Arts & Entertainment
A contemporary musical that chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up — or from break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it — opens Thursday for a three-weekend season at Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven.
The Last Five Years, by Jason Robert Brown (Parade, Songs for a New World), is an intensely personal look at the relationship between a writer and an actress told from both points of view.
Surfwise is only a surfing film in the same way that its central character Dorian (Doc) Paskowitz is, as he puts it, a “Jewish surfer.”
In fact Mr. Paskowitz is a Stanford-educated doctor who refused to send any of his nine children to school; an individualist who led his children each morning in a rendition of Chairman Mao’s March of the Volunteers; and a professed good husband and good father, who pursued his own dream with his family in tow. He also happens to surf.
Film Wins Award
Crawford, a documentary film by Chilmark summer resident David Modigliani, won the audience award for best documentary at the Brooklyn Film Festival last Sunday night. The film, about the changes Crawford, Texas, goes through when George W. Bush moves to town, has screened at festivals nationwide and was called “a must-see of this year’s docs” by writer-director Richard Linklater. For details online, or to watch the movie trailer, go to crawfordmovie.com.
Tastes of Tashmoo
Tastes of Tashmoo, a benefit to raise funds to continue restoration of the Tashmoo Spring Building, is set for Thursday, July 19.
The event, sponsored by the Tashmoo Spring Building Preservation Committee, will be held at the Hines Point home of Denys and Marilyn Wortman in Vineyard Haven. For information, call 508-696-4202 or e-mail [email protected].
A thin line of chocolate snaked across his plate, capturing his crepe while a dollop of ice cream sat innocently to the side. Michael Torres, of Modesto, Calif., hadn’t touched his dessert yet but already was giving Waterside Market rave reviews. It was his first visit to the new eatery on Main street in Vineyard Haven, he said, and he was impressed with everything from the service to the atmosphere. “We were walking down the street and we saw it and we smelled it and said this is where we want to eat,” he explained.
Whaling Exhibit
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum and the West Tisbury School’s multiage class invite the public to Thar She Blows!, a celebration of learning, on Thursday, June 19, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. The event is scheduled for the museum’s Pease House at 59 School street, Edgartown. Thar She Blows! is an exhibit of student work about whales and whaling. This year-long study was based upon an interdisciplinary curriculum unit which focuses on teaching with primary sources, funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
