Archives for 2024
BASKETBALL
Open Gyms Mean Hoop Dreams for Everyone
Pickup games show kids ‘how the game should be played’
PROVINCETOWN — Chris McKernan turns the key in the lock at the Veterans Memorial Community Center gym at 5:30 p.m. every Wednesday night for pickup basketball. Open gyms like this […]
I SPY A SWEETGUM
A Tree for In-Town Leaf-Peepers
Driving deep into New England to leaf-peep, you won’t be likely to spy many sweetgums — the tree’s range comes to an end in Connecticut and western Mass. The predominantly […]
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Oct. 15 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
Tuna Fishing Is Not White Hot, and Neither Is the Market
Bass from points north are here on their way to warmer waters
Fishing has remained good for striped bass. The weather has been great, and with no serious cold fronts coming through, water temperatures haven’t plummeted. Still, the bass have begun to […]
REEL MUSIC
If You Give a Violinist a Fiddle
A community of musicians organizes ‘real music from the heart’
The crowd is smaller than usual tonight, I’m told. Most weeks, twice as many people are eating and drinking and talking over the musicians playing in the corner near the […]
MORNING FLIGHT
Breakfast With the Birds
Seeds and suet fuel migrant flocks and year-rounders
A couple of weeks ago, I felt a chill in the air, and I knew it was time. I drove to Orleans, purchased a 40-pound sack of sunflower seeds, and […]
ASTRAL PROJECTIONS
Watch What You’re Watching
A lot depends on where you focus your attention
There is much happening in the sky this week. The question is: where should we direct our attention? The Sun continues to square Mars and begins to square Pluto, while […]
PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Vaccine Clinic
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Odes to a Librarian
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, Oct. […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Restoring a Trout Run
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Wellfleet are held both 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 […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Three Trailers Full
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 […]
ART HISTORY
An Abstract Expressionist Turns to the Figure
George McNeil found existential intrigue in the human body
A show of paintings, ink-wash drawings, and lithograph prints currently on view at Orleans Modern Art captures a transitional moment in the career of George McNeil, an early participant in […]
WOMEN’S WEEK
Trump (Mary, not Donald) Is Coming to Town
The former president’s estranged niece wants to tell you about the danger we’re in
Mary Trump has been coming to Provincetown since she was a six-year-old at Cape Cod Sea Camps in Brewster. In the early 2000s, she briefly owned Kensington Gardens, then a […]
ARTISTS
MP Landis’s Visual Jazz
His Warehouse Drawings are meant to be simple, direct, emotional
A folded piece of watercolor paper peeks out of MP Landis’s jeans pocket. The artist stands in front of his work — two abstract oil paintings and 10 pieces from […]
