While summer movies typ ically lean to big explosions, gooey romances, or gross-out comedies, films of a more thoughtful nature will be loaded into projectors next weekend as the Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival gets underway. The festival, now in its sixth year, begins on Thursday, Sept. 8 and runs throughout the weekend at locations around Vineyard Haven.

The festival is known for bringing together a broad mix of films that include both the serious and lighthearted.

By NINA TARNAWSKY

Social networking Web sites such as Google+, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn have become a part of the equation when it comes to the job hunt. That last statement may serve as yet another source of distress for those looking for work but feeling less than internet savvy. Thankfully, the new book Web 2.0 Job Finder by Brenda Greene and Coleen Byrne gives even the most technologically phobic jobseeker a solid foundation in how best to utilize the internet.

For most people the movie Jaws inspired a renewed appreciation for nonaquatic activities, but for Zach Graves it provided an inspiration for his own award-winning short video. Mr. Graves, an intern at Plum TV, was recently named the winner of the Vineyard Gazette’s video contest. Along with bragging rights, Mr. Graves received a $1,000 first place prize.

The crowd looked frighteningly large. I had butterflies in my stomach and my palms were sticky as I searched for my mother in the stands. My previous experience with a skillet had been stationary and involved eggs, not throwing, but I had impulsively announced in an editorial meeting at the Gazette (where I am working as an intern this summer) that I would enter the 14th Annual Women’s Skillet Throw at the Agricultural Fair. What had I been thinking? But there was no time to back out.

By NINA TARNAWSKY

A rare collaboration between Harlem Renaissance artists Norman Lewis and Augusta Savage, called The Hubert Log Cabin, is coming up for auction from the Swann Gallery in New York on Oct. 6.