Meetings Ahead From wellfleet-ma.gov, hover over a date on the calendar on the right of the screen and click on the meeting you’re interested in to open its agenda. That […]
Archives for 2020
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This Week in Eastham
Meetings Ahead Meetings are held remotely. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you’re interested to read its agenda and find information about how to view and take part […]
Elections 2020
Markey Takes the Outer Cape
Andrews falls short in county primary
Ed Markey, who soundly defeated Joe Kennedy in the U.S. Senate Democratic primary on Sept. 1, was the winner in every town on the Outer Cape. Looking at results across […]
THE CLOSER
Gelato Sparks Joy in Wellfleet
A September bookend to the ice cream survey
WELLFLEET — “It’s nut day,” says Sandy Valli. I look around, confused. The shop, Gelato Joy, is busy for sure, but not particularly crazy. It is 4 p.m. on the […]
GALLERIES
Edie Vonnegut Paints to Elevate the Everyday
Giving Renaissance grace to portraits of essential workers
The painter Edith (“Edie”) Vonnegut sits in the sand on Mayo Beach in Wellfleet, gazing at sailboats floating by in the sunshine. Her slender figure and natural beauty defy any […]
PROVINCETOWN 400
Varujan Boghosian’s Art Is the Stuff of Poetry
A mini-retrospective in Berta Walker’s ‘Unity’ show
“Unity: Exploring Freedom and Democracy in 2020,” an exhibit on view at Berta Walker Gallery at 208 Bradford St. in Provincetown through Election Day, includes about 20 works by Varujan […]
BOOK REVIEW
Matthew Yglesias Envisions a Better, Much Bigger America
What we need, he suggests provocatively, is One Billion Americans
Faced with impending climate doom, extreme housing shortages, and a global pandemic that spreads through close human proximity, most people hope Americans will get fewer and farther between. In his […]
QUEER ‘I’
Amid a Pandemic, Revisiting ‘Dancer From the Dance’
Andrew Holleran’s romantic rebels realize the cost of freedom
A million years ago, back in 2016, I sat on a panel at a literary conference in New Orleans. At the time, I was working on my second novel, and […]
THEATER OF ART
Kahn & Selesnick’s Performance of a Lifetime
A PAAM show documents their work on the Outer Cape
The art of Kahn & Selesnick — otherwise known as Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick, who met at Washington University in St. Louis in the ’80s, moved to the Cape […]
LIVE MUSIC
Thea Hopkins Creates Her Own Americana
Her stark lyrics draw on imagist poetry
This Friday, singer-songwriter Thea Hopkins will be performing on the Payomet Performing Arts Center’s Drive-in stage, offering the rare pleasure, these days, of experiencing a live musician in concert on […]
VIGNETTE
Underwater
SKETCHBOOK
Hummingbird
OP-ED
Writers Against Trump
Aiming to swing the swing states in November
In the middle of August, a group of eight writers, prompted perhaps by chants of “12 more years!” at the Republican National Convention, began an online discussion about finding ways […]
HIGH HOLIDAYS
New Ways to Observe the Days of Awe
Going it alone on Rosh Hashanah 5781
The year 5781 in the Jewish calendar begins this Friday evening, Sept.18. The season is called the Days of Awe, beginning with the two days of Rosh Hashanah, the “head […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Meeting to Remember
Wellfleet was the first of the Outer Cape towns to conduct its long-delayed annual town meeting this past Saturday, and as Provincetown, Truro, and Eastham have also chosen, it was […]
