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 […]
Archives for 2024
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Plant Giveaway
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Portraits of the Artists
Ron Amato’s photographs of Provincetown artists capture a creative community
Nearly everyone who lives in or visits Provincetown knows about its vibrant artistic community. Far fewer know the names and faces of the artists who compose it. “I didn’t know […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Greater Than Their Parts
In Jefferson Hayman’s ‘pairings,’ framing is as integral as the image itself
Ten apricots, a bunch of grapes, three blueberries, a skull tipped over, a half-empty glass: these subjects would be just as at home on the walls of the Rijksmuseum in […]
DRAG DESK
Varla Jean Takes You Underneath the Wig
In her 27th Provincetown season, Merman parodies her colleague Taylor Swift
Varla Jean Merman has been on television, on Broadway, and, she says, on welfare. She’s been on the front page of the New York Times and, for 35 years, on […]
COLORSCAPES
The Abstract Journeys of Malu Tan
The artist explores a constantly shifting world of raw emotion
A spiral staircase leads to artist Malu Tan’s second-floor studio in North Tryon, an industrial district in uptown Charlotte, N.C. Her building is a converted bomb shelter. The studio is […]
POETRY
Pete’s Beard
Long and white, prone to blowing like a whale’s salty plume it’s the first thing you notice: his panache, his dare his disguise. And then the eyes a quiet blue, […]
POETRY
The Thing Itself
After Dylan Thomas
It was really like that. Autumn brown night washed the avenues and we talked of nothing important, just power and pleasure and paradise. Nothing was, but the slope of her […]
BOOKS
Sociologist Allison Pugh Warns Against ‘Heedless Technophilia’
In The Last Human Job, she explores the value of being seen
Almost half of the four-year-olds in Utah are enrolled in preschool online. They watch animated videos and sing songs to learn “pre-reading,” which education administrators in the Beehive State apparently […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for July 4, 2024 through July 11, 2024
Stories of a Gay Mormon Dad Claybourne Elder has a shorter commute to perform in Provincetown this year than he did last summer. The Broadway and television star is spending […]
VIGNETTE
Air Fryer
STEAMERS
Gobbless
CIVICS
Ten Nauset Students Try Out Practical Politics
After Girls and Boys State, bringing collaboration into the real world
EASTHAM — Ten Nauset Regional High School juniors spent the last week of school building a whole new government from the ground up. We were among a few hundred students […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Crime Compounded
It’s hard for me to understand those people who believe there is a “deep state” of corrupt government officials determined to take away our rights. The fabrications and fantasies of […]
INCIDENTALLY
Flava in Ya Ear
While enjoying my cup of chocolate chip on the porch outside Wellfleet’s Gelato Joy, I watched a woman approach the counter. She scanned the list of flavors, then turned to […]
