Mike Block’s first instrument was the violin. But at nine, he switched to cello. “I was a short kid,” he says. Since he was small, “it was incredible to create […]
Arts & Minds
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Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for March 27, 2025 through April 3, 2025
Celebrating the Life and Musical Legacy of Canary Burton The musical legacy of the late Canary Burton — longtime Wellfleet resident, modern music composer, and WOMR announcer — will be […]
PIGMENT
A Magician in the Studio
For Dani Levine, deconstruction is necessary for invention
Dani Levine’s studio at the Fine Arts Work Center, where she’s a visual arts fellow, feels like an old-time painting workshop transposed to the present. “I like the notion of […]
GOING DEEP
Straight Lines and Sharp Teeth
For novelist Clara Mallon, expressing what you mean is lifesaving
The first time Clara Mallon wrote a story, she wrote it only in her head. She was five years old, looking out the window at school. “I was narrating from […]
FOLK
All That Matters Is Music
For Kim Moberg, writing and singing songs is strong medicine
Kim Moberg’s new album, All That Really Matters, scheduled for release this summer, surveys “the arc of human experience — loss, betrayal, melancholy,” she says. “Indigenous people have forever believed […]
POETRY
Hungry
A lot of my life has been spent learning what it means to live in a world with coyotes that need to eat, and rabbits that want to live — […]
THE MANOSPHERE
Non-Toxic Is an Antidote to Joe Rogan
Daniel Waite Penny’s podcast looks at climate change and masculinity
Three years ago, Daniel Waite Penny, who lives in Provincetown, started a podcast called Non-Toxic: a play on the term “toxic masculinity” and the state of the environment. The podcast […]
RADIO
DJ Fred Wants to Open Your Ears
Fred Boak invites his listeners to ‘get on the bus’
Fred Boak played Terry Riley’s “Descending Moonshine Dervishes” one deep-winter Wednesday night on his WOMR radio show Out There. Riley’s intricate 1975 recording on the organ, which could be considered […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for March 20, 2025 through March 27, 2025
At the Movies With Alfre Woodard In a career spanning six decades, Alfre Woodard’s sharply observed portrayals of emotionally complex women across independent dramas, legal and medical serials, and popular […]
HANDMADE
Gail Browne Gets Lost in Her Art
A home filled with ceramics, watercolors, and white-line prints
There’s a big bowl on Provincetown artist Gail Browne’s dining table, but it’s not full of fruit. The dish contains marbled ceramic balls and horseshoe crabs — paperweights. “It’s what […]
PARALLELS
Kai Conradi Is Nothing You Could Write Down
At the edges of the continent, a writer unspools memory, geography, and self
Kai Conradi shouldered the sky and looked down. The land expanded, color rushing in, taking on the contours of a relief map. Then, a strip of sand appeared, sea on […]
TRANSLATABILITY
José De Sancristóbal Questions the Object of the Subject
An artist looks through the lens at surveillance, identity, and freedom
Upon entering his studio at the Fine Arts Work Center, one might easily imagine that José De Sancristóbal is one of the writing fellows here for the winter. The walls […]
YOU’VE GOT MAIL
Indie Reads: Substack Edition
What’s keeping our staff and contributors glued to their inboxes
For this installment of Indie Reads, we asked Independent staff and contributors to write about some of their favorite Substack email newsletters. The mix we received includes a running invitation […]
TUNING UP
Breathing In and Playing Out
An Irish band sizzles with a signature sound
For Shane Hayes, playing traditional Irish music feels as natural as breathing. “You don’t think about it,” he says. “You just play.” Hayes was born and raised in Ennis, in […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for March 13, 2025 through March 20, 2025
A Poet of Darkness and Light The Fine Arts Work Center’s 24PearlStreet online writing program will host “Dear Yusef,” a virtual event in honor of poet Yusef Komunyakaa, from 6 […]
