My fun on the Cape is almost exclusively of the solitary kind. Exploring a new beach, taking my bike on the rail trail and stopping for ice cream at the Pleasant Lake General Store. Or making repairs to my cottage.

This time on Sittin' In, CAI's John Basile talks with singer Ella Mae Dixon about growing up in Wellfleet and making the move to New York where her career has taken off. They also talk about Dixon's new single, which takes a jazz classic in a new direction.

Do you remember how hot it was two weeks ago? Well, right now people are noticing the true toll that this took on some of their plants. This week on The Garden Lady C.L'.s talking about leaf scorch, browned flowers and other symptoms from the sudden 90 degree plus temperatures.

This week on the fishing news CAI’s John Basile talks with Kevin Blinkoff of On The Water magazine about the brown shark, also known as the sandbar shark

My friend Drew Locke is a seventh-generation farmer in Truro. He’s always trying new things — partly because he’s curious and partly because even though he comes from a long line of farmers, a lot of intergenerational knowledge has been lost in recent decades and he’s focused on relearning the old ways.

Plus: a new novel from Gary Shteyngart, a true story of a shipwreck, and a memoir from a wrongly incarcerated inmate who was exonerated after 28 years behind bars.

For nearly twenty years, most air travelers in the U.S. have been required to remove their shoes when going through security. That requirement seems to be ending.

Emergency responders kept hope alive as they combed through fallen trees and other debris that littered the hard-hit central Texas communities on the fifth day after devastating floods killed more than 100.