Category: Arts and Culture

  • Best Tall Stacks Revival Event 2025

    Best Tall Stacks Revival Event 2025

    Those who may have been wistful and nostalgic about Tall Stacks were in for a treat this year when it was announced that a new festival would be launching to celebrate our Ohio River roots. River Roots is set to celebrate Cincinnati’s river culture with a festival Oct. 8-12 along the Ohio River. The festivities…

  • Best Tall Stacks Revival Event 2025

    Best Tall Stacks Revival Event 2025

    Those who may have been wistful and nostalgic about Tall Stacks were in for a treat this year when it was announced that a new festival would be launching to celebrate our Ohio River roots. River Roots is set to celebrate Cincinnati’s river culture with a festival Oct. 8-12 along the Ohio River. The festivities…

  • Best Way to Discover Random Cult Movies at Local Theaters 2025

    Best Way to Discover Random Cult Movies at Local Theaters 2025

    For the past few years, film organizations Secret Base Cinema and Outer Cinema have hosted repertory movie nights at the Esquire and Mariemont Theaters. Their films tend to skew toward the cult and fringe genres, including Outer Cinema’s Flesh for Frankenstein and Secret Base’s Demon Wind. Last year, Secret Base put on the Nasty ‘90s…

  • Best Way to Discover Random Cult Movies at Local Theaters 2025

    Best Way to Discover Random Cult Movies at Local Theaters 2025

    For the past few years, film organizations Secret Base Cinema and Outer Cinema have hosted repertory movie nights at the Esquire and Mariemont Theaters. Their films tend to skew toward the cult and fringe genres, including Outer Cinema’s Flesh for Frankenstein and Secret Base’s Demon Wind. Last year, Secret Base put on the Nasty ‘90s…

  • Palm Beach County mourns the loss of arts advocate Gil Maurer

    TONIGHT WE REMEMBER A MAN OFTEN DESCRIBED AS A VISIONARY AND FORCE FOR GROWTH AND CREATIVITY IN THIS COMMUNITY. GILMORE WAS A HEARST DIRECTOR AND FORMER CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER HERE IN SOUTH FLORIDA. HE WAS A BELOVED COMMUNITY MEMBER AND A FRIEND TO SO MANY. GILMORE CALLED PALM BEACH COUNTY HOME. HE HAD A PASSION…

  • Jewish cultural institutions reeling as Trump defunds arts and humanities

    Jewish cultural institutions reeling as Trump defunds arts and humanities

    A museum holding one of the most important photography collections of pre-Holocaust Jewish life wanted to scan thousands of images and make them accessible to the public online.  As part of the fundraising to digitize the archive of the renowned Russian Jewish photographer Roman Vishniac, the museum, known as the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art…

  • DOGE guts Nevada Humanities, threatens arts and culture programs

    O n April 2, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by Elon Musk, notified Nevada Humanities and 55 other humanities councils across the country that their five-year general operating support grant funding has been terminated, effective immediately. Nevada Humanities has typically received around 75% of its annual…

  • Dreamville Festival returns to Raleigh for fifth year with J. Cole, Lil Wayne, 21 Savage and more

    Ivory Galloway/Niner Times Dreamville Festival returned for its fifth year, inviting hip-hop and R&B artists J. Cole, Lil Wayne, 21 Savage, J.I.D, Erykah Badu and more to perform to a sold-out crowd in the heart of Raleigh, N.C., on the 308-acre Dorothea Dix Park. The festival had two stages opposite each other on the grounds,…

  • Alamosa Creates looks for community input

    Alamosa Creates looks for community input

    Alamosa Creates is excited to invite all residents to participate in one of a series of interactive community meetings focused on shaping the vision for Alamosa’s Creative District.  The first event will be held Wednesday, April 9, from 6-8 p.m. at Adams State’s Xperimental Theatre. This is an opportunity for everyone to have a direct…

  • From Mariupol to Manchester: How arts and culture are helping Ukrainians to heal

    From Mariupol to Manchester: How arts and culture are helping Ukrainians to heal

    The war in Ukraine has destroyed cultural venues, but artists are using their talents to keep Ukraine’s stories alive and assist the war effort. “When there is an air raid alarm, we stop performing and go to the shelters with the audience, then once it is over we pick up where we left off.” Viktoria…