Daniel Heyman says woodblock printing is a skill that takes a while to hone. He first learned it in Japan during a two-month stay as an artist-in-residence in the village […]
MUSIC
Through Song, She Travels
On Susan Werner’s recent albums, she tries to understand the unfamiliar
Susan Werner grew up on a farm in the “pretty part” of Iowa, she says. That is, five miles southwest of Manchester, where there are hills and trees. She picked […]
HOUSING
At the Groundbreaking on Lawrence Road
WELLFLEET — State and local officials wielding shiny shovels officially broke ground at the site of the Residences at Lawrence Hill on Oct. 30. Speaking to a small group of […]
SHUCKER’S HOLIDAY
Fried Dough and Fast Shucking Take Over Wellfleet’s Main Street
A first-timer from Toronto wins the shuck off; Eastham’s Ben Morgan is third
WELLFLEET — Last Saturday dawned sunny and mild — rare weather for the first day of the annual OysterFest.
FELLOWSHIP
Ten Poets, Writers, and Translators Welcomed at FAWC
Winter fellows are also visiting artists in the Provincetown Schools
The Fine Arts Work Center’s 2024-25 fellows have been in Provincetown since Oct. 1 — their orientation wrapped up last week with a thrift-shopping expedition, bonfire, potluck, and the board […]
BROWSING
Getting Thrifty
Doodads and treasures aplenty at Provincetown’s Monumental Yard Sale
Photos by Emily Schiffer PROVINCETOWN — The town’s biannual — spring and fall, that is — communal yard sale is not called the Monumental Yard Sale because of its size. […]
FELLOWSHIP
Here to Make Films, Explore Chance, and Paint With Rainwater
FAWC’s visual arts fellows get a taste of the Outer Cape’s natural history
The 20 winners of seven-month winter fellowships at Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center arrived in town on Oct. 1. As usual, the cohort includes 10 visual artists and 10 writers. […]
BACKYARD FARMER
Poultry and Their Politics
An amateur analysis of ‘chicken business’
It’s a hen-peck-hen world out there. By “out there,” I refer to the front garden of our house in Wellfleet, where our three hens are placidly sipping from a puddle. […]
THE STROLL
Wellfleet, Saturday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
AMZehnder Gallery (25 Bank St. No. 3) Kate McConnell, who splits her year between Provincetown and Washington D.C., picks out a piece from Lorrie La Pointe’s 21 “Emotional Landscapes.” Each […]
INCIDENTALLY
Flava in Ya Ear
While enjoying my cup of chocolate chip on the porch outside Wellfleet’s Gelato Joy, I watched a woman approach the counter. She scanned the list of flavors, then turned to […]
MASH-UP
Pop Songs, With a Classical Twist
Well-Strung, the quartet born in Provincetown, returns for a holiday show
The idea for Well-Strung, a singing and string quartet, was born in Provincetown. While visiting the Cape for a different show in 2010, violinist Chris Marchant was playing on the […]
ALL AROUND
Eleanor and Dario’s Multilingual Repertoire
The husband-and-wife duo will perform songs from around the world
Eleanor Dubinsky met Dario Acosta Teich in 2019 while scoping out a Candombe jam at a Uruguayan restaurant on the Lower East Side. “Candombe is Afro-Uruguayan,” Dubinsky says. “It comes […]
EXPERIMENTS IN MUSIC
Twisted Pine’s Progressive Spin on Bluegrass
The band combines tradition and innovation — with a Whammy pedal
Chris Sartori, the bassist of the bluegrass band Twisted Pine, says the band’s success is due to the friendship they have cultivated on the road, traveling across the country in […]
NOT FOR EATING
Caren Zane Takes a Close Look at Oysters and Horseshoe Crabs
In her watercolors, she finds the galactic in the diminutive
Caren Zane paints oysters and horseshoe crabs almost exclusively. She collects the creatures herself, here on the Outer Cape. “All the oysters I paint I’ve picked and shucked,” she says. […]
THE PORTRAITIST
Putting the Creative Community on Canvas in Big, Bold Strokes
Amy Kandall wants to paint ‘what everybody has to say’
During the summer of 2021, Truro artist Amy Kandall painted more than 50 life-size portraits of artists, gallerists, restaurant owners, and other creative people who live on the Outer Cape. […]
