When the Covid lockdown happened back in March 2020, it accelerated shifts that were already in progress in the movie industry. Fewer people were seeing films in theaters, and streaming […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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BOOKS
Our ‘Yacking’ Democratic Genius
In a new memoir, Robert Pinsky explains what made him a poet — and what makes America poetic
“One way or another, people have more poetry in them than you might think,” insists Robert Pinsky. In 2000, this conviction prompted Pinsky, then the United States Poet Laureate, to […]
WRITERS
Writing That Shows Us Who We Really Are
A ‘stubborn fan’ of the short story explores complicated and difficult inner lives
Writer and current Fine Arts Work Center fellow Willie Fitzgerald calls himself a “stubborn fan” of the short story. “Dedicated short story writers and readers tend to be fewer in […]
ARTISTS
Pieter Paul Pothoven’s Art Had the Dutch ‘Fuming’
The FAWC fellow explores the politics and complexities of how history is told
Unlike the studios of many of his peers at the Fine Arts Work Center, Dutch artist Pieter Paul Pothoven’s is colorless and bare — aside from some grainy black-and-white printouts […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Feb. 9, 2023 through Feb. 16, 2023
The Mosquito Creates a Buzz The Mosquito Story Slam’s Valentine’s Day edition, “What I Did for Love,” will take place at the Provincetown Theater (238 Bradford St.) on Saturday, Feb. […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
We’re on a Rather Bumpy Road to Valentine’s Day
At least, as Venus and Neptune suggest, sometimes love is only skin deep
Here in the starry stillness between the full Moon in Leo and the new Moon in Pisces, Valentine’s Day approaches. Alas, it won’t be all chocolates and roses. On this […]
ARCHITECTURE
Women Who Helped Define a New Direction
Martha Rothman explores what enabled them to succeed in ‘a man’s profession’
Martha Rothman recalls the awe of first encountering E-1027, the sprawling modernist villa that Irish architect Eileen Gray designed for herself and her lover in the south of France. Built […]
INDIE SCREEN
Tales of Innocence and Experience
A gay fat man and a sweet donkey come undone
Director Darren Aronofsky — winner of the Provincetown International Film Festival’s 2011 Filmmaker on the Edge award — has never been known for subtlety. He wallows in garishly surreal psychological […]
THEATER
Thirty Years On, ‘Chicago’ Still Dazzles
A Broadway star is born as Jinkx Monsoon plays Matron ‘Mama’ Morton
NEW YORK CITY — At a recent performance of Chicago at the Ambassador Theater on West 49th Street, a rumble of anticipation preceded Jinkx Monsoon’s entrance on stage. The two-time […]
IN THE STUDIO
Navigating Pleasure and Politics Through Art
Personal expression and political tension are central to Ruby T’s creative process
For Ruby T, who moved to Provincetown in 2021 after living in Chicago for more than a decade, making art is a means to explore overlaps between the political and […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Feb. 2, 2023 through Feb. 9, 2023
Black History Through Film In celebration of Black History Month in February, the Wellfleet Public Library (55 West Main St.) will be screening four films from the past decade highlighting […]
CROSSWORD #38
First Light
BOOKS
Angling for Social Change
Stephen Duncombe on how fishing can inspire the work of making the world a better place
When Stephen Duncombe started walking to the ponds and jetties of Cape Cod a few years ago, he didn’t plan on doing anything besides starting the long project of teaching […]
LINE BREAK
Learning From Lichens
Susie Nielsen explores intuition and influence via a poem by Jane Hirshfield
In our thing-filled culture, our super-documented lives, what happens in the liminal spaces? What happens in those nothing-moments as we leave one place (either physically or mentally) and move toward […]
THEATER
A Playwright Collective Brings People Together
In Truro, monthly readings foster a community of writers and audiences
TRURO — A group of tender-hearted queers, disparate in their predispositions, shelter in a dune shack to hide from a right-wing militia that prowls the grounds outside. Will they survive? […]
