Casey Clark grew up in Provincetown, and Desirée Revoir is from the other end of the Cape: Sandwich. He left Cape Cod to pursue a career in acting and filmmaking […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT
A Village Gathers
JODI BIRCHALL | MUSICIAN & TEACHER | WELLFLEET Text based on interviews with Jodi Birchall; listen to Jodi here: This is a really special place to me because I […]
AT THE LIBRARY
Books for School Vacation Reading
School librarians share their favorites
We asked Outer Cape school librarians for some good reads for next week’s school vacation. Their recommendations span preschool to grade nine — and there are some grown-ups will like, […]
EXPEDITIONS
From Truro to Antarctica With Poet-Naturalist Liz Bradfield
Join her for a guided walk in wintry Hatches Harbor
Longtime Truro resident Elizabeth Bradfield travels in far-reaching yet compatible directions. She’s a published poet, photographer, environmentalist, and associate professor of English and co-director of the creative writing program at […]
MIXED MEDIA
Antonius-Tín Bui Gives Provincetown a Whirl
A FAWC fellow’s art embraces change
As an artist and as a person, the Fine Arts Work Center fellow Antonius-Tín Bui (they/them) hopes to remain in motion, in flux, ever-changing, questioning, evolving, challenging expectations, and resisting […]
BOOK REVIEW
The Open Secrets of Rachel Maddow’s Success
In her biography of Rachel Maddow (published last month by Thomas Dunne Books), Lisa Rogak writes that the top-rated MSNBC anchor, who has a home in Provincetown with her partner, […]
Arts Briefs and Listings
Arts Briefs and Listings for Feb. 13 through Feb. 19
‘Sea Change’ Film Series Returns The “Sea Change” environmental film series is back for its eighth season at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater at 2357 Route 6, presented in collaboration […]
Crossword
Now Is the Time
The February puzzle from Sophia Maymudes should be done on dry land. Need some answers? We send out the solution in our Friday newsletter. You’ll find the signup for our […]
THEATER
A Once in a Lifetime Theater Experience
The teens of Cape Rep’s Young Company tell it like it was
BREWSTER — The room is abuzz as everyone waits to hear what their parts will be in the upcoming show. Young actors, ages 13 to 18, sit on folding chairs […]
INDIE SCREEN
Reflections in a Golden Idol
Judging the winners and losers on Oscar night
This year, there are more than a few shoo-ins to win Academy Awards. The show itself, which is still the most glamorous spectacle of the year on good old broadcast […]
ART EXHIBITS
Anina Major Finds ‘No Vacancy in Paradise’
In her FAWC exhibit, she explores cultures transformed by tourism
Provincetown in winter has been a different experience for Fine Arts Work Center visual arts fellow Anina Major. From Nassau in the Bahamas, Major is interested in the sense of […]
MUSIC
Tim Eriksen Performs a Wide World of Music Traditions
But the eclectic artist feels right at home in New England
Where others only hear sounds, Tim Eriksen hears music. “I’ve always been interested in the most elemental sounds,” he says. “It could be train sounds, as well as crickets and […]
AT THE LIBRARY
Circe: A Modern Retelling
Madeline Miller’s novel is both familiar and subversive
As a child my love of reading sent me into a wide range of book-related obsessions that oscillated from the common to the esoteric. The first and most enduring of […]
BOOK REVIEW
Family Papers and the History of Sephardic Jews
The story of one family spans the globe and a catastrophic century
Two tragedies have shaped the fortunes of the family of Sa’adi Besalel Ashkenazi a-Levi, an iconoclast and printer: the catastrophic fire in Salonica in 1917 and the Nazi Holocaust. Readers […]
Arts Briefs and Listings
Arts Briefs and Listings for Feb. 6 through Feb. 12
Jennifer Moller at Higgins Gallery at 4Cs The Higgins Gallery at Cape Cod Community College and director Nathalie Ferrier are holding a reception for Jennifer Moller’s show, “pools, mighty plenitude […]
