Wistful Exurbia far enough apart our farms nothing for show flowers incidental roadside lilies in June our neighbors sold out for less than you’d […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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POETRY
Three Poems by Andrea Cohen
All at Once When I was five I was five. Recalling being four, I turned six. It’s always been like this — one foot in the grave, one in gravy. […]
MUSIC
Indie Playlist: New Sounds
Music for a season of growth and wonder
For this latest installment of the Indie Playlist, we asked Independent staff and contributors to reflect on the idea of newness, especially as it relates to the season marked by […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for April 18, 2024 through April 25, 2024
Four Writers on Their Favorite Books The Fine Arts Work Center’s 24PearlStreet online program — named for FAWC’s physical location — was established to bring writing workshops, resources, and community […]
CROSSWORD #51
Making Local Change
IN THE STUDIO
Rehab El Sadek Sculpts a Story of Political Dislocation
Discarded books and gauze hold a place for whispered words
Rehab El Sadek has made herself at home since arriving in Provincetown this past October as a visual arts fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center. The vibe in her […]
RADIO
Matty Dread Is an ‘Ambassador of Love’
Meet the man who keeps WOMR spinning
Matthew Dunn, the operations manager at Provincetown’s Outermost Community Radio (WOMR), has waist-length dreadlocks and wears galaxy-print shirts. Both amplify his gravitational pull. In his corner office at 494 Commercial […]
BOOKS
RuPaul Tells His Origin Story
The Queen of Drag finds clues to himself in The House of Hidden Meanings
You’ve likely noticed while watching RuPaul’s Drag Race that host RuPaul Charles rarely gets physically close to the contestants. Some of this is likely a Covid holdover, but the pronounced […]
INDIE SCREEN
Craziness in the Eye of the Moviegoer
In three new films, protagonists face a world stacked against them
It was an inspired choice when the Provincetown International Film Festival’s gave Julio Torres, the writer-director-star of a fanciful new comedy, Problemista, one of its Next Wave awards last June. […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for April 11, 2024 through April 18, 2024
A Bicoastal Musical Dialogue Comes to Wellfleet Anne Stott met Arielle Silver four years ago online during the first week of the pandemic lockdown. The two singer-songwriters were participants in […]
ARTISTS
Painting in the Key of Light
Mary Giammarino’s Vermont sojourns pick up the light she found in Provincetown
In the cold, short days of winter and early spring, when painting outdoors is practically impossible here, Mary Giammarino, a plein air painter, takes a counterintuitive route as she awaits […]
WRITERS
Cleaning the Fishbowl and Other Disruptions
In her second FAWC fellowship, writer Molly Anders is reworking a short-story collection
As a kid, Molly Anders put her red betta fish in the microwave. Hearing this, you might envision a toilet bowl funeral and a big flush. That’s not what happened. […]
PAINTERS
Figures Emerge Slowly From Agnes Walden’s Art
Paintings that blur the boundaries between people and their environment
Agnes Walden is a teacher, but her paintings won’t teach you a thing. She speaks lucidly about painting with the off-the-cuff exactitude of an expert, but her paintings are inscrutable. […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for April 4, 2024 through April 11, 2024
Music Times Two With Cape Symphony Guest conductor Francisco Noya will lead the Cape Symphony in “Better Together” at the Barnstable Performing Arts Center (744 West Main St., Hyannis) on […]
WHALE WATCH
Mark Adams Goes Big to Visualize Ocean Science
The scientist-artist is working on a dance floor at the Crown
The centerpiece of Mark Adams’s newest exhibition was born from the gift of a sail. Adams says the artist Jimmy Lee Curtis often gathers materials to repurpose from thrift stores […]
