AMZehnder Gallery (25 Bank St. #3) At the AMZehnder Gallery, Mia Cross’s exhibition “Patchwork” is up. Her large-scale oil on canvas works are done in celestial blues and burnt […]
TRIBUTE
Dear Leonard Cohen
Perla Batalla’s latest album is dedicated to her friend and mentor
Singer Perla Batalla got a call in 1988 from Roscoe Beck, Leonard Cohen’s bass player, asking her to audition as a backing vocalist for the renowned Canadian musician. After getting […]
MAKERS
A Strandbeest Appears on Corn Hill Beach
Dutch artist Zach Jansen helps a group at Castle Hill bring a whimsical kinetic sculpture to life
When Theo Jansen, an artist who lives and works in The Hague, Netherlands, created his first Strandbeest in the summer of 1990, he had a vision: his wind-powered moving sculptures, […]
DOG TALK
Animal Magnetism
Trainer Adam Piñero teaches a language of posture, ears, and tails
Adam Piñero is fluent in the language of dogs. “Most people are familiar with the classics,” he says. “A wagging tail usually means happy. A tucked tail usually means scared.” […]
TRADITION
Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
Kenny Neal brings the swamp blues to Truro
Kenny Neal can’t say for sure which was the first instrument he ever played. It seems to him he’s always been a musician — growing up in Baton Rouge, La., […]
DANCE
The Motion of Erosion
Choreographer Michael Spencer Phillips makes the sand a stage
In the golden evening light at Race Point Beach, an audience assembled on towels and blankets. Nearby, a group of dancers in white swayed gently back and forth, stretching and […]
REVELRY
Celebrating ‘As Loudly As We Can’
Views from Pride parades in Provincetown and Washington, D.C.
Provincetown personalities Austin Tyler and Mackenzie hosted the town’s Pride celebration over the past weekend. On June 7, after a rally on the steps of town hall, revelers made the […]
ONE FISH, TWO FISH
Creatures of Her Imagination
For a ‘shingle nerd,’ painting is a form of play
In her small, bright shop on Wellfleet’s Commercial Street, Nicole Gelinas holds up two thin pieces of wood: old shingles from Cape Cod houses. On one, a gold-and-black octopus sports […]
THE DRAG BUG
If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It
Mackenzie takes her act to Lower Cape Pride
Mackenzie Miller, Provincetown’s self-declared “neon hype girl,” was born in the great state of Alaska, in Big Lake, an hour north of Anchorage. There, in the “arctic tundra,” she says, […]
THE DIRT
Down on the Worm Farm
Jole Bell’s red wigglers turn kitchen scraps and old newspapers into ‘black gold’
A trio of plastic bins occupies a shady corner of a parcel of land in Truro where Jole Bell rents three garden plots from Meryl Gartside, the owner of Blue […]
ROCK AND SOUL
Lisa Fischer’s Buffet of Sound
The former backup singer will take center stage at Provincetown Town Hall with Grand Baton
When Lisa Fischer was growing up in Brooklyn, she was “like a sponge,” she says, “soaking up whatever syrup was around.” The syrup was music. Her grandparents listened to jazz […]
BIG PICTURE
Out of the Blue
Mike Wright makes a painting, but really, she doesn’t
Mike Wright, who has lived in Provincetown since 1984, makes abstract sculptures out of found wood. She has requirements for her materials: the wood must be from Provincetown, and it […]
REWILDING
Seth Glier Hears ‘a Symphony of Little Things’
His album Everything is in praise of wandering the wild
Music first came into Seth Glier’s life in second grade, he says, when he “got really interested in singing the national anthem before my sporting events.” He was 12 when […]
NOISE-MAKER
A Collector of Songs and Side Stories
Walter Buckingham brings his antique instruments to the stage in Wellfleet
Walter Buckingham’s first job after college was as a drummer for a musket squad. It was 1975, and he had just graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, so […]
FASHION MAYDAY
If It Feels Right, Wear It
Advice from a vintage clothing maven who only has fashion dos
May is peeking out from every corner — neon pink tulips, verdant leaf buds, and deep purple grape hyancinths. But what about me? I’ll admit I’ve been feeling a little […]
