Zeb: Schooner Life, a documentary produced by Detrick Lawrence Productions of Edgartown, has won the Best of Show Award from the California-based Accolade competition. The award was given for a documentary which features an exceptional story line.

The film explores the life and times of Captain Zeb Tilton, who kept alive a way of life, moving freight under sail, long after others had consigned it to the dustbin of history.

Prostate Cancer Support

Martha’s Vineyard Community Services will host the prostate cancer support group on Wednesday, Feb. 18 at 10:30 a.m. in the board room at the Community Services administration building. The session is open to all and free of charge. For information call 508-693-7900, extension 320.

Acclaimed director Susanne Bier returns with her most powerful film yet, the Academy Award nominee for best foreign language film, After the Wedding.

Far from home, Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen), runs a struggling orphanage in one India’s poorest regions. Desperate to save the orphanage from closure, he returns to Denmark to meet Jorgen (Rolf Lassgard) a wealthy businessman and potential benefactor. Jorgen offers Jacob a seemingly innocent invitation to attend his daughter’s wedding.

In the age of electronic entertainment, how delightful to see a roomful of children wrapped in the spell — not of a movie, video game or Web site — but an old-fashioned puppet show. Che’s Lounge in Vineyard Haven played host Sunday, Feb. 15 (the second of three consecutive Sundays scheduled) to a local puppet troupe performing a Brazilian folktale — Toad and the Party in the Sky — to a packed house. Children in the audience, ranging in age from one to ten, were clearly captivated, laughing aloud and even singing along with the characters.

Think you’ve got problems? Get a little perspective with Shakespeare’s most famous problem play, Measure for Measure. Among other timeless topics, the play addresses hypocrisy in public figures, government’s meddling into people’s private lives, and that old favorite: lust, and what to do about it.

The Vineyard Haven Public Library is giving away MP3 players. The library will be offering two classes in February to teach patrons how to use the Clams (Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing) overdrive service to download audio books and music.

The classes will be offered at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 21 and Saturday, Feb. 28 at the library. During each class a drawing will be held, and one class participant will win an MP3 player, a portable device that can be used to listen to digital audio files.