During the summer of 2021, Truro artist Amy Kandall painted more than 50 life-size portraits of artists, gallerists, restaurant owners, and other creative people who live on the Outer Cape. […]
Archives for 2023
THEATER REVIEW
Thrilled by a Betrayal
In a notable coproduction, WHAT and Harbor Stage do Pinter proud
There is something uniquely sublime about Harold Pinter’s dialogue: direct and unfancy yet veiled, charged, and evasive. It’s a challenge and a boon for actors, whose delivery is key. And […]
ARTISTS
DNA Residents Gain a Space to Show Their Work
Nick Lawrence’s Readymade Gallery brings artists from the Cape, New York, and beyond
PROVINCETOWN — The DNA residency, situated in a cavernous, barnlike space above the Provincetown Tennis Club, has hosted artists on the Outer Cape since 2012. In previous years it was […]
PROVINCETOWN BOOK FESTIVAL
Bending Gender, Genre, and Reality’s Fabric
In Isle McElroy’s fiction, identity is volatile, permeable, and relational
In a country of unpredictable roving “man hordes” reported to have “mowed twenty-six lawns in Drain, Illinois” and “kicked a German shepherd to death in Plano, Texas,” a canceled feminist […]
PROVINCETOWN BOOK FESTIVAL
A Maiden Voyage for an ‘Aging Pervert’
Janet W. Hardy’s radical queer savvy comes to Provincetown
By a strange twist of fate, the Provincetown Book Festival, hosted by the public library and running Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 this year, always seems to happen the same […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for September 28, 2023 through October 5, 2023
Cedric Harper’s Art of Language For all its simple forms and seemingly unrefined ornamentation, Cedric Harper’s art speaks volumes. “Ancestral Language,” currently on view at the Higgins Art Gallery at […]
VIGNETTE
Run Local
STEAMERS
Pumpkin Spice Drag
KEEPING WATCH
We Are Not the Apex of Creation
Reflections of a retired English teacher
Ponder the improbability of it all. Instead of barren rock, lifeless water, and gaping nothingness, there is a planetary ecosystem teeming with a nearly incomprehensible number of protean life forms, […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Island of Truro
Five years ago, Walter Rowell, who was then 21, ran for Wellfleet Select Board. His campaign featured some unusual proposals, including his idea that Wellfleet and Provincetown should “annex” Truro, […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, September 28, 2023
From Joanna Buffington, Carol Nelson, Anne Irwin, David A. Mangs, and Carol Jules
Eastham and the RTE To the editor: Josiah Cole writes that Eastham Select Board members who voted not to implement a residential tax exemption should be voted out [Letters, Sept. […]
OBITUARY
Wilfred Turcotte of Home Port Cottages Was 82
Wilfred J. Turcotte died at Seashore Point in Provincetown on Sept. 12, 2023. He was 82 and had been diagnosed with cancer in July. The son of Robert and Yolanda […]
OBITUARY
A Lover of Cars, Antiques, and Sailing, John H. Bloom Dies at 75
The flags at Pamet Harbor and on the Cutter Bloodhound at MacMillan Pier in Provincetown are flying at half-mast to honor John Howard Bloom of Truro, who died at Cape […]
TIDE CHART
Provincetown and Wellfleet Harbors
Thursday, September 28, - Thursday, October 5, 2023
Know when to hit the flats.
Real Estate Transactions
for the week of Sept. 18, 2023
Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Sept. 18 to Sept. 22, 2023. PROVINCETOWN Sept. 19. William W. Drake to Lawrence Zankel. 963 Commercial St., Unit 24. $390,000. […]
