With the transition from Leo into Virgo, you may notice a change in the air. If you’re a townie and are experiencing Augustitis, that familiar, full-on seasonal burnout, now is […]
Archives for 2023
PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Carlstrom to Meet Select Board
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar […]
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Jeffrey Fischer Appointed
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, Aug. 24 Local […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
ADA Planning
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
Parking Dispute Continues
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 […]
WORKSHOP
‘Attention Is the Beginning of Devotion’
Experiencing ‘re-wilding’ in a Castle Hill workshop
TRURO — On a reed-covered stretch of sand jutting out into Pamet Harbor, five students and their instructor dip their natural brushes — a broken-in-half reed, a corner of a […]
JAZZ
A Voice That Can Bring Fever Dreams
Downbeat’s vocalist of the year Cécile McLorin Salvant comes to town
Cécile McLorin Salvant, a three-time winner of the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album, will be performing at Payomet in Truro this weekend, and jazz fans on the Outer Cape […]
THE STROLL
Wellfleet, Saturday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery stroll
Jeff Soderbergh Gallery (11B West Main St.) Artist Lisa Barsumian of Jamestown, R.I. is showing some of her work in the Jeff Soderbergh Gallery. This Saturday-night stroll is great, she […]
DANCE
From Childhood Shuffles to Center Stage
Tap dancers Orlando Hernández and Khalid Hill return to Provincetown Dance Festival
Tap dancing ran in Orlando Hernández’s veins from the moment he could walk. “As a kid, I would always move my feet around a lot,” he says. “I later realized […]
ARTISTS
Bringing Miami to the Cape in Color and Coral
Nathalie Ferrier’s show at Farm Projects, “Mapping the Magic,” rejects two-dimensionality
For the French-born, Truro-based multimedia artist Nathalie Ferrier, artmaking is inextricable from place. She greeted me outside her home, barefoot, for a tour down the sandy path on which she […]
PORCHFEST PREVIEW
Jacqueline Schwab Improvises on a Theme
The pianist tries to create ‘music that welcomes everybody’
Pianist Jacqueline Schwab, who lives in Cambridge, describes growing up in Pittsburgh, Pa. surrounded by “a black shroud of dust” from the city’s steel mills. “It’s in my lungs, I’m […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for August 24, 2023 through August 31, 2023
The Glittering Art of Bob Mackie Cher, Tina, Liza, Diana, Beyoncé: Bob Mackie has dressed them all. Any time you think of one of those single-named superstars, you’re probably also […]
VIGNETTE
Business Unusual
STEAMERS
Buggins the Conqueror
SANCTUARY
The Peace of Ponds
Leaving the sturm und drang of our burning world behind
When the various weights of our world press at my shoulders, I head to one of Wellfleet’s hidden ponds. At the parking lot at Great, as children yelp and harried […]
