Arts & Entertainment
Willy Mason is sitting on a barstool in a London pub, smoking a cigarette and considering the last decade. He takes a pull on his beer and thinks about what all the buzz — tours with Radiohead, collaborations with the Chemical Brothers and duets with KT Tunstall and Rosanne Cash — has really meant to the young bard now closing in on 30.
Michael Pollan left an overflow crowd at the Farm Institute with a clear message last week: start cooking.
“You can take a deep dive into the soul with cooking,” he said a during a sold-out a reading of his new book Thursday night.
The Oak Bluffs Library brings the Harlem Renaissance to light with a special exhibit of an original manuscript by Langston Hughes. His poem Cubes is now on exhibit in three drafts and the final version.
Viewers will be able to see Mr. Hughes’s changes to his text as they read his poem, which highlights the racial and economic exploitation he encountered while traveling abroad extensively.
You read it here first, and so did Larry David. While he couldn’t give away the entire plot in advance of the premiere this weekend, director Greg Mottola of the movie Clear History, which stars the co-creator of Seinfeld himself, confirmed that the Gazette defines a key plot point in the HBO film set on Martha’s Vineyard.
Each week the folks at Cinema Circus show a series of short films on Wednesday evening at the Chilmark Community center. The films begin at 6 p.m. but the circus — complete with jugglers, face painters, stilt walkers, food and music — gets underway at 5 p.m.
The historic Mayhew-Hancock-Mitchell House at Quansoo Farm is the topic of a presentation by Adam Moore of the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation at an August 14 talk beginning at 5 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library. The historic house, dating back to the 17th century, is one of a handful of homes in the U.S. that contain original wattle and daub construction.
The foundation is currently raising funds to preserve the house.
