Saturday’s show at Alex's Place was called We Are the New Generation and featured several performers young in age but wise in experience. There were six musicians in total.”

Jon Lipsky’s inspiring and unique career as a playwright, director, acting professor and dream researcher ended in March 2011, when he died at his West Tisbury home after a long illness. But now a handsome compendium of eight of his best plays has been published, and Mr. Lipsky’s robustly imaginative personality jumps up from these pages like a frisky friend who returns to announce, “See that! Did you really think I was gone?”
The two-volume set (almost 800 pages) has been meticulously edited by Bill Barclay and Jonah Lipsky, Jon’s son.

The Oak Bluffs affordable housing trust has recommended that the planning board require a contribution of $880,000 from the principals involved in the sale of the failed housing development. A public hearing is set for tonight at 7 p.m.

Five films will be screened from August 3 to 7 at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center as part of its first annual Documentary Week.

Opera returns to the Vineyard Friday night, July 31, at Featherstone Center for the Arts. The event is produced by Wendy Taucher and honors Judy Belushi Pisano.

The Moth returns to Martha’s Vineyard on Friday, August 7.

Vineyard House is offering food, music and a variety of waters for its annual water tasting fundraiser on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015 at the Captain Flanders House.

On Sunday, July 26, the Holmes Hole Sailing Association race headed to Tarpaulin Cove on the southern shore of Naushon Island.

Since moving to the Vineyard in 1970, I have never understood that classic from Porgy and Bess, “Summertime and the living is easy.”

I was all set to write about the osprey population on the Vineyard but realized that shorebird migration was in full swing.