Outside her home in the woods of South Wellfleet, Sara Moran is making a shrine. The broken seat of a wooden chair leans against a piece of wood, which is […]
Archives for 2024
DRAG DESK
Sapphira Cristál Keeps It in the Family
The drag queen and opera singer is a grand marshal for this year’s Carnival parade
Don’t tell JD Vance, but a church is a great place to nurture a future drag queen. She can develop an arsenal of talents: singing, sewing, working a crowd. And […]
SING OUT
Mozelle Andrulot Comes Full Circle
The Cape Cod crooner makes time for family, a corporate job, and a swinging jazz career
It isn’t much of a surprise to learn that Mozelle Andrulot was a musical child. “My mother said that I didn’t talk at first — I sang everything,” she says. […]
SCULPTURE
Ellen LeBow Begins Again in Bas-Relief
The Wellfleet artist shapes a personal bestiary in clay
Over decades of artmaking, Ellen LeBow has forged her own path through stages and styles, figurative rather than abstract. The luminous scratchboard drawings she shows at Rice Polak Gallery in […]
THEATER
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dog?
Not Brenda Withers, whose new play, Westminster, is sublime satire
There’s a threat weighing on the two couples who inhabit a pleasant living room in Brenda Withers’s hilarious new play, Westminster, at the Harbor Stage Company in Wellfleet through Sept. […]
THEATER
Friendship in a Season of Compromise
Two women change each other in David Auburn’s moving Summer, 1976
So many friendships are born of circumstance — two people become roommates, neighbors, parents at the same time, or co-workers — and the experience can be intense for a time, […]
POETRY
Three Poems
Night-Blooming Cereus It wakes us to say to bloom once is not nothing. Night Once in a while –– sparks between people –– so stars can see everything they’re missing. […]
POETRY
Compensation
I think I understand. Without sufficient love, they compensate with hatred, not seeing how bountiful (how bountiful) it all really is… Rob Taylor’s Ads for Simplicity was published in 2013. He […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for August 15, 2024 through August 22, 2024
Bob Mackie, Still Sparkling If you close your eyes and picture some of the most memorable celebrity fashion looks of the past half century — particularly the more revealing ones […]
VIGNETTE
Cutting Edge
STEAMERS
Modern Life Saver
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Too Late for Tea?
Provincetown is more than a gay resort, Hannah
As if Provincetown needed any promotion going into August, the New Yorker magazine published a short profile of the town by Hannah Goldfield, titled “Beach Boys,” in its July 29 […]
NURSING HOME REFORM
A Profit-Driven Health-Care System Is the Problem
Why not find a way to pay frontline workers more?
I had just returned from a visit with my sister, who has lived at the Seashore Point Wellness Center in Provincetown since 2018, when I saw the Independent’s July 25 […]
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
Trafficking in the Unexpected
After writing about artists here for two years, I was relieved to find myself hustling through the mist that hung over Commercial Street to PAAM a couple of weeks ago […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 15, 2024
From Jacqueline W. Beebe and Ken Silvia
Eastham’s Master Plan To the editor: Re “In Eastham, Housing Plan Must Wait Until 2035” [Aug. 1, page A7]: This article did not accurately reflect the presentation given to the […]
