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    Indie Classifieds November 14 – 20, 2019

    Neighborly connections about all kinds of stuff

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    PROVISIONS

    Organic Turkeys for Thanksgiving. The East End Market at 212 Bradford St. in Provincetown is taking preorders for Mary’s Organic Turkeys for Thanksgiving. We have limited birds. Sign up today before they are all gobbled up! Vegetarian options, sides, and pies are also available. 508-487-2339. [11-21]

    Salty Market offers casual catering for family get-togethers, office parties, team-building brunches, and more. We offer anything from sandwiches and salads to house-made bagel platters and pies. We also offer discounts on bulk wine and liquor purchases. Email catering inquiries to [email protected]. Email wine and liquor inquiries to [email protected]. [11-21] 

    SERVICES

    Calligraphy & event-planning services by Janscript Elegant Calligraphy, now in North Truro! 30 years in business with happy clients who appreciate my unique attention to detail. Etiquette expert, too! Visit www.janscript.com or call Jan at 617-750-1530 to discuss your needs. No job is too big or small! [12-5]

    Marrying? Make It Official. Rev. Vernon Diannah Porter, Provincetown’s own wedding specialist, would be honored to be a part of your special day. Officiating with love, respect, and optimism, whether your marriage is gay or straight. Also known for her WOMR role as DJ “Lady Di,” Vernon is a minister and a certified professional life and recovery coach. Tel: 508-487-7198; email: [email protected]. [11-28]

    INVITATIONS

    Salty Market invites you to two Grand Holiday Tastings: Friday, Nov. 22 and Wednesday, Nov. 27. Come sample impressive selections of wine to pair with your Thanksgiving meal and take advantage of our 20%-off yellow dot wine sale and holiday discounts on selected items. 2 Highland Road, North Truro. [11-28] 

    DO GOOD

    Casino Night Returns. Helping Our Women’s popular Casino Night returns to Montano’s on Saturday, Nov. 16 from 6 to 10 p.m. Join HOW for an evening of fun and gaming! Try your luck (or skill) at the roulette wheel, poker, and blackjack and win CASH prizes while raising money for HOW. Montano’s is located on Rt. 6 in North Truro. $10 at the door includes raffle ticket. Cash bar. [11-14]

    Rock to Stop Homelessness. A fundraiser for the Homeless Prevention Council featuring live music with awesome ’60s cover band The Broughams. $20 donation includes entertainment and snacks. Cash bar. All proceeds go to HPC programs. Nov. 16, 6 p.m. at Hog Island Brewery, 28 West Rd., Orleans. Details at hpccapecod.org. [11-14]

    Walk or Run for HOW. Join us Thanksgiving morning for the 8th Annual Provincetown Pilgrim 5K Trot, a fundraiser for HOW. On-site registration starts at 7:30 a.m., race starts at 9 a.m. at the Sandcastle Resort. Register in advance for $25 at pilgrimtrot.webstarts.com or onsite for $30. Sponsored by Cape Cod 5. [11-28]

    TALENT QUEST

    Winter Wednesdays is looking for instructors. Share your hobbies, skills, or passions with the community. To apply: send your name, contact info, a brief overview of your proposed course, syllabus, and short bio to [email protected]. Application deadline: Nov. 18. Instructors receive a stipend for teaching. Learn more at www.winterwednesdays.org. [11-14]

    ART

    Art Awaits. Even after the galleries close for the season. Sculptural drawings and installations that reflect the ever-changeable nature of our Earth. Artist Phyllis Ewen, on the web at phyllisewen.com. [11-28]

    MUSIC

    Irish and Old Time Music at The Well Tavern and Kitchen in Wellfleet. Denya LeVine and friends with local and visiting instrumentalists and singers. Fridays: Nov. 15 and 29, 7-9 p.m. with co-host Tim Dickey. Songs, tunes, and dancers. Learn more at www.denya.us. [11-28]

    FOR SALE

    Wellfleet, modern house on Indian Neck. Stunning views from wrap-around decks, overlooking Fox Island. Light-filled, unique floor plan contains two separate units — a one-bedroom affordable accessory unit and a two-bedroom “upside-down” unit — easily converted back to a 3BR single-family. PV & SHW. $650,000. Email: [email protected]. [11-28]

