.Arts & Culture

THURSDAY AMERICANA MISNER & SMITH Sam Misner and Megan Smith comprise a folk duo made for the stage, with searching songs made for contemplative drives on an open road. On Thursday, the Northern California-based pair celebrates the release of their...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The world record for jumping rope in six inches of mud is held by an Aries. Are you surprised? I’m not. So is the world record for consecutive wallops administered to a plastic...

Black travel worldwide represents a dominant sector in the industry. Experts, consultants and researchers offer real-time data proving their assertions: Black travelers in 2020 spent upwards of $109.4 billion annually, based on one study of international travel...

From the beginning of the 20th century through the 1970s, waves of African Americans left the South in what is known as the “Great Migration.” More than six million people are estimated to have uprooted themselves in...

The songs on Hot Pressed, the new EP from Oakland’s Malik Mays—who records and performs under their musical identity, Mahawam—continue to explore the intersection between their inner world and the reality of living in the world as...

Adam Ant is complicated, in the best sense of the word. Throughout his career, the man born Stuart Goddard has exhibited a creative streak that’s pulled inspiration from the worlds of music, art, film, television and radio.  Best...

THURSDAY POST-EMO HOT MULLIGAN Hot Mulligan not only identifies as a post-emo; they claim they invented the genre. Taking inspiration from pop-punk greats (Blink 182, Green Day, etc.), they’ve been on a steady and irreverent ascent from the underground since...