Arts & Entertainment
We’ve waited 72 years to meet a princess like Tiana. In the history of Disney’s animated fairy tales, we all know Snow White, Princess Aurora and Cinderella. Belle and Ariel came later, their fair-skinned complexions falling in line with their princess predecessors. In 1992, Disney integrated their princess line-up with the Middle Eastern Jasmine, followed closely by Native American Pocahontas and the Chinese Mulan.
Hollywood filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan has an interesting philosophy on careers, one that defies conventional logic. While most people say you should always love your job, he believes at some point you should truly hate your job.
“I think at some point you should take a job you truly despise . . . that way you’ll always know what you really want in life,” he told the Gazette in a telephone interview this week.
The Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival continues on Thursday, August 6, with a performance by the Jupiter String Quartet. The quartet will perform Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 7, Dvorak’s Quartet in F Major “American,” and Beethoven’s Quartet in E Minor, the “Razumovsky.” The concert begins at 8 p.m. at the Chappaquiddick Community Center. A reception follows the concert and everyone is invited to attend.
Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard is sponsoring a forum — An Insiders’ Guide to Hospice: What’s Old, What’s New, What’s Up — on Tuesday, August 4, at 5 p.m. Featured will be Dr. Donald Schumacher, chief executive of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization in Washington, D.C.
The forum is free and open to the public. It will be held at the First Congregational Church in West Tisbury at State Road and Music street. Refreshments will follow.
Big Benefit Book Sale
The stacks are high, the tables laden: today come the crowds to the West Tisbury School gym, on Old County Road, for the Friends of the West Tisbury Library’s annual book sale. Hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, tomorrow, Sunday (half-price on what’s left) and Monday (when it’s all free).
The Home Port restaurant in Menemsha has turned its back door green.
New owners Bob and Sarah Nixon and chef Johnny Graham saw environmental sustainability as an area where the landmark restaurant could improve in this, its 80th year of business, and they are starting with the huge volume of disposables that go through the eatery’s back door take-out facility every day.
