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DJ Ryan's New Release of the Week: Charlotte Day Wilson, "Selfish"

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A Quiet Ferry to the Afterlife

Imperfect People: review of WRECK

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DJ Ryan's New Release Of The Week: Momoko Gill, "No Others"

Photog's Aerial Shift Adds Bird's-Eye Love For New Haven

Midbrow in your Mailbox

Chappell Roan Rides The Next Wave

Leela James Rocks The Fox

Suicide: An Anthology

Socks, A Christmas Special

Kathy Acker (Masturbated Here)

Blinded by “Buckle”

Hard Country Honky Tonk

Nativity Scenes are LIT, Boston

Amira Brown’s Art, Mitchell Library

Adam and Betsy Take the Frick

P(X3), Hartford

STOIC: A Frequency Event

A Worker’s Posada

Alice Coltrane, revisited

Ghostly Raleigh

Tahira Clayton sings Billie Holiday

Uncle Vanya, New Haven

Habesha Ethiopian, Boston

Jenny Lewis, Hollywood

Christmas on the Rocks

Nu Haven Kapelye

A Good To Me Not To You (NYC)

Devendra Banhart, LA

Birthed from the Soil

Teen Troupe Shakespeare (Elm City)

The Little Crowd That Could

Beehive Holiday Blowout

Kaitlyn Raitz @ the Bowery Vault

An Evening With Bill Callahan

U Hart Chamber Music Showcase

Sister Act, ActUp Hartford

Kalyn Fay @ Lowdown Tulsa

(Comic) Roast at Grove 34

Lil Big Band, Tulsa

The Band’s Visit, Boston

Darlingside and Field Guide @ the Space

An MBTA Musical

Darren Dirksen, Tulsa

Caribbean Television

The Alchemy of Art

BIG SHARK (Tommy Wiseau)

Paul Spring Sings, NYC

Art Brings Movement, ECOCA

Sweet (Holiday) Surrender

Pin-Up Girls, The Musical

‘Til Death, NYC

Tyshawn Sorey Trio, New Haven

The Gardens of Anuncia

An Artist and his “Disruptive Force,” Tulsa

Turkish (Pide) Delight

The Art of the Xmas Tree

The Salvagers, Yale Rep

Insightful Authors and Human Brands: PRB, LA

The Ramble, Central Park

Stained Glass Speaks

Stone Soup, Musically

Pizza and Jazz, New Haven

Trio of Acts Brings Range to Cafe 9

Brahms in Tulsa (We’re Tired)

Accursed Lover: Frida y Diego, Operatically

Home: Explored in art in New Haven

We’re Still Here: American Indian Heritage Celebration, NC

King Pleasure”: Basquiat in LA

Deck the Walls, New Haven

Less-Violent Femme, 40 years on

Moulin Rouge at the Bushnell

Real Food, Veganized

FiFac’s House, New Haven

Reading for Longevity, NYC

Thiccfoot on Main

Curation at Gallery 66

Motherhood on Film, Boston

Art Invokes Nostalgia, Trinity College

Tumbleweeds on Main: Guillermo Bert’s The Journey

Visual Poetry, Troy

Eileen Myles, NYC Poet-Legend

NHSO Honors Black Composers, Women

Eric Gales Has Got the Blues

Natural Intelligence (Amos Cochran)

Lit Match, Set, Kill (Win)

4 Bands Fill Cafe 9

Devil’s in the Details (The Covenant)

Big Girls Rock, NYC

Hamletmachine x CATS

70 years of Sing-along, Tulsa

Colonial Revisionism, Corrected

Window Art, Oakland

Everything and Nothing, Ely Center

Why Must We Listen (How Long Gone, LA)

The Good(s) Dr, Black Eyed Sally’s

Robert Ellis, Tulsa

Mama Tried (Space Jazz)

The Year of Magical Thinking

Alt Lit Keeps on Coming, LA

Nola Feeds Oakland

Public Art, NYC

Throughline, Oakland

Young Guitarist on the Rise

Cozy Celtic Jams

Kids in Toyland

Lunch Box Legacy

Individuals of Connecticut’s Colored Regiments

Tulsa Dream(land)

Home Cooked Noodle Heaven

Trail to Oregon!

The Poetry of Grief

Hozier in Hollywood

Gun Owners Next Door

Voir Dire, on Display

Weird, Weird Sisters

Driveway Follies

Global Floral (Art)

Latinas en Bici

Nan Martin’s Sculptural World

boygenius Bowls over Hollywood

Clean Look Makeup…Dance?

Black Woman Magic

“Reflections” of a Massacre, Tulsa

50 years of Hip Hop at the Wadsworth

Crushin on the Jazz Club

These Porcelain are NOT Figurines

Something’s Wrong in Fairview

Hardly Human (Art) Curation

Double Drive-In

Nature in Many Forms, New Haven

Guyana Paints Hartford Bright

Empanadas! New Haven

Hellerween Plays in Dark Spaces

Apocalypse Party (LA)

Myth and Horror in Paint

Secrets of a Horrorista

Chaotic Ambivalence

Freaky Funky Fright Night

Dreaming of Toum, Eating Falafel

Boom Clap Chorus @ Mercury Lounge

Carolina (hot air) Balloon Fest

Open Studios, Westville

Close and Personal at KGB Bar

After Picasso Came Fresh (st)Arts

The Seshen’s “Nowhere”

Elm Street Fever Dream…Brunch

Lizzie Borden Strikes Again

The Iridescence of Knowing

Zombies Dazzle at Drunk Film Fest

Cafe Nine in 3 Acts

Lizzie Borden Axes and Waxes…in Song

The Medium (Tulsa Opera)

Faust, Modernized

ORCA! The Musical

AfroFuturist Fashion

Comic Con-nection

Hollywood Halloween

Color on Color: Miguel Arzabe in Oakland

Open Studios, New Haven

Portrait of an Unlikely Space

Not Your Mother’s Juggler

Autumn Lights, Oakland

A Solo Show, x3

Leibovitz at Work

Orinoco Eats, Boston

Life is Living!

