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    8 Tips Every Home Marijuana Chef Needs to Know
    November 4, 2019
    Cooking with Marijuana
    Baking, cooking and mixing food and drink with cannabis extracts and concentrates is a fine art that can take a really long time to perfect. It’s science, after all. With the right techniques, you can skate by even as a beginner. Use this list to make sure...
    Want to tune in to WOMR?
    October 28, 2019
    Listen to WOMR Provincetown
    WOMR/WFMR is your community radio station, the only one on Cape Cod, and is part of Radio Free America. Want to listen? Here’s how… WOMR is now streaming worldwide thanks to Shoutcast. You can listen on your FM radio by tuning your channel to FM 92.1 or...
    Provincetown History Snippet: Holy Mackerel!
    October 24, 2019
    Provincetown History Mackerel
    In 1851, there were 60 Provincetown-owned vessels weighing a total of 4,332 tons pursuing mackerel; the fishery employed 688 men and boys. In 1864 the catch was so great, the year was referred to as the Boon Island Year.   It didn’t last. By 1871, the...
    Provincetown History Snippet: From Whaling to Whale-Watching
    October 11, 2019
    Provincetown Whales
    Provincetown, along with New Bedford and Nantucket, was once one of the hubs for hunting whales. By the 1850s, the schooners of enterprising Yankee families were sailing from Provincetown to the rich whaling grounds of the Azore islands to hunt sperm...
    5 Ways to Help your Budtender Help you
    October 2, 2019
    Budtender Help
    Walking into a dispensary and ordering legal cannabis for the first time is both a wonderful and surreal experience. Customers find themselves immersed in a whole new world of strain varieties, extracts, edibles, topicals, and a myriad of other innovative...
    Provincetown History Snippet: The Moors Motel & Restaurant
    September 27, 2019
    Moors Motel Provincetown
    Today it’s AWOL, part of the chain of Lark Hotels, but in the 1950s at the end of Bradford Street Extension you’d have found The Moors Motel and The Moors Restaurant. The promotional postcard for the motel noted it was “Provincetown’s nicest,...
    Indecent at the Cape Rep is Anything But
    September 24, 2019
    Cape Cod Indecent
    I have to begin this review with a caveat: nothing I can write will do justice to Indecent or to Cape Rep’s production of this “true story of a little Jewish play.” It may well be the most perfect thing I’ve ever seen on stage. There’s dancing....
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