On a Monday evening in late July, Commercial Street is alive with people on bicycles, parents toting children, purpose-driven townies, dawdling tourists, and be-wigged drag queens on scooters. Brian Calhoon […]
SEE SAW
The Unearthly Wonder of the Musical Saw
Leigh Calabrese plays a Stradivarius of a different sort
Leigh Calabrese plays a Stradivarius — but not the kind you think. It’s a musical saw — a 32-inch flexible steel blade with sharp teeth and a wooden handle. The […]
GOOD VIBES
A Moment for the Marimba
At Provincetown’s Brasswood Inn, Mondays are about bringing music to the people
On a Monday evening in late July, Commercial Street is alive with people on bicycles, parents toting children, purpose-driven townies, dawdling tourists, and be-wigged drag queens on scooters. Brian Calhoon […]
CHAMBER MUSIC
The Legacy of Two Musical Crowd-Pleasers
A septet and a sextet, superior and strange, will command the stage in Wellfleet
Ludwig van Beethoven’s Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20, premiered at the Royal Imperial Court Theatre in Vienna on April 2, 1800. The concert started at 6:30 p.m. and also […]
VOILÀ!
The Unifying Voice of the Viola
The Catalyst Quartet celebrates the unsung
Paul Laraia’s viola looks like a rare antique: it’s 16⅜ inches long, with a varnished body the color of amber. Its shoulders are narrow at the top and steeply sloped; […]
MEET THE MAKER
Florence Mauclère’s Magic
A sandal, perfected, bears a new signature of authenticity
Jeff Littrell, a summer visitor from Nashville, is a tall man with a low drawl. He recently got a pedicure, and his toenails are tidy and painted cerulean. On the […]
CONNECTING STRINGS
Roads and Bridges Through Landscapes of Sound
Indian classical musicians Kunal Gunjal and Amit Kavthekar traverse a multicultural geography
More than 1,500 years ago, the santoor, a trapezoidal instrument with 100 metal strings tightly stretched over 25 wooden bridges, made its way along the Silk Road, carried from Iran […]
THE BERRIES
A Torte on the Wild Side
The cousin of the blackberry is the fruit to choose for a cornmeal cake
Ten years ago, when I was 12, a gaggle of friends gathered in a circle at summer camp in Vermont and organized ourselves into categories, each with its own implications […]
MODERN TIMES
The Breuer House Revisited
Picture hanging and other finishing touches after a year of archiving and restoration
The screened porch of the house that eminent architect and designer Marcel Breuer built in Wellfleet in 1949, a box-like room cantilevered off the side of the house in such […]
‘CUMBIA IS LOVE’
The Heartbeat of Colombia
Yeison Landero, grandson of a master folk musician, keeps the legacy alive
Yeison Landero says he had “a beautiful childhood” in the green mountains of San Jacinto, Bolívar, in northern Colombia. Famous musicians came to his house: accordion players Alfredo Gutiérrez, Lizandro […]
GUTS
A Photographer Follows the Sea
At his new gallery in Orleans, David Hills shows a rare view of a watery world
Before David Hills began following fishermen, he rarely saw the sea. Born in Iowa City, Iowa, Hills grew up in Houston, where his father, Kent, was a physicist working on […]
GOOD HUMOR
Eastham’s Ice Cream Lady
A jolly jingle electrifies the air in the parking lot at Thumpertown Beach in Eastham. Seconds later, Nicki Waite swings into view, driving her vintage ice cream truck: a 1973 […]
NATURE
One Naturalist’s Vigil for an Ailing Forest
'Solstice Tree' preserves an artist’s observations of Provincetown’s Beech Forest
For six months, from the summer solstice last June to the winter solstice in December, Grace Emmet walked through Beech Forest in Provincetown every week — 27 times in all. […]
SPEECHLESS
The Telling Sound of Silence
In his autobiographical play, It Goes Without Saying, mime Bill Bowers says a lot
In the quiet valley town of Missoula, Mont., sprawled at the feet of five mountain ranges, Bill Bowers’s parents — both descended from generations of ranchers and farmers — did […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery stroll
On Center Gallery (352 Commercial St.) Nathaniel Meyer grew up in Maine near the Schoodic Peninsula of Acadia National Park. That’s where, as a child toting a French easel, he […]
