It must be tough to pick a name for your second solo cookbook when the first one refers to raising the bar, as in Catherine Walthers's 2007 book, Raising the Salad Bar.

Walk With Ghosts

Get in the spirit of Halloween by visiting various Island spirits — ghosts that is. Yes, they are out there and have been haunting Martha’s Vineyard for generations.

A non-believer? Well, checkin with the experts at Vineyard Ghosts Walking Tours to get the skinny on who has said boo to whom plus the why, wherefore and ramifications of said spooking.

The Edgartown School presents the classic musical comedy Once Upon a Mattress. The play was originally created at a summer camp and opened on Broadway in 1959. It featured the debut of a talented young lady named Carol Burnett.

The cast includes over 25 Edgartown School students in grades six through eight, with stage direction by Donna Swift, musical direction by Beth Carr, stage management by Mariah Mac-Kenzie, sets by Alison Carr and sound by William Fligor and Peter Sawyer,

Casting Ballots for the Funny Bone

Fed up with the punditocracy doing the yellathon thing day after day? Tired of watching fellow humans go frothy with the rightousness of their own ego? Whatever happened to the color gray, anyway? Or humor?

Well, this Saturday the air is being taken out of the gasbags — all of them, be they Democrat or Republican.

Combine your love of literature and music by spending the evening with vocalist Stephanie Miele as she sings Broadway ballads inspired by children’s literature.

Yes, there are quite a few.

Richard Rogers, Oscar Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Kern and Lerner and Loewe have all whetted their creative fires by igniting the child within.

Examples include C’est Moi from Camelot, Many a New Day from Oklahoma, and Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man of Mine from Showboat.