Reginald Dwayne Betts was a reader growing up, devouring Sherlock Holmes mysteries and scouring encyclopedias for basketball stats. But he didn’t give much thought to writers. “I thought books were […]
THE RUB
A Symphony of Crickets combines poetry and music
Charles Coe’s ‘musical autobiography’ comes alive in a multimedia show
Charles Coe’s poem “Symphony of Crickets” doesn’t begin in springtime, or dusk, or even between two blades of grass. For the Toronto- and Cambridge-based poet and academic, the symphony began […]
PERFORMANCE
Improv Is About Everyone in the Room
Outer Cape troupe fills a gap in the local comedy scene
IMPROVincetown’s June 16 show began with an unusual advisory. “Normally at a show, you’re told to turn your phone off,” announced improv troupe member Katie Pentedemos. “But we want you […]
SET PIECES
The Art of the Honest Fake
For Arthur Egeli’s 'Art Thief,' John Clayton captures the feeling of lost works
Duplicating a painting that vanished in 1990 might sound challenging. But Provincetown painter John Clayton, who is creating reproductions for Art Thief, a film by artist and gallery owner Arthur […]
CRYPTO-CONOMY
Valuing the Intangible and the Non-Fungible
For Outer Cape artists, NFTs mostly don’t live up to the hype
To those unfamiliar with cryptocurrency and NFTs, the term “non-fungible” sounds more like a type of mushroom than an economic term. But the buzz around non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, has […]
IN STITCHES
Nauset Yarn Club Pulls Students Together
Seed-stitchers to sweater-makers find handwork eases the mind
EASTHAM — It’s an almost-balmy Monday in March, the kind of day that signals the end of sweater weather is nigh, but the students at the Yarn Club meeting at […]
WRITERS
For H.R. Webster, the Poetical Is Political
Writing as “an act of radical imagination”
H.R. Webster has a poem provocatively titled “Failure.” “I have made fun of the way language/ is always finding its own end,” she writes. “I have made fun of these […]
FILM SCENE
Arthur Egeli’s Art Thief
“That’s a wrap on the cigarette wrangler!” comes a cry across the Herring Cove Beach parking lot. It’s Wednesday, March 23 and a crew has just finishing filming the first […]
WRITERS
Molly Anders’s Characters Confess All
‘Funny accounts of downfall’ from a childhood filled with AA meetings
A huge water heater lives in the middle of writer Molly Anders’s tiny kitchen. “This is Louis,” she says, gesturing as she makes coffee. She says all the other Fine […]
CELTIC MUSIC
Rose Clancy’s Irresistible Irish Sessions
Fiddlers keep a 30-year-old Cape Cod tradition alive
“All it takes is two people to have an Irish session,” says fiddler Rose Clancy of Chatham, who has been hosting Celtic jam sessions in pubs and restaurants on Cape […]
POETS
Writing of the Past, for the Future
Laura Cresté’s poems explore complex family dynamics
Laura Cresté still has Mead notebooks full of the nature poems she started writing around age six. She wrote one after watching a seagull attack a crab while on the […]
COVID
Schools Set Varied Dates on Going Mask-Optional
Elementary school children in Wellfleet to stay masked longest
An emotionally charged Feb. 23 meeting of all five school committees in the Nauset region ended with the members voting to relax the mask mandate that has been in effect […]
WRITERS
The Internet as a Place of Fracture and Connection
For Tracy Fuad, identity transcends geographic borders
Tracy Fuad was born the same month as the internet: March 1989. In her most recent poetry collection, about:blank, published in October, she describes the web as a bridge between […]
SCHOOLS
Assistant Principal Patrick Clark Is Lone Nauset Principal Finalist
Former Barnstable High principal says he will make visibility to students a priority
EASTHAM — Less than six weeks after the search for a new Nauset Regional High School principal began, one of the school’s two assistant principals, Patrick Clark, has emerged as […]
GRASSROOTS
It’s Caucus Season
How to get involved in state elections
In late February and early March, voters registered as Democrats or Republicans have a chance to choose who will represent them at the state conventions where each party’s primary candidates […]
