Provincetown News

New Years Eve Dinner and Entertainment at The Central House

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:09:04 EST

The Central House at the Crown & Anchor continues its tradition of offering the big night without the big price with another outstanding New Years Eve a la carte dinner menu. With so many outstanding items to choose from, you'll be hard pressed to make up your mind, but you'll never be disappointed! First course options include citrus-herb & quinoa stuffed squash blossoms, aged goat cheese, grilled romaine salad, endive & radicchio salad and a broiled chili basil shrimp cocktail. For the main course, choose from the pan seared filet mignon, grilled lobster tails, peppercorn crusted duck breast, vegetarian osso buco, tarragon mustard glazed veal chop or pistachio crusted scallops. The magic continues with a chocolate mousse truffle or tangerine pot de creme. This incredible menu is presented by executive chef Amy Howell. Amy has a passion for working with certified organic & local products whenever possible to insure you are getting the freshest and tastiest dishes available.
After dinner Bobby Wetherbee sings in the New Year in his own special way.
Make your reservations today at 508-487-1430 ext 229.

First Landing Dinner - Benefit for 100th Anniversary of Pilgrim Monument

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:04:19 EST

The “102 Club” will be officially launched at a dinner at the Orleans Inn on Saturday, November 21, 2009, the date of the actual first landing of the Pilgrims in Provincetown, 389 years ago. Yankee Magazine President/CEO Jamie Trowbridge will be the featured speaker of the event. The dinner has been generously donated to the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum by the Orleans Inn. For more information on the Orleans Inn dinner, joining the “102 Club” and other opportunities go to www.pilgrim-monument.org “102 Club” members and sponsors will have access to all events surrounding the 100th celebration that will be held throughout the year, leading up to the August 5, 2010 celebration. Evening will include a wonderful dinner supplied by the historic Orleans Inn and local wine donated by Truro Vineyards. Tickets are on sale now: $102 each - Make reservation via the www.pilgrim-monument.org/2010.html or email events@pilgrim-monument.org

Amazing entertainment with No cover Charge!

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:19:57 EST

An amazing talent from NYC, Todd Alsup is returning to The Crown & Anchor for his second gig of 2009. Alsup performed during bear week in July and the crowds loved him. Having never been to Provincetown before, Todd wasn't sure how things would turn out and he was thrilled with the response and also with the town itself. So much so that he and his partner returned later in the summer for vacation.
Born in Detroit, with it's great Motown heritage, Todd's family was not at all musical but very supportive of him and his desire to make a living by making music. He even drew inspiration from the record collections of his parents, listening to greats like Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Carol King and Billy Joel. He has developed into an accomplished song writer as well and is currently working to wrap up his first full lenth album (he has already released an EP entitled Facts and Figures".
Todd wil be performing over the Thanksgiving weekend on both Friday & Saturday night from 9:00pm until midnight in the Central House Cabaret. There is no cover charge, but you just might want to come in early & have a delicious dinner first to guarantee a good seat for the performance.

Thanksgiving Weekend in the Wave Bar at the Crown and Anchor

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:58:48 EST

Coming up this Thanksgiving weekend, we have our resident DJ Chris Racine spinning your favorite music & videos both friday & Saturday night (Nov 27 & 28) from 9:00pm until 1:00am. During the day we'll be showing the College bowl games on the big screen, but at night it's time to kick back, relax & party! Plenty of great music, great drink specials & free pool table & popcorn too! It's the perfect place to unwind after stuffing yourself and doing the family thing!

Provincetown Restaurant Week and Gallery Stroll Nov. 6-12

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:12:38 EST

Twenty Provincetown Restaurants will "set their tables" for ptown's 1st Annual Restaurant Week. From November 6-12, participating restaurants will offer three-course prix fixe dinners at either $25 or $35; excludes gratuity, alcohol and tax. Experience Provincetown's distinct dinnig options and vibrant year round community during the fall season. Art galleries, museums and local shops will extend business hours and celebrate the week with special events. Toast with the team at WA as we host our wonderful neighbors from Truro Vineyards for a week long event celebrating the bountiful offerings from the vine. This beautiful presentation showcases the wide array of varieties of wine produced here on Cape Cod. Wine tasting on Sat., Nov. 7th, 5-6:30 p.m. and Tue., Nov. 10th, 4-6 p.m.! Join us along with the owners of Truro Vineyards to learn how the art of wine making can be a local enterprise. To learn more about Provincetown First Annual Restaurant Week visit www.provincetowntourismoffice.org.

