Arts & Entertainment
Featherstone Center for the Arts presents its annual fundraiser, Art Under the Stars, on Monday evening, July 7, at Farm Neck on County Road in Oak Bluffs. The evening gets under way at 5:30 p.m. with cocktails and appetizers. The premier event is The Art of Living Auction. The invitation explains it this way: “There is art and artistry in a comfortable home, a thriving garden, a lovingly prepared dinner, a healthy body and time spent enjoying the things that matter with the people who mean the most to us.”
License Plate Auction
The online charitable auction for Cape and Islands license plate numbers 1 through 999 kicks off Tuesday, July 8 at capeandislandsplate.com.
Bidding for the plates begins on Tuesday and continues through August 1, 2008.
Closing times will vary by plate, so bidders should note the ending time on the website.
The minimum bid for plate numbers 1-10 will be $10,000; the minimum bid for plate numbers 11 – 100 will be $1000; and the minimum bid for plates101 - 999 will be $100.
In the food industry, it’s all about the numbers.
Eight ounces in a cup. Three hundred fifty degrees to bake cookies. Seven o’clock dinner rush.
This summer, Austin Racine and Katrina Yekel are keeping track of one more number: 63. It is the number of days straight that Café Moxie — the Main street Vineyard Haven restaurant where they first met and fell in love and now own together — will be open for lunch and for dinner.
Carolyn, from Rhode Island, one of the dozens of holiday makers who stood in line for fried clams one recent Sunday at The Bite in Menemsha, was taken aback at the prices.
“This is pretty intense,” she said, looking down at the red and white take-out carton, roughly the size of a Tiffany’s ring gift box. Containing eight to ten clams, a half pint of deep fried whole bellies at The Bite currently costs $12.95. Counting his change, her father told her: “You just presided over a theft.”
The wheels on his bike stopped abruptly on Centre street behind Café Moxie when the pantry chef saw the flames breaking through the roof of the restaurant around 9:40 a.m. today, the Fourth of July. “I guess I don’t have work today,” he said sadly, and rode off.
The original art and music from a book about the true adventures of a little Vineyard girl who lived aboard her father’s whaling ship will be featured at a West Tisbury gallery opening in July.
Susan Convery Foltz, whose watercolors brought to life the story of Laura Jernegan in Thirty Dirty Sailors and the Little Girl Who Went a-Whaling, will host the opening Saturday, July 5, from 5 to 7:30 p.m., at M.M. Stone Gallery at 671 North Tisbury Road.
