On a Monday evening in late July, Commercial Street is alive with people on bicycles, parents toting children, purpose-driven townies, dawdling tourists, and be-wigged drag queens on scooters. Brian Calhoon […]
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THE FEMINISTAS
Womencrafts Is In on the Joke
With a fake award and an apt impression, a lesbian bookshop gets some pop culture love
PROVINCETOWN — When a group of men walked into Womencrafts last month, Vicky Barstow, who was on duty in her “dream retirement job,” wanted to know why they would want […]
WHERE WE ARE
The Reverberations of the Wellfleet Group
Robert Jay Lifton speaks of scholarship and activism — and of love of this place
Few scholars have reshaped our understanding of trauma the way Robert Jay Lifton has. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1926, Lifton attended Cornell University and New York Medical College before […]
GOOD VIBES
A Moment for the Marimba
At Provincetown’s Brasswood Inn, Mondays are about bringing music to the people
On a Monday evening in late July, Commercial Street is alive with people on bicycles, parents toting children, purpose-driven townies, dawdling tourists, and be-wigged drag queens on scooters. Brian Calhoon […]
STREET STYLE
Not Very Demure
There was a moment last year when the word demure was on everyone’s lips. Not Momma JC’s, though. Never one to limit herself to one job, one opinion, or one […]
STREET STYLE
Everything You Need
You may think Rodrigo Hernández is just that guy mixing your Banana Farmer on Tiki Sundays at the Harbor Lounge. But when you see him sipping a coffee by day […]
CALL FOR ARTISTS
Brian Butler Draws Onlookers Into the Art of Play
Beach towels will be canvases at this year’s Oldtimers Longboard Classic in August
Brian Butler’s quest began with the Saugusaurus, a 12-foot-tall fiberglass T. rex looming over a miniature golf course in Saugus. In 2006, while he was studying printmaking at the Mass. […]
STREET STYLE
Easy Breezy
I noticed costume designer and film producer Chester Algernal Gordon strolling through the West End on a warm day wearing an easy breezy two piece with an unusual pattern of […]
FLAVORS
America’s Culinary Revolution Was Certainly Queer
John Birdsall’s new book reveals the defiance and nurturing that changed American tastes
For John Birdsall, the confluence of cooking and queerness goes way back. Birdsall started his cooking career at Greens, the restaurant that originally opened as part of the San Francisco […]
STREET STYLE
The Man in the Big Hat
Gene Fedorko says he’s a medical professional but also an activist and curator. He’s outside MAP, the Commercial Street shop, wearing a large hat and yellow-and-green striped pants. I love […]
WATER KEEPERS
Tending the Commons
A group gathers to get rooted in the nature of this place
Under the gleam of the full Moon, the group of 12 women moved at a meditative pace through the woods along Old King’s Highway and past the still ponds of […]
GRACE GOUVEIA SERVICE AWARD
Bruce Mason Goes Forth Into the World, to Rejoice and to Protest
Spreading peace and love, he says, ‘I receive more than I give’
PROVINCETOWN — There were still 20 minutes left of the documentary, and Bruce Mason wanted to know if he could finish it before giving an interview. It was the day […]
GOOD HUMOR
Eastham’s Ice Cream Lady
A jolly jingle electrifies the air in the parking lot at Thumpertown Beach in Eastham. Seconds later, Nicki Waite swings into view, driving her vintage ice cream truck: a 1973 […]
CONSTITUTIONAL
Healing the World, One Stitch at a Time
Diane Midura knits together her love for gardening, birds, and democracy
Diane Midura is still flying her knitted Ukrainian flag outside Ocean Purls, her Eastham yarn shop. “I started knitting it days after the Russian invasion,” she says. She didn’t think […]
FASHION FORWARD
Super Grover in Leather
It’s a warm Tuesday morning in Provincetown and artist Paul Rizzo is wearing knee-high athletic socks with garters, a royal blue vintage speedo, a black leather chest harness, and a […]
