Arts & Entertainment
Next Friday, August 24, Angela Davis and Gina Dent will present a lecture at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs entitled Reports from Palestine. The talk begins at 5:30 p.m. and tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door.
Daily newspapers shuttered. Radio and TV networks swimming in red ink. Reporters and editors enduring widespread buyouts and layoffs.
This was the landscape of the news business that Boston University professor Christopher B. Daly confronted as he began researching the history of American journalism about eight years ago. It occurred to him that he just might end up having to write the obituary of American journalism.
David Driskell
David Driskell is a painter, collector of art and one of the leading authorities on African American art. He is an emeritus professor of art at the University of Maryland where in 2001 the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora was created to celebrate his legacy.
Whether or not she’s a true blood-relation, Auntie Anne Beiler is every pretzel fanatic’s favorite aunt. That’s because Auntie Ann is the founder, with husband Jonas, of Auntie Anne’s pretzel company.
Tonight, August 17, beginning at 7:30 p.m., Auntie Anne will visit the Federated Church in Edgartown to talk about her journey, from humble beginnings to worldwide snack attack guru.
Summer on the Vineyard conjures images of sand and surf, beaches and breaking waves, water and . . . wagging tails?
In addition to local meat and produce, last Saturday’s farmers’ market in West Tisbury featured some healthy local competition between two well-known Vineyard chefs. In the third annual Seafood Throwdown sponsored by the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance and the Dukes County Fishermen’s Association, chefs Jo Maxwell of Chesca’s in Edgartown and Teddy Diggs of Home Port in Menemsha met stove-to-stove in a stormy cook-off.
