Meetings Ahead Meetings are held remotely. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. Thursday, Aug. 27 Water & Sewer Board, 1 p.m. Planning Board, 6 p.m. Friday, […]
Archives for 2020
CURRENTS
This Week in Truro
Meetings Ahead Meetings are held remotely. To watch live, go to truro-ma.gov and follow the “helpful link” to Truro Channel 18. Thursday, Aug. 27 Historical Commission, 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 1 Board […]
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This Week in Wellfleet
Meetings Ahead From wellfleet-ma.gov, hover your mouse over a date on the calendar on the right of the screen, and click on the meeting you’re interested in to open its […]
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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 in to read its agenda. That document will provide information about how to view […]
PORTRAITS
Justin Vivian Bond: The Eyes Have It
A series of new watercolors is a window to queer culture
In an essay accompanying the exhibit “69 Witch Eyes,” Justin Vivian Bond, who uses the pronouns they/them, asks a pertinent question for life during the pandemic: “How do we care […]
MIXED MEDIA
Megan Hinton Assembles a New Voice
Creating art with a palette of different materials
In the fall of 2018, Wellfleet artist Megan Hinton entered Mills College in Oakland, Calif., to get an M.F.A., a fine art degree unlike the master’s she’d gotten years ago […]
HERITAGE
Mischa Richter’s Paintings: Nothing Cartoonish About ’em
A new exhibit at Bakker Gallery recalls a Provincetown artist’s fine artwork
Though Mischa Richter was widely celebrated as a cartoonist, at The New Yorker and elsewhere, he painted fine art canvases seriously and steadily throughout his life. He said of his […]
INSTALLATIONS
Mark Brennan Paints a Monumental Watercolor
His 64-foot dune snakes around the walls of Wellfleet’s Off Main Gallery
Over the last seven weeks, while painting Edge of the Continent/Center of the World, a 64-foot-long watercolor of the Outer Cape dunes, Mark Brennan has been listening to Beethoven. “I […]
OPERA
Met’s Falstaff Is a Feast for Eyes and Ears
Verdi’s complex score is perhaps his greatest
Giuseppe Verdi was 77 when he began work on Falstaff, his last and arguably his greatest musical achievement, and his only successful comedy. More than 50 years earlier, he had lost […]
BOOK REVIEW
Carl Hiaasen to Trump: Squeeze Me
Seeking vengeance for the un-sunshiny state of things
Leave it to satirist Carl Hiaasen to name the house band at Casa Bellicosa “The Collusionists.” Casa Bellicosa, a thinly disguised stand-in for Mar-a-Lago, is the Palm Beach setting at […]
SKETCHBOOK
Sunset: August’s Sweet Ritual
VIGNETTE
Final Round
STEAMERS
Right On Time
OP-ED
Reasons to Reopen the Provincetown Schools
In-school learning is what’s right for this community
The Provincetown Schools plan to open next month with online learning only — at least, for the foreseeable future. At the same time, other Outer Cape schools are opening with […]
ADDRESSING A GRIEVANCE
USPS Protest
Laurie Veninger stands up for “de-mail” at the North Truro Post Office with Ira Brodsky and Mark Enright. Veninger said other members of Indivisible Outer Cape gathered at post offices […]
