Art
Pastry chef Kate Rickard will conduct a free bread making workshop at the Chilmark Public Library on Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 5:30 p.m. Participants will learn how to mix, knead, rise and shape a variety of different bread types, as well as taste samples of Mrs. Rickard’s products.
Touring musicians are supposed to say they like the venue they’re about to play.
John Cruz and the Island?
You can’t shut him up.
Chilmark’s Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival is seeking couches (no sleepers, please) for its eighth annual weekend movie March 14 to 16. If you have a couch in good condition that you’d let the organizers borrow, they will thank you with three film tickets and a festival gift bag. They will come and pick the couches up on Thursday, March 13, and return them on Monday, March 17. The couches will be covered during the event. Please call Brad Westcott at 508-645-9599, or e-mail him at [email protected] if you can help.
It’s on! The writers’ strike is over, and glittering preparations are under way for Hollywood’s annual Academy Awards presentation — as well as for the Island’s very Vineyard version of the Vanity Fair party, the third annual Oscar Night Benefit with the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society.
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum is extending its hours of operation this winter.
The museum will be open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the Gale Huntington Research Library will be open Wednesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and by appointment.
Winter admission is $6 for adults, $5 for seniors, and $4 for children 6 to 12.
New York city’s Upper West Side really should get the top billing in Saturday’s Martha’s Vineyard Film Society presentation, but the main character in this film, Starting Out in the Evening, is an ageing writer superbly played by character actor Frank Langella.
Author Leonard Schiller is a man who feels as obsolete as the typewriter he uses. Though he has four novels to his credit, he has been working on his fifth for a decade.