Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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2000
From ‘A Walk on Cape Cod’
Around the time of the millennium I lived on Cape Cod in Provincetown, in my girlfriend’s house, and I was glad to be back in my native state after twenty […]
INDIE SCREEN
What’s the Point of Telling Stories?
In three films, they’re a blend of true and false
Promising Young Woman is a film by a woman that ostensibly empowers its victimized female lead through acts of vengeance, and that’s probably why the British actor Emerald Fennell won […]
MOVIES
One Year In, Solo Artists Find Strength in the Ensemble
Outer Cape filmmakers gather for the sake of the craft and for each other
PROVINCETOWN — Early this year, Ernest Martin was invited to show a sample of his unfinished work to fellow local filmmakers, most of whom he’d never met. Martin was working […]
REMINISCENCE
Seeing Past the New Sidewalk
Our Writers Group recreates the old Provincetown every Tuesday
PROVINCETOWN — Dogs named Riches and Poverty. Ice houses. The time the harbor almost froze over. Kids sliding at night in midwinter. Dune skiing with cheap skis. Fires on the […]
TAKING BOWS
The Evolution of Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas
Violinist Elizabeth Chang and pianist Jiayan Sun will play the full 10-sonata cycle in Wellfleet
Between the years 1797 and 1812, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote 10 violin sonatas: pieces in three or four movements, composed for violin and pianoforte — each an endeavor of the […]
MASH-UP
Pop Songs, With a Classical Twist
Well-Strung, the quartet born in Provincetown, returns for a holiday show
The idea for Well-Strung, a singing and string quartet, was born in Provincetown. While visiting the Cape for a different show in 2010, violinist Chris Marchant was playing on the […]
POETRY
Muscle Memory
Neil Silberblatt lives in Dennis Port and is the founder and director of Voices of Poetry. His most recent collection, Past Imperfect, was nominated for the Mass. Book Award in […]
POETRY
The Lost Dunes
A cardiologist bought a house perched atop a dune precariously located — he paid cash. A few years later the house toppled in a storm. The cottage colony on Ocean Drive […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for December 21, 2023 through December 28, 2023
Transforming Town Meeting to Another Stage Shortly after moving to Provincetown in 2019, Cody Sullivan attended an emergency town meeting about turning the former VFW into affordable housing. “I was […]
CROSSWORD #47
True Love’s Gifts
PRISMATIC
Mike Sullivan Wears Many Masks
An artist in multiple disciplines moves inward for the winter
When you step into Mike Sullivan’s winter studio in the grand living room of the house he’s renting in Provincetown’s East End, three things hit you right away. The first […]
MARQUEE
Lea DeLaria Rings Out the Old
The co-owner of The Club will celebrate New Year’s Eve here
Lea DeLaria may be recognized around the world for her portrayal of Big Boo on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, but in Provincetown she’s a local legend, as synonymous […]
EPISTOLARY
Woodard and Zinn to Read ‘Love Letters’ at Preservation Hall
The two actors and friends will collaborate in the 1990 Pulitzer Prize drama finalist
A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters is a play about love and connection, regret and missed opportunities, memory and reflection. But mostly it’s about two childhood friends sharing more than 50 years […]
LONG PLAY
Dolly Parton Does Rock and Roll
Rockstar is like a party with all the most famous rockers
Dolly Parton is already a rockstar? Or is she a pop star? Or a country icon? The 77-year-old, who has been performing since she was 10, has proved she can […]
