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1 day ago | 
capenews.net | Joanne Briana-Gartner
The lineup has been announced for Coast-Fest 2025, taking place on August 2 at Falmouth Marina’s Lin Whitehead Bandshell. “We’ve added more performers this year and we are going to have a second, smaller, acoustic stage,” said Crooked Coast band member and concert-organizer Luke Vose. Among the acts who will be performing on the acoustic stage will be Lower Cape favorite, Monica Rizzio, aka the Washashore Cowgirl, Jim Decatur and local hip hop artist Mighty Ceej.
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1 day ago | 
capenews.net | Joanne Briana-Gartner
Nutahkeemun Arts Center and the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers will bring the Wampanoag Nation’s “We Are the Land” to Cape audiences. Following its premiere in the United Kingdom and subsequent production at ArtsEmerson, “We Are the Land” will be performed on Wednesday, April 30, and Thursday, May 1, at Cape Cod Community College’s Tilden Arts Center. Start time is 7:30 both nights.
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1 week ago | 
capenews.net | Joanne Briana-Gartner
It was a cold, rainy April night, but the Tilden Arts Center at Cape Cod Community College was awash in color, glitz and joy last weekend for the opening of the musical, “The Prom,” directed by Neil McGarry. Although all the music was new to me, it had a punchy, familiar ring. Shades of “Mamma Mia,” “Pippin” and even “Shrek” all combined to make the songs, many of them uplifting, many of them funny, thoroughly enjoyable.
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1 week ago | 
capenews.net | Joanne Briana-Gartner
When I was a kid my mother refused to buy me Meatloaf’s “Bat Out Of Hell” album, based, I suspect, on the record’s somewhat satanic-looking album cover and the fact that I was 9 years old at the time.
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1 week ago | 
capenews.net | Joanne Briana-Gartner
After impressing the judges over Zoom with her rendition of Miley Cyrus’s song, “Flowers,” earlier this year, Angela Andrews of Falmouth advanced to the second round of auditions for “America’s Got Talent,” earning a trip to California next month for an in-person audition. “If they don’t pick me I come home, but if they pick me I stay there for the show,” Ms. Andrews said.
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1 week ago | 
capenews.net | Joanne Briana-Gartner
Just in time for their 17-year return, Harwich author Kenton Hill has a new easy reader book out for elementary school children titled “Buzzy and the Little Critters: A Curious Tale of a Cicada Invasion.”What’s being dubbed by Barnstable County as “The Great Cicada Comeback,” Brood XIV should emerge from their long gestation in May and June, with males buzzing loudly to attract females within the three- to four-week window that they are alive above ground.
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2 weeks ago | 
capenews.net | Joanne Briana-Gartner
Falmouth resident Adam Smith has released a new book, a historical mystery titled “The Journey of the Snake,” published in January by Milford House Press, an imprint of Sunbury Press in Pennsylvania.
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3 weeks ago | 
capenews.net | Joanne Briana-Gartner
“The Forest Temple Paintings: Landscapes by Dunya Dianne McPherson,” will be on view at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Falmouth from April 6 through May 9. A reception for the show will take place on Sunday, April 6, from 11:30 to 1 PM. In addition to the reception the show can be viewed on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays between 9 AM and noon. The fellowship is at 840 Sandwich Road.
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3 weeks ago | 
capenews.net | Joanne Briana-Gartner
If the current political atmosphere is leaving you feeling stressed, a little art can be good for the soul, especially if that art includes serene images of trees at sunset or mountains at night against the backdrop of a starry sky. Hatchville artist Dan McCarthy offers such respite in his art: silkscreen images in cool blues and warm pinks of expansive, atmospheric landscapes. Mr. McCarthy grew up in Osterville and graduated from Barnstable High School.
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3 weeks ago | 
capenews.net | Joanne Briana-Gartner
After a lifetime of writing specifically for those in the science community, physical oceanographer John Whitehead of Falmouth’s new book, “Energy Flow and Earth: How Earth Works,” is an attempt to engage a wider audience. The concept of flow affects all of nature as well as many constructs invented by humans. In his introduction Mr. Whitehead puts it this way: “All of nature is driven by the flow of energy. Every living thing needs energy flow to produce and reproduce itself and keep itself going.
