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Nora Grace-Flood
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Apr 26, 2024 11:51 am
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Stellar sound from the KulfiGirls Wednesday night.
KulfiGirls The Dolphin Tavern 1539 S Broad St. Philadelphia April 24, 2024
Amid the fuzz rock, punk and noise music bouncing off the walls of the Dolphin Tavern Wednesday night, I found myself transported out of South Philly and into a Lisa Frank-like wonderland — as Carnatic rock crew KulfiGirls cut through an acidic night with an experimental mixture of sweet, sometimes gritty pop, colorful multi-instrumentalism, and neon joy.
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Dereen Shirnekhi
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Apr 26, 2024 11:43 am
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Wacahatchee Toad’s Place New Haven April 25, 2024
“I’ve been yours for so long / We come right back to it.”
It was a refrain I’d heard maybe hundreds of times at that point, the croon of Katie Crutchfield’s voice and the banjo backing her committed to memory. But Thursday night, as I heard it live and sang along with a crowd filling up Waxahatchee’s sold-out show at Toad’s Place, the song felt new.
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Alicia Chesser
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Apr 26, 2024 11:40 am
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Water Is The Sun at Noise Town
ONEAUX: A Night Of Ambience Noise Town April 17, 2024
If you’ve never spent a Wednesday night sitting on a floor in West Tulsa listening to experimental ambient soundscapes with trippy projections in a music venue the size of a New York City railroad apartment across from the Tulsa Stove Hospital (est. 1921), have you even Tulsa’d?
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Jamil Ragland
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Apr 26, 2024 11:39 am
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Erika Slocumb recalls her time as a teacher
Salons at Stowe: Literary Criticism Locked Up Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Hartford April 24, 2014
I went to the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center for a discussion titled “Literary Criticism Locked Up.” The discussion was supposed to focus on the restrictions on literacy for incarcerated people, and the limits placed on telling their stories. As both a writer and former educator, I was greatly anticipating the program.
I had been to OMCA’s Friday night events a handful of times in past years (all pre-pandemic). While it had always felt worth the pop-by. I had never found myself drawn to really, really take in the scene. Luckily, the mix of dance, music and food at the outdoor gathering this balmy and still very sunny Friday evening was an excellent reentry into the possibilities for both me and the community, as the weekly event just restarted for the season this month.
The museum’s terraced sculpture garden has never, in my experience, looked better, than when olden hour rained down on a lawn of families picnicking and dancing, a small stage of activity, and beds and beds of lush plant life. Across the street on one side the lake sparkled. To another side, on the shadowed courthouse steps skaters took up nightly residency, shredding away the day’s public duties. (BBQing too, this night. Right on.)
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Kate Sadoff
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Apr 25, 2024 4:18 pm
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WILLCOCKRELL’S LAUNCHOFEVEREST, INC., DIESEL A Bookstore Los Angeles April 16, 2024
I avoid the Brentwood Country Mart at most costs; it’s a danger zone for running into people from my high school. Last Tuesday night, however, I sucked it up and went on a whim to hear Will Cockrell launch his new book, Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World, with climbing legend John Long at DIESEL, A Bookstore.
Hungry Pot Korean BBQ and Hot Pot The Shoppes at Buckland Hills Manchester April 23, 2024
After experiencing the earth-shattering crunch of Korean fried chicken a few weeks ago, I continued my exploration of food from the Hanguk peninsula continued with a visit to Hungry Pot Korean BBQ and Hot Pot at the Shoppes at Buckland Hills.
Patrons at Weed Is A Plant order cocktails at the Hella Bees bar
Weed Is A Plant Hella Bees Bar 2340 Harrison St. Oakland April 20, 2024
The sun showed out as hundreds of people gathered around Lake Merritt, grilling and playing music in celebration of the iconic 420. Legend has it that this ubiquitous day celebrated by cannabis enthusiasts around the world became a thing when high school kids in The Bay met up after school to “puff puff pass” the stress of the day away. 4:20 was the code and time to hook up under the bleachers, behind the gym, or wherever they wouldn’t get caught.
Away from the crowds at the lake and other venues around town, Hella Bees and Hella Plants Market co-hosted “Weed Is A Plant,” a unique and more laid-back way to spend the day. Hella Bees, located in the old Rose Mary Jane dispensary location on Harrison, is a spacious, light-filled haven with a bar and backyard, perfect for a relaxed day party and an ideal setting for a 420 event.
Lee’s Deli Since 1993 4700 Baltimore Ave. Philadelphia April 23, 2024
The hungover in need of buttered toast and bacon might be searching for comfort and carbs with their swollen eyes rather than culinary excellence — but we found both at Lee’s Deli Since 1993 in West Philly.
Carlo Rotella at the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities
“Knockout Punches and Barroom Weepers: Writing About Sports and Music“ 101 Archer April 18, 2024
What do music and sports have in common? They defy words, for starters — an irony not lost on Carlo Rotella, a New York Times Magazine writer, Boston College professor, and award-winning author of books about cities, boxing, and blues.
