“I’ve had many lives,” Dawn Walsh says, and she’s not exaggerating. She’s been a kindergarten teacher and a massage therapist, worked with nonprofits, studied creative writing. Having moved to the […]
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Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs and Listings for Jan. 30 through Feb. 5
Catfish Row Sings Out at WHAT The Metropolitan Opera’s new production (by James Robinson) of George and Ira Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, set on Catfish Row in Charleston, S.C., with […]
THEATER
The Curtain Rises on Provincetown Theater’s 2020 Season
A look at the year ahead with Artistic Director David Drake
“It was deliberate,” David Drake, the artistic director of the Provincetown Theater, says of his schedule of new productions for 2020, his third year at the company. “Doing this season […]
INDIE SCREEN
Oscar’s (and Netflix’s) Primal Stream
All that glitters is not art
I approached Joker (now available for streaming and on DVD) with a fair measure of trepidation. The film, a rethought origin story of one of Batman’s most notorious villains, has […]
BOOK REVIEW
Larry Kramer’s Queer Epic of Love and Death
Taking in The American People, Volume 2: The Brutality of Fact
There is much sex but little love in the first volume of writer and activist Larry Kramer’s The American People, subtitled Search for My Heart. It contains episodes of imagined […]
WRITING LIFE
Cynthia Martin’s Romance With Provincetown
How the Outer Cape inspired her book, Tidal Flats
The opening scene of Cynthia Newberry Martin’s first published novel, Tidal Flats, takes place in Provincetown, where the two main characters, Cass and Ethan, begin their love story. Martin, who […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs & Listings for Jan. 23 through Jan. 29
Two New Shows Open at PAAM On Friday, Jan. 24, at 6 p.m., the Provincetown Art Association and Museum will host an opening reception for two new shows in its […]
MLK WEEKEND
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Highlights
Though the great civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was born on Jan. 15, 1929, his birthday is memorialized on a federal holiday on the third Monday in […]
POETRY
The Poems of Oliver de la Paz Question Our Perceptions
He’ll share his vision at a Provincetown reading
“In the labyrinth,” writes Oliver de la Paz, “there is constantly the problem of proximity: how what is understood about where you stand depends on where you stand.” A poet […]
AT THE LIBRARY
Why Being ‘Not Racist’ Is Not Enough
And how we can be better
How to Be an Antiracist By Ibram X. Kendi One World/Penguin Random House: 2019 “There is no neutrality in racism.” That point is central to Ibram X. Kendi’s proposals in […]
MUSIC
The Many Styles of Susan Werner’s Music
An eclectic singer and songwriter comes to Eastham
But for a papal decree, singer-songwriter Susan Werner might not be who she came to be. “I owe my entire career to Pope John XXIII,” Werner says, “because Pope John […]
QUEER ‘I’
Signs of Hope for the Methodist Church
The Outer Cape awaits the lifting of homophobic rules
After the General Conference of the United Methodist Church (UMC) in February 2019 upheld the so-called Traditional Plan, which affirms the church’s ban on hosting and officiating same-sex marriages and […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs & Listings for Jan. 16 through Jan. 22
‘In a Quiet Time’ at Four Eleven Gallery Galleries in Provincetown are in winter mode during January, and new shows are few and far between. But Four Eleven Gallery, at […]
Crossword
2019 In Review
The January puzzle from Sophia Maymudes spotlights the year in review. Need some answers? We send out the solution in our Friday newsletter. You’ll find the signup for our newsletter […]
MUSIC
Preservation Hall Serves Up Cold Chocolate
A sweet musical treat comes to Wellfleet
Americana music covers a lot of territory, and Ethan Robbins and Ariel Bernstein seem determined to explore it all. Known collectively as Cold Chocolate, the drum and guitar combo, who’ll […]
