Foot traffic to Martha’s Vineyard is well up on passenger ferries this summer, early numbers released this week by the Steamship Authority show.

Every seat in the Capawock Theatre was taken last week for an invitation-only advance screening of the new documentary by Stanley Nelson, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool.

Just a few days remain to see the current group show at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs. Conversations in Art will close August 18.

It began with an open-air screening of Jaws accompanied by the Cape Cod Symphony, and concluded with a set by Phil Lesh and Friends that proved the spirit of Jerry Garcia lived on — at least for one night in Vineyard Haven.

Friday’s open-air screening of Jaws with the Cape Symphony drew an excited throng of Vineyarders and visitors to Veterans Memorial Park in Vineyard Haven, which has been transformed into a concert venue for the Beach Road Weekend music festival.

Mark Lovewell’s new CD, With the Fishes, pays tribute to fishermen, their boats, their prey and the communities—social and economic—that support them.