In My Time of Dying is like Schrödinger’s cat. Until you open the book, author Sebastian Junger is both alive and dead. But in the famous quantum theory thought experiment, […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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MEMOIR
Cher Tells Her Remarkable, Resilient Truth
Part one of the star’s story reveals the grit behind her reinventions
My mother was from Las Vegas. On one summer visit when I was 12, she took me to Ceasars Palace to see Cher in concert. During the encore, Cher ran […]
Arts Briefs Dec. 12 – 19, 2024
Catie Flynn Does What She Loves Catie Flynn makes her living “the Cape Cod way” — that is, she says, doing “whatever works.” Originally from Harwich, she now lives in […]
ICONOGRAPHY
Provincetown’s Wharves as Motif
Where artists as well as fishermen embarked on risky ventures
The wharf in all its stages — from bustling workplace to burnt timbers — has seen generations of artists setting up easels to capture the arrival and departure of schooners […]
STARTING OVER
A Family History Reconfigured in Artifacts and Enigmas
Sasha Chavchavadze composes works from shards of stories and found objects
Sasha Chavchavadze approaches her family history with some ambivalence. At times she tries to stash it away. “All this heavy Russian history becomes too big,” she says. Still, she often […]
BOOKS
The Many-Splendored Loves of Older Gay Men
Zigzag is a short story collection for an uncertain age
Queer baby boomers are now elders, the first generation to grow old after Stonewall. They came of age in a world where it was possible to love openly, keep one’s […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for December 5, 2024 through December 12, 2024
Bringing the Bells and Singing for Change For 28 years, Reuben Reynolds has been the music director of the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus, standing in front of its hundreds of […]
THEATER
What’s Love Got to Do With It?
A play of odd couplings makes a holiday treat
John Cariani’s Almost, Maine — a collection of nine playlets about love in an isolated small town in northeast Maine — is such a crowd-pleaser that it’s easy to overlook […]
FA-LA-LA-LA-LA
A Diva With a Heart of Gold Plays a Scrooge
Tina Burner brings a one-queen Christmas Carol to the cabaret stage
“We all know that we all hate the holidays,” says Tina Burner, the drag performer and comedian from New York City who starred in Season 13 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. […]
ART’S OBJECTS
Varujan Boghosian’s Poetry of Ordinary Things
Greek mythology, found objects, and play were an artist’s way with the pain of the past
The 35 pieces by Varujan Boghosian now on display at the Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit seem to suggest that to know the artist’s work is to know […]
OBSERVER
A Focus on Place
Photographer Edward Boches is committed to his subjects
At Wellfleet Harbor, Edward Boches wades in shallow water, photographing shellfishermen at low tide. He rides his fold-up bike along Ocean View Drive with a camera around his neck. He’s […]
MUSIC
Shannon Davis Sings Stories That Seem Real
A debut album weaves loneliness into love and betrayal and back again for more
When Shannon Davis was 16, she picked up her uncle’s jumbo acoustic Epiphone guitar. She had never known her uncle — he had died when she was a baby, but […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for November 28, 2024 through December 5, 2024
A Story of Survival Told Through Sculpture Gallery owner Anne-Marie Zehnder’s ceramic sculptures line the walls at AMZehnder Gallery in Wellfleet. The rectangular slabs of fired clay are coated in […]
ARTISTS’ BLOCKS
Japanese Woodblock Printing: A Workshop
Students learn the art under the watchful eye of Daniel Heyman
Daniel Heyman says woodblock printing is a skill that takes a while to hone. He first learned it in Japan during a two-month stay as an artist-in-residence in the village […]
PAINTING
An Artist on the Move
Caroline Carney records her passage through the world in lush, small-scale works
Painter Caroline Carney is out in L.A. now, but Provincetown is still on her mind. She moved out west with her partner, Sinan Papić, whose experience of living in the […]
