by
Madeline Connors
|
Oct 9, 2024 10:32 am
|
Comments
(0)
NPR
MITSKI with SHARONVANETTEN Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles September 28, 2024
“I feel like performing live is practice for living and dying,” Mitski declares several songs into her sold-out show at the Hollywood Bowl. She goes on to explain that in performance, she experiences it all: ecstasy, joy, awe. Then the lights dim, and she’s profoundly empty again. “I walk offstage, I have to let this go, no matter how wonderful it’s been.” This is death — or, at least, how she imagines it. “I’m gonna die. I don’t mean that in a violent way. You can scream all you want. Start facing it now.”
by
Jamil Ragland
|
Oct 9, 2024 10:21 am
|
Comments
(0)
Pennywise as a scarecrow, presented by the Hochdorfer familer
29th Annual Scarecrows Along Main Main Street Old Wethersfield Oct. 8, 2024
There’s nothing like a nice walk on a crisp fall day, and Wethersfield has turned the fall tradition into a walk on the wild side with its annual “Scarecrows Along Main” celebration and competition.
by
Brian Slattery
|
Oct 9, 2024 10:13 am
|
Comments
(0)
Anna Webber Photo
Christian Sands.
“Good Morning Heartache,” the opening track on Christian Sands’s latest album, Embracing Dawn, begins with a warm, gently unfolding gesture from the piano, an easing into consciousness. But then there’s an insistent ping from somewhere else. Something’s off, something’s wrong. A beat settles in, heavy and lethargic, with strings adding extra weight. It’s an exploration of a state of mind, in which maybe everything will be okay in time — but it’s not okay now.
by
Jamil Ragland
|
Oct 9, 2024 9:59 am
|
Comments
(0)
Morning Has Broken, by Peggy McShea Smolack, watercolor
Newington Art League Art Show Lucy Robbins Welles Library Newington October 8, 2024
It’s not often that I get two great experiences at one location, but I was fortunate to find that in addition to offering fascinating talks, the Lucy Robbins Welles Library has a gallery space where they display the creations of local artists.
by
Illiana Germain
|
Oct 8, 2024 6:04 pm
|
Comments
(0)
One of the four plates of food I ate at People's Kitchen harvest dinner.
Inside the People's Kitchen garden.
People’s Kitchen Harvest Dinner Reinhard Street Community Farm 6171 Reinhard St. Philadelphia Oct. 4, 2024
Fernando Melo picked the petals off a sunflower head and held its face flesh against the grill. Was I at a cookout, I wondered, or had NOMA come to Philly?
The People’s Kitchen, a grassroots collaborative combating food insecurity by making free meals for all, hosted their own kind of cookout Friday night at their Community Farm on Reinhard street. And let me tell you — it wasn’t just hot dogs and hamburgers.
by
Jamil Ragland
|
Oct 8, 2024 5:54 pm
|
Comments
(0)
Lost in Time: Portraits From the Past Lucy Robbins Welles Library Newington Oct. 7, 2024
By day, Erik S. Hinckley is an unassuming assistant town planner for the town of Newington. By night, he’s a detective, working to solve mysteries over a century in the making.
by
Brittany Menjivar
|
Oct 7, 2024 11:40 am
|
Comments
(0)
THEDARE El Rey Theatre Los Angeles September 27, 2024
The title of the Dare’s 2024 debut album poses a question: What’s Wrong with New York? Here’s my take: they don’t know how to have fun. While Harrison Patrick Smith’s ascent to the indie sleaze throne has been remarkably frictionless — first we knew him as a Dimes Square one-hit wonder, now he’s signed to Republic with a brat shout-out and magazine features galore — responses to his reign have been mixed. Although any event with his name on the flyer will pull in a sizable crowd of party animals, some critics scoff at his sex, drugs, and rock and roll shtick, which goes heavy on the sex part. (Exhibit A: his The Sex EP, anchored by the single “Sex,” features cover art with fully clothed models sporting American Apparel as they simulate intercourse.)
by
A.J. Urquidi
|
Oct 7, 2024 11:33 am
|
Comments
(0)
Fontaines DC at Pomona's Fox.
FAKEFRUIT with DOLLYCREAMER, Gold-Diggers, Los Angeles, September 26, 2024 PUBLICMEMORY with CRUELDIAGONALS, Gold-Diggers, Los Angeles, September 27, 2024 FONTAINES D.C. with BEENSTELLAR, Fox Theater, Pomona, September 28, 2024
[Publisher’s note: document found morning of 09.29.24 beside abandoned vehicle at Chino Hills strip mall parking lot.]
09.25.24, 11:33 p.m. Long Beach
Dear diary, I’m embarking inadvisably upon a three-day marathon of unrelated shows around Greater Los Angeles, including on workdays. Sounds tough, but if we’re ever to push the concertology field forward, I must survive! Pocket contents include notebook, camera phone, merch money. Wish me luck …
West Oakland is widely known as a food desert, vast stretches of it devoid of any victuals outside of corner-store fare. And don’t get me wrong — as a foot-bound resident I am endlessly grateful to those purveyors of overpriced seltzer water (when it’s in stock, that is) and emergency bags of sugar to feed my Very Hungry Kombucha. But affordable and healthy food is hard to come by on near every stretch that is not 7th and Mandela, which houses the sweetest co-op around.
Small but mighty may be the neighborhood businesses’ calling card, though, as some of these businesses have been serving their publics for 10 or 15 years, in the cases of coffee shop Kilovolt and Mandela, respectively. Give us something good and we’ll stay loyal. Okay, give us something and we’ll be there.
by
Jamil Ragland
|
Oct 6, 2024 2:26 pm
|
Comments
(0)
Facebook
Gifted Horses
Gifted Horses Connecticut Old State House Hartford Oct. 4, 2024
Thanks to the beautiful weather we’ve had this month, it felt like summer was going to last all year long. All good things must come to an end though, and Gifted Horses gave the last lunchtime concert performance the season.
by
Nora Grace-Flood
|
Oct 4, 2024 4:00 pm
|
Comments
(0)
The Softies, with Lightheaded, 22º Halo PhilaMOCA 531 N. 12th St. Philadelphia Oct. 3, 2024
“Write down that this is a bad song!” my recently heartbroken friend wept in my ear as I scrawled notes like an obsessive school girl about the pitch-perfect performance delivered by ‘90s sad girls, The Softies.
Indie pop duo and long-time friends Rose Melberg and Jen Sbragia took to the stage at PhilaMOCA Thursday night while touring their latest album, The Bed I Made. It’s the first record released by the pair after a two-decade pause in production.
by
Nora Grace-Flood
|
Oct 2, 2024 5:46 pm
|
Comments
(0)
Ancient Food and Flavor Penn Museum 3260 South St. Philadelphia Oct. 1, 2024
I looked down at 6,000-year-old strawberry seeds, elderly corn kernels and dried llama jerky preserved behind glass — and felt my stomach growl for a feastful future.