    Wheels. People this 2008 Mazda 3 Hatchback has got a can-do soul, a hard-to-find 5-speed manual transmission, and gets 30 mpg. Experienced (172,000+ miles), but well-maintained, with good tires and new brakes. $1,000. Teresa, 917-363-0339. [11-28]

    WANT TO RENT

    Winter Parking. Earn money doing nothing. We need an indoor garage space for one car for the winter. Truro car, but any town on the Outer Cape would be fine. Tel: (314) 609-8300. [11-28]

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    Indie Classifieds November 7 – 13, 2019

    Neighborly connections about all kinds of stuff

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    DO GOOD

    Casino Night Returns. Helping Our Women’s popular Casino Night returns to Montano’s on Saturday, November 16 from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm.  Join HOW for an evening of fun and gaming! Try your luck (or skill) at the Roulette Wheel, poker and blackjack and win CASH prizes while raising money for HOW.  Montano’s restaurant located on Rt6 in North Truro.  $10 at the door includes raffle ticket. Cash bar. [11-14]

    Chefs for Community. Five local chefs cooking together for one special night: a dinner to benefit Provincetown’s Farmer-in-the-School program, a bountiful children’s garden and farmers’ market initiatives for children, families, seniors and veterans. Sunday, November 10, 5pm at Spindler’s. Eat, enjoy, and do good! Benefit and ticket details on the Sustainable Cape website, www.sustainablecape.org. [11-7]

    Rock to Stop Homelessness. A fundraiser for the Homeless Prevention Council featuring live music with awesome ’60s cover band The Broughams. $20 donation includes entertainment and snacks. Cash bar. All proceeds go to HPC programs. Nov. 16, 6 pm at Hog Island Brewery, 28 West Rd., Orleans. Details at hpccapecod.org. [11-14]

    Walk or Run for HOW. Join us Thanksgiving morning for the 8th Annual Provincetown Pilgrim 5K Trot, a fundraiser for HOW. On-site registration starts at 7:30am, race starts at 9am at the Sandcastle Resort. Register in advance for $25 at pilgrimtrot.webstarts.com or onsite for $30. Sponsored by Cape Cod 5. [11-28]

    TALENT QUEST

    Winter Wednesdays is looking for instructors. Share your hobbies, skills, or passions with the community. To apply: send your name, contact info, a brief overview of your proposed course, syllabus, and short bio to [email protected]. Application deadline: November 18. Instructors receive a stipend for teaching. Learn more at www.winterwednesdays.org. [11-14]

    ART

    Art Awaits. Even after the galleries close for the season. Sculptural drawings and installations that reflect the ever-changeable nature of our Earth. Artist Phyllis Ewen, on the web at phyllisewen.com. [11-28]

    MUSIC

    Irish and Old Time Music at The Well Tavern and Kitchen in Wellfleet. Denya LeVine and friends with local and visiting instrumentalists and singers. Fridays: Nov. 1, 8:30-10:30 p.m. with co-host Pat Nash. And Nov. 15 and 29, 7-9 p.m. with co-host Tim Dickey. Songs, tunes, and dancers. Learn more at www.denya.us. [11-28]

    WINE

    Wine Tastings. Salty Market invites you to free wine tastings every Friday 4-6 pm. Sample a selection of our wines alongside cheese and charcuterie pairings. The tastings are free and open to anyone of legal drinking age. 2 Highland Rd., North Truro. [11-21]

    SERVICES

    Planning a Wedding? Rev. Vernon Diannah Porter, Provincetown’s own wedding specialist, would be honored to be a part of your special day. Officiating with love, respect, and optimism, whether your marriage is gay or straight. Also known for her WOMR role as DJ “Lady Di,” Vernon is a minister and a certified professional life and recovery coach. Tel: (508) 487-7198; email [email protected]. [11-28]

    Casual Catering. Salty Market in North Truro offers casual meal catering for weddings, company events, private parties and gatherings. We also offer discounts on bulk wine, beer, and liquor purchases. For details and pricing please contact [email protected]. [11-21]

    FOR SALE

    Wellfleet, modern house on Indian Neck. Stunning views from wrap-around decks, overlooking Fox Island. Light-filled, unique floor plan contains two separate units — a one-bedroom affordable accessory unit and a two-bedroom “upside-down” unit — easily converted back to a 3BR single-family. PV & SHW. Email: [email protected]. [11-28]

