa in the Mitch Gilliam 26 Jul 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Musical Juices Squeezed At Sweet Fest Sweet Juice Festival 1 Awbury Rd. Philadelphia July 6, 202 Deadline Poet LindoYes checked out the Sweet Juice Fest in Germantown last weekend, featuring bands like Noun, Sam Rise, Honeychile, Lindo Yes 9 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
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
Oakland Beauty Without Borders Beyond Trend Runway Show Creative Growth Art Center 355 24th St. Oakland June 22, 2024 On a glittery, gold-colored runway taped to Valdez Street near Lake Merritt, a woman in Robin Lapid 24 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Night Market Boasts Baller Turnout Prescott Night Market 18th Street between Campbell and Peralta Oakland June 6, 2024 West Oakland’s landscape has been rapidly changing for more than a decade, but things towards the Sarah Bass 19 Jun 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford More Than Just A Caning Victim: Charles Sumner The Abolitionist The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union Mark Twain House and Museum Hartford May 23, 2024 I concede that not many people spend a Jamil Ragland 24 May 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Daring to Dream: Mx. Yaffa’s Utopia Inara: Light of Utopia Oakland Launch 510 Firehouse 815 Alice St. Oakland May 6, 2024 “No one ever stops to ask what a free Palestine looks like.” I got to Breezy Bratton 13 May 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Baby Bhangra Bangs, Bro Non Stop Bhangra at OMCA Friday Nights Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak St, Oakland April 19, 2024 I had been to OMCA’s Friday night events a handful of Sarah Bass 25 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa “We Have Arrived”: Envisioning Sovereign Futures Sovereign Futures Various locations April 4 – 7, 2024 Sovereign Futures, a multi-day program from the University of Tulsa, brought artists, academics, and others together for performances, exhibits, communal meals, chartered Alicia Chesser 15 Apr 2024 · 5 min read
Oakland Cold Brew Black Coffee and Friends Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland April 6, 2024 What is the juncture of house music fans, Afrobeats, West Coast culture, and a chilly April Saturday, you might Sarah Bass 12 Apr 2024 · 5 min read
Oakland Nectar Hits the Sweet Spot The Sweet Spot — Season Opener Nectar Social Club 408 15th St. Oakland April 7, 2024 Instead of trying to forge a reputation as the next new hot spot for clubbing, Breezy Bratton 9 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Gold Nuggets: The Other Monday Open Mic The Other Monday Open Mic The BLU House Oakland March 25, 2024 A laminated sign on the gate had graphics of hanging plants. It read, “The BLU House,” with the Breezy Bratton 29 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Is This the Future of Oakland? The Exhibit A: A Town Hall on AntiBlackness in the City of Oakland James Moore Theater at Oakland Museum of California March 14, 2024 “What does it say about a Breezy Bratton 21 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland A Tropical — Not “Tiki” — Interlude in the Oakland Hills Tonga in the Hills The Lobby Bar at Claremont Club & Spa Oakland March 7, 2024 In the Lobby Bar at the storied Claremont Hotel in the Oakland Hills, my Robin Lapid 12 Mar 2024 · 5 min read
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