In a country of unpredictable roving “man hordes” reported to have “mowed twenty-six lawns in Drain, Illinois” and “kicked a German shepherd to death in Plano, Texas,” a canceled feminist […]
Arts & Minds
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PROVINCETOWN BOOK FESTIVAL
A Maiden Voyage for an ‘Aging Pervert’
Janet W. Hardy’s radical queer savvy comes to Provincetown
By a strange twist of fate, the Provincetown Book Festival, hosted by the public library and running Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 this year, always seems to happen the same […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for September 28, 2023 through October 5, 2023
Cedric Harper’s Art of Language For all its simple forms and seemingly unrefined ornamentation, Cedric Harper’s art speaks volumes. “Ancestral Language,” currently on view at the Higgins Art Gallery at […]
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
Sofia Cabanas Is in Hyper Focus
Mastering the intricate fonts found on labels is ‘like solving a puzzle, only with shapes’
Sofia Cabanas was cooking for friends one night a couple of years ago when she pulled out a tin of nutmeg from 1987. Just before she tossed it in the […]
BOOKS
Alice Hoffman Sounds an Echo of Hawthorne’s Warning
Her latest novel is a meditation on The Scarlet Letter
Alice Hoffman’s short story titled “Property Of” was published in the prestigious literary journal American Review: The Magazine of New Writing in 1975 when Hoffman was 23. I read the […]
INDIE SCREEN
The Return of Two Festival Favorites
A case of LGBTQ movies going mainstream
When it comes to recent queer cinema, the more things change, the more they stay the same. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Take, for example, the raunchy high-school […]
LARGE SCALE
Murals That Expand Beyond the Walls
An exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art features paintings both indoors and out
DENNIS — When Samuel Tager was asked to curate a show at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, he had been thinking a lot about mural projects in Boston, Lynn, […]
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS FEST
A Mad Pilgrimage of the Weird
Philadelphia’s Die-Cast Ensemble takes on a less-known Williams legacy
The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival is no stranger to the strange, but this year is something else. At the 18th annual festival this week, Williams’s lifelong love of science […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for September 14, 2023 through September 21, 2023
Encountering Folk Music With Antje Duvekot Singer-songwriter Antje Duvekot, who will be kicking off the season at First Encounter Coffee House (220 Samoset Road, Eastham) on Saturday, Sept. 23 at […]
ALBUM REVIEW
The Parkingtons ‘Collide’ in a Celebration of Unity
Three sisters play and sing of ‘love, loss, heartache, hope’
When Daniel Parkington first saw his future wife, Cheryl, she was walking into a laundromat in Orleans carrying a guitar. This is according to Rose Parkington, one of Daniel and […]
THEATER
Less Stella, More Stellar
The Tennessee Williams Festival delves into the author’s obscure science fiction catalog
PROVINCETOWN — The Tennessee Williams Theater Festival blasts off next weekend, and this year, things are going to be a little extraterrestrial. Put your tray tables up and your expectations […]
ARTISTS
When Winter Comes, the Artist Returns to His Studio
After three decades, Robert Adamcik still pursues his passion
Robert Adamcik has become a Provincetown local. With dry humor, he’ll give you his opinions on everything in town, from the best galleries, shows, and lobster rolls to the worst […]
THE INTERVIEW
How Patti Hartigan Came to Write August Wilson’s Story
The longtime arts journalist finished her biography of the playwright in Provincetown
Eight years ago, the arts journalist and critic Patti Hartigan noticed something missing from the cultural landscape. August Wilson, a playwright whose works she cherished and had written about for […]
OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT
A Reef of One’s Own
CLINT AUSTIN / OYSTER FARMER / WELLFLEET Up in Blackfish Creek, Clint Austin’s shellfish farm looks like other aquaculture grants in Wellfleet. During the season, you see bags of oysters […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for September 14, 2023 through September 21, 2023
Christine Ernst Laughs Through the Pain Poet, storyteller, and metal artist Christine Ernst started writing more than two decades ago to cope with a cancer diagnosis she received when she […]
