Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in-person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the […]
Archives for 2023
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Comprehend the Plan
Meetings Ahead 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, Sept. 7 Local […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Art Shacks at Mayo Beach
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Wellfleet 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 […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Don’t Feed the Coyotes
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 […]
PUBLIC ART
Andrew Mowbray Pursues the Unpredictable
The Provincetown Public Art Foundation’s most recent project is a collaboration with the wind
Every Wednesday, Andrew Mowbray travels from Boston to Provincetown, where he finds a drawing produced in collaboration with the wind and his sculpture Tempest Prognosticator. “I get to open this […]
POSTCARDS
Painting a Somber Summer Vacationland
Jamie O’Neill finds something modern in nostalgic scenes
Jamie O’Neill first became fascinated by stories of the past while growing up on Nantucket. Now a father, he is still pulled by history as he turns his art to […]
EARS WIDE OPEN
Poetry for the People, by the People
A spontaneous evening at the People’s Poetry Parlor
On a mid-August night, amateur and published poets, locals and tourists, pour into the Somerset House Inn in downtown Provincetown and take seats on an array of couches and deep […]
BOOKS
Raising the Spirits of the Living and Dead
Adam Berry’s book on coping with grief
Adam Berry arrived in Provincetown 20 years ago as a Boston Conservatory sophomore to star in the Provincetown Theater Company’s production of Hair. An Alabama native, he didn’t know anything about […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
Berta Walker Gallery (208 Bradford St.) Last week there was a fishnet full of famous folk and local art lovers outside the East End galleries, but tonight it’s raining and […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for September 7, 2023 through September 14, 2023
‘Word Suite’ Combines Poetry and Music Phoebe Carrai says that her cello, which is named Giovanni, has a voice of its own and when she plays, “it feels like a […]
VIGNETTE
Clearing Out
STEAMERS
Crud is in the Air
RAISING THE RTE
A Deeply Flawed Process
Next time, it could be your concerns that are dismissed
The Provincetown Select Board at its last meeting on Aug. 28 dramatically increased the residential tax exemption (RTE) from 25 percent (where it had held steady for several years) to […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Undoing the Damage
A press release from the Cape Cod National Seashore appeared in my inbox the other day promoting the value of the Park to the local economy. A new report from […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, September 7, 2023
From Art Autorino, Tara Chhabra, Andy Morris-Friedman, Mike Rice, and Ernest Jacob
On Shurtleff Road… To the editor: I would be remiss not to correct a couple of the comments in “A Holdout Survives on Eastham’s Shurtleff Road” in the Aug. 31 […]
