It isn’t easy finding Liz Dexheimer’s studio if you haven’t been there before. Cellphone reception is spotty in this remote area of Connecticut, and even with detailed directions its gray […]
Arts & Minds
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Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for August 18 through August 25, 2022
Housing Awareness at Wellfleet Galleries The home group exhibit at Susie Nielsen’s Farm Projects in Wellfleet is intended to raise awareness of Cape Cod’s housing crisis. Thirteen artists will participate, […]
ASYLUM
Two Afghan Women Flee the Taliban and Land in Wellfleet
The sisters are safe but hoping to rescue the rest of their family
WELLFLEET — Maryam and Shabnam have been enjoying a typical Outer Cape summer — going to Newcomb Hollow Beach and the Fox and Crow Café and on whale watch excursions […]
READING ROOM
When the Big Bad Wolf Walks in the Door
A children’s book about domestic abuse might be best read in a supportive setting
The book was handed to me by my daughter’s friend with a request to read it aloud. We were at the Wellfleet Public Library, and as I started reading, I realized […]
CROSSWORD #34
Monster Mash-Up
Happy Carnival to all!
PRINTMAKING
Replacing Narrative With Feeling
Robert Shreefter’s layered prints grow lighter
Robert Shreefter is learning to lose the storyline in his printmaking. Until recently, he says, he didn’t allow himself that. “If I don’t have something to motivate me, like a […]
WRITING THROUGH THE PAIN
Cookie Mueller’s Carefree Misadventures, Carefully Told
In a new edition, a collection becomes a memoir of a life lived without hesitation
Cookie Mueller and her friends were cold. They were in Provincetown, it was the winter of 1970, and Mueller, who is best known for acting in John Waters’s films, and […]
THEATER REVIEW
Love in the Time of Plague
Robert Chesley’s Jerker arrives in Provincetown
If you didn’t live through it, it’s difficult to imagine the extreme sense of urgency and doom that the gay community experienced in the early ’80s, when AIDS hit. The […]
POLITICAL TALK
How the Republican Party Went Crazy
David Corn of Mother Jones magazine previews his diagnosis of an ‘American psychosis’
The award-winning journalist, author, and MSNBC contributor David Corn pulls no punches. In a recent column, the Mother Jones Washington bureau chief writes that we are living “in a world […]
OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT
So No One Has to Worry About Dying Alone
DAWN WALSH / EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE LILY HOUSE / WELLFLEET
DAWN WALSH / EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE LILY HOUSE / WELLFLEET Dawn Walsh moved here in 2015 to live and work among artists, writers, and the Outer Cape’s vibrant LGBTQ community. […]
CHAMBER MUSIC
The eGALitarians Make Brass Better
A quintet challenges the jazz world’s lack of gender diversity
Kate Amrine is a professional trumpeter and co-leader of the eGALitarian Brass Quintet, which will be presenting a free concert at the Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham on Tuesday, […]
THE BEAT
Provincetown Jazz Festival Pairs Professionals With Newcomers
Festival founder Bart Weisman finds freedom in the swing of things
When Bart Weisman arrived in Provincetown in 1980 to pick up the woman who would become his wife and take her home to Washington, D.C., where they both grew up, […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for August 10 through August 18, 2022
Ellen Sinel and Kate McConnell at AMZehnder Ellen Sinel’s and Kate McConnell’s work will be shown at Wellfleet’s AMZehnder Gallery (25 Bank St.) from Aug. 13 to 23. The opening […]
MARSH MELLOW
In View this Week
THEATER REVIEW
In Gary, a Shakespeare Sequel, WHAT Slays the Summertime Blues
Taylor Mac’s comic riff on Titus Andronicus is bloody good
Back in the early 1960s, when movie legend Stanley Kubrick began writing a screenplay based on the novel Red Alert, a tense thriller about the potential for nuclear apocalypse between […]
