Art
Art for the Masses
Play It Again, David
Shaw Cramer opens its third Double Feature special exhibit — presenting the art work of Leslie Baker and Eric Jensen in the main gallery with Elizabeth Lockhart Taft and Eileen Braun in the upper spotlight gallery — with an artists’ reception on Friday, July 30 from 6 to 8 p.m.
The Crisis of Liberal Zionism is the name of Peter Beinart’s lecture and discussion on Friday, August 6, at 6:30 p.m. following the 6 o’clock Shabbat service at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center.
Mr. Beinart is a fellow at the New America Foundation and associate professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York. He is also senior political writer for The Daily Beast, and a contributor to Time among other media.
The center is at 130 Centre street in Vineyard Haven. For details, call 508-693-0745.
Anybody serving up a cocktail of vodka, Red Bull, Hydrocodone, birdseed and stool softener this weekend? No? Well, guess again, because Carl Hiaasen is coming to town and in his world, Miami of course, a drink like that is just for starters. In fact, his new novel Star Island begins with the sudden demise of just such an über inbiber. It’s anybody’s guess where the ride will go from there. What’s not up for debate, though, is that the journey will be hilarious.
Jazz Baroness, a 2009 documentary film, will be featured Sunday, August 1, in the summer Best of the Boston Jewish Film Festival series at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center in Vineyard Haven.
Most jazz fans have heard of Baroness Pannonica Rothschild de Koenigswater, whether they realize it or not. Known familiarly as Nica, she was immortalized in compositions by such jazz masters as Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Drew and Jon Hendricks.