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Monday, November 19, 2012

Holly Folly Weekend: Nov 30 - Dec 2

Holly Folly, Nov 30 - Dec 2, ptown.org

The Provincetown Business Guild presents A Gay and Lesbian Holiday Festival!

Friday, November 30, 2012

Holly Folly Headquarters will be located at 265 Commercial St (Way Downtown Restaurant) across from Town Hall on Commercial Street. Hours of operation: Friday & Saturday 11am to 5pm and Sunday 11am to 3pm.

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM - Holly Folly Shop Hop!- If you've had enough of drab malls and the same old thing then the Shop Hop is for you. Get your holiday shopping doneand get a chance to win one of 3 prize baskets. Shop at the unique stores or wonderful art galleries (there's lots of sales too) and then take a break by enjoying a meal at one of the many fine restaurants in town. Save the receipts from the participating stores, art galleries, and restaurants you've shopped or ate at, take them to the welcome center where your receipts get tallied and entered into a raffle to win a prize basket. It's that easy and lots of fun. A list of participating merchants is on the back of the Holly Folly program.

Annual Toy Drive to benefit the St. Peter’s Kitchen Angels Toy and Necessities Fund at The Crown & Anchor, 247 Commercial Street
The toy drive will run from Friday, November 2nd through Saturday, December 1st. Our annual toy drive benefits the St Peter’s Kitchen Angels Toy & Necessities Fund. Help fill Santa’s sleigh by donating a new, unwrapped toy for any age child, from toddler to teenager. Monetary donations can be made in the form of a check made payable to St Peter’s Kitchen Angels. The Kitchen Angels assist families in the Outer Cape & Provincetown area. Please help brighten the holidays for a family less fortunate and donate what you can. If you have any questions please contact Rick Reynolds at 508-487-1430 ext. 227.

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Jest & Jazz and Evening W/Loretta Laroche & Kenny Wenzel, at the Town Hall, 260 Commercial St. Start the Holly Folly Celebration with Loretta who does motivational shows with humor. Kenny, her husband who is a jazz musician with his group will play holiday music with several local Ptown singers.

This will all be sponsored by The Land’s End Inn (new owners are behind this) with proceeds going to the charity The Baobab Home in Tanzania, East Africa. http://www.tzkids.org

5:30 PM – 8:30PM, Holly Folly Sing-A-Long with Casey & Denise at thePorchside Bar, Gifford House Inn, 9 Carver Street (free)
Request your favorite holiday tunes. There is never a cover at the Porchside Bar.

9:00 PM TIS THE SEASON FOR GIVING, Show starts at 9pm in Paramount at the Crown & Anchor, 247 Commercial Street. This is a benefit for the Aids Support Group of Cape Cod. This years’ event promises to be bigger and better with MORE Raffle Items and amazing performances from some of Provincetown’s most talented entertainers!

9:00 PM - Close, "Official Welcome Party For Boston Gay Men's Chorus" at theShipwreck Lounge, 8 Carver Street at The Brass Key
Come join us for a meet and great with the Boston Gay Men's Chorus. Complimentary Snacks. www.ptownlounge.com

10:00 PM - 1:00AM, The Snow Ball at the A House, 4-6 Masonic Place ($5.00 cover for PBG Fundraiser). This Holly Folly tradition is also a fundraiser for the PBG. Great music and fun to start the weekend off. Hosted by Thirsty Burlington and featuring music by Resident DJ and Billboard Magazine Reporter David LaSalle. For more information visit www.ahouse.com.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM - Holly Folly Shop Hop! - Day 2

11:00 AM – 1:00PM, Mr. & Ms. Santa Photo-Op, Song Of Myself Photography,349 Commercial Street, Song of Myself Photography ($30). Get a professionally taken photo with Santa, Ms. Santa or both! Fun, festive or naughty you'll get a terrific memory of your weekend and help support two charities. All proceeds benefit Helping Our Women and the Aids Support Group of Cape Cod. Cost is $30.00 person, each additional person or pet is $10.00.

12:00 PM – 4:00 PM, Souper Saturday @ Frappo 66, 214 Commercial St. ($5)
A variety of soups will be available from many local restaurants at $5 a bowl. Proceeds benefit the Soup Kitchen In Provincetown. SKIP's goal is to provide nutritious and healthful meals in a welcoming and warm atmosphere to all individuals in the community who are either in need or seek community. The lack of proper nutrition for many in Provincetown is an ongoing challenge, particularly as it relates to the town's seasonally employed and chronically unemployed residents.