    Wheels. People this 2008 Mazda 3 Hatchback has got a can-do soul, a hard-to-find 5-speed manual transmission, and gets 30 mpg. Experienced (172,000+ miles), but well-maintained, with good tires and new brakes. $1,000. Teresa, 917-363-0339. [11-28]

     

    WANT TO RENT

    Winter Parking. Earn money doing nothing. We need an indoor garage space for one car for the winter. Truro car, but any town on the Outer Cape would be fine. Tel: (314) 609-8300. [11-28]

     

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    Licensing Board Urged to Keep Art Everywhere in Provincetown

    Gallery owner Ray Wiggs wants to protect the ‘gallery system’

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    Spiritus Pizza with art on the walls
    Spiritus Pizza’s dining room always has art. Founder John Yingling says, “We don’t sell art. We let artists put art on the wall.” (Photo Nancy Bloom)

    PROVINCETOWN — Artists, gallery owners, and retailers gave resoundingly bad reviews to Ray Wiggs’s attempt to have the town ban the sale of fine art in restaurants, bars, and inns at an Oct. 22 meeting of the Provincetown Licensing Board.

    “I don’t think anyone here can honestly say it’s fair that someone can host a show at a pizza place,” Wiggs said, “and pass out 150 flyers all over town, which say, ‘Don’t buy at expensive galleries. Come buy directly from the artist tonight.’ ”

    Town regulations restrict food trucks as a protective measure for restaurants, argued Wiggs, owner of the Ray Wiggs Gallery at 432 Commercial St. The town should likewise protect gallery owners from being undercut by restaurants and inns that can sell paintings as an ancillary to their main businesses without incurring the same overhead costs as galleries.

    Wiggs had asked the licensing board to create regulations that allow galleries “to operate on an even playing field.” Last week the board heard from the public on this idea, but it won’t vote on any new regulations until about January, said Aaron Hobart, Provincetown’s licensing agent.

    Wiggs’s proposal has run into almost universal resistance and appears to touch a nerve even with his fellow gallery owners who remember being struggling artists themselves.

    Photographer Marian Roth said she first exhibited her work in 1984 at the Sea Fox restaurant, and she got her first job after the owner of Provincetown Magazine saw her work while he was eating lunch.

    Gallery owner, retail shop owner, and artist Cid Bolduc told the licensing board she has considered this issue from many perspectives and concluded, “Sometimes more restriction and rules is not the solution.”

    Bolduc is the co-owner of the Cid Bolduc Gallery and Cape Art Tiles. “Retail owners suffer the same sort of competition,” she said. “We live in a resort town, with a very small window of opportunity to make sales. It’s weather dependent. It’s economy dependent.”

    Early in her career her own work was shown by gallery owner Robin Watson in partnership with Café Edwige, Bolduc said. Her work sold to restaurant customers who might never have gone into the gallery.

    “I’ve shown at Spiritus,” she said. “I’m still here and I’m in my fourth decade.”

    Wiggs told the licensing board he represents other gallery owners who are too afraid to speak because of possible repercussions from the community.

    Francesca Cerutti, co-owner of the Cid Bolduc Gallery, questioned Wiggs’s claim. “None of them are here tonight,” said Cerutti. “It’s just hearsay. I urge the board not to upset the apple cart and don’t listen to one disgruntled gallery owner.”

    Cerutti added, “I relish that there is art in every nook and cranny in this town, whether it’s at a pizza place or an ice cream place or at someone’s house.”

    Though no one at the crowded meeting spoke up in Wiggs’s defense, the spouse of one gallery owner did write a sympathetic letter.

    Bob Daniels, whose wife, Mary Feeley, is the director of Hutson Gallery, wrote, “It’s naive to believe individuals can sell whatever they want, wherever they want, and whenever they want. If so, Scott would still be selling cupcakes on the street. [This reference is to Scott Cunningham, who had to get a brick-and-mortar shop for his “Scott Cakes.”] And MacMillan Pier would be lined with food trucks.”

    Flyers for a Spiritus show
    Gallery owner Ray Wiggs submitted this to the licensing board as an example of flyers advertising a show at Spiritus Pizza.

    Provincetown, the oldest continuous art colony in the nation, has around 50 galleries. The Provincetown Art Association & Museum boasts 900 member artists from 28 states and eight countries, said Chris McCarthy, PAAM’s executive director.

