The Vineyard is a place of rejuvenation and inspiration for actress Amy Brenneman and director Brad Silberling. “It becomes this very creative place where the stakes are artistically high and financially low for me to just mess around,” Ms. Brenneman said.

Two-time Academy Award winning documentarian Barbara Kopple will be on the Island tonight to present her newest feature Hot Type: 150 Years of the Nation at the Chilmark Community Center for the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival.

On Tuesday morning the new cafe and marketplace Rosewater opened at 20 South Summer street in Edgartown after five months of development. The store includes several areas for eating, both inside and outside, as well as grocery items. There are also plans for a catering business.

Plunging into shark-filled waters may sound like a nightmare, but for Chilmark summer residents Adam Geiger and Colette Beaudry, it’s just another day of work. The husband and wife film producing team's latest project, Sharks of the Shadowland, will premiere on Discovery’s Shark Week Friday night.

“If there is one thing that brings Vineyarders together, male and female, rich and not-so rich, across ethnic and social lines, it is and has been basketball. That is Martha’s Vineyard’s best-kept secret.”

The Tisbury Street Fair is an annual event celebrating the town’s founding. This year Tisbury turned 344. Since the fair’s origins in 1971 to celebrate the town’s third centennial, the event has always been a time for everyone on the Island to come together for food, music and fun following the holiday festivities of the Fourth of July.