Gourmet ballpark food is not the sort of cuisine that historically draws cultish crowds to the ArtCliff Diner. The Vineyard Haven eatery is better known to be abuzz in the morning with repeat patrons hankering for a warm stack of blueberry pancakes or a bacon-tomato-cheese frittata over potato wedges.
Hailing from the streets of Shaolin — that’s Wu-speak for Staten Island — Ghostface Killah entered his 16th year in the rap game with a first-ever trip to the Vineyard last week. The thin-voiced rapper performed for a sold-out crowd Saturday night the same gritty metaphors and rowdy on-stage antics that launched him onto the charts in the early 1990s as one of nine veteran emcees of the Wu-Tang Clan.
Splashed with sun and circled by artists and admirers, 418 pieces of artwork hung from a wire fence roped around the perimeter of the Tabernacle yesterday, shaping the 52nd annual All-Island Art Show and Sale itself into the scene of a fine painting.
More than 10 years ago, when Wendelyn Galligan of Edgartown first brought a chihuahua home, she was greeted with a cat paw-adorned sign, hung near the door by her husband, that read “No Dogs Allowed.” When Ms. Galligan showed her spouse Billie Taco, their new rat-like puppy, he exclaimed, “Where did you get that from, the Edgartown dump?”
When the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals closed the doors of the Katharine M. Foote memorial shelter in Edgartown in May, the Island was introduced to a new but financially pinched place for homeless critters. Home to two dogs, two kittens and five cats, the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard feeds off limited funds from the county and towns.
Michaela Delphin of Vineyard Haven celebrates the earth and all of its inhabitants. Above her self-portrait, a round face painted with hazel skin and pink lips against a jungle green canvas, the 12-year-old girl penned her “truth:”
“I believe that the animals and the environment shouldn’t be hurt because of the love of money.”
