After being shelved due to the pandemic, “Give or Take,” a feature-length comedy/drama shot in various places around Cape Cod, including Chatham and Orleans, has been officially released, much to the happiness (and relief) of director and co-writer Paul Riccio and co-writer Jamie Effros. After the COVID-19 pandemic hit, “everything was put on hold for a while,” explains Riccio. After a brief run around the fes...

     On Sunday, Feb. 20 at 3 p.m. Open Mic Classical will present a program via Zoom featuring Linking Legacies, a group of Ohio-based performers presenting works by Black composers with ties to Ohio and the greater Cleveland area. This event, held in celebration of Black History Month, will be presented as part of the Mass Cultural Council’s Cultural Investment Portfolio grant.      Open Mic Classical is ...

On my dresser is a small glass vessel filled with yellow jingle shells. This may not seem unusual. I’m sure many Cape Codders have jars of shells in their homes. This one, however, graced my mother’s dresser for many years, the shells having been picked up on morning walks at our favorite beach on weekend mornings all through my childhood. I grew up in Hyannis and our favorite beach was in Osterville. It had s...

      Are you searching for that perfect, unique Valentine's Day gift, but you just can't seem to think beyond the usual box of candy or bunch of flowers? Do you wish you could give something different and unforgettable while also supporting one of your favorite local arts institutions?      Look no further. Give the gift of a live or virtual personalized singing telegram this Valentine's Day to help rais...

     Are you looking for a way to gracefully sweep the last chilly bits of winter away and get out into the community as spring approaches? Make 2022 the year of exquisite chamber music enjoyed in the beautifully restored South Harwich Meetinghouse.      The 2022 premiere season of the Masterpieces at the Meetinghouse concert series will take place on Sunday afternoons at 3 p.m. at the South Harwich M...

We are living in stressful times, when it might be necessary to seek out information on sensitive issues such as divorce, addiction, suicide, mental health and gender identity. This is why Jennifer B. Pickett, reference librarian at the Brooks Free Library in Harwich, put together the Confidential Corner in the summer of 2019 and stocked it with over two dozen books on just these topics. “It’s meant to be s...

          In the depth of winter, the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis is in full bloom.           After declaring a snow day, closing up for safety's sake during Saturday's blizzard and postponing a Sunday event until the white stuff melts, the CCMoA doors are once again open and ready to welcome the community to a full slate of exhibitions, a winter music performance series and classes for adults and childre...

There’s a tendency today among some older people to roll their eyes and talk about the young people today as if they were aliens, just glued to screens, indifferent to the real world around them. It’s true that kids today have screens and they, like pretty much everyone else, are attentive to them in ways our own younger selves would have found hard to imagine. They also are well informed, quick witted, involved ...

We all had to adapt to a new way of life with COVID-19 looming over everyday activities. Some of us had a lot more time on our hands than we might otherwise have had, with only our interests to keep us occupied. The thriller film “Red River Road,” produced entirely during the pandemic, is a strong example of how the time spent in lockdown could have been put to good use. The movie, which opens Jan. 21 at the...

The day dawned a bit gray but a hopeful tinge of a color that might be described as a pale pink blushing coral seemed to want to escape the prison of dullness and streak across the sky just above the horizon. I packed a lunch, my bag of sketch materials, and a lot of hope for a wonderful day exploring the Lower Cape on a winter day. Winter may be my favorite season for exploring on the Cape. I don’t mind the c...

          The Cape Cod Center for the Arts (CCCA), which owns and operates the historic Cape Playhouse in Dennis, has named Tony Award-winning producer  David Elliott as its new artistic director. Elliott will take over for Michael Rader.           Elliott brings a wealth of experience to his new position. For the past 15 years he has served as co-director of Perry Street Theatricals, an award-wi...

The Brewster Book Store and Snowy Owl Coffee Roasters will co-host a book launch for New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard’s latest novel “The Good Son” (MIRA, 2022) on Jan. 20. Mitchard, a resident of Brewster, came to prominence when her first novel, “Deep End of the Ocean,” was named the opening selection for Oprah’s Book Club in 1996. A native of Chicago, Mitchard has had a long acquainta...