Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, April 6 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
Visual Stories
KITCHEN TABLE
Time Traveling With a Torta Sbrisolona
A crumbly, nearly savory toasted-almond cookie from Lombardy
“We’re bringing the sbrisolona,” our friend Brian told me. “Yes, the very same one. And it doesn’t look half bad, actually.” Spring cleaning is so important. Especially if your microwave […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
New Moon Eclipse in Aries
Spring cleaning isn’t just for houses
The new Moon in the first sign of the zodiac sets the tone for the year ahead. It is an invitation to begin again by refreshing your routine and cultivating […]
UP A CREEK
Answers to Your Most Vaxxing Questions
Advice from a self-taught epidemiologist and internet sensation
@heyfromptown asks: Sooo, I’m in my 20s, and it’s going to be forever until I’m, like, fully vaccinated. I heard young people are getting trounced by side effects because we […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
In View This Week
The witch hazel is in bloom. (Photo Edwin Butter) Front row seats are now ready for sunset worshippers at Great Hollow Beach in Truro. Left to right: Lee Russell, Jeff […]
SKIN DEEP
To Tattoo Artist Ephy Kurucz, the Body Is a Canvas
Her adopted home of Provincetown is a ‘pirate hideaway’
At the end of Bob Gasoi Memorial Art Alley, at 290 Commercial St. in Provincetown, as you descend the stairs to Coastline Tattoo’s small, underground shop, you enter an otherworld […]
ARTISTS
Jane Lincoln Has Had ‘Enough’ of Gun Violence
Her paper creations are powerful and visceral
“Enough is enough, and it’s time for us to take action,” said U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse after the March 22 shooting at the King Soopers grocery in Boulder, Colo. At […]
RISING WATERS
Before the Deluge: Plans for Commercial Street
‘Creative adaptation’ to flooding and insurance
PROVINCETOWN — Floodwaters are a primal force, invading the landscape, insisting that things must change. In the January 2018 flood, for example, seawater coursed down Gosnold Street and filled a […]
PEEPS
Easter Chicks, the Easy Way
Because a few feather-footed fowls are good for flock diversity
Though our “Cogsie,” a.k.a. Rooster Cogburn, has been proudly prancing and mounting, he and our hens have not yet succeeded in producing any new chicks. I know they’ll get there, […]
FAKE NEWS
April Fools Issue
Price of Turnips Skyrockets EASTHAM — The celebrated Eastham turnip has always been a lucrative crop. Weighing about eight pounds each — the same as a golden retriever puppy — […]
DIAMOND TIME
Little League Takes the Field
The Nauset league is planning a full season starting this month
BREWSTER — Little League baseball is back on the Lower and Outer Cape, as the Nauset Little League will be operating for the first time under its new name this […]
RECREATION
Good News, With Limits, for Summer Camps
Forgoing dorm-style housing, Audubon may face counselor shortage
WELLFLEET — Gov. Charlie Baker announced last month that day camps and overnight camps will be allowed to reopen this summer, but with significantly reduced capacity and in compliance with […]
RAMBLING MAN
From Wellfleet to Truro on Roads Less Traveled
A walk with a hometown pathfinder who logs 40 to 60 miles a week
WELLFLEET — One of the few people you’ll see on Wellfleet’s Main Street in the early morning hours, pandemic included, is Kevin Carroll. Chances are he’ll have a backpack strapped […]
THRIFT
Finding Charm in Things That Have Lived Past Lives
A new couch is nice, but secondhand finds still catch the eye
I recently bought my first-ever brand-new piece of furniture. It is a chartreuse sectional couch and I love it an unreasonable amount. I sit on it, I lie on it, […]
KITCHEN TABLE
April Fools
Slumped fruits sweeten a cloud-like whipped cream dessert
I am not sure which is easier, to be a fool or make one. I’ll admit to my share of being one. The other kind of fool is a cloud-like […]