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM, Holly Folly Inn Stroll, (free)
Enjoy light refreshments and fabulous decorations as the following inns open their doors for some holiday cheer: Aerie House & Beach Club, Brass Key, Carpe Diem Guesthouse & Spa, Crews Quarters, Crowne Pointe Historic Inn & Spa, Fairbanks Inn, Gabriel's at the Askbrooke Inn, Gifford House, John Randall House, Prince Albert Guest House, Somerset House Inn, Watership Inn and White Wind Inn.

3:30 PM – 5:30 PM, Holiday Drag Bingo, at the Crown & Anchor, 247 Commercial St. Come to this first Annual Holiday event dressed in your best holiday outfit. This is a perfect way to show your holiday spirit and kick off the season in style! This is a benefit fundraiser for our Cape & Islands PFLAG division and the Provincetown Business Guild.

5:30 PM – 8:30 PM, Holly Folly Sing-A-Long with Casey & Denise at the Porchside Bar, Gifford House Inn, 9 Carver Street. Request your favorite holiday tunes. There is never a cover at the Porchside Bar.

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, "Holly Folly Holiday Karaoke" at the Atlantic House, 4-6 Masonic Place. Sing A Long with Thirsty Burlington to your favorite holiday tunes in the Little Bar. www.ahouse.com

8:30 PM, BOSTON GAY MEN'S CHORUS at Town Hall, 260 Commercial Street. A great Holly Folly tradition, enjoy the perfect kick-off to the holiday season in Provincetown's own Grande Dame, Town Hall. One show only! Tickets are $27.00 each. Doors open at 7:30pm. We hope to see you there! Tickets on sale now at the Provincetown Business Guild office, 508-487-2313 and will also be on sale at 261 Commercial St across from the old Firehouse between Town Hall and Adam's on Holly Folly Weekend.

9:00 PM - Close, Doug Repetti will be performing at Central House at the Crown and Anchor, 247 Commercial St. Get ready for the holidays as local crooner Doug Repetti sings all your seasonal favorites and invites you to sing along in the Central House piano bar. www.onlyatthecrown.com

9:00 PM - Close, Retro Active Video Lounge in the Wave Bar, At the Crown & Anchor 247 Commercial St. Our resident VJ makes a special 'Holly Folly' appearance with his vast library of music and comedy videos to make your night Jolly!
Welcome Boston Gay Men's Chorus!

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Provincetown Men's Weekend: Nov 9-11

Provincetown Men's Weekend: Nov 9-11, PtownMensWeekend.com

PMW continues the former Single Men and Meet Your Man Weekends simply calling it Men's Weekend, welcoming all men regardless of relationship status.

Provincetown is beautiful in the off season with reduced lodging rates, restaurant specials, and sales at the shops and galleries.

With a variety of offerings to choose from, we're sure you'll have a fun filled weekend. Meet and Eat Buffet Reception, Disco Night, Underwear Party, Piano Bar, Leather Night and more!

All events are free of charge.

Scheduled events:

Friday 11/9

7:00p-9:00p Eat and Greet Welcome Buffet @ Club Purgatory

10:30p-1:00am 70's Disco Night with Manhunt

Mailbox Matchup@ Club Purgatory

Saturday 11/10

11:00am-1:00pm Bayside Brunch @ Bayside Betsy's

(10% off regular menu)

4:00pm-6:00pm Tea Dance @ The Club Purgatory

7:30p-10:30pm Billy Hough Piano Sing-a-long @

Porchside Bar at The Gifford House Inn

10:30pm-1:00am Underwear Party @ Club Purgatory

Sunday 11/11

7:30p-10:30pm Billy Hough Piano Sing-a-long @

Porchside Bar at The Gifford House Inn

10:30pm-1:00am Leather Party @ Club Purgatory

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Ghost Town Haunted Attraction: Oct 26-31

Video produced by Tristan DiVincenzo

Prepare yourself for a frightful journey through condemned buildings, pirate ruins and scary grave-sites as you encounter terrifying creatures of the living dead. Keep your wits about you as you wind your way through areas of death, decay and doom trying to find your ultimate escape. The creatures of Ghost Town are dying for you to cross over and join them in a gruesome and grim afterlife. Please click here to purchase tickets.

On October 31, 1736, what once was a prosperous town, a place of hustle and bustle, buzzing with hope and excitement, Provincetown was turned into a frightful town of the dead. Masked by a dense bank of fog, pirate Captain Davy Flint and his crew of rapscallions aboard The Red Dawn, rolled in that very evening and pillaged and plundered everything in sight like a pack of wild beasts. Surprised by the onslaught, the peaceful townsfolk of Provincetown were defenseless against the Captain and his crew, and were slaughtered for their precious possessions.

