Arts & Entertainment
Island guy Elliott Vecchia’s new movie Natural Selection is a skateboarding film shot around Boston and Lowell. In a trailer for the movie, a cast of skateboarders do what they do best. They fly on their boards over stairs, railings, grassy hills, buildings, clouds; it is as if nothing is beyond the reach of their wheels. They do this not in a sound studio or generated on a computer screen. There is no high tech, no instruction manual or team, no coach and most of all no boundaries. It is the ethos of skating. Use what the urbanized world gives you and make it your plaything.
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum is holding a gallery reception tonight, Jan. 25, from 5 to 7 p.m. entitled Playing Together — High School Sports Since Regionalization. The exhibit was in part curated by Martha’s Vineyard High School students currently taking a course called Sport in America, taught by Corinne Kurtz.
The Pit Stop refuses to go gently into that good night. This Sunday, Jan. 27, at 7 p.m. the place will be rocking, thanks to three-time All-Ireland fiddle champion, Dylan Foley.
Mr. Foley was a student of the great Rose Flanagan. You remember her, of course
The Tenth Man written by Paddy Chayefsky first appeared on Broadway in 1959. The play is set in an orthodox synagogue in Queens on a cold winter day in the early 1950s. The schizophrenic granddaughter of an older member of the congregation is brought to the synagogue with hopes that her inner demon — a dybbuk — can be exorcized in a Cabalist ceremony. But there is not yet the requisite quorum of ten men. And our story begins.
From the gleaming russet wood of pint-sized instruments, to the shining buckles on children’s dress shoes, to the carefully-practiced notes of the Hallelujah Chorus, Thursday night’s All-Island Winter Strings Concert was full of polish. About 150 students participate in the strings program each year, learning violin, viola, cello and — in some cases — bass under the instruction of Nancy Jephcote and Chelsea Pennebaker.
An Irish flag hangs next to the chalkboard of Elaine Weintraub’s history class at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
Chinese lanterns dangle from the ceilings, Buddhist banners drape the walls and the faces of civil rights leaders adorn a sign that reads, “Positive history: Without black history there would be no history.”
