“Everything I do, I do because I love nature, because I want to be connected to nature. That guides every decision in my life,” says Rich Blundell. He has come […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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THAT WAS THEN
Provincetown’s Forgotten Symphony Orchestra
How Joseph Hawthorne tried to build a Cape Tip Tanglewood
Did you know that Provincetown used to have a symphony? The Provincetown Symphony Orchestra, sometimes called the Provincetown Symphony Society, was founded in 1955 by the conductor Joseph Hawthorne. The […]
GRAPHIC NOVELS
Journeys of Self-Acceptance, in Words and Pictures
Eleanor Crewes and Allie Brosh render their lives with insight
“We believe we make our choices, but no — they make us,” writes the late Daniel Menaker in his poem, “Last Will and Testament.” Though our choices add up to […]
MIXED MEDIA
Eco-inspired Artist Jamie Levine Was Hit Hard by Covid
Now a resident at Castle Hill in Truro, she’s reconnecting with nature
“I came to Truro to create cremation urns,” says sculptor Jamie Lehrhoff Levine, one of five resident artists who recently arrived at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. […]
POTPOURRI
‘Art From the Heart,’ Fund-raiser for HOW
Cigar-box challenge produces dazzling array
Provincetown’s Jim Broussard had the idea of getting artists to paint cigar boxes as a fund-raising effort, which he’s dubbed “Art From the Heart.” He hopes to make it an […]
POETRY REVIEW
Marge Piercy Keeps the Light On
A new collection of poems looks back and beyond
Marge Piercy’s latest poetry collection, On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light, is an ode to a life lived big and full. In these direct, earthy poems, Piercy reflects […]
OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT
The Joy of Dahlias
STORMY MAYO & LAURA LUDWIG / DAHLIA GARDENERS / PROVINCETOWN Stormy Mayo grew up in Provincetown; his family has been here since the mid 1600s. Stormy is a founder of […]
BOOKS
Jane Fleishman’s Stonewall Generation Gives Voice to LGBTQ Elders
A look at everything from a legacy of activism to sexual intimacy
“I have been an activist and organizer from my teenage years onwards,” says Jane Fleishman, author of The Stonewall Generation: LGBTQ Elders on Sex, Activism, and Aging. “As Mandy Carter, […]
INDIE SCREEN
O Say Can You Stream?
Three gems of the new movie landscape
These days, new films are difficult to track. Miranda July’s Kajillionaire, for example, premiered at Sundance in January, then opened in theaters on Sept. 25, but not locally on the […]
BOOK REVIEW
Marilynne Robinson’s Prodigal Son Returns
Her latest novel, Jack, explores race, grace, and literature
Jack Boughton, the protagonist of Marilynne Robinson’s much-anticipated novel, Jack, is a thief, a liar, and an alcoholic. He is also exquisitely sensitive, self-deprecatingly funny, and finely attuned to the […]
NATIVE TALENT
Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor Won’t Let Covid Slow Him Down
A Renaissance man from Mashpee and the Bronx
“I grew up in both the Bronx and Mashpee,” says Morgan James Peters, also known as Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor, in his recording studio, Polyphonic Studios, in Buzzards Bay. “My mom’s […]
GALLERIES
An Exhibit Makes Waves in Provincetown
Protest art gets a showcase at a time of crisis
Political protest art is not new, as anyone who has seen Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, about an 1830 anti-royalist uprising in France, or Picasso’s Guernica, depicting the merciless bombing […]
SIGHT AND SOUND
Classical Crossover: Hawthorne, Dickinson, and Music
Portraits of cellists offer insights on Provincetown arts
The viewer is immediately drawn to the eyes. This is true of many paintings by Provincetown art colony founder Charles Webster Hawthorne. They are dark brown and serious. The glint […]
BOOKS
A Personal Assistant’s Postcard From the Edge
Byron Lane’s roman à clef, 'A Star Is Bored,' is a humorous, touching romp
“Do a lot of people call you Cockring?” So begins the relationship between Charlie Besson and movie star Kathi Kannon in Byron Lane’s hilarious debut novel, A Star Is Bored. […]
PERFORMANCES
Genie Morrow Sings of the Past and of Renewal
Her Payomet concert with Sputnik the Band features songs about James Dean
Sitting at the top of a set of weathered wooden stairs overlooking the ocean, Genie Morrow seems to belong in Wellfleet’s wild, windswept landscape. “I believe we can access creativity […]
