PROVINCETOWN — Disagreement over who should be eligible to benefit from a town scholarship fund established more than 30 years ago led the select board to ask for help from […]
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OBITUARY
Rev. James W. Cox of Provincetown Methodist Church Dies at 59
Reverend Jim planned a traditional New Orleans "second line" funeral for himself
PROVINCETOWN — The Rev. James W. “Jim” Cox of Provincetown died on Sept. 10, 2019 at home, surrounded by friends. He was 59. Born in Barnstable and raised in Wellfleet, he was the […]
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Provincetown’s Fake Economy
Income inequality is all around us
PROVINCETOWN — I live in an unusual Provincetown neighborhood. There are 11 nearby dwellings, and eight of them are occupied year-round. (That’s 73 percent.) Two of my year-round neighbors own […]
OBITUARIES
Santos and Rocheteau Services This Weekend
Mary Lou Santos, 90 TRURO — A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 20 for Mary Lou Santos, who died at age 90 on April […]
FIRST RESPONSE
Fire Exposes Weakness in Outer Cape Emergency Lines
Both 911 and regular phone service are cut off for hours
WELLFLEET — A fiber optic cable fire on Route 6 near Pamet Point Road took out telephone lines and blocked first responder communications from Wellfleet to Provincetown for several hours […]
OBITUARY
Artist, Gallery Owner Anne Lord Malicoat Is Dead at 81
A long-time presence in Provincetown, she was a compulsive truth-teller
PROVINCETOWN — Anne Lord Malicoat, a long-time resident of Provincetown, died peacefully at home on Aug. 29, 2019, with her family at her side. She was 81 and had lived […]
THEATER
Tennessee Williams Festival to Spotlight Mishima and Japan
Exploring how two writers’ queerness led to “a truly generative exchange”
PROVINCETOWN — Everybody knows the name Tennessee Williams, the two-time Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright who gave us The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and A Streetcar Named Desire. Not […]
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Enchanted Forest 2019
"Everybody needed some joy"
Photos by Marcia Geier taken at this year’s Carnival parade, with words collected online and in conversations afterwards by Susannah Elisabeth Fulcher. PROVINCETOWN — “Joy in the street!” The words […]
ENVIRONMENT
23 Park Structures at ‘High Risk’ From Climate Crisis
Officials design movable structures in response to erosion
TRURO — The climate crisis is “the greatest threat to the integrity of our National Park Service that we have ever experienced, and we’re at the forefront of it,” according […]
THEATER
‘Cabaret’ Offers a Startling Contrast to Provincetown Audiences
Peregrine Theatre Ensemble’s current production is breathtaking and bold
PROVINCETOWN — It was the evening before Provincetown’s Carnival parade, and Commercial Street was filled with half-naked people in 10-inch heels and three-foot Afros. Loud men in thongs hawked tickets […]
PEOPLE
Elspeth Halvorsen Creates Worlds in Her Boxes
Provincetown artist’s signature is the moods of the seas, moon, and tides
PROVINCETOWN — The 250 Bradford St. home of artists Elspeth Halvorsen and Tony Vevers, formerly owned by Mark Rothko, is hidden behind an overgrown patch of trees. On this sunny, […]
ENVIRONMENT
Culling Seals Is Wrong Answer to Shark Threat, Scientists Say
Larger seal population seen as sign of healthy environment
PROVINCETOWN — Calls to curb the seal population in Cape Cod waters by ending their protected status under federal law are misguided, say scientists who study marine ecology. In spite […]
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Sanctuary and Balance
Our hallmark should be respect for all, including ourselves
PROVINCETOWN — Sailing or motoring out of Cape Cod Bay, rounding Long Point and entering Provincetown Harbor, there is a sense of protected water. The harbor appears as a big […]
people
Provincetown’s Master Storyteller
Beata Cook steals the show with tales of gay life in the ’40s
PROVINCETOWN — Bartender, bullet maker, bookkeeper — Beata Cook has been all these things. Not necessarily in that order. But who cares about chronology when you’re listening to a master […]
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Peculiar and Superior
Why is it that people are so happy to be here?
PROVINCETOWN — It happened again the other morning: walking my dog on the beach I met a couple and we began talking. I mentioned something about last winter’s storms. There […]
