Arts & Entertainment
Richard L. Taylor, professor of business, law and ethics at Suffolk University in Boston, will be speaking at Union Chapel on Sunday, July 4 at 10 a.m. The title of his talk is The Declaration of Independence: A 21st Century Perspective.
Bargain With the Devil
Harvard University professor Robert Mnookin will discuss his new book, Bargaining with the Devil, in a 7:30 p.m. program on Thursday, July 1, at the Hebrew Center in Vineyard Haven.
Three plays in development will debut with pay-what-you-can performances this weekend at the Vineyard Arts Project in Edgartown. Each play runs Thursday, Friday and Saturday, in a rotating schedule so viewers can see three different plays in one day, or one each day, or any other combination.
Gone are the grownup gatekeepers of movie merit — kids are the audience for the weekly Cinema Circus films. So the Gazette and the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival bring you the big view from the smaller viewers with weekly kid critics.
Islanders have long been acutely aware of the problems of health care access. Cut off from the larger medical community by Nantucket Sound, Vineyarders are twice as likely as other Massachusetts residents to be uninsured. On Friday afternoon Martha’s Vineyard Community Services held a panel discussion about the recent national health care bill, and how it would improve access as well as hit home.
It was an evening of tartans and tuna tartare as the men in kilts invaded the highlands of Oak Bluffs, auctioning off their services at the Mediterranean Restaurant to benefit the high school’s drama program. All the traditional Celtic standards were on offer Thursday night, from Danny Boy to It’s Raining Men, as kilt-clad local teachers and community leaders put their services up for bidding to help send 16 students to Edinburgh to perform in the legendary Fringe Festival in August.
