Bank Street Beach was the setting. “Forever Summer” was the song, and it was lights, camera, action on Aug. 31 when local singer and actor Susanna Creel took to the shoreline with videographer Joseph Santangelo, actor Brendan Prentiss and songwriter, producer and video editor Maureen Condon to shoot a music video, drawing the attention of interested onlookers who were there for a day of fun in the sun....

“They’re creepy and they’re kooky. Mysterious and spooky. They’re all together ooky. The Addams Family…” Snap your fingers and join the fun at the Cape Cod Theatre Company/Harwich Junior Theatre’s musical production this October. “The Addams Family, A New Musical” is the perfect Halloween treat. It’s silly, ghoulish fun with an incredible array of talented folks. They’re all here: Morticia and Gomez, Wednesday...

You know you've had an exceptionally bad day at work when the experience is covered by worldwide media, you are held hostage at gun point and the outcome results in a gripping movie featuring piracy on the high seas.  Richard Phillips, the former Captain of the MV Maersk Alabama and the titular subject of the movie "Captain Phillips," recounted his “bad day” experience and lessons learned as the guest speaker ...

          They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky, they’re altogether ooky. You know who I’m talking about.           October is here and “The Addams Family” is right on time, kicking the spooky season into high gear with a new musical comedy at Cape Cod Theatre Company/HJT. Wednesday Addams, everyone’s favorite princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a young man from a resp...

On Sunday, Oct. 9 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. creative women from across the Cape will gather together to perform, network and have fun at the third annual Ladies of the Cape Art and Music Festival. The free event will take place at the Elks Lodge in Eastham, and will include art, jewelry, clothing, live music and an open mic. Event founder and organizer Melissa McMahon works at Abroad Global Cuisine in Orlean...

ORLEANS – In 2010, Bill Doherty was driving down Cedar Cove Road on his way to a yard sale. Recently retired from a long career as a captain of U.S. Navy and Merchant Marine ships, he had begun busying himself with taking apart and rebuilding old fishing gear, and he was curious to see what he'd find. But his biggest discovery that day came as he turned past an old, worn sign that bore a familiar name. "I p...

Over the last week I’ve packed my sketchpad, pen, watercolors, binoculars, camera, water, and lunch and taken off to see what I could see. While others were flying off to other states, even other countries, I’ve been revisiting some of my favorite local places while having a bit of a break between teaching summer and fall classes. It’s been great. I’ve walked in the woods, along salt marshes, up and down more ...

     Local dancers had an unforgettable experience recently as instructors and professional ballroom dancers Adam DiCecca-Spencer of Adam in Chatham and Angel Fox of Angel Fox Dance Company accompanied 10 of their dance students from Cape Cod and the South Shore to compete in the United States Dance Championships in Orlando, Fla.      For an entire year, the students, some of whom are relatively new to ballroom...

Thunder, Lightning, torrential rains, flooding in the streets letting up just in time to meet the new “Dracula” on opening night at the Chatham Drama Guild. Playwright Bragan Thomas surely called on the darkness of the foreboding Halloween season to summon his beloved vampire, setting the tone for his world premiere original adaptation to Bram Stoker’s “Count Dracula” that first appeared in a novel and short stor...

The flag painted on the side porch and the magnificent copper beech are well-known highlights of the sprawling family homestead at the corner of Water and Main Streets in Chatham, a fixture in the Old Village since at least 1810. The charming Greek Revival home at 135 Main St. has been in the same family for nine generations, including some significant early settlers of Chatham. In the early 19th century, the ...

It probably won’t surprise you to learn I was a huge fan of Jacques Cousteau television specials when I was growing up. I was totally mesmerized by images of huge, gentle whales underwater and dreamed of someday seeing one. I was terribly afraid they’d be extinct by the time I reached adulthood, so when I was asked to be a monitor for a class of middle school students on a whale watch when I was 25, I was beside ...

My early morning walks now occur in partial darkness. The sun rises behind the trees as I make my way through the neighborhood. Tradespeople are already out and about, driving off to pick up other members of the crew. Students grudgingly stand at bus stops, backpacks full, hands stuffed in pockets when not holding phones. Nature has slowed down a lot these days, but she’s quietly busy. A red-bellied woodpecker...