Featherstone’s 2024 Holiday Gift Show
The sentiment “shop early, buy local” is easy to do at Featherstone Center for the Arts’ 22nd annual Holiday Gift Show. Every year, I feel a little thrill when first entering the gallery. I’d...
Trans(formation) Portraits: Gender identity on Cape Cod
Walking through Julia Cumes’ moving exhibition “Trans(formation): A Collaborative Portrait Series Exploring Gender Identity on Cape Cod” is a stirring experience. The powerful portraits of trans individuals just across the water and their accompanying...
‘A Real Pain’ shows at the M.V. Film Center
“A Real Pain” is an engaging, thought-provoking film that will draw you in as its nuances unravel. Writer and director Jesse Eisenberg gives us a pitch-perfect story that is ostensibly about two cousins who...
Museum Pieces: Mysteries and stories
“It’s a dinner party, and death is on the menu, as they say … Except nobody wants a part of this main course — well nobody sane, that is.” —Raemi Ray, author of the...
Islanders Write: Shouldering writers in March
March on the Vineyard can feel a bit like a houseguest who overstays a welcome, which is why I am delighted to announce an event that we hope will help break up the monochromatic...
The Chowder Cup renews a holiday tradition
The Martha’s Vineyard Chowder Festival was a staple of Christmas in Edgartown for years, but went by the wayside. However, this holiday tradition is back for the holidays
This year, the Edgartown Board of Trade...
T-shirt design contest
Love to draw, sketch, or create? Wish you could make a T-shirt of that cute little chubby bird you just painted? Now you can. Enter your design for a chance to be West Tisbury...
Recovery Café
M.V. Community Services' Red House Peer Recovery Support Center in Oak Bluffs is a safe place for those affected by and seeking help with addiction. In their Recovery Café program, members and volunteers cook...
‘Native Nations’ by Kathleen DuVal
Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations, and adapted to a changing world long before colonization. Professor, historian, and author Kathleen DuVal will discuss her new book, "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America," on Monday,...
Supportive Day Program for 55-plus
The M.V. Center for Living hosts the Supportive Day Program for those 55 years old and up who are in need of socialization or are feeling isolated. In-person activities include music, exercise, conversation, art,...
IGI and Island Food Pantry
Though Martha’s Vineyard is known worldwide as a destination for the rich and famous, many Islanders are struggling, often choosing between paying rent and buying food. IGI is making sure that everyone in the...
Aquinnah Artisans Holiday Fair
The sixth annual Aquinnah Artisans Holiday Fair runs Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 7 and 8, from 10 am to 4 pm at Aquinnah Town Hall. You will find many unique gifts for your loved...
Tristan Israel’s new CD – ‘Snake Hollow’
Tristan Israel is a unique singer/songwriter who has performed and recorded since the 1970s. He first arrived and worked summers on the island in the late sixties and has lived here for about 50...
Mark Chester’s ‘Roadshow Anthropology’
For some, a cross-country trip means a chance to get a sense of life beyond the highways and byways. However, in his most recent book, “Roadshow Anthropology,” photographer Mark Chester has taken a very...
Museum Pieces: Who we are
Longside the stove in Sanderson’s,
The gang don’t meet there anymore.
The most of ’em have sailed away,
For ports upon a brighter shore.
But we who still hang on to life,
Called old ourselves by younger men,
We figger...
Gregory Mone’s latest book
Gregory Mone introduced young readers to Maurice Reidy, a.k.a Fish, in 2010. “Fish” was Mone’s first book for children. He has since gone on to become a New York Times best-selling author, and has...
Artist Elizabeth Greene’s ‘Island Joy’
In a time of stress, there is nothing like uplifting art to provide a sanctuary for the heart and soul. You will find that in Elizabeth Greene’s eclectic new exhibition, “Island Joy,” at the...
Nancy Slonim Aronie’s new book
You can hear Nancy Aronie cheer you on to be the best writer possible in her compelling new book, “Seven Secrets to the Perfect Personal Essay.” Both in person and on the page, Aronie...
‘Van Gogh’ documentary is its own art
Vincent Van Gogh’s art is beloved by many. How can you help but be moved by his powerful brushwork and the pulsating colors that vibrate on his canvases? The artist’s genius is celebrated in...
‘Jewish Power: Ideal, Idol, or Illusion?’
Join Rabbi Marc J. Rosenstein, former director of both the Israel Rabbinical Program at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem, and the Galilee Foundation for Value Education, as he raises the questions around “Jewish Power:...