Participating Restaurants:

Central House at the Crown & Anchor
247 Commercial Str
(508) 487-1430

Michael Shay’s
350 Bradford Str
(508) 487-3368

Lobster Pot
321 Commercial Str
(508) 487-0842

Bayside Betsy’s
177 Commercial Str
(508) 487-6566

Chach
73 Shank Painter Rd
(508) 487-1530

Ciro & Sal's
4 Kiley Ct
(508) 487-6444

Crowne Pointe Bistro
82 Bradford Str
(508) 487-6767

Fanizzi’s
539 Commercial Str
(508) 487-1964

Front Street
230 Commercial Str
(508) 487-9715

Jimmy’s Hideaway
179 Comercial Str
(508) 487-1011

Lorraine’s
133 Commercial Str
(508) 487-6074

Mews
429 Commercial Str
(508) 487-1500

Napi’s
7 Freeman Str
(508) 487-1145

Red Inn
15 Commercial Str
(508) 487-7334

Ross'Grill
237 Commercial Str
(508) 487-8878

Saki Sushi
258 Commercial Str
(508) 487-4870

Waterford Tavern & Café
386 Commercial Str
(508) 487-6400

Victor’s (menu)
175 Bradford Str Ext
(508) 487-1777

Provincetown's Central House Restaurant hires new Executive Chef

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:27:09 EDT

The Central House at the Crown & Anchor brings simplistically eclectic cuisine to the heart of Provincetown while accenting the region's local seafood and vegetables with very little preparation. Working directly with local farmers and fisherman whenever possible allows the ingredients to speak for themselves. Bringing approachable sophistication both in the kitchen and the dining room, Wine Steward and restaurant manager Peter Miscikoski enlightens the dining experience with an amazing wine selection and warm hospitality. Relax and people watch in the open patio with one of the delicious Rose by the glass while enticing your taste buds. You don't want to miss this experience. The Central House is very pleased to announce the hiring of Amy Howell as Executive Chef. Amy has many years experience in the Provincetown culinary scene and is a well known and respected member of the local community. The Central House is now also offering 2 for 1 Tuesdays. Come in for dinner on Tuesday night, buy 1 entree and get 1 of equal or lesser value free! Check out the Central House link atwww.onlyatthecrown.com

22nd Serenity by the Sea Provincetown

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 9:26:02 EDT

Serenity by the Sea Provincetown celebrates another year of recovery, unity, and service for the LGBT community and all of our friends. October 21 -25, 2009 will again be enjoying the idyllic setting of Provincetown, Massachusetts as our backdrop for this amazing 5 days of meetings, workshops and activities. Provincetown offers a dynamic setting for our exciting, friendly, and diverse weekend full of recovery, growth and spirituality. Many folks come early and stay late, the strong recovery community has plenty of room for your experience, strength, and hope. Beginning on Wednesday night after the local 6:30 Step meeting gather at Bayside Betsy's for a private meet n' greet for the large crowds who are here for the week, with plenty of food and fun, then on Thursday get ready to be rocketed into the 4th dimension where we will have the second annual Are These Extravagant Promises open discussion meeting, followed by another delicious evening at Fanizzi's by the Sea. For the official kick-off on Friday, celebrate your progress with meetings and workshops all afternoon, followed by a dynamic 3 speaker meeting under the big top, with 1000 of your closest friends. Then to keep the energy flowing, head on over to the Friday night Cabaret and celebrate the talents that abound in us all, or become a participant and dare to celebrate your talents, and give them away on stage. If you have not discovered yours, you soon will, surrounded by your friends, and the many friends to be made.

Start your Saturday off with an on-site Yoga class, a wonderful walk down the Historic Commercial Street, or across the Breakwater to the Long Point Lighthouse. Perhaps a 12 mile Bike Hike through the National Seashore, or the 3 mile Fun Run will keep your balance resonating. Meetings and workshops will continue throughout the entire day, again followed by a 3 speaker meeting with the twinkling lights of Provincetown in the background.

Then get your dancing shoes on and head to the Crown and Anchor for a night of sober dancing like no other! “One of the most authentic sober dancing experiences I have ever had, to be surrounded by a sea of friends, family, lights, sound, and sobriety was a promise come true.”

For a most wonderful closing day, celebrate your gratitude with a open discussion meeting Sunday morning under the Big Top while gazing across Cape Cod Bay and soaking in the serenity and companionship. Then for once last tasty evening of fellowship join us at the Top of the Pot for a Rounddown dinner.

