Jazz Baroness, a 2009 documentary film, will be featured Sunday, August 1, in the summer Best of the Boston Jewish Film Festival series at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center in Vineyard Haven.

Most jazz fans have heard of Baroness Pannonica Rothschild de Koenigswater, whether they realize it or not. Known familiarly as Nica, she was immortalized in compositions by such jazz masters as Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Drew and Jon Hendricks.

George Frederic Handel’s Passacaglia, a duo for violin and string bass, will open the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music concerts on Monday, August 2 at the Whaling Church in Edgartown and Tuesday, August 3 at the Chilmark Community Center. Robert Schumann’s Marchenbilder for viola and piano, opus 113, Frederic Chopin’s Sonata in g-minor for cello and piano, opus 65, and Franz Schubert’s beloved Quintet, opus 114, The Trout, round out the program.

The Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival> > opens its 15th season on August 5 with a concert by the Amerigo Trio, featuring longtime New York Philharmonic concertmaster Glenn Dicterow, violist Karen Dreyfus and cellist Inbal Segev. The performance begins at 8 p.m. at the Chappaquiddick Community Center.

The program includes a Beethoven serenade, Kodaly’s Intermezzo for string trio, and Leo Weiner’s string trio in g minor. A reception follows the concert and everyone is invited to attend.

By KATE FEIFFER

This one is for the record books. Literally. A few minutes after noon on Wednesday, Ashrita Furman officially set a new world record for the three-minute grape catch, having caught 189 grapes in his mouth. The event took place in the parking lot of the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore. Naturally.

Mr. Furman and accomplished grape-tosser Bipin Larkin, both of Queens, N.Y., are the reigning Guinness Book of World Records three-minute and one-minute grape catch record holders.

Maybe you’ve seen them when you drive past Veira Park in Oak Bluffs or Nunes Field in Edgartown. You might have heard the metal clinks of their bats connecting with a fast-moving — relatively speaking, Dustin Pedroia would send it right over the fence — pitch, or maybe the booming voices of their coaches calling out plays from across the field.

Maybe you’ve seen them when you drive past Veira Park in Oak Bluffs or Nunes Field in Edgartown. You might have heard the metal clinks of their bats connecting with a fast-moving — relatively speaking, Dustin Pedroia would send it right over the fence — pitch, or maybe the booming voices of their coaches calling out plays from across the field. What you might not have seen or heard, though, are the sounds of actual game play.

Vineyard Boys Win

At Bay State Games

On July 10, Reid and Justice Yennie of West Tisbury took home gold and silver respectively in the boys’ tennis singles at the Bay State Games in Harvard, making it two years in a row that Vineyarders have won Gold at the games.

The Yennies train at Vineyard Youth Tennis and play on the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School tennis team.

Anybody serving up a cocktail of vodka, Red Bull, Hydrocodone, birdseed and stool softener this weekend? No? Well, guess again, because Carl Hiaasen is coming to town and in his world, Miami of course, a drink like that is just for starters. In fact, his new novel Star Island begins with the sudden demise of just such an über inbiber. It’s anybody’s guess where the ride will go from there. What’s not up for debate, though, is that the journey will be hilarious.

Billionaire’s Book Club

Written in Water, Messages of Hope for Earth’s Most Precious Resource, is now on J.P. Morgan’s summer top ten reading list in the Billionaires’ Book Club. Written in Water was launched earlier this year by National Geographic and World Waterway on the island of Martha’s Vineyard with a water weekend that featured a host of speakers and a performance by renowned Native American flutist, R. Carlos Nakai.

By NAOMI PALLAS

By KRISTEN PARECE