A book on the oil and gas industry, Russia, and government corruption? Sounds a bit daunting. But Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, author of The New […]
Arts & Minds
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civics
Licensing Board Urged to Keep Art Everywhere in Provincetown
Gallery owner Ray Wiggs wants to protect the ‘gallery system’
PROVINCETOWN — Artists, gallery owners, and retailers gave resoundingly bad reviews to Ray Wiggs’s attempt to have the town ban the sale of fine art in restaurants, bars, and inns […]
sketchbook
Bats
Northern Long-Eared Bat (threatened, endangered). Scientists know them by their calls, and catch them in mist nets. These guys frequent kettle ponds. Across the dunes and forests of Cape Cod […]
Our picks for the week of October 31 through Nov 7
Indie’s Choice
Thursday, Oct. 31, 2 p.m. On the Trail with the Classics: Wyman Richardson. Salt Pond Visitor Center, 50 Nauset Road, Eastham. These 45-minute programs are set in locales that inspired […]
this week
Arts Briefs & Listings for Oct. 31 through Nov. 6
exhibitions, music, theater, and other happenings on the Outer Cape this week
‘Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement’ East End Books, 389 Commercial St., will host a reading on Friday, Nov. 1 at 5 p.m. Author David K. Johnson, an […]
THEATER REVIEW
In the Company of ‘Wrinkles’
A musical about older women braves the WHAT stage
When a work of theater focuses exclusively on the lives of older women — the things that pain them, humiliate them, terrify them, strengthen them, elate them, or amuse them […]
at the library
A Healing Secret
Social infrastructure as a remedy for what ails us
Palaces for the People: How social infrastructure can help fight inequality, polarization, and the decline of civic life. Eric Klinenberg New York: Crown, 2018 I have often said that the […]
movies
Sympathy for the Devil
Ivy Meeropol directs a documentary portrait of Roy Cohn
In January 2004 “Heir to an Execution,” Ivy Meeropol’s documentary about her grandparents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 as Communist spies after what can only be […]
FAWC
New Fellows in Town
20 artists and writers look to the Outer Cape for inspiration
The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown welcomed its 2019-20 class of 20 winter fellows on Oct. 1, 10 in writing and 10 in visual arts. They will be in […]
Women’s Week 2019
‘A Very British Lesbian’ Comes to Provincetown
Fiona Goodwin, at home on a distant shore
Growing up in the bucolic countryside of Hertfordshire and Cambridge, England, Fiona Goodwin began to suspect that she was different when she developed unusually strong emotional attachments to other girls. […]
CULTURE DESK
Eight of 11 Board Members Quit ‘Provincetown Arts’
Celebrated annual’s founder says he is ‘slightly elated’ by resignations
PROVINCETOWN — Every summer for the last 34 years the fat and glossy Provincetown Arts magazine has hit the newsstands with a proud thump. On its pages — and this […]
MUSIC
Joe Louis Walker Paints the Payomet Tent Blue
From San Francisco’s Fillmore district, a legendary guitarist
“I was sort of ordained to play music.” So says blues singer-guitarist Joe Louis Walker, who’ll be performing at the Payomet Performing Arts Center in Truro on Saturday, Oct. […]
Women's Week
Women’s Week Highlights: Part 2
The last four days of Women’s Week, from Thursday, Oct. 17, to Sunday, Oct. 20, are jam-packed with events. We highlighted several venues last week, and there are some more […]
WOMEN WITHOUT LIMITS
At Work in Provincetown, 30 Years Ago and Now
Photographs by Marian Roth
By the time I arrived in Provincetown in 1982 to find myself there was already a vibrant community of young women washashores here, nourished by a long and deep tradition […]
PROVINCETOWN WOMEN'S WEEK 2019
A Filmmaker Captures the Power of Lesbian History
Megan Rossman’s ‘The Archivettes’ screens at Waters Edge Cinema
The 35th annual Provincetown Women’s Week, which officially runs from Oct. 14 to 20, celebrates, among many things, lesbian visibility. It’s fitting, then, that one of the most popular events […]
