“I like a well-turned story,” says Patrick Radden Keefe. “I try to write stories that are engaging, the kinds of stories that you might not have an interest in at […]
Arts & Minds
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GALLERIES
Dani ReStack Finds a Berth in Provincetown for Lesbian Art
Presenting her unabashed images requires a ‘capacity for vulnerability’
“The world is so based in capitalism now,” says artist Dani ReStack, speaking from Columbus, Ohio, where she lives with her wife, photographer Sheilah ReStack. “I think we need to […]
BOOK REVIEW
Understanding The Man Who Ate Too Much
A biography of James Beard takes on new pandemic meaning
About a month ago, my husband Christopher and I were invited to dinner at my in-laws — our first dinner party since the world fell apart last year. While enjoying […]
COMIC STRIP ART
Karl Stevens Turns His Penny Strip Into a Graphic Memoir
The book’s peerlessly inked pages are on view in Provincetown
Most anyone who spends time with a cat will ask what goes on behind the impenetrable stare of its almond-shaped eyes. The Boston-based comic artist and painter Karl Stevens posits […]
TALK OF THE TOWN
Aziz Isham Leads Twenty Summers Into the Future
With a new director, the Provincetown arts program returns rejuvenated
When the lockdown hit in March 2020, Twenty Summers, the popular program of talks, concerts, workshops, and artist residencies based at the historic Hawthorne Barn at the end of Miller […]
ARTISTS
The Enchanting Art of Bunny Pearlman
Her understated works hint at a vibrant and roving life
Just inside the front door of Bunny Pearlman’s Provincetown apartment are stacks of small square fresco panels that she has been assembling in preparation for “The Last Leopard — Avoiding […]
STATE OF PERFORMANCE
As Live Performers Return, Covid Turns Venues Inside Out
Most expect indoor seating to happen, but aren’t sure how or when
The problem, as most producers of live entertainment will tell you, is planning. Though everyone is expecting indoor entertainment to return to the Outer Cape in the next few months, […]
TRANSITIONS
Maxwell Keller Is New Indie Arts Editor
Saskia Maxwell Keller will succeed Howard Karren as arts editor of the Provincetown Independent, beginning with the issue of May 13, Publisher Teresa Parker announced this week. Karren is retiring […]
OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT
Tending the Bottom
MIKE REGO / LOBSTERMAN / PROVINCETOWN Mike Rego sees the handwriting on the wall for lobstering out of Provincetown in the not too distant future. But for now, he’s in […]
CROSSWORD
Crossword #20 Solution
The solution to last week’s crossword puzzle, “All Wrapped Up,” by Sophia Maymudes.
SYNESTHESIA
Painting in the Key of Blue, à la Judith Rothschild
Putting an Outer Cape painter’s ‘color-music analogy’ to work
Like Robert Motherwell, Judith Rothschild was a member of Provincetown’s legendary Long Point Gallery. She lived part of the year in Wellfleet and studied with the modernist masters Hans Hofmann […]
BOOK REVIEW
Reassuring the First-Time Gardener
Jessica Sowards’s book is the cure for ‘analysis paralysis’
Sometime in the last year, as one does in a pandemic, I began cleaning drawers. Among the items that I found were unopened packets of seeds. Columbines I’d bought when […]
ALBUM REVIEW
What Is Truly Fearless About Taylor Swift
A re-recording raises ethical and artistic questions
From the start of her career 15 years ago, when she was just a 17-year-old with a cascade of blond curls writing her own lyrics about the pitfalls of high […]
PERFORMANCE
Thirsty Burlington Prepares for a Post-Covid World
Scott Townsend rehearses a new act for Thirsty — and Cher
“It sounds like I’m singing in the bathroom and you’re singing way over in the kitchen,” says Scott Townsend — better known as the drag queen and Cher impersonator Thirsty […]
CROSSWORD #20
All Wrapped Up
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