Six years ago, a chance meeting on Commercial Street changed the world of comedian Sam Morrison. The encounter marked the start of a relationship that Morrison recounts in his one-man […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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NATURE STUDIES
The Very Fabric of the Landscape
Alexa Elam is not making plaids today
The dirt road to Alexa Elam’s Truro studio is bumpy and surrounded by brush, with a few pullouts for oncoming cars to pass, and marked only by a hand-painted sign […]
FICTION
Fodder for the Old Ladies Gossip Militia
An excerpt from Hush Little Fire, a new novel set on the Outer Cape
Judith Newcomb Stiles is a potter, teacher, and writer whose family has lived in Wellfleet since the days of the Pilgrims. In her new novel, Hush Little Fire, published by […]
BIG PICTURE
Electric Purple
Diana Horowitz on Brenda Horowitz’s color vocabulary
Diana Horowitz grew up watching her mother, Brenda Horowitz, paint. Their family spent summers in Provincetown, where Brenda had studied with Hans Hofmann and Wolf Kahn. During the year, they […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for May 29, 2025 through June 5, 2025
A New Act Three in Provincetown There were no arts classes in the schools that Nan LeClaire-Hirst went to when she was growing up, she says, and she didn’t attend […]
ENLIGHTENED
An Artist Trades Illustration for Emotion
Rob DuToit’s recent work soars with energetic abandon
Last fall, Rob DuToit was walking in the Audubon sanctuary in Wellfleet when he approached a platform with a sweeping view of the marsh and Cape Cod Bay. The scene […]
ROCK AND SOUL
Lisa Fischer’s Buffet of Sound
The former backup singer will take center stage at Provincetown Town Hall with Grand Baton
When Lisa Fischer was growing up in Brooklyn, she was “like a sponge,” she says, “soaking up whatever syrup was around.” The syrup was music. Her grandparents listened to jazz […]
METANARRATIVE
Family Pictures
Thomas Allen Harris brings his documentary approach to the question of our queer ancestors
Photographer and filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris founded Digital Diaspora Family Reunion (DDFR) in 2009 as a vehicle for audio-visual events incorporating community organizing, performance, virtual gathering spaces, and storytelling. Ten […]
HISTORICAL FICTION
Never Quite Free
In The Lilac People, Milo Todd sheds light on the trans experience in Nazi Germany
So many stories, both harrowing and heartwarming, have been told about World War II that it can be hard to imagine what a new novel might add. But as we […]
FRONT LINES
War Reporting as Breakthrough
A conversation with Phil Klay on the challenges and dilemmas of depicting violence
Phil Klay’s short story collection, Redeployment, about the experiences of American soldiers fighting in Iraq and returning home, won the 2014 National Book Award for fiction. His second book, Missionaries, […]
BIG PICTURE
Out of the Blue
Mike Wright makes a painting, but really, she doesn’t
Mike Wright, who has lived in Provincetown since 1984, makes abstract sculptures out of found wood. She has requirements for her materials: the wood must be from Provincetown, and it […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for May 22, 2025 through May 29, 2025
A New Mystery Series Provincetown author Jeannette De Beauvoir is best known for her mysteries set in the town she’s called home for 20 years. But before she wrote 10 […]
CROSSWORD #63
Mass Hysteria
SURFACES
On the Line Between Accident and Intention
Anthony Fisher embodies the unexpected in his intensely physical paintings
Anthony Fisher remembers seeing an exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum of Alvin Ross’s realist paintings. Fisher was 14 years old. “It was really an inspiration,” he says, […]
REWILDING
Seth Glier Hears ‘a Symphony of Little Things’
His album Everything is in praise of wandering the wild
Music first came into Seth Glier’s life in second grade, he says, when he “got really interested in singing the national anthem before my sporting events.” He was 12 when […]
