Chef Jan Buhrman from the Kitchen Porch in Edgartown offers a culinary experience: Healthy Meals in 30 Minutes on Tuesday, Oct. 29 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Learn how to plan, budget for and complete meals that are nutritious and palate-pleasing, too. The cost is $40 and includes four meal plans with recipes, pantry list, local shopping, dinner and a good time.

Call 508-645-5000 or visit kitchenporch.com to learn more about this time-crunching cooking tutorial.

With Rez Williams’s paintings hanging on the walls of the Grange Hall Monday, artist Ruth Kirchmeier recalled one of his art exhibits at the former Nye Gallery. His signature boat paintings were placed on dark walls and lit from above, she said. “One felt surrounded by looming giants of every color and description, with skies that were more vivid than and unlike any sky a mere mortal might experience. Fighting with the sky for attention was the equally mesmerizing water. It was glorious.”

The Vineyard has a long history of being dog-centric. There are dogs on boats, dogs on beaches, dogs at offices. At the top of Circuit avenue there’s a shop dedicated to all things dog. And, of course, there’s the Island’s most well-known canine — the Black Dog.

This fall begins the second year of Island Grown Harvest of the Month, a program of Island Grown Schools that highlights a different locally available crop every month to encourage healthy, whole foods, seasonal eating in our schools and in the wider community.

When the Bread and Puppet Company comes to Chilmark next week there will be protests, absurdity, laughter — and there’s a good chance audience members will leave scratching their heads. If you leave with a new point of view, even better.

Join jazz aficionado Leslie J. Stark as he presents The Duke, The Count, and Louis at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 5 at the Oak Bluffs Library.