    Wiggs had included in his presentation to the licensing board a definition of “fine art” from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art.

    But McCarthy said no one has the qualifications, not even a museum director, to define “fine art.”

    Wiggs said town regulations should protect the “gallery system.” But Pete Hocking, an artist and art professor at Goddard College, called it more of an “art ecology” based on young people who need unconventional spaces.

    Hocking said he and his friends recently challenged themselves to name as many local artists as they could who are under age 35.

    “No one could get over 14,” he said.

    Gallery owners face enormous financial pressure, Hocking said, and some artists’ work doesn’t sell. Provincetown is a place to meet emerging artists that one day can be brought into galleries, he said.

    John Yingling, a restaurateur in Provincetown since 1971, hit the same point hard when he spoke with the Independent on Monday.
    The motto of his first restaurant, Spiritus Pizza, is “Pizza meets coffee meets ice cream meets art,” its website states. Yingling doesn’t have a gallery license, nor does he intend to get one. He said he doesn’t take any commission. He just likes to see the art on the walls of his pizza place, and at his other restaurants.

    Yingling said he exhibits the work of unknown artists who are talented but don’t command the high prices that more established artists do, and he claimed to have the best art in town.

    Furthermore, Yingling added, the art that sells and is ubiquitous — paintings of dories and “nude guys” — isn’t exactly the pinnacle of creative expression.

    “Provincetown is one of the foremost art colonies and emerging artists have no place to sell their stuff,” Yingling said. “Galleries don’t want them.”

    this week

    Arts Briefs & Listings for Oct. 31 through Nov. 6

    exhibitions, music, theater, and other happenings on the Outer Cape this week

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    ‘Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement’

    East End Books, 389 Commercial St., will host a reading on Friday, Nov. 1 at 5 p.m.

    Author David K. Johnson’s book, “Buying Gay,” includes a wealth of images. (Photo courtesy Columbia University Press)

    Author David K. Johnson, an associate professor of history at the University of Southern Florida, presents a vivid look into the lives of physique entrepreneurs and their customers. The book includes a wealth of illustrations. Buying Gay explores the connections and tensions between the market and the gay rights movement. Physique entrepreneurs of the 1950s and 1960s were at the center of legal struggles, especially against the U.S. Post Office, including the court victory that allowed full-frontal male nudity and open homoeroticism. Buying Gay reconceives the history of the gay rights movement and shows how consumer culture helped create community and a site for resistance.

     

    Curtis Speer's "The Lightkeeper"
    “The Lightkeeper” by Curtis Speer

    Rhapsody in Blue at the CUSP Gallery

    Photographer and gallery owner Curtis Speer will have an exhibition of his ocean-themed work from Nov. 1 to 24. Titled “The Blues,” the pieces include ships, shipwrecks, and other visual stories about the sea.

    “The Lightkeeper” is a self portrait from a series taken along the rocky coast of Maine inspired by the paintings of Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper. “The Lightkeeper” denotes courage, bravery, and tenacity in the midst of adversity.

     

     

     

    Solo Time for First String Violinist

    Edmund Bagnell, the first violinist of the singing string quartet Well-Strung, will make his solo debut in “He Plays the Violin” in Provincetown this weekend. The new show is a part of the inaugural season of New Works Provincetown, a theater lab founded by Mark Cortale to create new works here. Music direction is by Matthew Aument and the show is directed by Michael Schiralli, Varla Jean Merman’s long-time director.
    Show times are Friday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 2 at 6 p.m. at the Provincetown Art House Theatre, 214 Commercial St.
    For tickets and information see brownpapertickets.com/event/4399313 or call (800) 838-3006.

    Music, Theater, and Halloween Weekend Listings

    CONCERTS

    Harold López-Nussa Quartet: Sunday, Nov. 3 at 4 p.m. at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 335 Main St. $25-$30 at payomet.org.

    We Are the Men: Saturday, Nov. 2 at 2 p.m. at The Academy Playhouse, 120 Main St., Orleans. $20 at acacape.org.

     PIANO BARS

     Jon Richardson: Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 31-Nov. 2 at 9 p.m. at the Crown & Anchor Dive Bar, 247 Commercial St., Provincetown. No cover.

    Scream Along with Billy: Friday, Nov. 1 at 11 p.m. at Grotta Bar, 186 Commercial St., Provincetown. No cover.

