After a two-decade absence, author Michael Nava’s award-winning Henry Rios mystery series returns with its eighth installment, Carved in Bone. (This volume fits chronologically between the first and second books […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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INDIE SCREEN
To Live and Die in Hollywood
In a recent op-ed piece in the New York Times, Martin Scorsese bemoaned the Marvel Universe takeover of Hollywood. He’s right to do so, but it’s a process that has […]
our picks for the week of November 14 through 20
Indie’s Choice
Outer Cape Calendar Thursday, Nov. 14, 2 p.m. “Protect Yourself From Fraud,” a talk about financial scams with officers from Seamen’s Bank, is at the Wellfleet Council on Aging at […]
this week
Arts Briefs & Listings for November 14 through 20
exhibitions, music, theater, and other happenings on the Outer Cape this week
BRIEFS Badland Film’s a Fund-raiser for HOW and PFS It’s an interesting idea for a Western: a bounty hunter who goes after Confederate war criminals. Badland, a feature film starring […]
economy
Rock Harbor Project to Begin in March
The parking lot and boat ramp will be upgraded before summer
EASTHAM — Rock Harbor is in line to receive additional upgrades starting in March. Shana Brogan, the town’s conservation agent, told the harbor planning committee on Oct. 17 that the […]
Poetry
Selected Poem 3: ‘senzo’ by Evie Shockley
Lines pruned to bloom
“Senzo” is also the title of a Cape Jazz album by Abdullah Ibrahim, the anti-apartheid activist who once described improvisation as a life-preserving skill. Alluding already to ancestor in […]
book review
‘Find Me’: The Return of Elio and Oliver
André Aciman writes a follow-up to 'Call Me by Your Name'
In the 2007 novel Call Me by Your Name, André Aciman created a beautiful and sensual love story about two young men — Elio, a 17-year-old American piano prodigy spending […]
steamers
“Ne Vape Pas”
our picks for the week of November 7 through 13
Indie’s Choice
Thursday, Nov. 7, 6 p.m. Open Newsroom — Local Journalism Project, Truro Public Library, 7 Standish Way. The Provincetown Independent invites community members to join in making local news more […]
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Arts Briefs & Listings for November 7 through 13
exhibitions, music, theater, and other happenings on the Outer Cape this week
BRIEFS Sparky and Rhonda Rucker Perform at First Encounter Sparky and Rhonda Rucker — musicians, authors, and teachers — will perform a variety of folk songs, spirituals, and historical ballads […]
music
Harold López-Nussa’s Jazz Comes From the Heart of Havana
His quartet will perform at Wellfleet Preservation Hall
When, in the 1930s and ’40s, Cuban musicians such as trumpeter Mario Bauzá and percussionist Chano Pozo introduced the American jazz world to Afro-Cuban rhythms, they kicked off a cultural […]
metaphysics
Ghost Hunters Are a Spirited Group
Cape-based paranormal detectives see their work as more science-based than sensational
Ghost hunter Joni Kosmach points a hand-held infrared camera into the shadows. Black, metallic, and blinking with strange energy, it looks like something a Navy SEAL might wield — or […]
book review
In ‘Blowout,’ Rachel Maddow Deconstructs the World’s Petro-Nightmare
Putin’s Russia and the U.S. oil industry are in a cycle of doom
A book on the oil and gas industry, Russia, and government corruption? Sounds a bit daunting. But Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, author of The New […]
civics
Licensing Board Urged to Keep Art Everywhere in Provincetown
Gallery owner Ray Wiggs wants to protect the ‘gallery system’
PROVINCETOWN — Artists, gallery owners, and retailers gave resoundingly bad reviews to Ray Wiggs’s attempt to have the town ban the sale of fine art in restaurants, bars, and inns […]
sketchbook
Bats
Northern Long-Eared Bat (threatened, endangered). Scientists know them by their calls, and catch them in mist nets. These guys frequent kettle ponds. Across the dunes and forests of Cape Cod […]
