4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (352+ words) Marty generally did at least one night of standup every summer. He’d riff on the local headlines, the peculiarities of year-round life, and the day-trippers. One of his jokes was about a confused tourist looking for “Upis Land.” (Yes, that’s…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (406+ words) The fields of biodiversity, conservation, and climate crisis require diverse voices, experiences, and solutions. Yet in an article published in the journal “Nature” listing “100 articles that every ecologist should read,” 97 were written by men, and three were written by women....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (488+ words) “Reading Lolita in Tehran” is up first, on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 4 pm. The screen adaptation of Azar Nafisi’s beloved memoir tells the true story of a literature professor in revolutionary Iran who, amid censorship and religious extremism, gathers seven of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (552+ words) Beside weathered wooden beams and jagged steel tools, dozens of supporters of Little Lady, the sole remaining wooden fishing dragger in New England, gathered to hear updates as she nears full restoration. The boat was purchased by the Martha’s Vineyard…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (404+ words) The beloved folk-rock band, Indigo Girls, strummed acoustic guitars and harmonized at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs on Saturday night to a packed audience. Saliers said in the video that there’s no cure for the conditions, and that her voice…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (619+ words) The Granary Gallery’s current star-studded show is a splendid way to end the summer season. The works by Kib Bramhall (b. 1933), Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), Heather Neill (b. 1958), Tamalin Baumgarten (b. 1986), and Milton Avery (1885–1965) are stellar examples of their oeuvres. And…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (284+ words) We hear Martin Luther King Jr. proclaiming, “We were taking the Black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them 8,000 miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia, which they had not found in Southwest Georgia…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (589+ words) Summer 2026 has been one of the busiest and buzziest of the six summers I’ve been managing Edgartown Books — a season stuffed with wonderfully written books that have grabbed the attention of Vineyarders and visitors. Belle Burden’s “Strangers,” Ann Patchett’s “Whistler,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (256+ words) Depending on what your week looks like, here are some notable moments that I suggest make it onto your late August calendar: Stop by MV Botiga and visit the latest pop-up, the Open Door Club by Sanctuaire, happening through August…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (695+ words) For nearly two decades, the world has watched Michelle Obama, both adoringly or critically. And the reverence didn’t waver on Sunday, August 23 when hundreds gathered at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Performing Arts Center for the closing event of…...