Folksinger-songwriter-musician Richard Shindell is coming to Wellfleet from his digs in Argentina to perform a benefit concert for the Wellfleet Preservation Hall project.
When you mix a little folk with a little rock the combo makes up the package of Elvis Perkins, who will be performing at 8:15 p.m. on Wednesday, July 28, at the Payomet Performing Arts Center, Old...
Trying to beat the heat on a muggy afternoon, Susan Grilli settles on a bench in the rotunda of Whaler’s Wharf on Commercial Street, wearing pewter hi-tops, tan khakis and a black camisole. The...
In an essay called “Blurring Richter,” painter and writer Mira Schor brings her highly focused brand of imaginative intellect to bear on the German postwar painter Gerhard Richter.
Once again, it’s a bleak movie-going summer for mainstream audiences craving substance. Yes, the art houses have solid offerings in “I Am Love” and “Winter’s Bone”...
With eye-popping performers club-hopping, biking, beaching, motor-scooting, chatting up tourists, hanging out and letting it all hang out in Provincetown, it comes as a surprise to hear that the...
Released July 13: “Greenberg.” Writer-director Noah Baumbach, who came into his stride with “The Squid and the Whale” and its follow-up, “Margot at the Wedding,”...
Two Provincetown artists of international renown — painter Anne Packard and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver — will be honored Saturday, July 10, when a local institution of...
Retro is the word at the Outermost Shindig, the July 9 music extravaganza, hosted by WOMR 92.1 radio and produced by Tony Pasquale, DJ of the twice a month radio show, the Squid Jigger’s...
To study a large oil painting by Jack Tworkov (1900-1982) — perhaps a field of pelting strokes evoking a sudden storm, or a geometric landscape constructed in bands of color — is to catch...
There’s going to be a whole lot of partying going on this weekend when the Payomet Performing Arts Center in North Truro busts out all the stops to present a triple header on Saturday,...
When Portuguese sailors set off to sea in days of old for parts unknown in search of fish and trade, they didn’t just carve scrimshaw and create shell valentines while on the waters for months...
The audience favorites at the 2010 Provincetown International Film Festival were announced at The Boatslip on Sunday night, capping off a memorable five-day event.
“Burned,” a memoir by Louise Nayer, who is a poet and a tenured professor at City College of San Francisco, is a memoir about a single devastating event that happened to her family when...
Some people are just meant to be together, and a conversation with Stella Starsky and Quinn Cox, known as Starsky & Cox, reveals that for these astrologers the stars lined up perfectly to bring...
If your head isn’t swirling by the end of the first four pages of John Waters’ new book “Role Models” (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux), you’re not paying attention. Maybe it...
Each year the Provincetown International Film Festival honors actors and filmmakers for their contribution to the world of film. Here’s a preview of this year’s award honorees, Smith,...
The opening sequence of Nicole Holofcener’s new film “Please Give” is cleverly shocking and sublime: breasts, one after the other, all shapes and sizes, are plopped down or tucked...
The Michael Mazur Printmaking Studio at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, which will be formally dedicated at 3 p.m. June 12, is more than a public honor for Mazur, nationally recognized as...
Gov. Deval Patrick lifted a boil water order Tuesday morning for 2 million people in Boston area who were told their tap water could be unsafe after a crucial water main failed over the weekend.
Water service to all Massachusetts Water Resources Authority customer communities east of Weston has been interrupted by a "catastrophic failure" in the water system, according to...
Hoping to combat the isolation that often sets in out here during the winter, representatives from several non-profit organizations and other local groups met last week to discuss how they could work...
Hoping to raise funds to pay for a week-long celebration in August of the 100th anniversary of the completion of the Pilgrim Monument, a gala dinner was held Thursday night at the Lobster Pot...
Although the town’s contract to haul trash to the SEMASS Resource Recovery Facility in West Wareham doesn’t expire until 2015, fears of a huge price increase have already jump-started...
More than 500 Massachusetts businesses are participating in GateHouse Media, Inc.’s newly developed online membership rewards and shopping platform, RadarFrog.com
When Alan Kuzirian grabs his briefcase in the morning his golden retriever, Boris, stands by the door, ready to go. Kuzirian has been bringing six-year-old dog to work with him since he was a pup.
The satiny-soft finish of a gleaming tabletop begs to be caressed. A platter of briny mussels make the mouth water until it’s discovered they are hand-carved out of wood. A sign on the wall...
Candidates for State Senator from the Cape and Islands District will be the featured speakers at the April Meeting of the Harwich Democratic Town Committee, scheduled for Tuesday, April 6, 7:30...