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Knock on wood
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Do you knock on wood or cross your fingers when you want something good to happen — or something bad to not happen? Do you wear a rally cap when...
Coral Springs Talk
Published September 30Coral Springs Museum of Art Opens Downtown Gallery With Picasso Exhibition
The Coral Springs Museum of Art will celebrate the opening of its new downtown gallery Oct. 9 with music, drinks and an exhibition featuring 57 original prints by Pablo Picasso.
Mercury Music Picks: Geordie Greep Grips Rev Hall, Jane Remover’s Glitchy Electronic, and Abel Selacoe at the Oregon Symphony
Dear readers, I have finally arrived back in the Mercury office after a cool 19 days on the road. As glamorous as DIY tour life can be (sleeping on floors, squeezing into a car like a sardine, etc.) it is also incredibly fulfilling (I definitely teared up at every show thinking…
Yonkers Times (Rising Media Group)
Published September 30Blue Door Art Center Honors Richard Nightingale and Golda Solomon at Greystone Court Fundraiser
Richard Nightingale, left, and Golda Solomon will be honored by Blue Door Art Center at its October 3 fundraiser at Greystone Court By Harry Smith Two distinguished Yonkers community figures will be honored this Saturday as Blue Door Art Center gathers supporters for an afternoon…
Paralives is still in progress
Dollhouses were a true and persistent fascination of my youth. Maybe it is the tiny furniture or the little rooms you can rearrange endlessly, or maybe it is the power of getting to decide exactly where everything belongs. Life simulator games have promised a similar feeling for…
'The 101 Plays Itself': This computer program treats the interstate into music
A Southern California man has created a system which translates cars passing on Interstates in California into soothing music.
WVIA Public Media
Published September 30'The 101 Plays Itself': This computer program treats the interstate into music
A Southern California man has created a system which translates cars passing on Interstates in California into soothing music.
John Wilson's revenge against Hollywood? A documentary about concrete
Documentarian John Wilson, known for his HBO show How To with John Wilson, is out with his first feature length documentary on what might seem like a rather dense subject: The History of Concrete.
San Antonio Current
Published September 30New exhibition by artist Ann Enzminger explores displacement in San Antonio
The show, which opens this Thursday at Fl!ght Gallery, will memorialize a neighborhood erased to make way for HemisFarir '68.
Q&A with artist Cindy Ingram
Editor’s note: The following responses have been edited for brevity and clarity. Who gets to be seen as an artist? Whose art do we see and value? Discussions of visibility and recognition for artists of different backgrounds widen the margins around contemporary and canonized…
SaportaReport
Published September 30Out On Film opens its 39th festival with LGBTQ+ stories, community and ‘Before I Do’
For one night in Midtown, the red carpet was more than a path into a movie theater. It was an invitation to see LGBTQ+ lives, relationships and experiences reflected on the big screen, and to experience those stories together. Out On Film opened its 39th annual LGBTQ+ film…
Winston-Salem Stories: The Ingles Bench
The RAV4 traces north on Highway 74, along the asphalt corridor cut through the woodlands of central North Carolina. The rear seats are folded down in preparation for loading an old artifact I’ve located up in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia...