Gardening is big business all over Martha’s Vineyard. To meet this demand, the Vineyard's long-established landscape and garden companies have been joined in recent years by a wave of young gardeners who are willing to work long hours during the season to make a good living.

Smiling portraits of friends and neighbors meet stark representations of addiction and evil in the show by artist James Langlois at the Vineyard Playhouse.

The Spectrum Film Festival, at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center April 27 through April 29, is the Island’s first cultural celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender experiences.

Kitty Burke's Tree House Two, a retreat on the shores of Edgartown Great Pond to provide creative space for women to pursue artistic, professional and personal goals, celebrated its 100-woman milestone.

Director Peter Boak will take his Community Chorus in a different direction for this year’s spring concerts.

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School will sponsor a summer food program to help provide meals to children 18 and younger during a month-long pilot program. The meals will be prepared at the high school and delivered to three Island sites.

An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Thomas Cocroft will be on display at the West Tisbury library from April 1 through April 28.

Charter school students will perform Excalibur, The Story of Young King Arthur, at the Katharine Cornell Theatre this weekend.

Inuit singer Tanya Tagaq’s vocal arsenal includes hissing, crooning, goblin-like muttering and sled-dog howls.

The Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival begins on March 16 and runs through Sunday, March 19 with a full schedule of feature films and documentaries.