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...
May 21, 2018 | News, Profiles
ptownie founder Mike Miller’s father had grown up on a farm in Ohio and, along with his sister Mindy, Mike spent a month or two on the farm every summer throughout his childhood and adolescence. He remembers his grandmother with fondness. “She was a saint,” he says...
May 14, 2018 | News, Profiles
Shane Landry has an egg beater tattooed on his arm. “I learned everything about baking from my grandmother,” says the owner of Connie’s Bakery “I lived with her a lot when I was young, and I absorbed her passion for food. When she died I inherited her egg beater. It’s...
May 4, 2018 | News, Profiles
Becoming the director of the Provincetown Library is, for Amy Raff, “literally, a life-dream come true!” It wasn’t her first try: she’d applied in the past for the position, but the timing wasn’t right. Now it seems like she’s more ready for Provincetown—and...
Apr 20, 2018 | News, Profiles
“I’m having the best winter of my life!” Zoë Lewis exclaims, her enthusiasm infectious. One has the feeling that she would say the same thing of many seasons: Lewis is someone who always manages to look on the positive, if not downright delightful, side of situations...
