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elissa Saywell
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Oct 13, 2024 11:58 am
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DISCOVERINGLONGBEACH’S UNKNOWNQUEERHISTORY Hamburger Mary’s Long Beach October 5, 2024
The rich queer history of Los Angeles has long been overshadowed by that of San Francisco and New York. That misperception is rapidly changing, thanks to documentaries such as L.A.: A Queer History (2021), historical publications such as Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons’s Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians (2009), and now Circa, the nation’s “first and only Queer Histories Festival,” which is currently in its second year and features events in and around the city throughout October.
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Emily Cohen
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Sep 25, 2024 10:39 am
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XPoNential Music Festival Wiggins Waterfront Park 2 Riverside Dr. Camden, New Jersey Sept. 22, 2024
University of Pennsylvania’s radio station WXPN celebrated the 30th year of their fall music showcase — the Xponential Music Festival — last weekend. I went to one of the festival’s three jam-packed days and realized why the show is so long-lived: Who wouldn’t want to lay on a blanket all day long listening to string-heavy folk rock in perfect fall weather?
Reggie Watts, With Openers Casey Rocket, Simon Fraser, Cepeda Cheeks and Val Werner Blue Whale Comedy Festival Cain’s Ballroom Tulsa August 24, 2024
Reggie Watts tickled me first through YouTube. Clips of his specific brand of disorientation humor were going viral one after another in the early 2010s, and as the kind of neurotic, acid poetry-obsessed, alcoholism-adjacent college graduate that Watts makes his bread off of, I was instantly struck by the brilliance of his work. You can hardly call it stand-up: His is a brainy, free-association comedic act, which relies less on punchlines than on red herrings, the diversion as the point. Listeners are taken through a range of accents, registers, made-up songs, and stories with little or no punchline, simply for the fun of it.
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Mitch Gilliam
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Aug 16, 2024 1:30 pm
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Latch himself; Latch Fest 2024 T-shirt artist Dan Rocky.
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 were musing on what it is about a concert weekend dedicated to a bar cat that just … works. “Bradley and I are polar opposites, but our hearts are in the same place,” Voth told me. “We’re both made of fur and claws.”
Every August, eight blocks of Oakland’s Laurel District becomes the locus of eyes, ears, noses, mouths, and wandering feet for the annual Laurel Street Fair & World Music Festival. People’s senses are stimulated by the celebratory energy outdoor summertime fiestas give. Street Fairs make folks happy and loose. When the weather’s good the joie de vivre possesses an even merrier vibe. And the weather wasn’t only sunny on for this 23rd edition of the festivities, it was hot: my partner and I were ready for a thirst quenching beverage before we even passed under the Laurel Gateway Arch at MacArthur Boulevard and 35th Avenue.
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Nora Grace-Flood
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Aug 9, 2024 11:00 am
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A still from Juan Carlos Dávila's "Farmers of the Sea."
BlackStar Film Festival: “Anthropogenic” Shorts The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 128 N Broad St. Philadelphia August 2, 2024
I was dissociating in a dark, air-conditioned theater when the words of an Indigenous community leader spoke to me past the screening: “Only the impacts of our actions will be proof of our existence.”
Blobfest 25 July 12 – 14 The Colonial Theatre Phoenixville, Penn.
What draws revelers every year to BlobFest, the three-day gathering celebrating the 1958 classic film The Blob at the theater where a famous scene was filmed?
The answer I got any time I asked anyone in attendance at this year’s fest: It was the community of it all, a place to be weird and quirky and silly with hundreds of like-minded strangers.
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, and Lars. Watch the video to learn more about the artist showcase, and follow the festival on Instagram here to see what’s planned next.
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Jamil Ragland
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Jun 23, 2024 12:00 pm
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One of the 3-D printed dragons made by Tony Baker of Crafts Unleashed
Summer Concerts at the Farmer’s Market Connecticut Old State House Hartford June 21, 2024
Friday was the kickoff of the Summer Concert series at the Old State House, which features live music combined with a farmer’s market and other vendors.
Showing up “fashionably late” is perfectly acceptable for most evening fêtes, especially an outdoor event that runs until dusk during these long near solstice days in mid-June Northern California. But there was barely anything going on at the Ecofutures Festival when we showed up: not many people, not many interesting things to see and do, and not a lot of energy. And it wasn’t like we’d missed anything; after a couple hours of anticipating that the energy might pick-up, things didn’t even reach a simmer. There wasn’t much fest at this festival. To be frank, this event was pretty damn boring.
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Jamil Ragland
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Jun 17, 2024 12:41 pm
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The crowd looks on as performers light up the stage at the Juneteenth celebration in Hartford.
Juneteenth Freedom Day Celebration Bushnell Park Hartford June 16, 2024
This year’s Juneteenth celebration for the city of Hartford took place on Trinity Street in Bushnell Park, where the Black Lives Matter mural was painted in 2020. The theme for the celebration was to Elevate, Empower and Entertain.
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Mitch Gilliam
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Jun 3, 2024 12:18 pm
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121st Annual Boley Rodeo Boley, OK May 25, 2024
Next weekend, Tulsa Tough will attract thousands of visitors to our city. Throngs of out-of-state and out-of-country travelers will revel in our annual extolling of bicycles and bacchanalia. But an hour southwest of us, the town of Boley turns up just as fiercely.
