There’s something naggingly cheeky about the title of TV entertainment journalist Michael Ausiello’s memoir, Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies — it’s the story of Ausiello’s 14-year relationship with photographer Kit […]
Archives for 2022
MUSIC
Celebrating 50 Years of Sweet Honey in the Rock
Voices and musical styles come together in an ensemble’s dedication to song and social justice
“Music does everything for me,” says Aisha Kahlil. “It heals me. It uplifts me. It has brought me back from the brink of despair.” Kahlil is a vocalist in the […]
IN THE LOBBY
Outer Cape Banks Circulate Cultural Currency
The tradition of displaying local art continues at one bank — and is being reconsidered at another
If you don’t do much banking in person, the art on display in banks on the Outer Cape might be a good reason to venture beyond the app on your […]
BOOKS
‘The Passenger’ Misses the Plot
Cormac McCarthy’s first novel in 16 years is ‘portentous’ — and pretentious
Cormac McCarthy’s novels like Blood Meridian, his 1985 story about twisted characters annihilating one another in a mythic American West, reveal a smart, dark view of humanity. Now 89, McCarthy […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Dec. 15 through Dec. 22, 2022
Eileen Myles Privileges the Pathetic “In general poems are pathetic and diaries are pathetic,” writes Eileen Myles in the introduction to Pathetic Literature, an anthology published last month by Grove […]
VIGNETTE
Family Selfie
STEAMERS
Hell Care
OP-ED
A Prayer for Unlearning
We are all called to the mission of creating lessons of acceptance
We woke up to the news of another mass shooting on Sunday, Nov. 20, this time in a gay club in Colorado Springs. I cannot stop thinking about it, although […]
COUNTY LINE
Respiratory Illnesses Threaten Health-Care Systems
Covid, flu, and RSV stress hospital staff
We have become accustomed to living in the Age of Covid. Even blasé about it. For almost three years, we have faced existential threats from potentially every person we come […]
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
Making Good on Housing
I got to report some good news this week: eight years of sustained effort, including major support from the state, have brought the Cloverleaf project in Truro to fruition. A […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Dec. 15, 2022
From Walter Buckingham, John A. Wolf, Dick Elkin, and Judy Wood
Correcting a Mistake To the editor: I am writing to respond to Wellfleet Select Board member Kathleen Bacon’s letter regarding the town seal (Dec. 1, page A2). Along with many […]
OBITUARY
Ralph Joseph Cook of the Cookie’s Tap Family Dies at 88
Ralph Joseph Cook of Harwich died at home on Dec. 9, 2022, surrounded by family. The cause, prostate cancer, was confirmed by his wife, Jean. He was 88. Ralph was […]
OBITUARY
Blues Maestro Steve Morgan Dies at 74
St. Louis blues musician Steve Morgan, who had a 30-year second act on Cape Cod as the leader of Steve Morgan and the Kingfish, died suddenly on Oct. 12, 2022 […]
TIDE CHART
Provincetown and Wellfleet Harbors
Thursday, Dec. 15 - Wednesday Dec. 21, 2022
Know when to hit the flats.
Real Estate Transactions
for the week of Dec. 5, 2022
Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Dec. 5 to Dec. 9, 2022. PROVINCETOWN Dec. 5. Pamela B. Parmakian and Elizabeth A. Bridgewater to Christopher W. DeNapoli. 21 […]
