The car slowly passed, back and forth, then at last crept up our half-washed-out driveway. An electric window slid down. “We’re looking for Moses Hinkley,” the driver said. I took […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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POETRY
The Swing
The light leads down the long white ropes it fills the swing, it swings the seat Each night each night the moon is full the long white ropes, the sucked-in cheeks […]
BOOKS
The Compromised Power of Being Young and Beautiful
Thomas Grattan’s In Tongues follows Gordon, a gay man who wants nothing more than to be looked at
Gordon, the 24-year-old antihero of Thomas Grattan’s queer coming-of-age novel In Tongues, craves attention the way Wall Street traders crave cocaine: with a slick kind of desperation and the certainty […]
MUSIC
Indie Playlist: Summer Sounds
Songs for sun, sand, and blue skies
For this installment of Indie’s Playlist, we asked six members of the Independent team to describe their songs of the summer: the song that best encapsulates the feeling of the […]
THE GREATS
The Borromeo String Quartet Does What the Music Demands
In its 34th appearance at the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, the group will play Beethoven and Schubert
Yeesun Kim says she and her Peregrino Zanetto cello, built in 1576, have a happy marriage. She accepts its shortcomings — its struggle, once, to project powerfully enough against an […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for August 1, 2024 through August 8, 2024
Agata Storer Connects Time, Place, and Memory Photographer Agata Storer is interested in how we remember. She’s long been obsessed with documentation, something she attributes, in part, to a life […]
SCULPTURE
Ted Chapin and the Art of Complication
Eviscerating machines and critiquing capitalism
Ted Chapin pulls the guts out of machines — “eviscerating them,” he says. That’s how he assembles his intricate wall sculptures, which combine machines like typewriters with natural elements like […]
MUSIC
The String Queens Live Up to Their Name
The trio’s sound is bigger than the sum of its parts
The first time The String Queens showed up for a gig as a trio, they were hired by one of their own: Dawn Johnson, the violist, was having a birthday […]
THEATER
Take a Time Warp to a Live Rocky Horror
Transylvanians invade Provincetown
Most of us who are familiar with The Rocky Horror Show know it from the 1975 film version (the Rocky Horror Picture Show), which is the quintessential cult movie — […]
STREET MUSIC
Punk Kids Playing Jazz
The Dirty Rotten Vipers bring New Orleans to Provincetown
Eight members of the Dirty Rotten Vipers came to Provincetown for the season last year, and the band made the alleyway next to Marine Specialties on Commercial Street their summer […]
THEATER
In Wellfleet, Food for Thought
Harbor Stage makes first U.S. adaptation of My Dinner With Andre
Back when their thumbs up or down held some sway over box office sales, movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert both named 1981’s My Dinner With Andre among the […]
INTERIORS
Paintings That Reveal Unintended Narratives
Nick Patten holds a mirror to the light and solitude at the Vorse house
On the desk where I spent most of my first winter in Provincetown were tokens that introduced me to this place but only obliquely: a wooden carving of a semi-erect […]
POETRY
Outline
The merest touch of breeze or rain or passerby in early June sets pitch pines off in green-gold pollen spasms: old efficiencies of hazardous excess, their clouds stain everything they […]
POETRY
Long Nook
Poems of Truro resident Mary Maxwell’s five collections first appeared in Paris Review, Salmagundi, and Yale Review, among other publications. Submit poems to [email protected]. Include your full name, complete home […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for July 25, 2024 through August 1, 2024
A Cape-Wide Celebration of Chamber Music The 45th annual Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, which takes place in several venues for two weeks this summer, begins on Tuesday, July 30 […]
