Ted Chapin pulls the guts out of machines — “eviscerating them,” he says. That’s how he assembles his intricate wall sculptures, which combine machines like typewriters with natural elements like […]
Archives for 2024
MUSIC
The String Queens Live Up to Their Name
The trio’s sound is bigger than the sum of its parts
The first time The String Queens showed up for a gig as a trio, they were hired by one of their own: Dawn Johnson, the violist, was having a birthday […]
THEATER
Take a Time Warp to a Live Rocky Horror
Transylvanians invade Provincetown
Most of us who are familiar with The Rocky Horror Show know it from the 1975 film version (the Rocky Horror Picture Show), which is the quintessential cult movie — […]
STREET MUSIC
Punk Kids Playing Jazz
The Dirty Rotten Vipers bring New Orleans to Provincetown
Eight members of the Dirty Rotten Vipers came to Provincetown for the season last year, and the band made the alleyway next to Marine Specialties on Commercial Street their summer […]
THEATER
In Wellfleet, Food for Thought
Harbor Stage makes first U.S. adaptation of My Dinner With Andre
Back when their thumbs up or down held some sway over box office sales, movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert both named 1981’s My Dinner With Andre among the […]
INTERIORS
Paintings That Reveal Unintended Narratives
Nick Patten holds a mirror to the light and solitude at the Vorse house
On the desk where I spent most of my first winter in Provincetown were tokens that introduced me to this place but only obliquely: a wooden carving of a semi-erect […]
POETRY
Outline
The merest touch of breeze or rain or passerby in early June sets pitch pines off in green-gold pollen spasms: old efficiencies of hazardous excess, their clouds stain everything they […]
POETRY
Long Nook
Poems of Truro resident Mary Maxwell’s five collections first appeared in Paris Review, Salmagundi, and Yale Review, among other publications. Submit poems to [email protected]. Include your full name, complete home […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for July 25, 2024 through August 1, 2024
A Cape-Wide Celebration of Chamber Music The 45th annual Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, which takes place in several venues for two weeks this summer, begins on Tuesday, July 30 […]
VIGNETTE
Shark Sightings
STEAMERS
President’s Town
SOCIAL CAPITALISM
Discontent Comes to the Outer Cape
A pessimist asks why we still hate us
In the summer of 2008, I published a quickly forgotten book titled Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium. It was not optimistic. But it came out […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Asleep at the Tweet
When Twitter launched in social media’s early days (it was 2006 when Jack Dorsey sent out the first tweet) most journalists scoffed at the idea of living by 140-character soundbites. […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 25, 2024
From Frank Korahais, Anthony Garrett, Dennis O’Brien, Harry Irwin, Mary Bergman, and Shawn Fiedler
Part-Timers and Voters To the editor: Your July 18 article “Truro Now Has Two Part-Time Residents Groups” [page A9] was factually in error about me in serious and harmful ways. […]
OBITUARY
Former Bank Teller Jane Peters of Truro Was 81
Longtime Truro resident Jane Hutchings Peters, who worked for many years for Cape Cod Bank and Trust in Provincetown, died peacefully at the McCarthy Care Center in Sandwich on June […]
