Art
Winter Farmers’ Market
Noses, for the moment, may be safe from Jack Frost, but still the air is getting chilly. So what’s a farmers’ market to do to keep the veggies safe. Head indoors.
This week the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market begins its run at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury. Enjoy the same great local produce the market has offered all summer long.
The market is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Market dates are Oct. 23, Nov. 6 and 20 and Dec. 4 and 18.
Farm to Bank
Calling all foodies, from growers to eaters. On Monday, Nov. 1 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury there will be a panel discussion geared toward food entrepreneurs. The panelists will include Rebecca Miller of North Tabor Farm, Sarah McKay, manager for Cronig’s Markets, Wenonah Madison and Dan Sauer, both of 7a Farm. In addition, an executive for Whole Foods Market will be on the panel which will be moderated by Ali Berlow, founder of Island Grown Initiative and Edible Vineyard magazine.
The Limpopo is a river in Botswana. It is also the name of a doughnut served at State Road Restaurant in West Tisbury. But this is not just any doughnut as anyone who as eaten one, or 30, say, in a week-long binge will attest. It is the perfect doughnut.
Brown and slightly crispy on the outside. A brioche dough interior that is neither too dry nor too moist. And a constellation of sugar crumbs coating the outside, sweet but not cloying. To call this a mere doughnut would be like calling your dog just an another animal. It would not be right.
Once children begin connecting with the natural world, it can be hard to stop them. Perhaps that is why the lovely new book by the young artists of Featherstone Center for the Arts, called Animals A-Z, has 49 paintings despite the potentially limiting 26 letters of the alphabet.
Medicare
All seniors who have Medicare Part D Prescription Drug coverage should review their current plan to see if it remains cost-effective and has all of their drugs for 2011. Medicare posts formularies, premiums and drug costs for all Part D plans for next year on the Medicare Web site, medicare.gov, on or about Oct. 15.
Unless you are a Prescription Advantage member or meet a limited number of special cases criteria, you can only change your Part D plan once a year between Nov. 15 and Dec. 31.
Taffy McCarthy is solitary on stage in the literal whole-nine-yards of white satin bridal paraphernalia; the gown is too long for her customary hopping and bopping.
In this Island Theatre Workshop (ITW) rehearsal of the first of five short original plays — banded together under the title Pick of the Crop — Ms. McCarthy portrays a hill country bride-to-be called Sis. The monologue, One Last Look, was written by the actor herself.