Holly Nadler
Everybody out on the courts!
You may have noticed those small tennis courts in such places as Niantic Park in Oak Bluffs or at the Boys and Girls Club...
Come on down!
To paraphrase an old song from Paul Simon, “Something tells me it’s all happening at the library.” Simon said “at the zoo,” but nowadays,...
A Valentine’s Day love story
“We don’t meditate,” said Michael Joly as he and his sweetheart Alene Sibley sat at my dining room table in Oak Bluffs in early...
Teach what you know
What does Martha’s Vineyard have in common with Athens in the Golden Age and Elizabethan England? You guessed it! We’ve got a veritable surplus...
Banish those winter blues
To get to the Chilmark Tavern in winter, you’ve got to be motivated. If you’re coming from down-Island, you’ll be traveling a great network...
Good triumphs over evil in ‘The Snow Queen’
Who better than a Danish teller of fairytales to portray good and evil in the form of hot and — excruciatingly — cold weather?...
Claim to fame: Prizewinning Hanukkah latkes
What do potato pancakes have to do with Hanukkah? Well, it’s not entirely unreasonable to ask what Hanukkah has to do with anything. It’s...
Name that factoid
If you’re old enough, you’ll remember back in the day — the day being pre-Internet — when you’d be sitting around a dinner table...
A summer camp for more than roasting s’mores
No one on the Island today seems to have ever heard of it. I’ve asked artists and dancers and theater people; in other words,...
At home with the Aronies of Chilmark
Alice in her Wonderland has nothing on a visit to Nancy Slonim Aronie and Joel Aronie in their small and wildly quaint cottage just...
Worth reading
If you’re a die-hard reader then a favorite subject is books that have been censored or even withdrawn, generally from libraries or schools, because...
Love in the time of hurricanes
It is a truth universally acknowledged (to borrow from Jane Austen) that Island kids tend to grow up, fall in love, and coax their...
At home with Sam Feldman and Marilyn Meyerhoff
Set back from the south cliffs of Chilmark, surrounded by tall ornamental grasses and uncommon cultivated flowers that blend with the wildflowers and equally...
A fresh look at an old masterpiece
The tragic element of a revival of the 1987 off-Broadway hit “Driving Miss Daisy,” about racial and class and ethnic tensions in Atlanta, Ga.,...
Island authors share laughs and literature at the Artisans Festival
Writers thrive on Martha’s Vineyard the way those exotic wild mushrooms sprout over our lawns and in our woods. (A word of advice: Read...
‘The Five-Headed Dragon’: A new thriller by Island writer Michael West
Michael G. West, who lives year-round in Vineyard Haven, with a whole lot of business travel to keep his horizons broad, never does anything...
Art gallery as salon
If you want to know what’s in the hearts and minds of angry, uneducated white men and what’s at stake for the people they...
Playwright Larry Mollin creates a play from the song ‘Please Come to Boston’
Remember when play readings used to be rather clunky affairs? Actors struggling to find a dropped line, characters clomping to their appointed lecterns, talking...
‘Julius Caesar’ is still slaying audiences at the amphitheater
A love of history and of Shakespeare can be passed down through the generations. On a sunny day in October 1960, my dad gathered...
Take your health into your own hands with the ‘Wellness Project’
Food and health writer, chef, and nutrition blogger Phoebe Lapine has just rounded the Big 3-0 for her birthday, which all of us who...