A Double Dose of Drag Superstars Drag fans know that Alaska Thunderfuck and Alyssa Edwards are among the most popular performers launched to fame by the juggernaut that is RuPaul’s […]
Archives for 2023
VIGNETTE
Art Colony
STEAMERS
Sea Town
TEACAKE’S TAKE
The Uncool
WATERCOLOR
Rise or Fall
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
A Guest of This Age
Living in a time that we are not prepared for
In the heat of July, I found myself dazed and confused, and I remain so still. I have no idea what is going on with this whirling planet of ours […]
OP-ED
A Cucumber for Breakfast
What if there had been no vegetable garden this year?
The first thing I ate this morning was a $60 cucumber. I washed it and set it on a cutting board, contemplating how best to use something that seemed so […]
INCIDENTALLY
No Quesadillas?
We were having lunch on the upper deck of the Bookstore Restaurant in Wellfleet on a fine day in July. At the next table was a family with three young […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
In a Barbecue, Honor
The Outer Cape has its weeks. Carnival is the big one up next. In the Independent, it is apparently barbecue week: Oliver Egger and Elias Schisgall report from the annual […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 10, 2023
From Nora Mann
‘We Can’t Get Complacent’ To the editor: From your editorial choice to use the term “anti-abortion center” in the headline through the well-researched and thorough coverage of the many issues […]
OBITUARY
Master Plumber Gregory Carlo Was 67
Gregory Charles Carlo died peacefully on July 24, 2023 in the ICU at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, surrounded by family. The cause of death, confirmed by his son […]
OBITUARY
Freeman Hatch Memorial
A graveside memorial service for Freeman Hatch IV, who died at 82 on Sept. 21, 2022, will be held at the Evergreen Cemetery in Eastham at 11 a.m. on Saturday, […]
OBITUARY
John ‘JP’ Clark, a Fourth-Generation Captain, Dies at 37
John Clark III, a fourth-generation fisherman out of Provincetown who was known as JP, died unexpectedly on July 17, 2023 at his cottage in Wellfleet. He was 37. “He was […]
OBITUARY
An Environment Crusader, Writer Paul Brodeur Dies at 92
Paul Brodeur of Truro, a longtime staff writer at the New Yorker, died at Cape Cod Hospital on Aug. 2, 2023. His death, following hip replacement surgery and a bout […]
TIDE CHART
Provincetown and Wellfleet Harbors
Thursday, August 10, - Thursday, August 17, 2023
Know when to hit the flats.
