Arts & Entertainment
Next weekend, on Sunday, Oct. 28, Ann Randolph will perform her one-woman show Loveland at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven. Ms. Randolph was once a member of the Groundlings in Los Angeles with Will Ferrell and was perhaps headed to Saturday Night Live, too, but her desire to perform and write her own shows led her down a different path. She has created a number of one-woman shows, including the award-winning Squeeze Box which was produced by Mel Brooks and Ann Bancroft. A movie version of the show is in development.
In most people’s lives, glass has become so transparent as to be almost invisible. We drink from glasses, store food in glass jars and look out of glass windows. But a customer walking into the main building of Martha’s Vineyard Glassworks can’t help but consider the artistic process of making glass, too.
Inside the welcoming cedar-shingled building located on State Road in West Tisbury, the glassblowing studio is separated from the gallery by just a wraparound countertop. Within one building, the before, during and after takes place.
The Long Point 5 rocks the music of Scott Joplin, Argentine tangos, the big band sound of Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, George Gershwin, Stephen Foster, even Bach and Debussy.
Breast is the word for Saturday night. On Oct. 13, from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. a bounty of local and regional female singer-songwriters will perform at Dreamland in Oak Bluffs for the first ever Breast Fest Ball, with all proceeds from the benefit going towards the Martha’s Vineyard Breast Cancer Support Group.
Larry Laverdure, the main brain behind the event, plays the bass in Larbear (“that’s me,” he said) and the Lazy B band which consists of Emily Hunsaker and Andrea Dello Russo. Also on the evening’s lineup are Carly Simon, Nina Violet and many more.
Just as many dining options across the Island are beginning to close up shop for the season, a new restaurant in the former David Ryan’s space on North Water street opened last month with every intention of serving the year-round population.
The goals for new Edgartown restaurant Eleven North are simple: keep it local, keep it fun and keep it open year-round.
With a “casual downstairs” and “a little more chic with more New York city and Miami” upstairs, the restaurant hopes to please a broad spectrum of patrons for both lunch and dinner.
Underneath the green canopy at the Wild Food challenge held at the Rod and Gun Club in Edgartown last Monday, Harbor View chefs Shaun Sells and Nathan Gould, dressed in sleek black uniforms, hovered over their chopping boards, quietly and meticulously slicing smoked striper. Nearby, 11-year-old Rose Herman and 10-year-old Violet Cabot drizzled a beach plum vinaigrette on their watercress salad to accompany a slice of acorn squash and a filet of bluefish.
