Working It Out

New classes for a new you are at the Vineyard Tennis Center Workout and Spa.

Trainer Kris Martin digs deep into his exercise toolkit to get you better prepared to face the ice and snow. A tough core is like kryptonite to icy spills.

Hard a lee and coming about for art.

Sail Martha’s Vineyard will transform its offices at the historic Mayhew Schoolhouse on Main street in Vineyard Haven into an art gallery for a seasonal fund-raising sale. The unveiling is this Saturday, Dec. 4 and will continue daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Dec. 22.

To mark the occasion there will be a wine and cheese reception from 3 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 5. There will also be a closing artists’ reception on Saturday, Dec. 18 again from 3 to 6 p.m.

Look Who’s Parading

Parading is not just for people and floats, especially this time of year. The Edgartown holiday parade is also welcoming pets of all shapes and sizes.

So be you the owner of a dog, cat, walrus, reindeer or a common basilisk (also know at the Jesus lizard for the way it runs on water to evade predators) you are welcome to join in the fun.

The parade begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 11 and walks, trots, hops, flops, slithers and swims from Upper to Lower Main street in Edgartown.

Holiday Concert

This is the season for holiday favorites spilling forth from the radio. Jose Feliciano, Bing and Bowie, those Jingle wooofing dogs. We smile for a bit, but then it fades. How could it not? We’ve heard it all before. There is nothing new the Boss can tell us about Santa coming to town.

Perhaps then it is time to seek out the new and different this year. Some feast for the ears and by extension the soul. But where to turn?

The Old Whaling Church this weekend, that’s where.

Patricia Neal Month

It’s Patricia Neal month at the Vineyard Haven Public Library’s Tuesday night film series.

This week, on Tuesday, Dec. 7, Ms. Neal stars as Alma Brown in the role that won Ms. Neal an Oscar for best performance in the movie Hud with Paul Newman. Subsequent films are The Day the Earth Stood Still on Dec. 14, The Fountainhead on Dec. 21 and The Subject Was Roses on Dec. 28.

All movies begin at 7 p.m.

For more information, call 508-696-4211.

By MILES JORDI

The Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival is showing a program of short films, What Makes You Tick? on Saturday, Dec. 4 at the Chilmark Community Center at 5 p.m. Below is my review of the seven short films, I hope you will enjoy watching the films as I did.

The Great White Man Eating Shark