Jun 2, 2019 | New to Provincetown 2019, News, Profiles
In 1928, naturalist Henry Beston published The Outermost House, a book about his tiny Cape Cod cottage, meant to be a summer retreat but “as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me that I could not...
May 26, 2019 | News, Profiles
There’s something subtly different about the Benchmark Inn. It’s a beautiful boutique bed-and-breakfast, yes; but there are a lot of beautiful boutique bed-and-breakfast establishments in Ptown. And still this one stands out. That’s largely because of what owners...
May 15, 2019 | Events, News, Profiles
If you’re lucky enough to have already caught up with Jon Richardson and Peter Donnelly, then you’ll know why we at ptownie are so in love with this act. If you haven’t yet, you’re in for a treat—they’re appearing on May 17th at the Wellfleet Preservation Hall, and...
May 14, 2019 | Events, New to Provincetown 2019, Profiles
Here we are in the middle of the sixth season of Twenty Summers. What is particularly exciting for you about this season? How do you make decisions about which artists/writers/musicians to invite? Is there a plan that strategizes who has been there, who’s there now,...
Apr 25, 2019 | News, Profiles
There isn’t a day that Warren Lefkowich wakes up and doesn’t feel blessed. At a time when the turnover rate for guesthouse ownership is skyrocketing, Lefkowich’s tenure of 25 years as owner of the West End Inn is well worth celebrating; “I’m one of only a few...
Apr 18, 2019 | New to Provincetown 2019, News, Profiles
The Pied Bar is no more. The space is morphing into a classy, comfortable, supper-type jazz club that has been Lea Delaria’s dream since she first came to Ptown in 1984. “I always wanted to retire and get a little club,” she says. “Turns out, you’re a performer, you...
Apr 12, 2019 | History, Partnerships, Profiles, WOMR
Happy Birthday, WOMR! Community radio stations are interesting places. They attract original thinkers, iconoclastic figures, free spirits. WOMR was founded by such a group of people, and in celebration of the station’s 37th birthday, we’re bringing you this origin...
Apr 9, 2019 | New to Provincetown 2019, News, Profiles
It’s definitely one of Provincetown’s best-kept secrets, but AWOL Hotel deserves to be secret no longer. Everything about it is different from what you’ve come to expect from a Provincetown inn, and at ptownie, we’re convinced it’s going to become the “in” place to be...
Feb 23, 2019 | New to Provincetown 2019, News, Profiles
Charlie Greener and Billy Marshall met rather dramatically—on an around-the-world yacht race in 2004! The race made a stop in Boston coming up from Cape Town, and during this stopover someone recommended that the couple visit Provincetown, “and we never stopped coming...
Jan 27, 2019 | Partnerships, Profiles
We thought you’d like to learn a little about our partner WOMR/WFMR, Cape Cod’s only community radio station. WOMR’s purpose is to build community through media. Mission statement: To operate a non-profit, non-commercial community radio station on...
Aug 28, 2018 | Profiles, Reviews
She does jazz. She does cabaret. She does musical theatre. And for a few precious evenings, Marilyn Maye did Provincetown. There are a lot of singers about whom one says, “oh, yeah, right, them, they’re okay.” That doesn’t happen with her. The world is clearly divided...
Jul 23, 2018 | News, Profiles
She refers once or twice to the “orange piece of shit” who’s president of the United States (and, once, to “Sarah Fuckety Fuckface”), but Judy Gold isn’t belaboring the point in this summer’s show at the Art House. Instead, like other great comedians, she’s keeping it...
Jun 11, 2018 | News, Profiles
In one of Buddha’s lives, he was a ferryman. A ferryman? “He was drawn to the life because of the tranquility of being on the water,” explains Mike Glasfeld. “And he used his ferry to deliver people to enlightenment. How cool, right?” Most definitely cool, and...
Jun 4, 2018 | News, Profiles
Seriously. Do it. You don’t have to be a tourist to enjoy a trolley tour, and you’ll probably learn something you didn’t know along the way. And if you’re visiting Provincetown, there’s no better introduction than to get an overview of the town, past and present,...
May 28, 2018 | News, Profiles
The building was once a sea-captain’s house, so it’s wholly appropriate that part of it now houses The Captain’s Daughters, a unique nautically themed tea and sundries shop on Commercial Street. Co-owners Dani Niedzielski and Meghan O’Connor each first came to town to...
