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 […]
Arts & Minds
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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 […]
COURSES
If It’s Thursday, It’s Clay With Paul Wisotzky
The former Truro Select Board chair fires away
“I started taking classes at Castle Hill when I was 15 years old,” Paul Wisotzky says in his comfortable Truro living room. “I’m 57, and now I’m teaching there in […]
PLAYERS
Spencer Keasey’s Lifelong Quest
From porn to Provincetown with the Bakker Gallery’s manager
When Spencer Keasey picked his porn name, Spencer Quest, it was because he felt as if he were actually on a quest — for sexual and spiritual freedom. For a […]
Arts Briefs & Listings for Nov. 27 through Dec. 5
Garrow Throop’s Painted Photographs “Garrow Throop: Vignettes From the Outer Cape,” is an art exhibit of photographs shot and painted by Garrow Throop, which will be on view at the […]
our picks for the week of November 27 through December 5
Indie’s Choice
Outer Cape Calendar Wednesday, Nov. 27, 5-7 p.m. This year’s Lighting Ceremony of the Pilgrim Monument kicks off the one-year countdown to Provincetown 400’s fireworks show, which commemorates the anniversary […]
Arts Briefs
Provincetown Theater’s Wonderful Life
Present: As its end-of-the-year holiday treat, the Provincetown Theater and artistic director David Drake are offering It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, a theatrical version of Frank Capra’s […]
OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT
Mike Wright: A Piece of the Sky
MIKE WRIGHT | SCULPTOR | PROVINCETOWN I’ve been making sculpture with old found painted wood for 30 years now. In the mid-’90s I would be walking on the beach and […]
GALLERIES
Shirl Roccapriore to Close Oils by the Sea Gallery
A Provincetown artist succumbs to realities of local business
“I never thought the bottom line would be numbers,” Shirl Roccapriore says, sitting back in the cozy space that is her Oils by the Sea Gallery at 437 Commercial St. […]
MUSIC
Lisa Bastoni Makes the Most of Second Chances
Her folk music reflects how she wants to live
Lisa Bastoni is having a great year. The Northampton native, who’ll be the featured artist at Monday evening’s Coffeehouse at the Mews open mic in Provincetown, was one of six […]
