PROVINCETOWN — After a national search, Rachael Brister has been hired as the new CEO of the Provincetown Film Society (PFS), the umbrella organization for the Provincetown International Film Festival, […]
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Arts Briefs & Listings for Dec. 12 through Dec. 19
Animation Shorts at Preservation Hall The newest edition of animated shorts from around the world, The 21st Annual Animation Show of Shows, will screen at Wellfleet Preservation Hall at 335 […]
PUBLIC ART
Frances Raymond’s Portrait Will Return to Fisherman’s Wharf
PROVINCETOWN — The larger-than-life photographs of five Portuguese women on Fisherman’s Wharf are now down to only three images, but that will change this spring. The installation “They Also Faced […]
ARTS LISTINGS
Holly Folly Highlights
The Canteen’s Holiday Market and Winter Lodge, which returned on Thanksgiving weekend, will be operating weekends through New Year’s. The lodge is a pop-up chalet-style restaurant, in front of and […]
POETRY
Dogs of Truro
Selected by Katherine Hazzard
The first anonymous baying from those backlit hills petitions a single greeny-blue winter star. It silvers as I watch, tuning its sharpness. Deep January in the natural dark, and now […]
POETS
Joy Priest Finds Provincetown Rejuvenating
The FAWC fellow experiments with form and colleagues
Last spring, Joy Priest had some big decisions to make. The Kentucky native, who had recently completed her M.F.A. in poetry at the University of South Carolina, was accepted to […]
SCREENINGS
How the Wampanoags Brought Their Language Back to Life
The film 'We Still Live Here' documents the effort
The story of the Wampanoag nation, the confederation of Native American tribes who lived in what is now Cape Cod and the Islands, southeastern Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, is a […]
Movie Clock for December 5 through December 11
Playing now on the Outer Cape
PLAYING NOW: DEC. 5-11 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (PG). Wellfleet Cinemas, daily: 1:15, 4:15 & 7:15 p.m.; Tuesday: 10 a.m. Dark Waters (PG13). Wellfleet Cinemas, Friday-Wednesday: 1, 4 […]
Arts Briefs & Listings for December 6 through December 12
Gifts of David Murphy Collection at PAAM The exhibit “Recent Gifts From the David Murphy Collection” will have an opening reception at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum at 460 […]
theater review
It’s a Wonderful ‘Wonderful Life’ in Provincetown
Capra’s movie comes alive onstage as a radio play
The 1946 Frank Capra movie It’s a Wonderful Life is a touchstone of Americana. The title evokes thoughts of Christmas, moral reassurance and sentiment, small towns and loved ones, Jimmy […]
books
Joel Meyerowitz’s Provincetown Through a Local Lens
Photographs in search of a lost time
Eighty-one-year-old Joel Meyerowitz, éminence grise among Provincetown photographers, was in Manhattan in late October. The occasion was a narrated slide show and book signing hosted by Aperture, his publisher, […]
HOLIDAY TABLE
Ecoprinting: Natural Dyes From Leaves and Flowers
Dyeing is a multi-step process. The first step is a visit with nature.
Even in these chilly gray days of November we find color everywhere on the Outer Cape. Marsh and beach grasses are golden fire. Junipers are deep green, their bright berries […]
AT THE LIBRARY
Thanksgivings Every Day
Braiding Sweetgrass By Robin Wall Kimmerer Milkweed Editions: 2015 In Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, author Robin Wall Kimmerer asks readers to “imagine raising […]
SURFING
At Home in a Portuguese Surf Town
The tide and the wind are the same in any language
The sun is warm on my shoulders. The salt is starting to pinch the skin at the corners of my eyes as it dries. A small white cup of coffee […]
DEAR INDIE
A Bitter Halloween Candy Tax
Family conflict over a shrinking stash
Dear Indie, I put a lot of effort into my Halloween trick-or-treating and came home with a major haul of candy. Way more than my older sisters, who are now […]