The town was set ablaze and was left in ruins and remains, to this day, an uninhabited place unsuitable for the living. Burned buildings, forced into decay from years of weathering and neglect, stand crookedly looming over empty streets, the air around them heavy and lifeless with the impressions of death. Today, locals from the surrounding towns believe that the ghosts of Provincetown's dead inhabitants are still looking for revenge.

They say that October 31st and the days surrounding it bring a strange and eerie fog, and that blood-curdling screams can be heard piercing the air as angry spirits roam empty streets. They say the dead have come back to claim their town and that they have come to seek revenge. And so, as you make your visit to the ghost town of Provincetown, just beware of the perils that may lie in wait.
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Contact:
David Flower
508-487-9601
question@ptownhalloween.com

Monday, October 1, 2012

Women's Week in Provincetown: Oct 8 - 14

Dancing with Mimi Gonzalez, WomensWeekProvincetown.com

Women’s Week in Provincetown means many things to many women. Whether it’s getting to see the best performers and comics in lesbian culture today, or just getting to walk down Commercial Street holding hands with that special someone, basking in the autumn sunlight and taking in the natural beauty of Provincetown, there is no festival on the planet that celebrates women like Women’s Week.

Starting on Columbus day each year in October, Women’s Week begins with events to welcome you and ease you into a Provincetown state of mind. The Welcome Party Monday night begins with a celebratory mood that extends through the following Sunday, with our famous Saturday Night Dance party a fitting crescendo to a fabulous week!

In between, there are so many events to choose from, you’ll have a hard time deciding. To help you out, there are copies of the Official Women’s Week Program distributed all over town before you arrive. In many colorful and beautiful pages, you’ll find details about what’s going on in the schedule, a listing of over 150 separate events, workshops, performances, gatherings, and parties.

New for this year, we’ll post news flashes on the news page — who will be performing, and when, as we hear about it! We will also add to our day-by-day schedule as the news develops, and the day-by-day listing can be found on our Schedule Page.

We’re thrilled to announce our Woman of the Year 2012, Irene Rabinowitz!
Irene Rabinowitz has been the Executive Director of Helping Our Women since 1995. She is a native of Providence, Rhode Island who lived in New York City for sixteen years before moving to Provincetown in 1986. Prior to working at Helping Our Women, she was a Case Manager and Housing Program Director at the Provincetown AIDS Support Group (now the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod) from 1989 to 1995.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Provincetown: A Haven at the Nexus of Light, Water, and the Surreal

Days Cottages at sunset, courtesy of i.c.e images

From painters to photographers, artists have long cherished Cape Cod’s exceptional light, which reaches its apex at the Cape’s tip inProvincetown, Massachusetts.

The Boston Globe in 1916 called Provincetown the ‘Biggest Art Colony in the World,’ and its magnificent light, beautiful landscapes and dynamic, creative atmosphere has captivated the likes of Franz Kline, Mark Rothko and Norman Rockwell.

The unique personality and beguiling backdrops that have long called to painters and playwrights are now capturing more and more photographers. There is never a bad angle or wasted shot in Ptown. The scenery is exceptional all year long and as fall turns to winter, lodging rates drop, sales bloom and the scenery stays put.

Here where Cape Cod Bay meets the Atlantic, something magical happens. Maybe it's the feel good vibe of one of the most open societies in America or the diversity of sights found along dune-laden coastlines or among quaint shingled homes. Most, however, will tell you, “It is the light, silly.”

It’s about time the camera made a stronger claim in a town with only one main street right out of central casting. Walking and biking are the preferred mode of transits here, as cars are, well, for big city folks or day-trippers. So, if you are getting this picture, you’ll find what most have learned, hang in Ptown for a few days and you’ll feel a degree of calm and relaxation that makes it hard to leave.

From snapshots of pets to peaceful sails against billowing clouds, Ptown never lacks for the picturesque. Focus on the outrageous cross-dressers or the centuries old Portuguese fishing fleet, where history is retold from the Pilgrim Monument, attesting to Ptown’s credential as “America’s First Destination,” having first welcomed voyagers to the promised land.

Photographic adventurers can set their own itinerary, from a dune tour, to a whale watch trip, to a bike ride through a national seashore that ends with a bonfire on the beach in the light of a stunning sunset. This is the place for vibrant multicolor skies and ocean reflections. No matter the conditions—fog, sunshine or snow—you will always get the shot.

Professional and amateur photographers alike say that the town inspires shooting because there are so many choices. The most stressful moment of the week will be deciding whether to spend time micro-focused on the flower box, wild field, vintage or architectural details, or the macro shots of land and seascapes.

And, if you can take a pause from night exposures, the many fine dining or casual eateries and some of the oldest continuous pouring taverns in the new world are sure to leave you with after-shoot enjoyment. And when making your plans, don't miss the live acts, which keep you singing or laughing until you greet the sunrise of a glorious new day at the tip of the Cape.

