Thursday, Nov. 7, 6 p.m. Open Newsroom — Local Journalism Project, Truro Public Library, 7 Standish Way. The Provincetown Independent invites community members to join in making local news more […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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this week
Arts Briefs & Listings for November 7 through 13
exhibitions, music, theater, and other happenings on the Outer Cape this week
BRIEFS Sparky and Rhonda Rucker Perform at First Encounter Sparky and Rhonda Rucker — musicians, authors, and teachers — will perform a variety of folk songs, spirituals, and historical ballads […]
music
Harold López-Nussa’s Jazz Comes From the Heart of Havana
His quartet will perform at Wellfleet Preservation Hall
When, in the 1930s and ’40s, Cuban musicians such as trumpeter Mario Bauzá and percussionist Chano Pozo introduced the American jazz world to Afro-Cuban rhythms, they kicked off a cultural […]
metaphysics
Ghost Hunters Are a Spirited Group
Cape-based paranormal detectives see their work as more science-based than sensational
Ghost hunter Joni Kosmach points a hand-held infrared camera into the shadows. Black, metallic, and blinking with strange energy, it looks like something a Navy SEAL might wield — or […]
book review
In ‘Blowout,’ Rachel Maddow Deconstructs the World’s Petro-Nightmare
Putin’s Russia and the U.S. oil industry are in a cycle of doom
A book on the oil and gas industry, Russia, and government corruption? Sounds a bit daunting. But Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, author of The New […]
civics
Licensing Board Urged to Keep Art Everywhere in Provincetown
Gallery owner Ray Wiggs wants to protect the ‘gallery system’
PROVINCETOWN — Artists, gallery owners, and retailers gave resoundingly bad reviews to Ray Wiggs’s attempt to have the town ban the sale of fine art in restaurants, bars, and inns […]
sketchbook
Bats
Northern Long-Eared Bat (threatened, endangered). Scientists know them by their calls, and catch them in mist nets. These guys frequent kettle ponds. Across the dunes and forests of Cape Cod […]
Our picks for the week of October 31 through Nov 7
Indie’s Choice
Thursday, Oct. 31, 2 p.m. On the Trail with the Classics: Wyman Richardson. Salt Pond Visitor Center, 50 Nauset Road, Eastham. These 45-minute programs are set in locales that inspired […]
this week
Arts Briefs & Listings for Oct. 31 through Nov. 6
exhibitions, music, theater, and other happenings on the Outer Cape this week
‘Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement’ East End Books, 389 Commercial St., will host a reading on Friday, Nov. 1 at 5 p.m. Author David K. Johnson, an […]
THEATER REVIEW
In the Company of ‘Wrinkles’
A musical about older women braves the WHAT stage
When a work of theater focuses exclusively on the lives of older women — the things that pain them, humiliate them, terrify them, strengthen them, elate them, or amuse them […]
at the library
A Healing Secret
Social infrastructure as a remedy for what ails us
Palaces for the People: How social infrastructure can help fight inequality, polarization, and the decline of civic life. Eric Klinenberg New York: Crown, 2018 I have often said that the […]
movies
Sympathy for the Devil
Ivy Meeropol directs a documentary portrait of Roy Cohn
In January 2004 “Heir to an Execution,” Ivy Meeropol’s documentary about her grandparents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 as Communist spies after what can only be […]
FAWC
New Fellows in Town
20 artists and writers look to the Outer Cape for inspiration
The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown welcomed its 2019-20 class of 20 winter fellows on Oct. 1, 10 in writing and 10 in visual arts. They will be in […]
Women’s Week 2019
‘A Very British Lesbian’ Comes to Provincetown
Fiona Goodwin, at home on a distant shore
Growing up in the bucolic countryside of Hertfordshire and Cambridge, England, Fiona Goodwin began to suspect that she was different when she developed unusually strong emotional attachments to other girls. […]
CULTURE DESK
Eight of 11 Board Members Quit ‘Provincetown Arts’
Celebrated annual’s founder says he is ‘slightly elated’ by resignations
PROVINCETOWN — Every summer for the last 34 years the fat and glossy Provincetown Arts magazine has hit the newsstands with a proud thump. On its pages — and this […]
