The mosquito has a monologue. The bees perform synchronized aerials. And the praying mantises fight to the death. What’s the Buzz?, the latest production from Payomet’s Cirque by the Sea, […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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TRADITION
Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
Kenny Neal brings the swamp blues to Truro
Kenny Neal can’t say for sure which was the first instrument he ever played. It seems to him he’s always been a musician — growing up in Baton Rouge, La., […]
COMEDY
Nothing Is Off Limits for Judy Gold
Onstage and off, she’s fierce about family, politics, and being funny
The astonishing thing about the opening night of Judy Gold’s annual run at the Post Office Café & Cabaret wasn’t that she killed it. She did kill it, resoundingly, but […]
BOOKS
The Alternate Realities of Rosemary Woodruff Leary
Susannah Cahalan unveils a life on the sidelines in The Acid Queen
Susannah Cahalan writes that Rosemary Woodruff Leary is “everywhere and nowhere.” Her point is that the woman who was the fourth of five wives of Timothy Leary — the Harvard […]
THEATER
The Past Resembles the Present in Sacco & Vanzetti’s Divine Comedy
Kevin Rice’s new play addresses America’s history of scapegoating immigrants
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants who joined the early-20th-century anarchist and labor movements in Massachusetts. In 1921, they were convicted of killing a paymaster and a guard […]
POETRY
That Come and Go
Open my eyes with the sun, bright over my shoulder, and uniform clear blue […]
POETRY
Transitions
The air felt like May, but the water said it would rather be March. They negotiated through a fog that rose from the moors and burned off in my lungs. […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for July 3, 2025 through July 10, 2025
An Artistic Dialogue at Seashore Point Gallery Anne Flash and John Koch met in a class at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill around 10 years ago. The […]
DANCE
The Motion of Erosion
Choreographer Michael Spencer Phillips makes the sand a stage
In the golden evening light at Race Point Beach, an audience assembled on towels and blankets. Nearby, a group of dancers in white swayed gently back and forth, stretching and […]
SPEECHLESS
The Telling Sound of Silence
In his autobiographical play, It Goes Without Saying, mime Bill Bowers says a lot
In the quiet valley town of Missoula, Mont., sprawled at the feet of five mountain ranges, Bill Bowers’s parents — both descended from generations of ranchers and farmers — did […]
ARTISTS
The Influence of Atmosphere
Linda Reedy’s inspirations include Edwin Dickinson’s grays and Provincetown’s dunes
Linda Reedy grew up in Connecticut and Boston and first came to Provincetown when she was seven. For her parents, it was the nearest far-away place. The briny breezes, scrub-pine […]
ARTIFICE
Hovering Between Nature and Culture
The artists in FAWC’s group exhibition have an elusive grasp on the natural world
Nature isn’t always natural, suggests the Fine Arts Work Center’s summer exhibition, “To Move a Mountain.” Coady Brown, an artist who curated the work by nine former FAWC fellows, writes […]
PORTUGUESE FESTIVAL
Singing With Love
Fadista Celia Maria returns to Provincetown Town Hall for an increasingly rare ritual
At her home in South Dartmouth, Celia Maria recalls the fado singers who have inspired her. She opens the doors to her media center to reveal hundreds of LPs, 45s, […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery stroll
On Center Gallery (352 Commercial St.) Nathaniel Meyer grew up in Maine near the Schoodic Peninsula of Acadia National Park. That’s where, as a child toting a French easel, he […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 26, 2025 through July 3, 2025
Art, Music, and Food for a Cause Art for the Border, an Outer Cape collective of artists and activists, will host an art giveaway and Latin dance party at the […]