(To view some Ptown images captured by visitors and professionals, view on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ptowntourism/photos, on the Provincetown tourism website http://provincetowntourismoffice.org/index.aspx?nid=171, or Pinterest http://pinterest.com/search/?q=provincetown.)

Press Release
Provincetown Tourism Office
September 25, 2012

Rights free photo supplied by i.c.e. images

For more information, contact:

Gene Rose
gr@mcopr.com1-888-923-9945 x2

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Ptown’s Bobby Wetherbee Celebrates 50 Years at the Ivories

Bobby Wetherbee

Fifty years and tens of thousands of songs later, Bobby Wetherbee sits down at his piano to create melodies that have been a staple of Provincetown, Massachusetts since he began performing in 1962. Wetherbee epitomizes Ptown’s diverse and sometimes raucous brand of live entertainment, which ranges from classical or jazz music and hard rock to sidesplitting drag reviews and killer cover bands. The foggy night air at the tip of Cape Cod has been filled with exotic sounds for as long as locals can remember.

An artists’ enclave known for its eclectic and accepting lifestyle, Ptown was the pilgrim’s first landing spot in America and has since retained a pioneering spirit that continues to attract adventurers. Like the sirens of mythology, the something-for-everyone atmosphere lures visitors and locals alike into some of America’s oldest bars and taverns.

America’s first constitution, The Mayflower Compact, was scripted in Ptown, which is also the birthplace of modern American theatre. Provincetown revels in its creativity, diversity and history. So where else would you find Wetherbee belting out tunes for five decades other than in “America’s First Destination,” where they love his favorite “Sister” from The Color Purpleor the nightly crowd favorite, “Mame.”

“My show never changed, but the crowds changed. The height for sing-along piano was in the 60’s to early 70’s, where showroom sizes ranged from basements holding 30 singers to bigger showrooms seating about 120,” says Wetherbee. “What’s nice about it is that it is physical social networking. It is fascinating that the crowd is so diverse, with 70 year-olds intermingling with 20 year-old kids. They have heard some of these songs, like the sound of music, so they know the words. They also all know “As time goes by – You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss…,” Bobby croons.

Asked how this historic run came about, the singer says he doesn’t know how he lasted 50 years. “Maybe it’s genetics,” says Wetherbee, whose lifetime memory is of singing. “When I was eleven and doing summer stock, I realized I would do this the rest of my life, and then the fights started with my father,” says Wetherbee. “I have three brothers and they never liked my singing. In fact, I would sing on TV in New Hampshire opposite the Mickey Mouse Club and my brothers wouldn’t let mom watch me.”

Struggle is a part of most singers’ stories, and Bobby has had his years of ups and downs, always battling his demons at the keyboard, finding a life of free expression in gay-friendly Ptown, where the crowds fill his shows nightly and treat him like a cultural icon in his renaissance years. After several stints, Wetherbee now calls the Crown and Anchor lounge home, having survived the elite of the St. Regis inNew York and The Copley in Boston. Now the entertainer carries the Key to the Town around with pride saying it was an honor to be called a 50-year destination. Visitors to Provincetown’s “second summer” in the fall can count on Wetherbee filling the crisp cool nights with a particular sound of music heard nowhere else in America.

Editor’s Note: The following article and photo is available to your media outlet free of charge and without any rights restrictions. For more information, or to arrange an interview with Bobby Wetherbee, contact Gene Rose at 1-888-923-9945 x2, or gr@mcopr.com. The photo is attached to this article.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Pet-Friendly Provincetown Sets Special Appreciation Weekend: Sep 28-30

Once a year—and most every day—visitors and townies alike head out to the main street of Ptown with their dogs in tow to strut their stuff. It should come as no surprise in this place, one of the most pet friendly communities in America. Here you can eat with your pet, sleep with your pet and, well, dress up your pet to match the free-wheeling boa-accented costuming of local performers.

Provincetown, "America's First Destination," is the nation's oldest continuous art colony and the open society here seems just fine that the welcome mat also include America's pet society. Every fall, thousands are drawn to the very tip of Cape Codwhere Ptown hosts Pet Appreciation Weekend. Sponsored by the Carrie A. Seaman Animal Shelter, Pet Appreciation Weekend is a busy three-day affair, with many benefits, dances and other fun events. The weekend is meant to provide fun ways to show appreciation for our animal friends, while also contributing to a good cause that helps animals without homes.

This year the annual Canine Games, complete with an agility playground, takes place on Sept. 27 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will also be a “Fabulous Feline Photo Contest” at the same time and, later in the day, a Pet Tea Dance at the Boatslip Resort, where most afternoons host the dance for humans. For more information, check out provincetown.com.

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