Art
The Vineyard Playhouse continues its popular summer series of new work, the Monday Night Special, with a reading and singing of a new play by Frank Higgins entitled Black Pearl Sings onMonday, August 24at 7 p.m. at the Vineyard Playhouse.
At 11 p.m. on Sundays in summer reggae music rumbles underground, three concrete steps beneath Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs at the Dive Bar. The boom and song of Peter Tosh, Mavado and Sean Paul, earlier sealed surreptitiously in this sunken saloon, swell and rupture to the streets as the party peaks in size and vibrancy.
Spotlight at Shaw Cramer
Through the Lens is the last show in the Spotlights 2009 series celebrating 15 years at the Shaw Cramer Gallery. Island photographers Karen DiMaura, Gary Mirando and Kathy Newman join Michael Beatty and Eric Jensen, each with their distinctive style. Photo silk-screened stoneware vessels complement spare images of the cranberry bog house and Lake Tashmoo. It’s about the artists personal vision.
When an art gallery and a cultural salon stays in business for 30 years in a vacation resort that, for nine months of the year, is a hibernacula (a term used for colonies of torpid bats in winter caves), then there is every reason to expect that the proprietor, in this case, Zita Cousens of Cousen Rose Gallery at 71 Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs, knows what she’s doing.
In 1965 when Rhonda Coullet (nee Oglesby) was crowned as Miss Arkansas, she decided in the third month of ribbon-cutting that her duties lay on the frivolous side (presumably Queen Elizabeth could jump to this same conclusion, but England isn’t Arkansas). The young beauty queen caught the next ride out of Lafayette County to become a singing star in Hollywood.
Wailing for Hunger