For the fifth year in a row, a cheering crowd was dazzled by the extraordinary talents of ordinary folk at three sold-out performances of the Townie Holiday Extravaganza at the […]
Visual Stories
HOCKEY
Sophomore Phenom Logan Poulin Paces Warriors’ Offense
Coach Connor Brickley says he’s ‘electric and fun to watch’
ORLEANS — Nauset Regional High School sophomore Logan Poulin has made a fast start in the current hockey season on a team he didn’t expect to be part of at […]
WARRIORS WATCH
O’Keefe’s 3-Pointer Sinks Nantucket at Buzzer, 60-58
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset boys basketball team’s dramatic win on Nantucket highlighted a high school sports week that was disrupted by the winter storm that hit the region. The Warriors […]
SALUD
Coquito, Puerto Rico’s ‘Just Don’t Call It Eggnog’
For Navidades, rum, spices, and a little coconut suffonsify
Somewhere along the road, eggnog fell into a ditch. Exalted until the late ’70s, it got tossed out with all those avocado-green appliances. It’s all but disappeared now, save for […]
PROST
A Drink for Getting Cozy, Abroad or at Home
Red wine, spices, and a little more honey than you might think
Europe in summertime is out of reach for most Cape Codders — it’s our busy time, and there’s too much work here to leave the Cape in June. I’ve learned […]
KITCHEN CULTURE
There Is Soup and There Is Borscht
A Ukrainian Christmas tradition takes on new significance
Yuliia Svieshnikova has always prepared borscht, one of the 12 traditional Christmas dishes of her native Ukraine, on Jan. 6. That is Christmas Eve on the Julian calendar, which Ukrainians […]
TO THE MAT
The Mighty Chair Pose
A strengthening pose that’s like a smile against midwinter’s darkness
These short days and long nights of deep December can bring an inner sense of darkness. Psychologists have even given a name to this phenomenon — Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). […]
MEET THE MAKER
Building Around Constraints Is a Crossword Constructor’s Pleasure
Sophia Maymudes enters the debates on grids, clues, themes, and symmetry
Sophia Maymudes has always had her own, perhaps odd, way with words. She remembers defining the word ungulate for her parents when it appeared in a clue of a crossword […]
TOWNIE CHRISTMAS
Kook Toy Drive Funds the Season’s Essentials
Pogo sticks and tricycles, but also groceries and heating oil
PROVINCETOWN — Taped to the walls at the Crown & Anchor for last Wednesday’s 24th annual Kook Toy Drive were images of pogo sticks (available for a donation of $50), […]
MOVEMENT
Traipsing With the Norkers
Nordic walking booms on Cape Cod’s trails
EASTHAM — Back in June, 11 curious locals holding trekking poles fashioned from flimsy driveway markers joined Carla Fogaren for a walk around Kent’s Point in Orleans. Six months later, […]
READING ROOM
Llamas Playing Dreidel
A picture book in rhyme about Hanukkah traditions
TRURO — Four-year-old Zella Beatrice Althaus, who is in the preschool class at the Truro Central School, was at the town library with her Bubbe, Fran Adams, on Friday. She […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Hockey Teams Both Ranked in Top 10
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset boys hockey team kept its unbeaten start to the season going with a 6-3 win over Plymouth North on Saturday. It was a big win for […]
IN VIEW THIS WEEK
MILES AND MILES
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Dec. 20 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Determination Is a Winning Way at the Winter Solstice
It may even be time to try a little practical magic
With winter’s arrival, we can at least be consoled by the gift of light that the solstice brings. The hourglass flips on the 21st, and the days become brighter, minute […]
