Is it possible to feel nostalgia for a place you’ve never been? Last year, my husband found a poster for a long-shuttered Provincetown guesthouse called The Rushes in an online […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Images of Belonging and Detachment
Elias Duncan explores Provincetown’s liminal spaces
Certain motifs appear repeatedly in artistic depictions of Provincetown: the sweep of the dunes, the silhouette of the Pilgrim Monument, the transcendent quality of the storied Cape light. But photographer […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Portraits of the Artists
Ron Amato’s photographs of Provincetown artists capture a creative community
Nearly everyone who lives in or visits Provincetown knows about its vibrant artistic community. Far fewer know the names and faces of the artists who compose it. “I didn’t know […]
NOLA NOTEBOOK
White Beans Fit for Springtime
A gumbo informed by tradition, though it breaks a few rules
By all rights, I should not be telling you how to make gumbo. After all, I wasn’t born and raised in New Orleans nor in any of the communities between […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
The Decisive Moments of Constantine Manos
An exhibit looks at decades of work by one of the masters of the art
Two men kneel in prayer in a modest church, one shielding his face from a light perhaps only he can see. A single note played by a group of classical […]
WELL DRESSED
Gingerbread Stuffing for a New Tradition
Sometimes all you need is to change things up a little
I have never quite understood the proliferation of Thanksgiving recipes that fill the pages of food publications every November. Isn’t Thanksgiving all about eating the same things with the same […]
WORDS
Tyne and the Town
Emmy and Tony-winning actress Tyne Daly in three evenings of benefit readings
Tyne Daly might be best known to a certain generation of audiences for her costarring role as down-to-earth cop and working mom Mary Beth Lacey in the mid-1980s television show […]
SAVE THE PIGS
A Kinder, Gentler (and Delicious) Summer Feast
Proving that plant-based barbecue doesn’t have to be an oxymoron
I have a friend — every vegetarian or vegan has at least one — whose favorite topic of lunchtime conversation is questioning my food choices. “Humans are meant to eat […]
TIME TRAVEL
Arnie Charnick Keeps on Boppin’
An epic-scale photomontage brings the Provincetown of four decades ago back to life
Over nearly two weeks in August 1982, Arnie Charnick and his then-girlfriend Cherie Nutting walked around Provincetown photographing the town and its inhabitants. “We didn’t make a list or anything,” […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
David Hilliard Brings Light to the Shadows
A pair of exhibitions feature collaborative portraits of a community that transcend time and place
“Our houses are our biographies, the stories of our defeats and victories,” wrote Mary Heaton Vorse in Time and the Town, her memoir of early 20th-century life in Provincetown. Vorse’s […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
A Downtown State of Mind
Stephen Aiken’s 'Artists in Residence' resurrects a long-vanished New York
When Stephen Aiken arrived in New York in 1973, the deteriorating, crime-ridden city was practically bankrupt and nearing one of the lowest points in its history, one still remembered for […]
FAMILY RECIPE
Gather Ye Thistles for a Spring Feast
Artichokes filled with the flavors of southern Italy
I always associate certain foods with particular holidays and times of year. Christmas dinner was synonymous with lasagna and my grandmother’s chicken and escarole soup. My birthday in October was […]
FAMILY RECIPE
An Eggplant Parm That’s as Good as Mom’s
Take it from Rosalie: peel the eggplant, make your own marinara, and don’t use too much cheese
Saying that your mom’s eggplant parm is your favorite thing to eat is like admitting that the Mona Lisa is your favorite painting. It’s a well-deserved classic, of course, but […]
BENEFIT CONCERT
Music to Help Heal a Broken Land
Providing ‘a sonic environment for reflection and action’ in the wake of disaster
It’s difficult to grasp the massive scale of the earthquakes that struck southeast Turkey and northern Syria last month. More than 53,500 deaths have been confirmed as of this week, […]
AT THE MUSEUM
Margo and Zimiles: Ukrainian Roots Both Subtle and Explicit
Two exhibitions at the Cape Cod Museum of Art reflect the heritage and resilience of the Ukrainian people
DENNIS — The Ukrainian flag — unfamiliar to many before this year but now ubiquitous — is an abstract landscape: a brilliant blue sky above the golden expanse of a […]
