You are surely busy, getting ready to don your costumes, put on masks, and embrace the spooky revelry — and there will be no shortage of that during the weekend […]
Archives for 2023
PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Prepare to Be Scared
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Deadline for CPC Grants
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, Oct. 26 Climate […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Filling in Health and Conservation
Meetings Ahead Most meetings are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
No to a Stone Revetment
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option. Go to eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for details. All meetings are […]
THE INTERVIEW
The Provincetown Writer Who’s Watching You
Heidi Jon Schmidt draws universal truths from life in one small town
You may be checking out at the grocery store, strolling with a friend, or waiting in line for the ATM. You’re talking to the people around you or just staring […]
RADIO
Spooky Audio Tales Pick Up Good Vibrations
J Hagenbuckle’s Cape Noir Radio Theater uses only sound to tell stories of horror and crime
If you remove what you see in live theater or in movies — actors’ expressions and movement, scenery, costumes — what’s left is simply sound. J Hagenbuckle, whose medium is […]
THEATER REVIEW
Tom Hewitt Relives a Romantic Nightmare in ‘Another Medea’
Aaron Mark’s play gives gay parenthood a grisly Greek twist
At Halloween, we let evil spirits run free and amuse ourselves with their wickedness. It’s a way of reminding us of their power and horror and, with a wink, containing […]
SHARP TONGUE
At Bianca Del Rio’s Show, No One Is Safe
Vicious, filthy, jaw-droppingly rude, she’s ‘Don Rickles in a dress’
Bianca Del Rio, the sharp-tongued stand-up comic who won season six of RuPaul’s Drag Race, is returning to Provincetown just in time to scare up some laughs for Spooky Bear […]
FINGER PAINTING
Benji Weinryb Grohsgal Illustrates a Universe All His Own
After a diagnosis, an artist learns left-handedness, picks up an iPad, and draws
In a waiting room at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Benji Weinryb Grohsgal sits, drawing on an iPad. It’s a new process. He’s used to using […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for October 26, 2023 through November 2, 2023
The Acoustic Nomads Pass Through Wellfleet The Acoustic Nomads have a unique vision: to bring together folkloric sounds from Appalachia to Argentina with contemporary improvisation, jazz, and newgrass. “We’re combining […]
VIGNETTE
Trick or Treaters
STEAMERS
Registering in Shade
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Picnics of Yesteryear
OP-ED
Demand a Middle East Ceasefire Now
U.S. tax dollars are funding atrocities in Gaza
On the Outer Cape, we spoke up against Trump’s policy of family separation at the U.S. border in 2018. We spoke up against the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, […]
