Arts & Entertainment
Sublime Tribute Show
Sublime tribute band Badfish is performing at Nectar’s in Edgartown on Thursday, August 5. Doors open at 9 p.m. for ages 18 and over; tickets are $17 in advance or $22 at the door.
Charles Ogletree Talk
Professor Charles Ogletree, one of the country’s leading experts on race and a colleague and friend of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., speaks on his new book, The Presumption of Guilt, The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., on Thursday, August 5, 8 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center.
By REMY TUMIN
Sam is 47 years old and has been sober for a little over two years, the longest he’s been sober since the age of 10. Brad, 49, became addicted to amphetamines in high school and has been sober for the past two years. Jill was the first graduate from the Vineyard House and is now a nurse’s aid in Maine. These are a few of the life-changing stories that have come as a result of a patient’s time at Vineyard House, and all of these people credit the facility with saving their lives.
Hiroshima Memorial
The annual memorial of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan will be held on Friday, August 6, at the Aquinah Lighthouse at 6 a.m. Join others for a sunrise service of prayers, words, songs, and silence. There will be ride shares leaving from Cronig’s in Vineyard Haven at 5:15 a.m., and Alley’s in West Tisbury at 5:30 a.m. sharp.
Cultural Differences
Cultural anthropologist and University of Chicago professor Richard Shweder will deliver a talk titled Engaging Cultural Differences Without Moral Panic: The Burqa, the Bris and FGM on Wednesday, August 4 at 5:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library.
Who’s that doing his down dog at Walden Pond? Same cat rocking his proud warrior of civil disobediance. You guessed it: Henry David Thoreau, laid back dude and early champion of the simple life. According to Stefanie Syman in her new book The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America, Thoreau was also one of the first Americans to experiment with yoga on this soil.
