Astrologer KT Fitz calls her podcast Miss Guided, but she’s not out to steer anybody wrong. She just thinks astrology can be funny. Over the course of an hour, Fitz […]
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THE INTERVIEW
Exhibit Designer David Perry Is Both Creator and Guide
The influencer just below the surface
David Perry flies under the radar. He’s an architect, designer, collector, and curator whose aesthetic decisions have made aquariums and zoos beautiful and more accessible. He now works backstage advising […]
HISTORY
Tiny Worthington and Truro’s Fashion-Forward Days
How a 1930s cottage industry grew from one woman’s belief in the beauty of fishing nets
TRURO — Ada Worthington, whom everyone called Tiny, created a national fashion trend during the Great Depression from the beauty she saw in a piece of fishing net she picked […]
THE COMMUNICATOR
Little Edie’s End-of-Season Ennui
After the lookie-loos leave, a Yorkiepoo longs for St. Tropez
“There’s something terribly sad about watching the patio umbrellas come down,” said Little Edie wistfully as some of the last of the seasonal workers cleared furniture from a nearby patio. […]
CIVICS
Former GLAD Director Is at Home in Truro
Lee Swislow, a seasoned advocate of queer justice, finds meaning in local politics
TRURO — You might call Lee Swislow a political animal. She has been a longtime advocate for gay rights and was, for nearly a decade, the director of GLAD — […]
PLACES
Where Bouffants and Beauty Culture Lived On
At Terra Luna in Truro, Tony Pasquale’s homage to his grandmother’s big personality
TRURO — Many mournful diners bid farewell last week to a favorite joint tucked away on the bay side of Route 6A in North Truro. Terra Luna was always more […]
RELIGION
Finding a Church That’s ‘a Little More Inclusive’
A former Catholic priest is St. Mary’s new pastor
PROVINCETOWN — Brian Raiche was at the grocery store when he decided to reevaluate his relationship to the Catholic Church. Raiche was the priest at a parish in Averill Park, […]
FINAL BOWS
Mark Cortale Says Farewell to the Art House and Hello to Broadway
A theater lease is ending amid new plans for both venue and producer
Mark Cortale has been saying a grateful goodbye to the Art House, the Provincetown theater where he spent 12 years as the producing artistic director — an experience that he […]
GREAT PLANES
As Long as There’s No Wind, Kenny Dutra Flies
A flyer of radio-controlled aircraft takes to the skies in Truro
Photos by Nancy Bloom TRURO — As Hurricane Lee grazed Cape Cod, Kenny Dutra watched high winds whip at branches in the woods outside his Truro home. It sent his […]
ON THE BEACH
Advice Opens the Way to Experience
‘Can I ask what lure you’re using?’ and other questions fishermen here will answer
I’m sure I have forgotten more about fishing than I now know. Every time I go, I find myself remembering, usually too late, that I should be using a different […]
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ONE MAN’S TREASURE
A Holdout Survives on Eastham’s Shurtleff Road
There’s more to the Beyle house than the signs and the swine out front
EASTHAM — On Shurtleff Road, a roughly half-mile residential stretch that curves along Cape Cod Bay in North Eastham, immaculate lawns adorn large new houses. There’s not a pebble out […]
WORDS
Tyne and the Town
Emmy and Tony-winning actress Tyne Daly in three evenings of benefit readings
Tyne Daly might be best known to a certain generation of audiences for her costarring role as down-to-earth cop and working mom Mary Beth Lacey in the mid-1980s television show […]
THE THREAD
Craft Becomes Art in Gretchen Romey-Tanzer’s Weaving Studio
A room full of looms is classroom, workshop, and gallery
BREWSTER — Eight big floor looms stand in various stages of use in Gretchen Romey-Tanzer’s studio. The walls are lined with vibrant spools of wool and cotton and with the […]
POSITIVE AGING
A World Traveler Finds His True Home in Provincetown
Larry Moodry is Provincetown’s Senior of the Year
PROVINCETOWN — Larry Moodry first came to Provincetown in 1960, hoping to spend a college summer waiting tables. He got more than he bargained for. “Provincetown,” he says, “became my […]
