Astronomy rewards early risers. In the chilly hour before sunrise, darkness gives way to ghostly yellow along the eastern horizon. Look a little higher and the sky is blue. Straight […]
Archives for April 2022
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Jupiter and Neptune Connect in Pisces
Read your dreams for clues to healing on a global level
It’s a once-in-a-lifetime spiritual jamboree when Jupiter and Neptune align in their home sign, Pisces, on April 12. Expect growth on the spiritual and creative fronts. This is an exciting […]
PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Pickleball Won’t Sour East End
Some meetings in Provincetown are in person, some are online, and some are both. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link to an […]
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Boathouse Limbo
Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, April 7 Economic […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
A Permitting Marathon
Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Town Election Preview
Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]
VISUAL ARTIST
Taking Time and Trusting the Process
Austin Ballard weaves art and craft together
Austin Ballard creates undulating forms of rattan and clay that writhe and roll like kelp. The sculptures, which take weeks, and sometimes months, to complete, feel almost figurative; whether they […]
WRITERS
For H.R. Webster, the Poetical Is Political
Writing as “an act of radical imagination”
H.R. Webster has a poem provocatively titled “Failure.” “I have made fun of the way language/ is always finding its own end,” she writes. “I have made fun of these […]
READING ROOM
What Do You Wish For?
At the Provincetown library, a migration story
Wishes is a children’s book written by Muon Thi Van and illustrated by Victo Ngai. It chronicles one family’s migration from Vietnam. It was chosen by children in both the […]
LINE BREAK
Not Just Another Poem About the Moon
Donika Kelly writes of ‘feelings,’ namely love
I have a lot of feelings and always have. In fact, it’s why I began writing poems in high school. Feelings! So many feelings. Feelings that needed a safe place […]
FILM SCENE
Arthur Egeli’s Art Thief
“That’s a wrap on the cigarette wrangler!” comes a cry across the Herring Cove Beach parking lot. It’s Wednesday, March 23 and a crew has just finishing filming the first […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for April 7 through April 13, 2022
Bert Yarborough Makes a Mark “Marked” is a show of selected works on paper by Bert Yarborough at Farm Projects, 335 Main St. in Wellfleet, running through May 2. There […]
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Rites of Spring
WATERCOLOR
Hero: Volodymyr Zelenskyy
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Finding the Exquisitely Small, Pick by Pick
Under the microscope ‘is where the magic happens’
Standing on the beach the other night, I gazed up at the ink-black sky pierced with stars and found myself thinking about infinity — endless space going on and up […]
