Fledgling director and Vanity Fair special correspondent Matt Tyrnauer filmed 270 hours of the final two years of Italian haute couture designer Valentino Garavani’s career before his 2007 retirement, capturing the absurdly opulent life of the small, bronzed man he calls both a genius and “a bossy nightmare.”
N ectar’s nightclub opened its doors last week to an exuberant, mainly local crowd with a kickoff show featuring the sounds and songs of Island musicians. Some of the multitude attended in tribute to the Hot Tin Roof, the storied Vineyard nightclub of the late seventies and early eighties that once thrived in that same space. A younger set came out to celebrate the survival of the largest live music venue on the Island.
Full of zest, a group of sixth and seventh grade students from the Bronx, N.Y., took charge of Katama Farm early this week in the Farm Institute’s first-ever residential program.
Fifty-one Bronx Academy of Letters students arrived on the farm Monday for a three-day introduction to farming, gardening, cooking and livestock management.
What’s yellow, on wheels, and found carting paying (and non-paying) passengers all over Oak Bluffs? The answer is a new, open-air way to tour the Island’s pastel-painted town or bar hop along Circuit avenue: Vineyard Pedicab.
The gray that has canopied the Vineyard of late opened to blue skies on Saturday, but twelve logic-savvy gamesters spent the afternoon indoors slumped over tabletops in the meeting room of the Oak Bluffs Public Library. Equipped with reading glasses and spare pencils, the poker-faced crew absorbed themselves in competition, filling blank squares with lead-drawn numbers and letters as contestants in the Vineyard Gazette-sponsored Crossword and Sudoku Challenge.
On steamy summer afternoons, the aroma of chocolate fudge, peanut butter fudge or maybe caramel-smothered cashew brittle mingles in the seaside air in downtown Edgartown. It seeps out of 21 North Water street to sweeten the stale sidewalk air cocooning the VTA bus drop-off two blocks westward.
