Big Guitar Rocks Pit Stop

The Pit Stop continues to be the go-to place for music each weekend in Oak Bluffs. On Friday, April 6, at 7 p.m., Daniel Macke takes the stage along with Kenny Lockwood, Nancy Jephcote and Paul Thurlow.

Mr. Macke hails from Port Townsend, Wash. and likes to play a big guitar. “I love the jumbo bodied guitars and the full, rich sound that comes with looking like a dwarf when you play one,” he said.

Comedy Night

It’s comedy night at the Harborview Hotel again.

On March 30, the hotel welcomes Joe Larson, Mike Whitman and Taylor Connelly to its stage. This is the third in an ongoing series of winter and spring comedy nights. Doors open at 8:30 p.m.

Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door and available by calling 508-627-7000.

This is a 21 and older show.

Film Society Goes Italian

This week’s feature film presented by the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society is Passion, directed by and starring John Turturro.

The project began when Mr. Turturro was approached with the idea of making a film about Neapolitan music. As an Italian-American who grew up listening to many of the swooning ballads of this he was at first intrigued. The more he explored the genre’s history the more enamored he became.

Full Moon Dance

Next Saturday, April 7, there will be a full moon dance party at The Anchors, located on Dock street in Edgartown. The party is a singles social for those fifty years old and over. Billed as a low-key social hangout, the idea is for it to occur monthly, in sync with the moon’s waxing. The party is from 5 to 7 p.m. and will include refreshments, music, games and dancing. There is no charge, but donations are accepted.

For more information, call Susan at 508-627-9627.

Island Community Chorus

This weekend, the Island Community Chorus, under the direction of Peter Boak, will present two performances of its spring 2012 concert program, Beethoven and Friends, at the Performing Arts Center of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.

The chorus is made up of one hundred singers who have been rehearsing weekly since Jan. 9.

The concerts are at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 31, and 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 1.

There is an inherent danger in reading the essays and books of Edward Hoagland. Suddenly, nothing else compares. Not just other books or other writers, but real life too. The phone rings unanswered, e-mails amass with no reply, and social engagements are shrugged off with little to no guilt. When under the spell of Mr. Hoag-land’s prose, the rest of us talkers or writers become toddlers, mere fumblers of language just embarking on our ABC’s.

Two women were killed and a third injured after their car crashed into a tree on private land belonging to the Kennedy family Tuesday afternoon.

The driver, 70-year-old Judith Morse from West Tisbury, and front-seat passenger Susan S. Lombard, 69, of Lyman, NH, were pronounced dead at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, according to the Massachusetts state police. The rear-seat passenger, Susan Papanicolaou, 68 of Minneapolis, sustained minor injuries and was treated at the hospital.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission got its first look at the Edgartown National Bank’s ambitious plans to demolish Oak Bluffs restaurant Oyster Bar and build a three-story building in its place. On Monday, building plans presented to commissioners included a bank branch, two commercial units and four two-story townhouse condominiums at the site of the former Circuit avenue restaurant.

It may feel like winter has returned, but harbingers of spring continue to make their presence known. Cynthia Schillings of Vineyard Haven reports that the first mayflowers of the year are in bloom on Ramble Trail Preserve, a land bank trail in Tisbury.

Edgartown restaurant Il Tesoro at the Terrace is in danger of having its liquor license suspended.

The South Summer street restaurant, located inside the Charlotte Inn, was supposed to reopen by Feb. 5 following a short closure. As of now, it remains shuttered. Selectman Margaret Serpa said at an alcohol hearing Monday that if the restaurant was not reopened by Saturday, March 30, the selectmen would suspend the year-round alcohol license.

Il Tesoro owner A.J. Black did not attend the meeting.