For five weeks this summer, hundreds of Martha’s Vineyard children had a place to eat lunch for free. Stepping in for local school cafeterias that close in June, the Island’s first Summer...

Baseball inspires storytellers — reporters, novelists and myth-makers alike — as Jim Kaplan demonstrates in his engaging new book of essays Clearing the Bases: A Veteran Sportswriter on...

Relinquishing a beloved family home forever can be deeply heart-wrenching. For author Madeline Blais, this reckoning came with the 2014 sale of her in-laws’ summer retreat on the shore of...

A groundbreaking project to record the oral histories of 5,000 African Americans has returned to the Vineyard for the second time in its 17-year history, with more than three dozen videotaped...

With cheers, laughter and occasional sighs, an ardent audience of close to 200 welcomed Billy Collins back to Featherstone Center for the Arts Tuesday night in the latest of his biennial Pathways/...

If you already happen to belong to a love triangle encompassing an earnest psychotherapist, an alcoholic ex-standup comic 12-stepping his way to recovery and a sexy but unstable action-movie...

When the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival made its debut in 2003, just over 10 audience members turned out for screenings at the performing arts center in Oak Bluffs —...

For the seventh summer in a row, high art meets low humor at Featherstone Center for the Arts when Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theater presents Gaetano Donizetti’s comic opera, Don Pasquale (No...

Across the country, farmland is disappearing forever at a rapid rate — about 40 acres an hour, according to American Farmland Trust president John Piotti. “The Northeast, sadly, is not...

Eleven-year-old Lizzie Goldberg-Jones is a big fan of watching SpongeBob. She’s also a good kid. So because her little brother Petey loves watching Dusty, a giant, purple, animated dustball...