     Tin Pan Alley, 269 Commercial St., Provincetown. Gerald Goode: Thursday, Oct. 31, 8-11 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 3, 7-10 p.m. Mike Flanagan: Friday-Saturday, Nov. 1-2, 8-11 p.m. Jim Brosseau & Friends: Monday, Nov. 3, 7-10 p.m. No cover.

    THEATER

     Crude: The Climate Change Musical, by Maureen Condon: Thursday at 7 p.m., Friday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. through Nov. 10 at Cape Cod Theatre Company/Harwich Junior Theatre, 105 Division St., Harwich. $27, seniors $25, under 21 $15 at capecodtheatrecompany.org

    David’s Friend, by Nora Burns: Friday-Saturday, November 1-2 at 7 p.m. at Pilgrim House, 336 Commercial St., Provincetown. $20-$30 at pilgrimhouseptown.com.

    Grounded in Varna, by Jody O’Neil: Friday-Saturday, Nov. 1-2 at 8 p.m. at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, 2357 Route 6. $25 at what.org.

    Mosquito Story Slam, Day of the Dead Special Edition, “Reunited”: Friday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. (6:30 p.m. sign-up) at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 335 Main St. $15 at wellfleetpreservationhall.org.

     Something Rotten! book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell, music and lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick: Opens Wednesday, Nov. 6, Tuesday-Thursday at 7 p.m., Friday-Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. at Cape Rep Theatre, 3299 Rt. 6A, Brewster, through Dec. 8 (no shows Nov. 26-28). $35-$40 at caperep.org

    DRAG

     Drag Karaoke with Dana Danzel: Thursday-Saturday at the Governor Bradford, 312 Commercial St., Provincetown. No cover.

    Mackenzie’s HalloQueen Spooktacular: Friday-Saturday, Nov. 1-2, at 9 p.m. at Pilgrim House, 336 Commercial St., Provincetown. $20 at pilgrimhouseptown.com.

    Varla Jean Merman in “Pieced Together … All My Best Parts,” at The Art House, 214 Commercial St., Provincetown: Friday, Nov. 1, at 9 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 2, at 8 p.m. $35-$45 at provincetownarthouse.com.

    Halloween Happenings

    Art House, 214 Commercial St., Provincetown. Varla Jean Merman in “Pieced Together … All My Best Parts,” Friday, Nov. 1, 9 p.m. & Saturday, Nov. 2, 8 pm. $35-$45.

    Boatslip Beach Club, 161 Commercial St., Provincetown. Last Dance Tea Dance, Sunday, Nov. 3, 4-7 p.m. Free.

    Crown & Anchor, 247 Commercial St., Provincetown. Townie Halloween in the Wave Bar, Thursday, Oct. 31, 8 p.m., no cover; Spooky Bearlesque, Friday & Saturday, Nov. 1 & 2, 7 p.m., $29; Hallowoof: The Return of the Monsters, Friday, Nov. 1, 9 p.m., $15; Spooky Bear Costume Ball, Saturday, Nov. 2, 9 p.m. $10.

    Motta Field, Winslow St. Provincetown Recreation Dept.’s Greet ’n’ Treat, Thursday, Oct. 31, 4:30-6 p.m. Free.

    Pilgrim House, 336 Commercial St., Provincetown. Mackenzie’s HalloQueen Spooktacular (costumes encouraged), Friday-Saturday, Nov. 1-2, 9 p.m. $20.

    Provincetown Town Hall, 260 Commercial St. Black & Gold Halloween Ball, Saturday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m. $60 at Ptown.org.

    Wellfleet Drive-In Theatre, Route 6. Trunk or Treat Festival, Thursday, Oct. 31, 4-7 p.m. Free (includes hotdogs & cider).

    Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 335 Main St. Community Ofrenda Installation, Tuesday-Saturday, Oct. 29-Nov. 2; Halloween Dance Party with Sarah Swain & the Oh Boys (costumes encouraged), Thursday, Oct. 31, 8 p.m. $15/$16 at the door. Day of the Dead Mosquito Story Slam, Friday, Nov. 1, 7 p.m. $15.

    Halloween Screening: Secret Agent (1936) Provincetown Public Library, 356 Commercial St. Hitchcock’s Worst Films (And Why They’re So Good) film series, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 5:30 p.m. Free.

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