Summers By Robert Kuttner I’ve often wondered How the summer of ’39 felt People savoring ordinary joys The dread of doom just over the hill Or the summer of 1914 […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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BOOKS
‘Our Strangers’ Offers Big Provocations in Bite-Size Stories
Lydia Davis finds wit in the senselessness of 21st-century life
In the story “Caramel Drizzle,” Lydia Davis begins with a simple but disorienting question, rendered in quotation marks and without attribution: “Caramel syrup or caramel drizzle?” How are those choices, […]
THE INTERVIEW
Resurrecting Susan Dimock, a Shipwrecked Heroine
Susan Wilson’s story of a nearly forgotten pioneering woman surgeon
Susan Dimock was a celebrated surgeon in the 19th century who died in a shipwreck in 1875 at age 28. In her short life she’d become a light of her […]
IN THE WOODS
Poets From Mexico Build New Worlds in Wellfleet
A Modern House Trust residency on development and design
WELLFLEET — When five Mexican and Mexican-American poets, artists, and architects arrived at the modernist houses that dot the seashores and backwoods here in early October, they had “the best […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for November 2, 2023 through November 9, 2023
Printmaking Without Limits A wide range of printmaking techniques — from monotypes and silkscreens to woodcut and solar plate prints — are on view in the current exhibition at the […]
THE INTERVIEW
The Provincetown Writer Who’s Watching You
Heidi Jon Schmidt draws universal truths from life in one small town
You may be checking out at the grocery store, strolling with a friend, or waiting in line for the ATM. You’re talking to the people around you or just staring […]
RADIO
Spooky Audio Tales Pick Up Good Vibrations
J Hagenbuckle’s Cape Noir Radio Theater uses only sound to tell stories of horror and crime
If you remove what you see in live theater or in movies — actors’ expressions and movement, scenery, costumes — what’s left is simply sound. J Hagenbuckle, whose medium is […]
THEATER REVIEW
Tom Hewitt Relives a Romantic Nightmare in ‘Another Medea’
Aaron Mark’s play gives gay parenthood a grisly Greek twist
At Halloween, we let evil spirits run free and amuse ourselves with their wickedness. It’s a way of reminding us of their power and horror and, with a wink, containing […]
SHARP TONGUE
At Bianca Del Rio’s Show, No One Is Safe
Vicious, filthy, jaw-droppingly rude, she’s ‘Don Rickles in a dress’
Bianca Del Rio, the sharp-tongued stand-up comic who won season six of RuPaul’s Drag Race, is returning to Provincetown just in time to scare up some laughs for Spooky Bear […]
FINGER PAINTING
Benji Weinryb Grohsgal Illustrates a Universe All His Own
After a diagnosis, an artist learns left-handedness, picks up an iPad, and draws
In a waiting room at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Benji Weinryb Grohsgal sits, drawing on an iPad. It’s a new process. He’s used to using […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for October 26, 2023 through November 2, 2023
The Acoustic Nomads Pass Through Wellfleet The Acoustic Nomads have a unique vision: to bring together folkloric sounds from Appalachia to Argentina with contemporary improvisation, jazz, and newgrass. “We’re combining […]
AN ART LEGACY
Sal Del Deo Carries On
A solo exhibition at PAAM charts the development of an adventurous career
In one of Salvatore Del Deo’s paintings now at his solo exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the town is framed through a pair of binoculars — a […]
ARTISTS
Daniel Ranalli Records the Drama of Stranded Whales
A 31-year project culminates in an exhibit at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
NEW BEDFORD — The whaling museum here celebrates bigness. Two whale skeletons hang from the lobby ceiling. The centerpiece of the museum is a three-story replica of the whaling vessel […]
ARTISTS AND WRITERS
New Kids on the Block
20 fellows arrive at the Fine Arts Work Center
On Pearl Street in Provincetown, the Fine Arts Work Center’s new fellows are settling into their apartments and studios. For now, the spaces are all but empty. The white, unadorned […]
LOOKING BACK
Reflecting on Creativity and Community
An alumni show at FAWC this summer brought 22 former fellows back to Provincetown
Since its founding in 1968, the Fine Arts Work Center has hosted more than a thousand fellows. Twenty-two former fellows returned to Provincetown this summer for an alumni group show, […]
