Arts & Entertainment
A Talk to Rock Your Socks Off
Specializing in the very groovy (pardon the pun) sounding field of neotectonics, noted geologist Patrick Williams will explore the origins of the Island’s major landscape features in a discussion billed as Hills, Hollows, Bays and Bogs: A Geologist’s View of Martha’s Vineyard, taking place Saturday, May 15, at 3 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum library.
Wine and Dine
The Sweet Life Café is hosting a wine dinner series to benefit The Yard, beginning on Wednesday, May 19, at 6 p.m. at its Circuit avenue location in Oak Bluffs, featuring John Larchet, the proprietor of the Australian Premium Wine Collection, stopping by before heading to the Nantucket Wine Festival.
By MEGAN DOOLEY
Vineyarders will get a taste of the golden state this weekend at the first annual Martha’s Vineyard California Wine Affair, a two-day event that begins tonight at Atria.
“This is a wine-centered community gathering,” said Kaitlin Lynch, public relations coordinator for the event.
The Hillside Village community center is the last place one would think of going to sit in a dentist chair. But recently, the community center, a living room and kitchen were turned over to Dr. Ghassan Khoury, 43, a dentist from Lexington with a growing following. To his friends, to his patients, he is Dr. Gus.
Alzheimer’s Overview
Learn how Alzheimer’s disease differs from other dememtias, how to obtain a diagnosis, how to recognize the signs and symptoms, how the disease progresses and how Alzheimer’s disease differs from normal age-related memory loss, in a talk called Overview of Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia on Friday, May 14 at 1:30 p.m. at the Vineyard Haven Public Library. Please sign up online at vhlibrary.org, or for more information, e-mail [email protected].
Rosemary Gambino, owner of Rosecuts Salon on Causeway Road in Vineyard Haven, is spearheading a Vineyard effort to collect hair, fur and wool trimmings and nylons to aid in the cleanup of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that has spewed millions of gallons of crude oil since the April 20 explosion.
