Building a campfire is a rite of passage. The first one I built on my own was one that kept me warm on a cool night in Vermont. It seemed […]
UTOPIA
Abraham Storer Paints the Real Eden
The artist confronts the banality of paradise
In Abraham Storer’s painting Heart, a painfully red disk-shaped object unabashedly occupies the foreground. It’s the top of a large wooden spool. Visible to the left of it: the edge […]
THE GREATS
The Borromeo String Quartet Does What the Music Demands
In its 34th appearance at the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, the group will play Beethoven and Schubert
Yeesun Kim says she and her Peregrino Zanetto cello, built in 1576, have a happy marriage. She accepts its shortcomings — its struggle, once, to project powerfully enough against an […]
MUSIC
The String Queens Live Up to Their Name
The trio’s sound is bigger than the sum of its parts
The first time The String Queens showed up for a gig as a trio, they were hired by one of their own: Dawn Johnson, the violist, was having a birthday […]
CABARET
The Art of Bitchcraft
Punk artist Bitch transports audiences to another planet
A line has formed outside the Post Office Café: some men, but mostly women, many middle-aged, their hair styled into mullets and pixie cuts, their faces framed by fringes and […]
THE STROLL
Wellfleet, Saturday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
AMZehnder Gallery (25 Bank St. #3) At AMZehnder Gallery, Provincetown-based artist Pete Hocking, whose work is also currently hanging on the walls, takes a long moment to consider Patte Ormsby’s […]
POT PRODUCTION
‘Reefer Madness,’ the Musical, Plays for Laughs and Makes a Point
Confronting the question, ‘What is public enemy number one?’
The concerned citizens file onto the stage: 12 adult actors dressed as well-to-do parents and respectable high school students. One couple is holding hands. A girl wears the sash of […]
FESTIVAL COLORS
At Play Among the Hydrangeas
Jenny Faw combines technique and experimentation in her watercolor workshops
Jenny Faw steps lightly up the wooden front steps of what she calls her “princess shed” — a small, sturdy outpost built for her by her husband, the architect Peter […]
CABARET
Ari Shapiro on the Art of Listening
The NPR journalist is coming to Provincetown to sing and tell stories
In Ari Shapiro’s cabaret show Thank You for Listening, at the Gifford House in Provincetown this weekend, he’ll sing songs he’s never performed for an audience before and tell personal […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
On Center Gallery (352 Commercial St.) Katie Faria from Middleborough looks thoughtfully at Lorraine DeProspo’s Kiss the Day. Mounted on the wall at On Center Gallery between two other paintings […]
TAKING BOWS
The Evolution of Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas
Violinist Elizabeth Chang and pianist Jiayan Sun will play the full 10-sonata cycle in Wellfleet
Between the years 1797 and 1812, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote 10 violin sonatas: pieces in three or four movements, composed for violin and pianoforte — each an endeavor of the […]
ENSEMBLE
The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus Sings Its Truth
For Holly Folly, a holiday concert both silly and profound
For three hours every Wednesday evening, Reuben Reynolds, the music director of the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus (BGMC), leads more than 300 members in song. A self-described “mean queen” at […]
WOMEN’S WEEK
Zoë Lewis Believes in Magic
The singer-songwriter mounts four shows for her ‘different loves’
Singer, songwriter, and storyteller Zoë Lewis first came to Provincetown when she was 26. It was the early 1990s, and she’d been all around the world, and, in a spirit […]
MEET THE MAKER
A Blade Is His Canvas
Hanu Salm forges a connection to cooks and to his family’s craft
Hanu Salm and his father, Rolf Pechukas, just finished building a small workshop behind the Wellfleet house of Salm’s grandmother, Diana Gisolfi. It’s a temporary setup for Salm. He would […]
ALBUM REVIEW
The Parkingtons ‘Collide’ in a Celebration of Unity
Three sisters play and sing of ‘love, loss, heartache, hope’
When Daniel Parkington first saw his future wife, Cheryl, she was walking into a laundromat in Orleans carrying a guitar. This is according to Rose Parkington, one of Daniel and […]
