EASTHAM — Over the last five decades, if you turned on your radio on Cape Cod or in the Boston-Providence area, chances are you’d hear the voice of Bob Seay. […]
WOMR
Leggs Up and Dancing – WOMR-FM 92.1
Not only is Lady Di and her weekly show, Leggs Up and Dancing, on WOMR-FM 92.1, back on the air on Friday, July 3, from 5 to 7 p.m., she’s […]
Arts Briefs and Listings
Arts Briefs for July 2 through July 8
Impressions of Cape Cod: Local Color Photographer Lee Glickenhaus has a decidedly unpretentious take on his artistic vision. He may be inspired […]
MYSTERIES
A Whodunit at Whaler’s Wharf
Jeannette de Beauvoir draws inspiration from Provincetown
The Matinée Murders, the newest in Jeannette de Beauvoir’s Sydney Riley series of mystery novels, may be a work of fiction, but it is full of real people and takes […]
Arts Briefs and Listings
Arts Briefs for May 14 through May 20
When Sheltering Is Not So Safe Playwright Candace Perry writes that “a portion of the Clothesline Project has been hanging in our yard in Wellfleet. We take in the shirts […]
HEAVENLY CUTS
Local Musicians Mourn the Passing of John Prine
His sharp lyrics were buoyed by a smoke-and-whiskey twang
On April 7, America lost singer-songwriter John Prine to Covid-19. He was a giant in the world of country and folk music — genres that, it may surprise some to […]
PANDEMIC
WOMR’s John Perrone, 70, Dies of Covid-19
The popular host of the radio show 'Night Shift'
PROVINCETOWN — John Perrone, 70, whose passion for and knowledge of Motown attracted fans from all over world, died of the novel coronavirus on April 5, 2020, the same day […]
Arts Briefs and Listings
Arts Briefs for April 9 through April 15
The Porkchop Express Does the Cooking at Home WOMR has asked its DJs to write to the Independent and describe the experience of recording at home, since Outermost Community Radio […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, March 26
Advice for Second-Home Owners To the editor: The Wellfleet Seasonal Residents Assoc. (formerly Wellfleet Nonresident Taxpayers Assoc.) has been keeping members apprised of the effect of the coronavirus on the […]
Arts Briefs and Listings
Arts Briefs for March 26 through April 1
Doors Are Closed, but Libraries Still Offer Services The library is a lifeline for people who need internet access, public information, books, movies, or social contact. So, with all four […]
letter from the editor
Fishing on My Side
The New York Times reported on Monday that 47 percent of Americans say it’s hard for them to know whether the information they encounter is true. Many people have simply […]
letter from the editor
Where We Stand
“Why did you call it the Provincetown Independent?” That’s probably the question we are asked most frequently at our Open Newsroom sessions at the town libraries and in casual conversations […]
