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Provincetown Holly Folly 2022 Must See Events!

Have you made your Holly Folly plans? Holly Folly is a weekend of shopping, partying, and revelry! Come get all your Christmas shopping done and enjoy Provincetown in the offseason. Canteen Holiday Market and Winter Lodge Friday-Sunday Dec 2-4 11am –...

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October 27, 2022. the ptownie dispatch

Grimm’s Beary Tales: Costume Ball and Costume Contest October 30, 2022 at Crown & Anchor Grimm’s Beary Tales: Costume Ball and Costume Contest in the Paramount Room at the Crown & Anchor! Sign up for the contest as you enter the Paramount! Cash...

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ptownie Guide to Gay Guesthouses in Palm Springs

Hmmm, what is the right Gay Guesthouse for me? ptownie has you (un)covered with some great (clothing) options for your stay in Palm Springs. Some of us here at ptownie are growing to love the desert as much as the ocean. If you haven’t been to Palm Springs...

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Art We Love – More than Meets the Eye

The first impression a piece of art makes when you walk into a gallery can be thrilling. But sometimes what’s even more exciting is discovering that what you see up close is not at all what you thought you saw from afar. All of the pieces here had that...

History

The Lemonade Girl

For more years than many of us can remember, summers in Provincetown weren’t complete without the sight of a little girl walking up and down Commercial Street, calling out in a lovely singsong voice, “Lemonade! Fifty cents! Lemonade!” That little girl...

Entertainment

Gorgeous and Poignant: Tiny Beautiful Things at the Provincetown Theater

Tiny Beautiful Things doesn’t feel like a standard play (spoiler alert: it isn’t). For one thing, there’s no complex storyline—no plot at all, in fact. With one exception, the characters aren’t fully fleshed out, the audience essentially hears their...

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Humanity at its most raw: “The Humans” wows Provincetown

Make sure you see The Humans at the Provincetown Theater before joining your family for the holidays; it will reassure you that your people’s insanity is way down on the crazy scale. Dysfunctional family gatherings are a staple of theatre and literature,...

Entertainment

Off With Their Heads! The Revolutionists at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

It is a sad fact that history is always written by the winners, and for many centuries that has meant it’s written by men. The frustrations women feel when they realize their stories aren’t being told, remembered, and celebrated come to the fore in...

Books

Scholarly Foremothers: Review of Yale Needs Women

I have to admit as a Yalie myself (albeit from the less rarefied air of one of the graduate schools) I was eager to read about how Yale welcomed women scholars and … oh, right. It didn’t. In the summer of 1969, from big cities to small towns, young women...

Entertainment

A pirate, a witch, and a lot of fun: *From the Heart of the Wreck* at Cape Rep

Cape Rep Theatre has a tradition of staging geographically and culturally relevant plays—plays about the fishing industry, plays about Cape Cod history—and its world premiere of From the Heart of the Wreck adds a new star to that firmament. The story...

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