Arts & Entertainment
Island Theatre Workshop’s second annual one-act festival opens Friday, March 14, at the Katharine Cornell Theatre.
Three directors will offer a program of four plays, all of which look at life with both humor and sadness.
Lee Fierro will be presenting two shows: Aria da Capa, by Edna St.Vincent Millay, and Extensions, by Murray Schisgal.
Annual membership is strongly encouraged: For $40 a year you get half-price admission into any of the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival screenings — winter or summer (every Wednesday night).
Individual tickets are available at the door, $5 for members or $10 for nonmembers.
Weekend passes are available at Island Entertainment: $50 for members, $100 for nonmembers.
You will not experience a more independent film at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival than Surfwise, a 93-minute recounting of the Paskowitz famil
Edward (Big Ed) Johnson is not physically large. In fact Mr. Johnson, who is serving a life sentence for gang-related homicide, looks wispy standing next to some of his fellow inmates. The origin of his nickname is likely wrapped up in the fact, as a convict at Donaldson Correctional Facility, Alabama’s highest security prison, he was a gang-leader in a prison populated by violent criminals.
That is, until taking part in the Vipassana Buddhist meditation program that forms the centerpiece of the documentary The Dhamma Brothers.
At just the moment when the drag of winter seems never-ending, a light is shining on the horizon — a projectionist’s light.
In an effort to bring relief to some Cape and Islands residents who already pay some of the highest home insurance premiums in the nation, state Rep. Eric T. Turkington earlier this week filed a bill that would institute a cap on future increases to the so-called FAIR plan, the state-backed insurer of last resort for many Vineyarders.
