Provincetown News

September 9, 2022

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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...

September 1, 2022. the ptownie dispatch!

September 1, 2022

Kurt Reynolds: How Far Is The World August 27 – October 2, 2022 at The Commons How Far Is The World is Kurt’s first large scale exhibition in Provincetown at The Commons. Featured prominently are themes of Provincetown’s maritime history, its promise...

Guide to September in Provincetown

August 30, 2022

Provincetown says good-bye to Summer and hello to what we ptownie’s call “Second Summer”. What we all agree is the BEST time of the year in Ptown. Here is your Guide to What To Do! Thirty-Fourth Annual Provincetown White Party...

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

August 28, 2022

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...

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...