Promising Young Woman is a film by a woman that ostensibly empowers its victimized female lead through acts of vengeance, and that’s probably why the British actor Emerald Fennell won […]
Archives for 2023
MOVIES
One Year In, Solo Artists Find Strength in the Ensemble
Outer Cape filmmakers gather for the sake of the craft and for each other
PROVINCETOWN — Early this year, Ernest Martin was invited to show a sample of his unfinished work to fellow local filmmakers, most of whom he’d never met. Martin was working […]
REMINISCENCE
Seeing Past the New Sidewalk
Our Writers Group recreates the old Provincetown every Tuesday
PROVINCETOWN — Dogs named Riches and Poverty. Ice houses. The time the harbor almost froze over. Kids sliding at night in midwinter. Dune skiing with cheap skis. Fires on the […]
TAKING BOWS
The Evolution of Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas
Violinist Elizabeth Chang and pianist Jiayan Sun will play the full 10-sonata cycle in Wellfleet
Between the years 1797 and 1812, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote 10 violin sonatas: pieces in three or four movements, composed for violin and pianoforte — each an endeavor of the […]
MASH-UP
Pop Songs, With a Classical Twist
Well-Strung, the quartet born in Provincetown, returns for a holiday show
The idea for Well-Strung, a singing and string quartet, was born in Provincetown. While visiting the Cape for a different show in 2010, violinist Chris Marchant was playing on the […]
POETRY
Muscle Memory
Neil Silberblatt lives in Dennis Port and is the founder and director of Voices of Poetry. His most recent collection, Past Imperfect, was nominated for the Mass. Book Award in […]
POETRY
The Lost Dunes
A cardiologist bought a house perched atop a dune precariously located — he paid cash. A few years later the house toppled in a storm. The cottage colony on Ocean Drive […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for December 21, 2023 through December 28, 2023
Transforming Town Meeting to Another Stage Shortly after moving to Provincetown in 2019, Cody Sullivan attended an emergency town meeting about turning the former VFW into affordable housing. “I was […]
VIGNETTE
Season’s Greetings
STEAMERS
Ho, Ho, No
WATERCOLOR
Stop
FESTED
Reflections on a Crowded Day in Wellfleet
This year’s OysterFest had a feeling of recovery from an illness
In October I experienced my third OysterFest as a Wellfleet resident. I thought I should volunteer, and I worked stamping entrants’ hands (the ink lasts longer on the inside of […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Plum Visions for 2024
The people making predictions about what’s going to happen in 2024 have not exactly been spreading visions of peace, love, and prosperity. Depending on which expert you ask, you’re likely […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, December 21, 2023
From Stan Bratskeir, Mike Rice, and Marian Roth
Turning the Clock Back To the editor: The Truro Part-Time Resident Taxpayers’ Association is trying to turn the clock back 200 years, to a time when owning property automatically conferred […]
TIDE CHART
Provincetown and Wellfleet Harbors
Thursday, December 21, - Thursday, December 28, 2023
Know when to hit the flats.
