An exhibition currently on view in Orleans combines works from two galleries: Orleans Modern Art and Garvey Rita Art & Antiques. Titled “Side by Side,” the show draws aesthetic connections […]
PAINTING
An Artist on the Move
Caroline Carney records her passage through the world in lush, small-scale works
Painter Caroline Carney is out in L.A. now, but Provincetown is still on her mind. She moved out west with her partner, Sinan Papić, whose experience of living in the […]
CURVES
Cole Cook’s Sensual Low-Tide Sculptures
A previous life as a professional baseball player instilled a dedication to practice
At six foot six, sculptor Cole Cook’s head almost touches the ceiling of his garage studio in Truro. Two black lead pencils poke out of the chest pocket of his […]
CHARACTER STUDIES
Mary Beck Has Seen It All
A lifelong Provincetowner who raised a town at Veterans Memorial Elementary
Mary Beck is sitting on the couch in the living room of her corner house in the West End. She’s a little hidden behind her oversize rectangular sunglasses. Beck is […]
GENDER EXPRESSION
Trans Week Has Its Golden Jubilee
A shift over 50 years from spectacle to personal development and politics
It’s the 50th year of Provincetown’s Trans Week, formerly known as Fantasia Fair, and tickets are all sold out, although some events including keynote talks and the annual Follies! fashion […]
BASKETBALL
Open Gyms Mean Hoop Dreams for Everyone
Pickup games show kids ‘how the game should be played’
PROVINCETOWN — Chris McKernan turns the key in the lock at the Veterans Memorial Community Center gym at 5:30 p.m. every Wednesday night for pickup basketball. Open gyms like this […]
SEASON’S GREETINGS
Working the Winter Shift
Three year-rounders find new routines come fall
The door is quietly closing on the season. Rowdy townie weddings replace stressed-out summer talk of divorce lawyers. The pier parking lot goes from $4 an hour to free.
FACILITIES
An Artist Under the Radar in Plain View
Tending space for the fellows at FAWC, Jerome Greene revels in the newness of it all
Jerome Greene paints what he sees. “I paint from my life,” he says. And although he grew up in Connecticut, studied in North Dakota, and toured New England as a […]
RADIO
Jeremy Hobson Is the Man in the Middle
From a Truro basement, he broadcasts live on 419 stations
At his house in the Truro woods, journalist and radio host Jeremy Hobson sits at a desk in his unfinished basement. The air smells of exposed wood and cement floors. […]
THE OUTSIDER
Father Figures
Behind the faces Cassandra Complex paints
The faces, all handsome, all angular, none smiling, stare right back at the viewer. The way the paintings combine glamour and danger, they might be models’ portraits or mug shots […]
PLAY NICE
In Flag Football, Women Show Up for Each Other
Dolphins win this year’s IWFFA ‘P’town Classic’
PROVINCETOWN — Diane Beruldsen spent last Friday afternoon on Motta Field with the Underground Loose Women, Provincetown’s team of flag football players, getting them ready for a weekend of games. […]
