Provincetown News

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...

Crew’s Quarters: Sophisticated Bunkhouse for Salty Seamen

August 20, 2022

It’s been a doctor’s office, an antique store, and an art gallery, but most people associate the building at 198 Commercial Street with The Ranch, a male-only inn that Out Traveler called “an almost corny bunkhouse geared toward the leather/Levi crowd...

In The Business of Saving Lives: The AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod

August 20, 2022

“There was a time when gay men were coming to Provincetown to die,” recalls Dan Gates, President and CEO of the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod, or ASGCC. “Now? They’re coming to Provincetown to live.” That dramatic change is due in no small part to...

August 18, 2022. the ptownie dispatch!

August 18, 2022

SLURP – Paige Turner’s Tawdry Pool Party feat. DJ James Cerne Friday August 19, 2022 at 12:00pm at Boatslip Mayhem. Foolishness. Music! Celebrate the return of NYC’s longest-running drag show, Paige Turner SLURP poolside before Provincetown’s famous...

When You Can’t Look Away: Frozen at the Harbor Stage

August 15, 2022

One has to start with a trigger warning: Bryony Lavery’s play Frozen could be quite difficult for some people to watch, dealing as it does—intimately—with pedophilia and serial murder. None of that is immediately obvious to the audience; as the play...

Revisiting Groundbreaking Theatre: Jerker

August 15, 2022

It’s a story far too familiar to a Provincetown audience: casual intimacy and death by plague. But Robert Chesley’s Jerker manages to explain and defy both in ways that aren’t immediately obvious—and ultimately quite poignant. The story is simple: JR...