Together with Al-Anon participation it has been the privilege of Serenity by the Sea to continue celebrating the recovery of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and friends of, community. Our purpose is to support individual recovery and maintain unity within the safety of our beautiful surroundings.

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News Flash #1 Wednesday night buffet dinner Meet n' Greet...Bayside Betsy's 7:30-9:30 $25

News Flash #2 Open Discussion "Are These Extravagant Promises" meeting 6-7pm Provincetown Inn , followed by full buffet dinner at Fanizzi's by the Sea 7:30-9:30 $35

NEWS FLASH #3 BINGO Saturday night at the Universalist Church 9:30pm-12am. Now either shake your booty off at the dance, or daub your dauber across the street all night long. Suggested donation $20, includes free beverages.

News Flash #4 Round down dinner at the Top of the Pot Sunday night 7:30-9pm. $25

Provincetown Fantasia Fair 2009

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 9:19:52 EDT

Provincetown, October 18 - 25, 2009. Fantasia Fair is a week-long transgender event held every October in the GLBT resort town of Provincetown, Massachusetts. The Fair is a “full immersion” experience, meaning that attendees can and usually do spend an entire week living 24/7 presenting their gender as they wish. Started in 1975, “FanFair” is the oldest and longest-running gathering of transgender persons for mutual education, support, collaboration and socializing. Every year the Fair grows in its scope, character, and assistance to the gender explorer. FanFair continues to be the leading annual program promoting an individual’s ability to thrive in a real-life situation, and receive positive reinforcement and encouragement. This allows the cross dresser, MTF transsexual, FTM transsexual and all the gender diverse to experience life in an open and caring environment — something unique in a world that typically has difficulty understanding and accepting gender diversity.

Couples find support, friendship and caring, and enjoy the opportunity to share and partake of workshops and sessions that explore and recognize the ups and downs of a TG partnership.

Your next Fantasia Fair promises to be an exciting, fun, and educational opportunity. Your CD or TS self will be able to develop confidence by exploring life in a real community without boundaries. Attendees can spend a full week in beautiful Provincetown, enjoying the seaside beauty and the friendship of many wonderful T folks. Yes, you really are welcome and free in all of Provincetown, and, yes, you will make friends you will keep forever

Leslie Jordans return to the stage - FULL OF GIN and REGRET - with east coast debut at the Provincetown Crown and Anchors Paramount Nightclub

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:00:11 EDT

Fresh off of his record setting 35 city national show tour and as a first time author, both titled My Trip Down the Pink Carpet, beloved Emmy Award winning actor/comedian LESLIE JORDAN returns to one of his favorite traipsing grounds, Provincetown, to kick off his latest stage show. Aptly titled FULL OF GIN & REGRET, Jordan continues to regale adoring audiences while commanding center stage, weaving tales both personal and public about his astonishing life and career.

Jordan is a small town man with a giant propensity for scene stealing. Best known for his bravura recurring role as Karen’s nemesis, Beverley Leslie, on Will & Grace (for which he won his Emmy for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, 2006) as well as the now iconic Brother Boy of both the original film Sordid Lives and the recent Logo TV sensation, Sordid Lives, The Prequel, he has also made dozens of memorable appearances in commercials and hits shows such as Alley McBeal, Boston Legal, Murphy Brown, Monk and as a series regular on Hearts Afire.

The self-proclaimed “gayest man I know” has publicly chronicled his start in show biz from when he boarded a Greyhound bus bound for Hollywood with $1,200 sewn into his underpants to the heights of his lucrative and varied career. His pocket-size physique and inescapable talent for delivering high camp and hilarity single him “out” by choice and simply by being himself. Success has not been without its dangerous temptations along the way; a self-proclaimed former battle with various addictions, self-loathing and even some brief jail time get equal billing to the many other, now infamous Jordan tales. His storytelling of the famous, the high (and not so high) and mighty is salaciously spicey, rollicking fun, fast paced, full of wit, Southern style panache and plenty of biting asides.

FULL OF GIN & REGRET elaborates upon the life experience of this rare individual who tells it like it is, was, needs to be and continues to be; comically overwrought childhood agonies, offbeat observations and most dashingly, revealing celebrity encounters which keeps his audiences clamoring for more. True to form, Jordan’s latest collection will certainly not disappoint!

FULL OF GIN & REGRET will make its East Coast debut at Provincetown’s Crown & Anchor Paramount Nightclub on Saturday and Sunday, July 18-19. Show time is 8:00 P.M. with an additional performance on the 19th at 10:00 PM. Tickets and information are available by visiting the club website atwww.onlyatthecrown or by calling (508) 487-1430.