Death Cab, Los Angeles

Rancid Art World, Fort Worth

Dollyrot @ Cafe Nine

Alt Lit is Lit, LA

Black Springs Books (NYC)

Bad Art! Boston

We Were Not At The Fair (TSO)

Looking Within II

Boot Scootin’

Diabetic Test Strips, The Album

OutKast Endures

Osage Art (Flower Moon)

Nature Weavers, Nevada

Full of Foam and…Love?

TV Girl Takes Toads

Dispatches From the Pit, Boston

Well Adjusted, LA

Political Art, Then as Now

Ponies for Prez

Culture Makers, NYC

Impossible Souls

Puerto Rican Parade and Festival De Coqui

Online Land, Kickapoo Eats

New Music in New York

Post Brexitcore, Live in LA

Cathedral Art, Reimagined

Hartford (Black) History

Caligula, Recut

When Walls Talk: Boston in Photos

Noise as Expression

Queering Pro Wrestling, Tulsa

Doubtfire in Hartford

MORE MOSH Los Angeles

Blocks and Bridges

Fertilizer Fest

The Tulsa Massacre, in Music

Horror, for the Family

The Gutter On Main

Not Your Mama’s Fern Bar

AfroFuturist Tea

Forces Within Us

Casual Encountersz

boygenius in New Haven

New Haven Symphony Orchestra

Kinderkrankenhaus At the Brick

Hot Tuna in New Haven

MOLAA Exhibition Brings the Feels

Book Fair, All Grown Up

Red Light Fiction

The Bravery of Black Punk, LA

White Man’s Dream, Rewritten

The Show Must Rave On

Poet’s Delight, Tulsa

Crispy Crunchy Taco Time

Latinx Identity in Art, Boston

A Lit Open Mic, New Haven

Buffalo (Nichols) Blues

A Neighborhood, Celebrated. El Museo del Barrio NYC

Not Your Bubbe’s Latkes

No Shortage of Short Films

AfroFuturist Compassion in Art

In Lieu of… Black Box Theater Dance in BK

Ethio in Oakland

FLOATING POINTS at the Hollywood Bowl

Bushwick’s Dreamland

NOLATET in Tulsa

Ballet for Beginners

Comic Art in All Sizes

Reno, Who Knew?

A Conference of Minds: Griel Marcus Speaks

Folk Rock Alchemy

An Artist’s Own AI

AroMa at Fairyland

Sacred Harp NYC

The Missing Mountain

Experimental Tunes at One Aux Tulsa

GARY in Oakland

Monday Night Tootball

Wax Art at City Gallery

Hill City Rat Bikes

LINKS at Gold Sounds

Egyptian Royalty in… Hartford?

Community Theater Coming in Clutch—and Culturally Appropriate

Oakland’s 90s in hip hop photography

Let’s Play! LA’s 70s and 80s in Photos

Hobbit Hole, Homey Lunch

Fairycore at BC NR

The $200 Bacon Burger

Open Mics Open Minds?

Little Amal Takes Boston

Flower Fairies, New York

Art for… Everyone?

Try a date at Trident Booksellers

Hope, not Hype. Black Moonscapes in Tulsa

A Sack Lunch at The Lunchbox

It’s Not Pretty: Los Angeles

Bella’s Bartok, Hartford Live

Rohn Lawrence Benefit

The Situation: Open Mic in Tulsa

Mommy Mommy @ the Golden Bull

Taxi Driver in New Haven

Monday Jazz in Tulsa

Drown or Swim : A Maternal Oedipal Dance

Codependents @ Space Ballroom

Blew Reed and Guitars Aplenty

Earthlings Escape to Atlantica

Creative Wonderland @ OMCA

To breathe full and free : Immersive art in NW Arkansas

AfroFuturist Art on Immersion, New Haven

SoFar So Good, Boston

Branjae at Thelma’s Peach Tulsa

Steve Wilkos in Stamford

Delaney Silvernell in NY

Is Everything OK? Queer Femme art show in Tulsa

Big Fat Combo at Best Video

Genius, yassified

Big Summa in Boston

TransAtlantic Art

Rocking out at Cafe Nine

Hannah Dasher at Mercury Lounge

Town Fare Oakland

Honky Tonk Happy Hour

Boston Block Party

Take Me to the Moon! Tulsa

Crying Thaiger Vegan Duck

Happy Bday Hip Hop (NYC)

HipHop 50 in Tulsa

Ryshnyky a Home does Make

Lindley Creek @ Cafe Nine

Black Panther Mini Museum and Mural

OK So Story Slam

Plants Invade Museum

Merry Wives of Windsor

Old Gods of Appalachia

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