Acie Clark is interested in small talk. Most of the time, he says, people refer to it dismissively. But he finds meaning in life’s mundane moments. “So much of our […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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INDIE SCREEN
The Golden Ambitions of Cartoons
Surveying the five animated features nominated for this year’s Oscars
Animation is not just for children. That’s certainly true of the five feature films nominated for an Academy Award in the animated category this year, although the two most likely […]
FICTION
Annuities
Every day, I read about the death of someone I never knew existed. On the front page today there’s an obituary about an author and activist who left an indelible mark […]
BIG PICTURE
Southern Comfort
Valerie Isaacs finds the South a gentler place to make plein-air paintings in the winter
Valerie Isaacs is a fixture in Provincetown. She’s often painting on the wharf or in the dunes with her portable easel and tote bag full of paint and brushes. For […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for February 20, 2025 through February 27, 2025
Stories of Environmental Dread and Horror Writer and Eastham librarian Corey Farrenkopf says he doesn’t spend much time plotting things out when he writes a story. He prefers to let […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Rachel Brown’s Literary Images
The Wellfleet photographer finds inspiration in poetry and distant places
Rachel Brown remembers arriving on the Outer Cape as a child in 1944. Her family had moved from New York and rented a cottage on Slough Pond in Truro. “It […]
UGLY TRUTHS
Young Writer Seeks Difficulty
FAWC fellow Jiaqi Kang isn’t afraid to write willfully
Jiaqi Kang doesn’t like to call their longtime habit — waking in the morning and scribbling recollections of dreams — a “practice,” because that word is “hoity-toity.” But one morning […]
HISTORY REDUX
Unpacking the Past at the Provincetown Museum
A curator works to uncover the stories behind the stuff
For weeks, Samuel Tager and a small team have been unwrapping, sorting, and cataloguing a vast collection of Provincetown memorabilia donated to the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum by Sal […]
POETRY
Old Saybrook Beach
For Zahra
You waited for me before you knew my name. Until I was held in that wash of sunshine, which lent us its final beams before sailing south for winter. Wind […]
RADIO
Listening to Everything
Indira Ganesan lets the music speak for itself
When Indira Ganesan was a WOMR DJ in the 1980s, she was reprimanded by the program director for playing tracks that he deemed too raucous. “All the early morning shows […]
BIG PICTURE
A Walk in the Woods
Kelly Knight’s abstractions flow from the landscape
Kelly Knight is a Providence-based mixed-media artist. She’s spending time in Wellfleet this winter creating abstract images that record her experience of the landscape. Walking through and observing places is […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for February 13, 2025 through February 20, 2025
A Junior-Size Sondheim Musical After three years of teaching middle- and high-school students in her advanced acting class, Academy Playhouse Artistic Director Judy Hamer knew that her students were ready […]
DISNEY DISPATCH
At Home Away in Tokyo
At DisneySea, Cape Codde Village is one strange place to be
Tourists flock around the shoreline, snapping photographs of rowboats and lobster traps. “Youkoso, Keipukoddo e,” a restaurant worker shouts: Welcome to Cape Cod. But I’m not on Cape Cod: I’m […]
EXCURSIONS
On the Road With Grace Hopkins
Composing abstract expressionist ‘photo paintings’ from London to Málaga
Grace Hopkins’s photographs are easily mistaken for abstract expressionist paintings, but she doesn’t use paint and brushes to create the splashes of color and gestural swirls in what she refers […]
BIG PICTURE
Changing Seasons
For Grace Emmet, winter is for digging into her sketchbook and using her naturally sourced ink
Grace Emmet is both an artist and curator of community education at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. She’s a close observer of nature and maintains an ecologically sustainable art […]
