Art & Entertainment

Artist profile: Caroline & Lauren Grainger

By Allyson Plessner | June 12, 2018

There’s a lot going on at Grainger Pottery in Sandwich. Simply walking through the door is an experience. Every inch of wall space is decorated, and it might take the…

Artist profile: Milisa Galazzi

By Haley Cote | June 12, 2018

When Amy tells Sheldon that their friends Leonard and Penny’s relationship is complicated in “The Big Bang Theory” episode “The Decoupling Fluctuation,” the quirky physicist rebuffs the notion, matter-of-factly replying,…

Artists profile: Larry Folding

By John Greiner-Ferris | June 12, 2018

The desire to paint was always there, even during his career as an engineer in high-tech plastics molding. After work, Larry Folding would come home and paint. He even remembers…

Artist profile: Ramon Alcolea

By John Greiner-Ferris | June 12, 2018

It’s a busy time in Ramon Alcolea’s studio. Already a high-energy person who works on several projects at once, he now has one more significant undertaking added to his schedule.…

Artist Profile: Paul Baldassini

By John Greiner-Ferris | June 12, 2018

It seems that for most of his life, Paul Baldassini has lived in two worlds—the modern world, where he founded and ran a successful boutique design firm in Boston’s Back…

Artist profile: Neil Grant

By Allyson Plessner | June 12, 2018

“I like people to be able to see a story in my art,” says sculptor Neil Grant. “I’m happy to tell someone what inspired me to make a piece, but…

Artist profile: Ronalee Crocker

By Julie Craven Wagner | June 12, 2018

As if floating in another dimension of time and space, Ronalee Crocker’s still life paintings seem to have the power to paradoxically ground the space in which they are displayed.…

70 years of art and community

By Deb Boucher Stetson | June 12, 2018

Cape Cod Art Association celebrates its past and looks forward to its future as the Cape Cod Art Center In the spring of 1948, the Barnstable Comedy Club was staging…

All the world’s a stage

By Allyson Plessner | May 29, 2018

College Light Opera Company sets the stage for the next generation of performance artists It’s been 50 years since the College Light Opera Company was opened by a group of…

The luckiest to have found the best of what’s around

By Allyson Plessner | April 19, 2018

From challenging times on ‘The Bachelor’ to love on Cape Cod, this wedding is one blessed by Angels As Whitney Bischoff—now Whitney Angel—stepped out of the elevator in a waterfront…

Family tides

By Cassie Shortsleeve | April 19, 2018

Family, memories and tradition lead to a laid-back venue Grandpa Joe always loved CBA. In the summer of 1938, when he was a freshman at the College of the Holy…

All heroes on deck

By Carol K. Dumas | April 19, 2018

Figawi teams up with Nantucket nonprofit to give veterans a trip to remember The charity regatta known as Figawi invites intrepid sailors to race from Hyannis to Nantucket on the…

All in the details

By Haley Cote | April 19, 2018

Planning a wedding is no small undertaking. But fear not, future brides and grooms—we’re here to help, with details on wedding shops and services voted tops in our annual “Best of”…

May 2018 Photo Portfolio: Michael Blanchard

By Deb Boucher Stetson | April 19, 2018

Focus on the moment For Vineyard photographer Michael Blanchard, art is about healing and recovery—for himself and for others. “I had gotten sober in 2010 and gone into a rehab…

Festive Feasts

By Julie Craven Wagner | April 19, 2018

A great party requires an appetizing menu. The following three caterers, voted “Best” by our readers, offer top-notch food selections for weddings and special events. Mac’s Parties and Provisions in…

Fall inn love

By Haley Cote | April 19, 2018

Planning the wedding of your dreams on Cape Cod?  These two idyllic inns, voted tops in our annual  “Best of” survey, offer the perfect venue. The Popponesset Inn offers brides…

Making her mark

By Haley Cote | April 19, 2018

Potter Holly Heaslip finds boundless inspiration in her Cape roots Since she was 6 months old, Holly Heaslip has spent every summer with her family on Sandy Neck. Throughout her…

Photo Portfolio: Sharing the Beauty by Stephanie Foster, April 2018 Cape Cod LIFE | capecodlife.com

Photo Portfolio: Sharing the Beauty by Stephanie Foster

By Deb Boucher Stetson | March 19, 2018

Harwich photographer Stephanie Foster vividly remembers the first photograph she ever took, on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston on a gray day. “A group of women were sitting on a bench…