TRURO — Saturday dawned, but only barely. The light was low, and the rain was heavy as I exited the car at Truro Vineyards and sloshed my way over the […]
MUSIC
Shannon Davis Sings Stories That Seem Real
A debut album weaves loneliness into love and betrayal and back again for more
When Shannon Davis was 16, she picked up her uncle’s jumbo acoustic Epiphone guitar. She had never known her uncle — he had died when she was a baby, but […]
EAT YOUR FEELINGS
This Year’s Pie Fest Bests the Rest
Spirits were high, and so was the bidding, at Provincetown’s third annual Pie Fest
Downstairs at the Commons, three celebrity judges and two hosts eyed 14 slices of pie. One slice was naught more than a sliver; another bulged precariously. One spilled meat and […]
NO FIDDLE FADDLE
A Trio Celebrates Onstage
A concert of ‘music for the eyes and dance for the ears’
Nic Gareiss turned 11 on the same day that he first laid eyes on his “dancestor” Liam Harney, two-time world champion Irish step dancer, performing solo at the 1997 Wheatland […]
THE NAKED TRUTH
Finding Comfort in the Zone
At PAAM, figure models seek some peace and quiet
Bathed in daylight and unnaturally still, Jim Brosseau resembles a marble statue. His hands are interlocked behind his head; his elbows jut in opposite directions, one toward the skylight above […]
UP IN THE AIR
A Neglected History Gets the Spotlight
Professional juggler and author Thom Wall says the circus is ‘known by everyone and studied by no one’
Thom Wall enjoys holding a knife between his teeth and balancing objects like wine glasses and playing cards on the pointed tip. The trick falls under a discipline called “mouthstick.” […]
SCHOOL OF ROCK
The Kids Are Better Than All Right
The young rockers of Watch Your Step will take the stage at Preservation Hall
Twelve-year-old Alison Long stands front and center onstage, a bass guitar in her arms, her face shadowed by long brown hair. Behind her, nine-year-old Trent Burritt holds his drumsticks above […]
THE SHIPPING NEWS
Wellfleet Harbors Mariners in Need
A modern installment of a traditional story of rescue and recovery
WELLFLEET — There is an expression in French for when all of the elements are against you, said Marie-Anne O’Reilly: “Contre vents et marées. Against wind and tide.” O’Reilly, her […]
MONUMENTS
Immortal Works
Cataloging Conrad Malicoat’s cemetery sculptures
A sculpture by Conrad Malicoat adorns the grave of Dr. Clara Thompson in the Provincetown Cemetery. It’s not a likeness of the woman it honors, but it’s figure-like, tall, sensuous, […]
BRACKISH AND BOOKISH
Spellers Are Spare but Spar Anyway
The 19th annual OysterFest Spelling Bee crowns two in a small field
WELLFLEET — Main Street teemed with jubilant oyster appreciators last weekend, there to celebrate those bivalves. Courage — liquid or otherwise — spurred some toward the Wellfleet Public Library on […]
REEL MUSIC
If You Give a Violinist a Fiddle
A community of musicians organizes ‘real music from the heart’
The crowd is smaller than usual tonight, I’m told. Most weeks, twice as many people are eating and drinking and talking over the musicians playing in the corner near the […]
WOMEN’S WEEK
Rita Mae Brown Is Funny Even When She Fights
The activist and writer is a ‘sage’ whose work freed women to be themselves
Rita Mae Brown says she came into the world knowing exactly what she wanted: “Horses, hounds, and literature.” The activist and writer, who is also master of hounds at the […]
REEL MUSIC
If You Give a Violinist a Fiddle
A community of musicians organizes ‘real music from the heart’
The crowd is smaller than usual tonight, I’m told. Most weeks, twice as many people are eating and drinking and talking over the musicians playing in the corner near the […]
THEATER
All Things Must Fade
A new play by Meryl Cohn goes deep and dark
The cottage, an Airbnb in Provincetown, with its faded floral-print couch, unreliable landline phone, and feebly locking doors, feels like the set of a horror film, says Jojo (Susan Lambert). […]
REVELATIONS
For a New Album, Women Are the Muse
In Silver City, Amy Helm turns secrets into songs
For her fourth solo album, Silver City, Amy Helm had a muse: a young fan. “The first time I met her, she was in the deepest, darkest throes of addiction,” […]
