Being back at the Metropolitan Opera in New York last Wednesday had a surreal quality. Masked faces peered across balconies through opera glasses. The sound of the orchestra warming up […]
Arts & Minds
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MUSICIANS
Midge Ure Never Left
The former Ultravox frontman is still fronting
The name on the screen for our Zoom call says “James Ure.” But Ure is better known as Midge, a phonetic reversal of the name Jim. The nickname was originally […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Oct 21 through Oct 27
Fall Bakker Auction Bakker Antiques is holding its fall online auction on Saturday, Oct. 23 at 1 p.m. There are 148 lots with a selection of Provincetown art spanning over […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
In View this Week
The original three sisters lighthouses fell into the Atlantic in 1890. Their replacements ended up on Cable Road in Eastham. (Photo Nancy Bloom) A Danaus plexippus and a Buddleja davidii […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
In View This Week
A driftwood sculpture stands tall, face to the wind, at Newcomb Hollow Beach on Saturday, Oct. 9. (Photo Teresa Parker)
NATIVE ART
Hawk and Sierra Henries Create Beauty out of Wood
Father and daughter are Weidlinger house residents this week
Hawk Henries has been making hand-carved wooden flutes since as long as his daughter Sierra, 34, can remember. “He’s one of a very small handful of people doing the work […]
ZINES
A Different Kind of ‘Free Press’
Cape zines offer opportunities for art and satire
“An overarching thesis of mine is that stodgy old P’town takes itself a bit too seriously and that the people who live there have gotten rather boring,” writes Sue Edge, […]
ARTISTS
Turning Old Clothes into New Fossils
Erin Woodbrey Explores the Nature of Time
Erin Woodbrey’s Orleans studio overlooks her garden, now full of late-season vegetables and flowers. The garden provides food, inspiration, and the natural dyes that Woodbrey uses for her prints. Woodbrey […]
INDIE SCREEN
Whose Legacy Is It, Anyway?
Three biographies take the lives of pivotal figures into account
Though he was an African American born into poverty in 1931 in rural Texas, picking cotton as a young child alongside his single mother, Alvin Ailey lived a life of […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Oct 14 through Oct 20
Transgender Week in P’town Provincetown’s Fan Fair is a week-long transgender celebration running Sunday, Oct. 17 through Sunday, Oct. 24. The Fair is open to all members of the transgender, […]
ARTISTS
Nancy Bowen Makes Intergenerational Amends
Through her installation, the Salem witch trials reverberate
Walking through Spectral Evidence, Nancy Bowen’s installation at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, is humorously odd and gravely unsettling in equal measure. Twenty squat grave markers with wings and […]
ARTISTS
Donna Pomponio Paints the Human Experience
The artist of ‘Free to Be’ finds the person underneath the portrait
“I’m not a portrait painter,” says Donna Pomponio. “What I am trying to do is get under the forehead and into the psychology of the person — to peel back, […]
COMEDY
Poppy Champlin Cracks Nuts and Jokes
She’s performing at the Post Office Café as part of Women’s Week
Poppy Champlin has problems. Girlfriend problems. Luckily, she’s got a plan to remedy that. “I have an ex in Provincetown that I’m scared to see,” she says from her home […]
MUSICIANS
Melissa Ferrick Comes Out to Provincetown
The rock songwriter talks identity and Women’s Week
Melissa Ferrick is one of the few musicians who can claim to have written a “lesbian anthem.” The 2000 song “Drive,” from the album Freedom, doesn’t shy away from anything: […]
THEATER
A Playwright Explores the Exits in the Game of Life
Spirits will be raised at a benefit reading with Kathleen Turner
In Family Game Night, a new play by Peter Kennedy that will be given a staged reading at town hall on Saturday to benefit the Provincetown Theater, the Mortons are […]
