Seeing Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris is a less-than-contemplative experience. The Renaissance painting is housed in the high-ceilinged Salle des États, which is filled with […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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MUSIC
Boston Naturals Live for Lou
The funny thing about the Boston Naturals is that many of their gigs are on the Cape, not Boston. A lot are in Wellfleet. And that is where you will […]
BOOK REVIEW
Women Who Rocked the Boat
Siân Evans tells stories from above and below deck
In Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them, Siân Evans provides a lively account of the experiences of female workers and travelers aboard […]
MUSIC
An Indie Playlist for Fall
Thieves, vampires, and ‘Lizard Wizards’
For this new edition of the Indie Playlist, contributors were asked to write about songs they can’t get out of their heads. The results: indie rock, Australian psychedelic rock, Halloween […]
LIVES
Richard Pickering, Man of Many Hats
The actor created the Plimoth Players, an all-male Shakespeare company
“Did you see that guy’s sombrero?” incredulous drivers ask as they speed by Richard Pickering. “It’s huge!” He has sat under an umbrella outside his family’s 1875 Wellfleet home on […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Sept 30 through Oct 6
Kat Edmonson at Payomet The New York Times has called jazz vocalist Kat Edmonson’s tone “fresh as a spring bouquet.” Accompanied by piano, she will perform at the Payomet Performing […]
CROSSWORD #25
Celebrate on the Cape
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POSTCARDS
Lost on the Highway to Topeka
An Indie alum reports on her summer-long road trip
INTERSTATE 94 — Who knew there existed two Topekas? Certainly not I, fresh, in June, from my yearlong stint as the Independent’s crime-Dougie-dredging correspondent and 1,000 miles into a summer road […]
ARTISTS
Karen Cappotto Brings Back Some Souvenirs
‘Why do people save tokens?’ the Provincetown painter and collagist asks
“My artwork is about telling stories,” says the artist Karen Cappotto. “I always thought that I would become a writer, but I discovered that telling my story visually works better […]
THEATER
In the Woods, ‘The Witch’ Has Room to Fly
Director Megan Nussle takes it outdoors as part of the Tennessee Williams Fest
In a memorable scene from Thomas Middleton’s The Witch, three characters sing in a forest glade before flying off into the night. When audiences come to see the show as […]
MUSICIANS
Amythyst Kiah Bares Her Soul
For the singer-songwriter, ‘The sky’s the limit’
“Wary and Strange” isn’t just the title of Amythyst Kiah’s new Rounder Records album — it’s a description of how she felt growing up in Tennessee facing issues of race, […]
THE STORYTELLERS
Poet in Residence
The writer’s fantasy: that words can have an enormous effect
One spring morning, my wife, Valerie, found a column in the San Francisco paper about Weed, Calif., which was getting ready to capitalize on its merchantable name. I e-mailed my […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Landing in the Light of Libra
Let yourself be awash in the post-equinoctial glow
Now that fall has arrived, the light looks like liquid gold. There is a scientific explanation for this, of course, involving the tilt of the Earth’s axis and the increasing […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Sept 23 through Sept 29
Farm Pop-Up With Hinton and Lapointe Farm Projects presents “Menagerie,” a pop-up show by artists and friends Megan Hinton and Lyne Lapointe, at The Barn, 96 Castle Road in Truro, […]
LISTINGS
The Week Ahead in Provincetown Drag
Crown & Anchor Uptown Girls, “Illusions,” Sat. at 6 p.m., $39 Dina Martina, “Chariots of Failure,” Sat. at 7:30 p.m., $44 Pilgrim House Paige Turner, “Joy Ride,” Fri.-Sat. at 7:30 […]