Last Thursday was a windy night downtown. As Nicole Bauer, associate director of the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, introduced Rotella, a gust hit the courtyard of 101 Archer, coming in just powerful enough to rustle even the most stalwart, perfectly manicured hedge. That strong current of air seemed like an appropriate welcome into his talk: this year’s theme at the OCH, after all, is “movement.”
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Kate Sadoff
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Apr 25, 2024 11:39 am
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JENNIFERCROFT’S DISCUSSIONOFTHEEXTINCTIONOFIRENAREY, DIESEL A Bookstore Los Angeles April 18, 2024
The Białowieża Forest is the last remaining old-growth forest in Europe and has recently been subjected to logging by the Polish government. There is a horse hoof – shaped fungus, Fomes fomentarius, that both devours trees and improves forest health. The first person to study and talk about underground mycelium networks was a woman named Suzanne Simard. Mycelium offers an apt metaphor for translators’ work, in which sentences are layered on top of sentences, creating a broader network of literature. It isn’t possible to translate a 1,000-page book in seven weeks. It also isn’t mandated that translators’ names appear on the covers of books they’ve translated. Jennifer Croft — who, over the course of an hour-and-a-half-long talk, not only mentioned all of the above but also candidly admitted to never having done shrooms — is campaigning to change that final fact.
I went to hear the award-winning translator and author discuss her new book, The Extinction of Irena Rey, with the librettist and writer Sarah LaBrie at DIESEL, A Bookstore last Thursday. Croft and LaBrie sat on chairs in front of the barbershop. I sat behind a man wearing a T‑shirt featuring an image of Laika, the sacrificial Soviet space dog.
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Brian Slattery
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Apr 25, 2024 11:36 am
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“Hello several people, rap professionals, and various cool people,” said Sketch Tha Cataclysm from the Three Sheets stage, as he and fellow New Haven hip hop stalwart Mo Niklz hosted a group of touring artists from Chicago for a night of high-energy indie hip hop.
A small but enthusiastic audience stayed close for that Wednesday night show, which included performances by Chicago-based artists Aplacecalledhell, Tomcantsleep, and Killvongard.
FUNNYGIRL Ahmanson Theatre Los Angeles April 9, 2024
The worst day of my life may be the day I turn 26, not only because I’ll be ineligible for my parents’ health insurance, but also because I’ll lose access to the Center Theatre Group’s 25 and Under program, which provides free and discounted tickets in an effort to expose young people to live theater, and of which I have been a loving beneficiary for the last two years. On April 9, I took the opportunity to see the national tour of Funny Girl, a production I’ve been eagerly anticipating since the revival opened on Broadway in 2022. A newly sprained ankle wasn’t going to stop me; I strapped on that brace and made my way to the Ahmanson Theatre, ibuprofen in hand.
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Brian Slattery
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Apr 22, 2024 11:27 am
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Kaelynne Hernandez
Kaelynne Hernandez's Past Selves.
“Observe,” Omola Studio’s second installment of APRiL (Artists Prospering Really is Limitless), features works by De, Kulimushi Barongozi, Kaelynne Hernandez, Miguel Mendoza, and Rex Morris. The first iteration happened last spring, on a ground-floor space in 91 Shelton in Newhallville. This one happened in the same building, five floors up, for Saturday and Sunday, April 20 and April 21.
Dom Flemons City Winery Philadelphia April 19, 2024
“Don’t it always seem to go?” former Carolina Chocolate Drop and Black Cowboy Dom Flemons lamented into a City Winery microphone — as he quoted famed folk singer Joni Mitchell, not as part of a song, but to make a point.
The banner for the Art Connections Studio exhibit at UCONN Health Center
This-Ability Gallery Opening UCONN Health Center Farmington April 18, 2024
The therapeutic nature of art has been well documented for thousands of years, but often presented from the perspective of the artist. What about the effects that viewing art has on the healing process for people who are recovering?
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Z.B. Reeves
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Apr 19, 2024 6:05 pm
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This was no "Weekend at Herbie's"
Herbie Hancock Tulsa Performing Arts Center April 7, 2024
It was a privilege to watch Herbie Hancock cavort around a stage with a keytar. I hope you got to see it too. His show at the PAC was a powerhouse example of the genre-defining and ‑breaking prowess he’s wielded over jazz for decades. The man still has more energy than some 30-year-olds I know, and he’s 83.
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Lindsey Claire Smith
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Apr 19, 2024 6:04 pm
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Forays into darkness
Noir Nights With Josh Fadem Circle Cinema April 15, 2024
Considering what he does for a living, it’s no surprise that actor and comedian Josh Fadem (Better Call Saul, Twin Peaks, Reservation Dogs) is fascinated by film history. During COVID lockdowns, like many of us, Fadem passed the time watching movies, drawn especially to the Criterion Channel’s film noir series and the TCM app’s “Noir Alley” nights. (“Noir Alley” is hosted by Eddie Muller, author of the essential Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir.) Fadem’s period of late-night isolation eventually led to one of Tulsa’s most beloved new community gatherings: Noir Nights at Circle Cinema.
