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Provincetown :: Thursday, September 2nd 2010
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Notes from Land's End - April 8
What’s New, What's Up and Who came back?
By Laura Shabott
April 9th, 2009
Signs of a new season are everywhere. Crocuses and daffodils burst with color.
| Working a Provincetown summer is like pro football: you better be at the top of your game, look good doing it and you might get traded to another team. |
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Symphonies of birds start the morning. The sun still plays hide and seek and if April showers bring May flowers, they will be plenty of blooms due to lots of rain. People got reconnected at the opening day at Spiritus, sans rain, where lines for free pizza were out the door, one of spring’s rites of passage. Memorial Day will be here before we know it.
Working a Provincetown summer is like pro football: you better be at the top of your game, look good doing it and you might get traded to another team. This year, key positions are being filled by the village's top players: Reverend Jim Cox, of the United Methodist Church, is retiring from the ministry and accepted the position as Director of Operations for the Boatslip Resort. Trainer Beau Harrell returns to the fitness scene with a spin style so good Provincetown Gym members like bon vivant Jim Goss, organist Mary Codinha, bartender John Solime and the painterly Micheal Moss compete for a bike in this A-lister's class. Afterwards, they all grab a snack at the sparkling new Stop and Shop. After years of tolerance for wilted vegetables with the former store known as Goo, townspeople cried to see a store so white, with fresh produce and workers in lemony polo shirts.
|  Laura Shabott |
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Stores, shops and restaurants, new and returning, shuffle up and down the street. What to do when your lease isn't renewed? Faced with the challenge, Chris of Townsend Market at the beginning of Cabral's Wharf, got busy and found a brand new location, the former Clem and Ursie's on Shankpainter Road. Wow! Beauty goes midtown, with cutting edge stylist David Guimond at the new Head, Body and Sole, Johnathan Williams' latest make-me-gorgeous offering. Get a cutting edge haircut and head across the street to the Crown and Anchor, where everyone goes on Tuesday nights for Chinese Buffet awesomely priced at $9.95. Just down the street toward the pier, Madrone relocated the Blu Day Spa to Small's Court, across from the Post Office Cafe, adding a dance studio along with his signature massages as your feet sit on hot rocks.
A breath of new talent mixes with old this season along Commercial Street. What an exciting season ahead!
Next Notes from Land's End: Where's breakfast?
Laura Shabott is an artistic generalist, with a degree in writing, acting and painting from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in consortium with Emerson College. She washed ashore in 1992 and never left (for long).
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