Art
In the 1966 documentary, The Endless Summer, director Bruce Brown chronicled the journey of two friends from California chasing waves across the globe. It was a seminal movie that helped fuel the rise of the burgeoning sport. Yes, surfing once was referred to as burgeoning; just a minor blip on the marketers’ radar and considered an activity for outsiders on a par with getting a tattoo. How times have changed.
Spy Talk
The CIA is speaking. Well, at least Vicki Divol, former CIA lawyer, is talking and she’s doing it right here at the Chilmark Public Library.
Ms. Divol’s lecture is entitled Can the President Keep Counterterrorist Operations Secret from Congress? It will take place on Wednesday, August 3, at 5:30 p.m.
How did Tina Chang become the Poet Laureate of Brooklyn? By writing the following words:
“I walk the streets of Brooklyn looking at this storefront and that, buy a pair of shoes I can’t afford, pumps from London, pointed at the tip and heartbreakingly high, hear my new heels clicking, crushing the legs of my shadow.”
Well, actually that is a mere sampling of her work taken from her poem Duality. There is so much more to choose from.
The Tabernacle wore a dress of paintings, collages and photographs, hung on a wire mesh, yesterday as it played host to artists of all ages entered in the 53rd annual All-Island Art Show.
The Vineyard Playhouse raised $350,000 at its annual fundraiser on Sunday night, a huge boost for the capital campaign now under way to renovate the historic playhouse building on Church street in Vineyard Haven. The renovation project includes remodeling the stage, which will be named after the late actress Patricia Neal, it was announced at the event early Sunday evening.
What happens to a dream deferred? Fortunately for the bidders and dreamers at the 33rd annual Possible Dreams auction last night, they’ll never have to know.
Beneath the canopy of a beautiful sunset in Oak Bluffs, the audience rallied to raise over $251,350 before the final tally for Martha’s Vineyard Community Services despite the troubled economic times.