Provincetown News

By Chris Daniels May 19th, 2013 Memorial Day Weekend--three words that conjure images of summer fun, of long vacation days spent in sunshine and fresh air, the extended hours of all the shopping you could want, great summer foods and a wide variety of shows and parties to entertain your evenings! Provincetown has perfected the art of summer play, ... (more)

What do you get when you cross that lowly staple of American commerce - the yard sale - with quirky, over-the-top Provincetown? Probably much more than you bargained for.

Legislators deciding whether a gaming compact goes before the full House and Senate were worried Wednesday about how much it cost when the first agreement between the Mashpee Wampanoag and the governor was rejected by the federal government.

UMass Dartmouth Professor Donald Beal has won the Provincetown Art Association and Museum's Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant, which was set up specifically to promote public awareness and a commitment to American art, as well as encouraging interest in artists who lack adequate recognition.

Local police departments and at least one resident are succeeding where some politicians have failed: they are making the streets of our communities safer.

The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe will try to make the case this week that it is still the player to beat for a Southeastern Massachusetts casino.

A Weymouth man who allegedly set fire to a business on Commercial Street was arrested and charged with attempted arson Monday.

"Lovelace," starring Amanda Seyfried as '70s porn star Linda Lovelace, will be the opening-night film at this year's Provincetown International Film Festival.

Called "Coffee Chat," the series of meetings will allow residents to discuss a variety of topics with Chief Jeff Jaran.

Beach stairs torn apart by storms this winter at Nauset Light Beach in Eastham and Marconi Beach in Wellfleet will be repaired by early June, allowing the facilities to open to the public, Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent George Price announced today.

Molly "Equality" Dykeman is a loveable, but barely lucid security guard at PS 339 who dabbles in a bit of poetry, a bit of Percocet and a lot of drink.

Three airports on Cape Cod and Nantucket have received a total of $1.8 million in federal funding for safety improvement projects and planning.

On Election Day in 1996 , TheAtlantic.com launched a weekly editorial cartoon feature drawn by Sage Stossel and named "Sage, Ink." Since then, Stossel's whimsical work has been featured by the New York Times Week in Review, CNN Headline News, Cartoon Arts International/The New York Times Syndicate, The Boston Globe, Nieman Reports, Editorial Humor, ... (more)

"Even back then I knew it was a special place," photographer John Arsenault says of his first time in Provincetown, in 1982, when he was 11 and his mothers took him there for vacation.

Of course the Earth is rotating on its axis, allowing the days to be longer, and the sun to seem warmer, but it's much more than that.

Target Lady, Garth and Kat, the mutant Finger Lakes sister, cameos by Maya Rudolph and Jonah Hill, and Music by Vampire Weekend.

From the pothole-riddled street, you can hear the ocean roaring below, and see half a dozen homes sitting close to the edge of a steep cliff.

Even under Thursday's cloudy afternoon skies and random raindrops, 10 cars were parked at the northern end of Herring Cove Beach.

Walking down the sweeping stairway built for grander times, as the sun sets behind the sand dunes, it's hard not to reach for a copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's greatest work.

Well here we go again, I thought to myself when the e-mail came in that the Massachusetts Poetry Festival was happening.