Art
If you visit the Alison Shaw Gallery during its opening this Memorial Day weekend, you may find yourself among the many who are inspired to go out and make photographs as calmly arresting and as quintessentially Vineyard as Ms. Shaw’s. If this is the case, the best remedy might be a copy of Ms. Shaw’s new book, Photographing Martha’s Vineyard: Where to Find Perfect Shots and How to Take Them.
New Food Yorker
Chef AJ Black, owner and restaurateur of Il Tesoro at the Terrace in Edgartown, is opening his newest venture in the upper east side of Manhattan. Opening in September 2011, Il Tesoro Ristorante and Bar will bring Mr. Black’s award-winning Italian cuisine to diners at 1578 First avenue at 82nd East, previously the home for 35 years to Primavera Ristorante. For updates or to make reservations, go online to iltesoro.net, call 508-939-3840, or stop by Il Tesoro at the Terrace.
Some might say one is blessed just riding a bike. Nothing but the wind and sky and open road to call home. But, hey, everyone can use a bit of extra blessing when out there on two wheels.
This Saturday, May 28, beginning at 10 a.m. the second annual blessing of the bikes takes place at the Edgartown Federated Church at 45 South Summer street.
The Rev. Dr. Jerry Fritz, an avid cyclist when not in the pulpit preaching the word, will preside.
By NICK MOORHEAD
Imagine Tom Petty crossed with Carly Simon and a dash of Jack Johnson and you have Erich Luening, rock artist and well-known Islander. And this weekend he will release Red Flags, his debut solo album. A decade in the making, the CD has a stellar guest list that includes Evan Dando of the Lemonheads, who is also Mr. Luening’s childhood Island friend.
What happened at the end of high school that you would rather forget? And what would it be like if your dark past was suddenly shoved in your face ten years later? By someone you trusted?
This is the premise of the play Tape by Stephen Bender beginning its run next Thursday, June 2 at the Vineyard Playhouse and continuing for two weeks. Tape first appeared at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in 2000 and was later adapted into a film starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman.
By NICK MOORHEAD
Originally designed to be accommodated in a palace chamber, music under the heading of chamber music has over the years moved out of the palaces and into the hearts and minds of the masses. Well, masses may be a slight exaggeration when comparing chamber music lovers to the throngs flocking to Lady Gaga. But gather all the fans and all the audiences of the past few hundred years or so and this specialized art form rises to the top of the music charts.