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 […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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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? […]
GROUP SHOW
The New FAWC Fellows Make Their Mark
A quiet, nuanced show offers a first chance to see work by the current visual arts fellows
In her film Untitled (burned rubber on asphalt), 2018, Tinja Ruusuvuori turned her attention to a small community in Norway where she probed one town’s minidrama about a mysterious person […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Jan. 26, 2023 through Feb. 2, 2023
Artists Reflect on Their Happy Places A new exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art (60 Hope Lane, Dennis) features the work of 66 artists who responded to a […]
LOCAL VIEWS
An Art Collection With Wellfleet as Its Muse
Michael Parlante collects art with an eye toward a town’s history
When Michael Parlante was a child, the celebrated painter Edwin Dickinson lived across the street from him near Cove Road in Wellfleet. “I’d watch him painting in his front yard,” […]
QUEER ‘I’
Mapp and Lucia and Me
From coastal England to the shores of Provincetown, some things never change
At first glance, it’s a postcard-perfect seaside town, brimming with music, theater, and art. Look closer, though, and you’ll see that beneath the quaint village veneer lies a hotbed of […]
AN ACTOR’S LIFE
A Provincetown Actor Makes It Work
Joe MacDougall on the challenges and rewards of a theater life on the Outer Cape
“Doing the work” — actor-speak for whatever it takes to develop one’s talent into marketable skills — is a phrase that probably goes all the way back to the first […]
