Provincetown News

Scholarly Foremothers: Review of Yale Needs Women

August 22, 2022

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...

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

August 20, 2022

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...

Rising to the Moment: Lesbians and the AIDS Epidemic in Ptown

August 20, 2022

“Something good did come out of something terrible,” says Jackie Kelly, thinking back to the effects of the AIDS epidemic on Provincetown. “Before it happened, we were two separate communities, gay men and lesbians. What it did was make us become...

Jon Richardson and the Soul of a Song

August 20, 2022

Jon Richardson remembers the moment he arrived in Provincetown. “I was living in Boston and I was invited to have Thanksgiving with some friends who owned a home in Truro,” he remembers. “The afternoon after Thanksgiving, we drove into town and parked...

Queering Cures

August 20, 2022

Jeffrey Schaffer on healthcare without the stigma at testNtreat When it comes to talking safer sex, registered nurse Jeffrey Schaffer has a refreshing air—and maybe one that many people aren’t used to from healthcare professionals. “Keeping PrEP prep...

Meet the Crown & Anchor’s New Head Chef, Raina Stefani

August 20, 2022

Raina Stefani grew up in Provincetown; she’s fourth-generation Portuguese on her mother’s side, while her paternal grandfather was from Venice, Italy. “Both of these cultures were very family-oriented,” Stefani remembers, “and therefore food played...

At Home with Constantine Manos and Michael Prodanou

August 20, 2022

They share similar parentage—one is Greek-American, the other Greek-Canadian—and artist Michael Prodanou and photographer Constantine (“Costa”) Manos are proud of their heritage; both have lived in Greece and now spend time there as often as possible....

A Walk in the Woods

August 20, 2022

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Getting away to Provincetown, for many, is really about getting into its many abundances—of lobster rolls, ice cream shops and pithy t-shirts, of drag queens gliding up and down Commercial Street on scooters, of rainbow flags and barkers promoting drinks...

Art We Love – Never Out of Style

August 20, 2022

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This being the Fashion Issue, it’s worth noting that art can be a lot like clothing: in or out of vogue. There are fads and trends in art, and just like clothes some art can feel dated or deeply rooted in a particular time. But as with vintage Chanel and...

Meeting the Rural Challenge: Helping Our Women

August 20, 2022

In 1993, with the Provincetown AIDS Support Group up and running, a group of people—many of whom were involved with the support group—rallied around a local resident diagnosed with breast cancer and saw there was a fulltime gap in supporting women in town...