The problem, as most producers of live entertainment will tell you, is planning. Though everyone is expecting indoor entertainment to return to the Outer Cape in the next few months, […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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TRANSITIONS
Maxwell Keller Is New Indie Arts Editor
Saskia Maxwell Keller will succeed Howard Karren as arts editor of the Provincetown Independent, beginning with the issue of May 13, Publisher Teresa Parker announced this week. Karren is retiring […]
OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT
Tending the Bottom
MIKE REGO / LOBSTERMAN / PROVINCETOWN Mike Rego sees the handwriting on the wall for lobstering out of Provincetown in the not too distant future. But for now, he’s in […]
CROSSWORD
Crossword #20 Solution
The solution to last week’s crossword puzzle, “All Wrapped Up,” by Sophia Maymudes.
SYNESTHESIA
Painting in the Key of Blue, à la Judith Rothschild
Putting an Outer Cape painter’s ‘color-music analogy’ to work
Like Robert Motherwell, Judith Rothschild was a member of Provincetown’s legendary Long Point Gallery. She lived part of the year in Wellfleet and studied with the modernist masters Hans Hofmann […]
BOOK REVIEW
Reassuring the First-Time Gardener
Jessica Sowards’s book is the cure for ‘analysis paralysis’
Sometime in the last year, as one does in a pandemic, I began cleaning drawers. Among the items that I found were unopened packets of seeds. Columbines I’d bought when […]
ALBUM REVIEW
What Is Truly Fearless About Taylor Swift
A re-recording raises ethical and artistic questions
From the start of her career 15 years ago, when she was just a 17-year-old with a cascade of blond curls writing her own lyrics about the pitfalls of high […]
PERFORMANCE
Thirsty Burlington Prepares for a Post-Covid World
Scott Townsend rehearses a new act for Thirsty — and Cher
“It sounds like I’m singing in the bathroom and you’re singing way over in the kitchen,” says Scott Townsend — better known as the drag queen and Cher impersonator Thirsty […]
CROSSWORD #20
All Wrapped Up
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HEY DAHLIN’
Olde Townie Crossword Blowback
Find the solution to Mary DeAngelis’s Olde Townie Crossword here.
WRITERS
Hanif Abdurraqib Extols Black Performance
He joins a local reading and talk with Patricia Spears Jones
“I owe Provincetown a great creative debt,” says the poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib. He wrote most of his second book, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, […]
FRAMING THE NEWS
Mira Schor and the Art of Misrepresentation
In a FAWC talk, she explores the role of politics in artists’ work
“This is not political,” the painting proclaims. Its flowing script, on an orangey background, is surrounded by a rectangular black frame, anchored by a vertical post. At first glance, the […]
THE SHOW MUST GO ON
As Covid Subsides, Theaters Push to Reopen
Outdoor stages, new approaches planned
Few things in the life of the Outer Cape have been hit harder by Covid than theater. Live outdoor cabaret performances resumed after the lockdown, and the Provincetown Tennessee Williams […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
In ‘Sticks and Stones,’ Gershon Stark Explores Harmful Words
A Provincetown exhibit searches behind symbols and surfaces
“In the Jewish tradition, the most harm one person can do to another is through lashon hara, which means ‘evil tongue or speech’ in Hebrew,” says Jonathan Gershon Stark, who […]
LOCAL ICONS, PART 2
Updating the Outer Cape’s Town Seals
False images of Native Americans prompt revisions
Last December, the Independent published the first in a series of articles on town seals of the Outer Cape. The iconography on these seals, created more than a century ago, […]
