The book was handed to me by my daughter’s friend with a request to read it aloud. We were at the Wellfleet Public Library, and as I started reading, I realized […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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CROSSWORD #34
Monster Mash-Up
Happy Carnival to all!
PRINTMAKING
Replacing Narrative With Feeling
Robert Shreefter’s layered prints grow lighter
Robert Shreefter is learning to lose the storyline in his printmaking. Until recently, he says, he didn’t allow himself that. “If I don’t have something to motivate me, like a […]
WRITING THROUGH THE PAIN
Cookie Mueller’s Carefree Misadventures, Carefully Told
In a new edition, a collection becomes a memoir of a life lived without hesitation
Cookie Mueller and her friends were cold. They were in Provincetown, it was the winter of 1970, and Mueller, who is best known for acting in John Waters’s films, and […]
THEATER REVIEW
Love in the Time of Plague
Robert Chesley’s Jerker arrives in Provincetown
If you didn’t live through it, it’s difficult to imagine the extreme sense of urgency and doom that the gay community experienced in the early ’80s, when AIDS hit. The […]
POLITICAL TALK
How the Republican Party Went Crazy
David Corn of Mother Jones magazine previews his diagnosis of an ‘American psychosis’
The award-winning journalist, author, and MSNBC contributor David Corn pulls no punches. In a recent column, the Mother Jones Washington bureau chief writes that we are living “in a world […]
OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT
So No One Has to Worry About Dying Alone
DAWN WALSH / EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE LILY HOUSE / WELLFLEET
DAWN WALSH / EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE LILY HOUSE / WELLFLEET Dawn Walsh moved here in 2015 to live and work among artists, writers, and the Outer Cape’s vibrant LGBTQ community. […]
CHAMBER MUSIC
The eGALitarians Make Brass Better
A quintet challenges the jazz world’s lack of gender diversity
Kate Amrine is a professional trumpeter and co-leader of the eGALitarian Brass Quintet, which will be presenting a free concert at the Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham on Tuesday, […]
THE BEAT
Provincetown Jazz Festival Pairs Professionals With Newcomers
Festival founder Bart Weisman finds freedom in the swing of things
When Bart Weisman arrived in Provincetown in 1980 to pick up the woman who would become his wife and take her home to Washington, D.C., where they both grew up, […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for August 10 through August 18, 2022
Ellen Sinel and Kate McConnell at AMZehnder Ellen Sinel’s and Kate McConnell’s work will be shown at Wellfleet’s AMZehnder Gallery (25 Bank St.) from Aug. 13 to 23. The opening […]
MARSH MELLOW
In View this Week
THEATER REVIEW
In Gary, a Shakespeare Sequel, WHAT Slays the Summertime Blues
Taylor Mac’s comic riff on Titus Andronicus is bloody good
Back in the early 1960s, when movie legend Stanley Kubrick began writing a screenplay based on the novel Red Alert, a tense thriller about the potential for nuclear apocalypse between […]
FLUCTUATION
Betty Carroll Fuller’s Wobbling, Quivering Grid
Mining memory, music, and poetry to create a new body of abstract drawings
During the pandemic lockdown, Betty Carroll Fuller spent a lot of time alone in her Falmouth home and studio. It coincided with her recovery from a rare form of cancer, […]
BITS AND PIECES
Animal Sculptures From a Cabinet of Curiosity
Gin Stone’s greatest fear: boredom
The artist Gin Stone defies labeling, which is what makes her and her work so intriguing. One might say it is multidisciplinary, perhaps sculptural; but those terms only skim the […]
FIRST MOVE
The Movimento Project Finds Hope in Dance
‘Reset’ makes a connection to the body that’s expressive, artistic, and existential
Leda Muhana was seven when she took her first dance class. She remembers it well. “I did the first movement,” she says, stretching her arms out in front of her. […]
