NAACP president Cornell William Brooks will be the keynote speaker at the annual Della Hardman Day celebration Saturday in Ocean Park. The day honors the late artist, educator, historian and Oak Bluffs columnist whose favorite phrase was savor the moment.

Bob Mankoff is The New Yorker’s cartoon editor, and each week he evaluates thousands of cartoons. He is also the subject of the new documentary Very Semi-Serious, which screens Friday at the performing arts center. Mr. Mankoff, a cartoonist himself, will be on hand for a post-film discussion.

It’s a rare opportunity to gather in one restaurant and enjoy specialty dishes sourced from the Island by seven distinct chefs. All of which are, by the event’s design, also cookbook authors. And for these cooks, the stories are as important as the recipes.

Watching Matthew Heineman’s new documentary Cartel Land is like visiting a meth lab in the desert on a dark night, being caught in the middle of a shootout between Mexican vigilantes and a drug cartel, and being a witness to torture.

An oil painting of an empty rowboat hangs on a wide column at A Gallery in Oak Bluffs. It’s missing its oars, and occupants too. A Gallery owner Tanya Augoustinos sees the painting by Carol Barsha as a metaphor for passage and transition.

In March, the president of Sweet Briar College announced that the 114-year-old women's college in Virginia would be closing. But he hadn't counted on Tracy Stuart, an alumna and Vineyard resident, who led the fight which eventually saved the school.