Autumn Group Show at Alden Gallery The current autumn group show at Alden Gallery (423 Commercial St., Provincetown) features work by 16 artists represented by the gallery. Founder and curator […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
A House and Its Reflection
Robert S Johnson turns his focus on one house and the history of Blackfish Creek
Pleasant Point is a spit of land in Wellfleet that juts out into Blackfish Creek. It’s like Cape Cod or Provincetown in miniature: not a place you drive through, but […]
IN KIND
Paige Turner Is on the Nice List
Reclaiming Christmas with a songful show at the Post Office Café
Paige Turner, the bright, sassy songstress, promises that the true meaning of the Christmas season is to be greedy, to be a misfit, and to get your stocking stuffed. After […]
ENSEMBLE
The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus Sings Its Truth
For Holly Folly, a holiday concert both silly and profound
For three hours every Wednesday evening, Reuben Reynolds, the music director of the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus (BGMC), leads more than 300 members in song. A self-described “mean queen” at […]
INDIE SCREEN
Portraits of Liberation in the ’60s and ’70s
Three films look back without prejudice
Bayard Rustin is an important yet obscure figure of the civil rights movement, and his time has come. A close adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. — it was Rustin […]
EXPERIMENTS IN MUSIC
Twisted Pine’s Progressive Spin on Bluegrass
The band combines tradition and innovation — with a Whammy pedal
Chris Sartori, the bassist of the bluegrass band Twisted Pine, says the band’s success is due to the friendship they have cultivated on the road, traveling across the country in […]
POETRY
For My Girlfriend Sleeping In
The earliest sunrises of the year come in mid-June. Right before Father’s Day, right before schools let out, and turn the quiet Cape upside down with tourists. On these early […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for November 30, 2023 through December 7, 2023
Play Reading Series Spotlights Young Queer Voices Sheila Callaghan’s 2015 play Women Laughing Alone With Salad is about three women living in an image-obsessed culture. Its title was inspired by […]
IN TRUTH
Linda Coombs Wants Young Readers to Know the Past
The Wampanoag author’s new children’s book aims to bust myths about colonization
“Some people think we all disappeared,” says Linda Coombs, a member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah who for nearly 50 years has been a historian and museum curator specializing […]
ARTS BUSINESS
Film Society Looks to Future of Waters Edge
National anxiety about the fate of movie theaters strikes a chord here
The Waters Edge Cinema in Whalers Wharf is the only movie theater in Provincetown and, with Wellfleet Cinemas, one of only two on the Outer Cape. But the Waters Edge, […]
THEATER REVIEW
What’s Wrong With the Rights Stuff
Heidi Schreck’s Constitution play comes to town
Civics is not a course usually taught in schools, and if we ever needed proof that it ought to be part of the curriculum, Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means […]
POETRY
Barn Swallow Math
A mini murmur of more than fifty zig zags above. Pulsing, pendulously swinging as wide as their instincts allowed. Bombardier wings and double knife-point tails. Black silhouettes against the pink […]
QUEER ‘I’
At My Doorstep
On reconciling fear and pride
I first saw Provincetown when I was 16. I came for a few hours with my parents on my father’s highlighter-yellow boat, a midlife-crisis acquisition we rarely made use of. […]
THE INTERVIEW
Cherie Mittenthal Expands a Tiny World
Managerial know-how turned a barn into a castle
Cherie Mittenthal arrived at the sedate Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill 21 years ago. She’d left a job in Hartford heading up educational and arts programs for […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for November 23, 2023 through November 30, 2023
‘Hope for the Holidays,’ a Zany Christmas Cabaret It’s 1962, and a clueless television hostess is surrounded by bigwigs and Christmas cocktails while competing with her friends for a lover. […]
