The opening scene of Pet Peeves, a short film written and directed by actress and longtime Chilmark summer denizen Brooke Adams, begins with a pretty, perky twentysomething in blonde, braided pigtails named Sherry (Sunny Mabrey) wandering from her new home in Hollywood to a neighbor’s bachelor pad for a cup of sugar. Instead, she gets a little something sweet of a different sort from the chiseled man after she startles him from swimming nude laps in the pool.
Six years ago, West Tisbury resident Paul Karasik traveled to Oxford, Md., to meet the son of Fletcher Hanks, a great undiscovered comic book cartoonist who first caught his attention 20 years earlier when he printed portions of Mr. Hanks’s work as the associate editor of Raw magazine, the international comics and graphics review. Mr. Hanks had spent three years in this quiet fishing town on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay, during the advent of the comic book industry, from 1939 to 1941, scripting, drawing and inking 51 bizarre, edgy and masterful comic stories.
Dressed in a black suit, with a salt and pepper mane fanned around a stern countenance, Tony Award-winning performing artist André De Shields closely resembled the great American statesman Frederick Douglass when he performed on stage in Manhattan last winter.
Sara Hohenthal celebrated the advent of her fourth year of life in typical birthday fashion: after collecting gifts from her family, a squad of smiling playmates treated her with birthday caroling, cake and more bow-wrapped presents — some purchased hesitantly by budget-pressed parents.
On each birthday since her fourth, nine-year-old Sara has celebrated a bit differently. For her special day, relatives still surprise her with presents packaged in colorful boxes and bags, but her friends now arrive at her parties bearing canned corn and vegetable soup.
Vineyard Pedicab entrepreneurs Will and John Pasquina will host the first Pan-Martha Challenge, a 40-mile bikeathon across the Vineyard to raise money for cancer research and treatment at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, on Oct. 4 at 9:30 a.m.
Participants are asked to gather donations before pedaling from the Flying Horses Carousel in Oak Bluffs to the cliffs of Aquinnah, a route one-fifth the length of the statewide charity event it mimics, the Pan-Mass Challenge.
When the glossed ponies of The Flying Horses Carousel in Oak Bluffs halt their whirling prance, the expressions of the children mounted atop their wooden backs sour. The ride is over. But for Island artist Sandy Bernat, the slowing spin of the merry-go-round on a bright day earlier this summer marked her moment.
As the riders slid down the saddles, Ms. Bernat rushed into the ring to snap a photograph of the bridled horse heads, hooves and mystic aesthetic of America’s oldest operating carousel.
