As the Provincetown Independent keeps reporting, the Outer Cape has a desperate shortage of affordable housing. The consequences include dwindling enrollment in the public schools, as parents of school-age children […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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POETRY
Beachbreak
Salt-footed Dwellers on the sand, we Blunder over trails Of periwinkle thumbprints. Dunes roll like whale tongues From the face of the open sea. Bewildered by our niggling mayhem We […]
POETRY
What the Heart Wants
Questing is a host-seeking behavior in which ticks ascend plants, extend their front legs, and wait poised for a chance to attach to a passing host. —Annals of the Entomological […]
POETRY
At the Cooktop
Into the sizzling pan of bluefish fresh from the Bay he pours Marsala to his own secret measure, a spoon of hoisin, pinch of blackening, a touch of bouillon, brown […]
POETRY
Blue
For Aaron, 17, away for the summer Each summer we tied cut-off plastic milk jugs to our waists, freeing our greedy hands to grab clusters of dusky blueberries from the […]
FIVE QUESTIONS
Paige Turner Really Is That Nice
The ‘Barbie Girl’ sits down with the Independent for a chat
Paige Turner is a self-described “Barbie Girl” who grew up in Indiana, moved to Hell’s Kitchen in New York City, and now spends her summers in Provincetown. But ask her […]
ARTISTE
Jacques Fromage: Art School
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for July 31, 2025 through August 7, 2025
Art That Celebrates Mexican Heritage Nicolas V. Sanchez’s parents emigrated from Guanajuato, Mexico and settled in Lansing, Mich., where he was born and raised. Sanchez combines traditional academic painting practices […]
CROSSWORD #65
Closing Time
MUSES
Behind the Lens
Blair Resika’s decades photographing her husband, painter Paul Resika
As I approach Blair Resika’s North Truro home on a blistering Wednesday afternoon, she leans out the door and says, “You must be a musician, because you have perfect timing!” […]
CONNECTING STRINGS
Roads and Bridges Through Landscapes of Sound
Indian classical musicians Kunal Gunjal and Amit Kavthekar traverse a multicultural geography
More than 1,500 years ago, the santoor, a trapezoidal instrument with 100 metal strings tightly stretched over 25 wooden bridges, made its way along the Silk Road, carried from Iran […]
THEATER
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Despair
Christopher Durang gives Chekhov a hilarious spin
Anton Chekhov was not a happy camper. He wallowed in the unfulfilled dreams and unrequited loves of the bourgeoisie in czarist Russia. His dramatically sophisticated and heart-wrenching plays — Three […]
ARTISTS
Paintings of Observation and Experience
In ‘Heirloom,’ Liz Carney demonstrates a dance between body and brush
In early April, Liz Carney visited Italy for the first time on a trip organized by Provincetown yoga teacher Beth Goldstein. Her plan was to combine travel, yoga, and plein […]
THEATER
Shattered Illusions
In Harbor Stage’s stark Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman is crashing
The Harbor Stage Company’s second offering of the summer is Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1949 tragedy, Death of a Salesman, in a stark, audacious, and emotionally searing production directed by […]
BOOKS
The Inner World of an Outer Cape Childhood
Cynthia Blakeley writes of memories lost, found, and reconsidered
Cynthia Blakeley’s account of growing up in a working-class, chaotic household in 1960s Wellfleet is a memoir. But categorizing The Innermost House that way is as inadequate as calling Wellfleet […]
