Acclaimed novelist and journalist Ward Just died on Dec. 19 after a struggle with Lewy body dementia. He was 84 years old.

Carly Simon's new book, Touched By the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie, explores their journey together from book collaborators to longtime friends.

Tristan Israel introduces his latest album, Out Into the Midnight, with a CD release concert at the Old Whaling Church Saturday starting at 7 p.m.

Chilmark Chocolates sold its final box on Wednesday — closing the door on an Island institution that has endured as a singular business for more than three decades.

This year’s Gifts of Art show and sale at the Carnegie in Edgartown opened Thursday with a reception for 10 local painters whose smaller-scale works are sized and priced for gift-giving.