WOMR’s International Women’s Day celebration began in 1988, says Denya LeVine, one of its “founding mothers.” But only in the last 10 years has the station been doing it consistently, […]
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INJUSTICE
After 7-Year Legal Fight, Porter Gives Up P’town Home
WOMR’s ‘Lady Di’ will keep singing from Sandwich
PROVINCETOWN — Vernon Porter, the irrepressible “Lady Di” of WOMR-FM’s most popular show, Friday night’s Leggs Up and Dancing, has been forced to give up his home in Provincetown. It’s […]
Hilary H. Bamford, 83, Host of Friday Folk
Hilary H. Bamford of Provincetown died at home on Jan. 19, 2021 at age 83 after a lengthy illness. She was the widow of Sidney W. Bamford, who died in […]
Coffeehouse at the Mews Goes Virtual
Coffeehouse at the Mews is celebrating its 30th anniversary. But this year, it is going virtual. Watch Mondays at 7 p.m. via Facebook or YouTube. Presented by Live From Provincetown, […]
SWING TIME
Live From New York, It’s Scott Penn!
A familiar voice on WOMR stays in tune, remotely
PROVINCETOWN — For some who move off Cape, it’s a challenge to stay away. Like a full-moon tide, the lure of the place pulls them back. This was true for […]
Addison Art Gallery’s ‘Show of Gratitude’
The Addison Art Gallery, at 43 South Orleans Road in Orleans, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, is having a “month of giving” during November. For every artwork sold in […]
Mic Drop
Wellfleet Preservation Hall and WOMR are hosting a virtual poetry reading, via Zoom, with the winners of the Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest. It will take place on Thursday, November […]
Mic Drop
Wellfleet Preservation Hall and WOMR are hosting a virtual poetry reading, via Zoom, with the winners of the Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest. It will take place on Thursday, November […]
FELLOWSHIP
Bob Seay’s Community Education
The veteran radio newsman tunes in to local projects, history
EASTHAM — Over the last five decades, if you turned on your radio on Cape Cod or in the Boston-Providence area, chances are you’d hear the voice of Bob Seay. […]
Leggs Up and Dancing – WOMR-FM 92.1
Not only is Lady Di and her weekly show, Leggs Up and Dancing, on WOMR-FM 92.1, back on the air on Friday, July 3, from 5 to 7 p.m., she’s […]
Arts Briefs and Listings
Arts Briefs for July 2 through July 8
Impressions of Cape Cod: Local Color Photographer Lee Glickenhaus has a decidedly unpretentious take on his artistic vision. He may be inspired […]
MYSTERIES
A Whodunit at Whaler’s Wharf
Jeannette de Beauvoir draws inspiration from Provincetown
The Matinée Murders, the newest in Jeannette de Beauvoir’s Sydney Riley series of mystery novels, may be a work of fiction, but it is full of real people and takes […]
Arts Briefs and Listings
Arts Briefs for May 14 through May 20
When Sheltering Is Not So Safe Playwright Candace Perry writes that “a portion of the Clothesline Project has been hanging in our yard in Wellfleet. We take in the shirts […]
HEAVENLY CUTS
Local Musicians Mourn the Passing of John Prine
His sharp lyrics were buoyed by a smoke-and-whiskey twang
On April 7, America lost singer-songwriter John Prine to Covid-19. He was a giant in the world of country and folk music — genres that, it may surprise some to […]
PANDEMIC
WOMR’s John Perrone, 70, Dies of Covid-19
The popular host of the radio show 'Night Shift'
PROVINCETOWN — John Perrone, 70, whose passion for and knowledge of Motown attracted fans from all over world, died of the novel coronavirus on April 5, 2020, the same day […]
