Happy astrological new year! The Sun enters Aries this week on the day of the Spring Equinox. Light will overcome shadow, at last, and summer herself is no longer just […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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EXHIBITS
Local Artists Respond to Pandemic With a Show Called ‘When’
Traci Harmon-Hay is joined by Megan Hinton and Susie Nielsen
By Susannah Elisabeth Fulcher “When will this end? When will we go back to normal? When will we see each other again? These are questions we’ve been asking ourselves since […]
PROVINCETOWN CLASSICS
The Bold, Fantastic Art of Dorothy Loeb
Reckoning with a woman artist’s local legacy
If you want to see Dorothy Loeb’s paintings, the best place to go is not a museum but the Residences at Seashore Point, at 100 Alden St. in Provincetown. Specifically, […]
INDIE SCREEN
Hybrid Cinema: From Asia, With Love
Two beautiful films arise from a mix of cultural points of view
Although it has much to recommend it, the film Nomadland, which is playing in theaters (not locally) and streaming on Hulu (free to subscribers), can attribute its extraordinary success, including […]
BOOK REVIEW
In Colonial America, Thomas Morton Took the Pure out of Puritan
A new book examines a rebel antihero among the religious exiles
In the book of Joshua, the ancient Israelites settle upon the land that God had promised them, a land called Canaan, and they do so without slaughtering any of the […]
PAINTING
Erna Partoll’s Art Distills the Brilliant Colors of Her Emotions
Provincetown has been her home and inspiration for 50 years
“I think of painting as capturing time,” says artist Erna Partoll. In the sunny kitchen of her Provincetown home, where she has been holed up during the pandemic, Partoll points […]
RADIO
Meet the Women DJs of WOMR
The station will host its annual International Women’s Day marathon
WOMR’s International Women’s Day celebration began in 1988, says Denya LeVine, one of its “founding mothers.” But only in the last 10 years has the station been doing it consistently, […]
BOOK REVIEW
The Mothers Behind the Civil Rights Movement
Anna Malaika Tubbs gives their story a Black feminist affirmation
It is easy to pan Anna Malaika Tubbs’s The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation, released last month […]
Winter Illumination
METAPHYSICS: PERSONAL HISTORY
Ending Where You Began
A journey without travel: irony and contradictions
…I am waiting to get some intimations of immortality by recollecting my early childhood and I am waiting for the green mornings to come again youth’s dumb green fields come […]
PUBLISHING
Rob Phelps Doesn’t Let a Pandemic Change His Focus
As writer and editor, he keeps readers engaged and entertained
Provincetown was where you went to die. That was what everyone kept saying when Rob Phelps told them he was moving here in the mid ’90s. And, in fact, gay […]
ARTISTS
Marianne A. Kinzer Catches the Flow of Life
A vision ideally expressed in watercolor paint
“Water touches us in so many ways,” says painter Marianne A. Kinzer. “It travels around the globe in the form of oceans, clouds, and rain. It moves through the stems […]
MUSICIANS
The Secret of Ken Field’s Sax Appeal
His jazz improvisations will be featured in ‘Music Without Borders’
It starts with long drawn-out notes forming a simple melody. The sound of the alto saxophone is warm and reedy. At first, you might wonder, where is this going? But […]
AUTHORS
Remembrance of Serial Murders Past
The Babysitter is part memoir, part investigative report about Tony Costa
Sixteen years ago, a nightmare Liza Rodman had been having for months suddenly got real. She finally recognized the face of the man who approached her in the dream — […]
OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT
Called to Surf
Dana Franchitto, Surfer, Pianist, Substitute Teacher / Wellfleet
Dana Franchitto loves going to work as a substitute teacher at the Nauset Regional Middle School in Orleans. Even if he won $10 million in the lottery, he’d still want […]
