Eleanor Dubinsky is a polyglot in every sense of the word. She sings in four languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English. She plays the cello and the guitar. She’s lived […]
MUSEUM-GOING
PAAM Reopens, Featuring Two Shows on Historic Provincetown
Paintings by Ross Moffett make a connection
Returning to the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, after several months without setting foot in an art museum, feels like coming home: white walls sprinkled with paintings, the sound of […]
GALLERIES
The Art of Anne Lilly Is Kinetic in Any Medium
Her watercolors, like her sculpture, convey motion, freedom, and control
Visiting the Rice Polak Gallery in Provincetown after three months without live art is a surreal experience, from being presented with hand sanitizer and plastic gloves at the door to […]
QUEER LIT
Resurrecting Hervé Guibert’s Invisible Ink
A newly translated collection of stories traces the fabled French writer’s brief career
In the introduction to Written in Invisible Ink: Selected Stories, by Hervé Guibert, the late queer literary hero of the AIDS era, translator Jeffrey Zuckerman writes that in French, “invisible […]
PHASED AND CONFUSED
Local Performers Are in the Dark on Reopening Rules
Towns diverge on indoor and outdoor guidelines
Currently in Massachusetts, you can dine indoors at a restaurant, you can attend church and even sing there, but you’re still not officially permitted to attend an outdoor performance of […]
PAGES
Balancing the Books
Local bookstores adapt to the pandemic
What aspect of life pre-Covid do people miss the most? Extroverts might say bars and clubs, but more introverted types might yearn for the hours they leisurely spent among bookstore […]
ELEMENTS OF STYLE
Rite of Passage: Hawthorne’s ‘His First Voyage’
The painting honors the spirit of the 73rd Blessing of the Fleet
At four by five feet, His First Voyage, by Charles Webster Hawthorne, is an imposing painting. Its figures are roughly life-size. The subject is, seemingly, just a domestic scene. A […]
VIRTUAL ARTS
Charting Courses on the Outer Cape
Brush up your skills during a time of crisis
It wouldn’t be summer on the Outer Cape without courses. And, fortunately, though indoor courses in art and writing are not in the offing at this stage of the coronavirus […]
LIBRARIES
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Print books return to circulation at Outer Cape libraries
All four Outer Cape libraries began curbside services last week, although Provincetown library staff are calling it “street-side,” because they don’t have a curb. Directors Amy Raff of the Provincetown […]
HUMAN RIGHTS
At Protests Here, There Is Solidarity
In a white corner of the country, a cry for justice ‘for those hurting now’
WELLFLEET — Protests against police brutality following the May 25 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis were not confined to America’s major cities. About 150 people marched through Wellfleet last […]
ART SEEN
Strolling by Scrolling: Provincetown Galleries Launch Website
Ptown Gallery Stroll is their response to a potentially dismal season
PROVINCETOWN — As of this week, art lovers can stroll past many of Provincetown’s galleries without getting up from their living room couches. A new website, ptowngallerystroll.com, was launched by […]
MUSIC
Friends Virtually Celebrate a Joe Cocker Classic
The Star Island Shoal Survivors perform together alone
Every September since 2014, a group of friends — Malcolm Pollack, Kemp Harris, Carl Sturken, Ray Castoldi, Gary Lue, and others — journey to Star Island, one of the Isles […]
CLASS OF 2020
Drive-in Graduations Are a Go
Vincent gets OK from state for June fêtes
WELLFLEET — Gov. Charlie Baker’s Covid-19 recovery guidelines, issued on May 18, stated that “drive-in theaters are allowed to operate only for the purpose of showing movies.” That left some […]
MYSTERIES
A Whodunit at Whaler’s Wharf
Jeannette de Beauvoir draws inspiration from Provincetown
The Matinée Murders, the newest in Jeannette de Beauvoir’s Sydney Riley series of mystery novels, may be a work of fiction, but it is full of real people and takes […]
LIVE PERFORMANCES
Drive-in Concerts? Honk Once for Yes, Twice for No
Payomet looks at ways to save its summer season
Tupelo Music Hall in Derry, N.H., hosted a public concert last Saturday that was safe enough for a sizable audience to be there live during the pandemic. How was that […]
