In business on the Vineyard, one man’s downturn is another man’s opportunity. Particularly in spring.

“Why here?” said Douglas Hewson this week, sitting in the building site of the new venue for Mediterranean, a building recently vacated by Lola’s restaurant following a 15-year run.

“In a word? Potential. We traded our water view for 75 parking spaces.”

Paul Carrick wrote and illustrated Watch Out for Wolfgang. And it’s a keeper.

To have illustrated and written his first children’s book is obviously very exciting for Mr. Carrick. “There’s something magical about seeing it neatly bound together in a complete package,” he said. “It was a special experience to be involved in all aspects of its design: I got to pick the book’s dimensions, the typefaces — everything.”

The internet may have been designed for scientists to collaborate across vast distances, but it has since become all things to all people. Accessing seemingly infinite information and instant communication across the globe are still the main uses of the Web, but there’s a new trend swiftly becoming standard online practice: social networking. This is about creating a personal presence in cyberspace.

In this year-long serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after two decades to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe fears and detests Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery, Broadway. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe has been obsessed with “taking down” Moby.

Two Gentlemen of Verona was young Will Shakespeare’s first-ever romantic comedy. This weekend only, you’ll have a chance to see the Bard’s beginnings, in a script-in-hand performance of a story you simply have to see to believe.

The musical puppet show The Hole Without A Bottom (O Buraco Sem Fundo) premieres at Che’s Lounge on Sunday, April 5, and will continue every Sunday in April at 11:30 a.m.

Featuring Island performer Bella, The Hole Without A Bottom is an original play adapted from an original story, performed in English and Portuguese. The suggested donation is $5.

The WIMP/IMPers Get the IMPers to the Chicago Improv Festival Benefit has moved its performance to April 11 at the Grange Hall Theatre in West Tisbury. The show will still feature WIMP originals Jamie Alley, Christopher Brophy and Laura Silber alongside the IMPers, Martha’s Vineyard’s teen professional improv troupe.

The Island Community Chorus will feature two great works from the 20th century choral repertoire in its annual spring concert, performed at 7:30 p.m. this Saturday, April 4, and again at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 5, at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown.

Under the direction of Peter Boak and with accompanist Garrett Brown at the piano, the chorus will present Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms (1965) and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana (1937), as well as selections from the Liebeslieder Waltzes, written by Johannes Brahms in 1868 and 1869.

Classes Begin at Sail MV

Sail Martha’s Vineyard is starting a series of continuing education presentations on Thursday evenings this spring. The first will be next Thursday, April 9, with J.P. Uranker discussing quarterboards. Mr. Uranker has an educational background in art and more than 25 years experience in woodcarving. He will discuss the different styles of quarterboards and the techniques used in carving them. The presentation will be at the Sail MV building at 110 Main street in Vineyard Haven.