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 […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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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 […]
WOW LISTINGS
Still Shucking After All These Years
WELLFLEET — The last OysterFest celebrated here drew an estimated 23,000 people to town, where they ate some 125,000 oysters, drank quantities of beer perhaps best left unestimated, and stayed […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
All Those Retrogrades Will Be Behind Us Soon
It’s time to open up, go out, and move on
Cosmic cookies, star-grazers! Multiple planets that have been in retrograde are finally stationing direct this month, dropping even more celestial blessings from the busy October skies. First there’s Pluto, whose […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Oct 7 through Oct 13
ArtProvincetown Festival ArtProvincetown is a three-day-long festival running Friday, Oct. 8 through Sunday, Oct. 10. The festival includes museum and gallery events along with live music. The first day will […]
ARTISTS
Finding Inspiration in Negative Space
Damion Silver’s show in Eastham is bold, bright, and graphic
Around the start of the pandemic, Damion Silver was working on a sculpture in his studio when he noticed that the shadows cast on the floor made interesting patterns. That […]
INDIE SCREEN
The Monstrous Cost of Art
Good, bad, or ugly — is it worth it?
Seeing Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris is a less-than-contemplative experience. The Renaissance painting is housed in the high-ceilinged Salle des États, which is filled with […]
