Acclaimed filmmaker and seasonal Island resident Stanley Nelson screened We Want the Funk!, his newest documentary, at the Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival this week. Mr. Nelson also showed A Place of Our Own, the 2004 film that highlighted the Black summer community in Oak Bluffs.

The Steamship Authority board of governors announced Tuesday afternoon they had agreed on a 10.6 per cent raise for general manager Robert Davis, which brings his annual salary to $239,480.

A capacity crowd took their seats at Stillpoint in West Tisbury last week for Our Bodies, Not Yours — a two-hour panel discussion with four professionals at the forefront of the movement to preserve women’s reproductive rights and access to abortions.

A new contemporary art gallery, featuring Island artists, has popped up on the busiest block of Edgartown’s Main street, directly across from Edgartown Books.

A high-caliber cast of deaf and hearing actors at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse is bringing to life the seldom-told story of Chilmark in the 19th century.

Artist and illustrator Margot Datz holds her 16th annual one-woman show at Grange Hall in West Tisbury this Saturday. And an exhibit at the Carnegie Heritage Center is spotlighting her long career.