We’re at the height of Scorpio season — or in the depths, depending on how you look at things. The Sun is leaving its trine with Saturn and moving into […]
Archives for 2024
Veterans Day on the Outer Cape
Provincetown’s main Veterans Day program will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 11 at the Veterans Memorial Wall next to town hall. The placing of the memorial wreath […]
NAUSET SCHOOLS
Clenchy’s Successor Will Have Some Tough Tests
New superintendent will face shrinking enrollments and rising budgets
ORLEANS — Nauset Public Schools Supt. Brooke Clenchy has confirmed that her retirement at the end of the current school year, first announced last month in an email to parents […]
PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
$50,000 to Lease to Locals
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Click on the meeting you want to attend on […]
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Cloverleaf Update
Meetings Ahead Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, Nov. […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Septic Regulation Planning
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Wellfleet are held online and in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Animal Ed.
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online attendance option. Click on the meeting you are interested in on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for details. All […]
POPPIES AND PODS
Cultivating a Brave Garden
Paintings of the natural world bloom from an ‘overactive imagination’
Antonia DaSilva returned to Cape Cod after graduating from Smith College in 2020 and took up gardening at her parents’ house in Orleans. “The natural world here was something I […]
COMMONALITY
At Forum 24’s Closing, Signs of Solidarity
The practical matters of opening the door to being an artist
Ryan Landry was at Provincetown Town Hall on Oct. 26, but he wasn’t there to produce one of his outrageous shows. He just had a question. No, really. “What is […]
SCHOOL OF ROCK
The Kids Are Better Than All Right
The young rockers of Watch Your Step will take the stage at Preservation Hall
Twelve-year-old Alison Long stands front and center onstage, a bass guitar in her arms, her face shadowed by long brown hair. Behind her, nine-year-old Trent Burritt holds his drumsticks above […]
THE LIST
Women We’re Watching
Films and shows that put the spotlight on women characters
We have compiled some of our favorite films and TV series, new and old, comfort shows or tension-inducing thrillers, that feature powerful women. Politicians, police chiefs, orchestra conductors, fight clubs, […]
Flash Fiction: An Invitation
The Provincetown Independent has never published fiction, but we’re thinking about it. We regularly publish poems (email submissions to [email protected]). What about short stories — specifically flash fiction (that is, […]
POETRY
Oh, the men, the men
I had a love And then another love And then that other love Went away And still Love remains Jeremy Bearer-Friend teaches tax law in Washington, D.C. Submit poems to […]
POETRY
Kindness
Our friend Zehra is back for an exhibition of her work at the museum. Gone the grunge look and her dark hair is blond, cropped, dramatic. She’s wearing nice clothes […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for November 7, 2024 through November 14, 2024
Is AI the Way to Write? Full disclosure: Artificial intelligence software was used to transcribe this interview with Jennifer Jean, senior program manager at the Fine Arts Works Center, who […]
