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1 week ago | 
mvtimes.com | Abby Remer
Oak Bluffs Library director Allyson Malik has created an exciting new endeavor — the Community Library. The initiative arose from her concern about AI-generated information that is not authentic, accurate, or reliable infiltrating the publishing world.
In a recent conversation, Malik set the stage: “We acquire new material year after year, and all of it goes on our shelves.
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2 weeks ago | 
mvtimes.com | Abby Remer
Flipping through a list of nonprofits recently, I discovered Act Two. I was immediately intrigued by this Vineyard Haven secondhand store, which, filled with alluring previously owned goods, uses funds from its sales to support community theater and arts and education programs across the Island.
Act Two is not your grandma’s thrift store. It is the brainchild of co-founders Kevin Ryan and Alissa Keenan, who devised this intriguing way to support the arts.
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2 weeks ago | 
mvtimes.com | Abby Remer
Grief is universal, whether the result of losing a person or beloved animal companion, or the aftermath of any trauma. I was particularly interested in Sharing Kindness’ “Grief 101” presentation at the West Tisbury library on March 25.
A great deal I heard struck home from my own experience, and from that of others.
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2 weeks ago | 
mvtimes.com | Abby Remer
Steven Soderbergh’s new film, “Black Bag,” playing at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center, grips us from the opening shot. The fast-paced espionage thriller unfolds day by day over a week. We follow an unknown man through London streets into a teeming nightclub, where he requests to see Philip Meacham (Gustaf Skarsgard). A minute later, we are launched into an engrossing plot of complex espionage as the two speak just outside in a dark alley.
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3 weeks ago | 
mvtimes.com | Abby Remer
As a child, I would perch the small, squat, black-and-white television on the kitchen counter and watch Julia Child as I made endless batches of sugar jam cookies with whatever ingredients I could scrounge up in my mother’s cabinets. There must have been children’s cookbooks at the time, but I didn’t have any, and those on the shelf at home were complicated.
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3 weeks ago | 
mvtimes.com | Abby Remer
I couldn’t wait to try the Passover Chocolate Almond Cake from Joan Nathan’s new children’s cookbook, “A Sweet Year: Jewish Celebrations and Festive Recipes for Kids and Their Families.” When I bake desserts for company, I often can’t eat them myself because of various food allergies, so I jumped at the chance to try this gluten-free cake made with almond flour. It has the dense texture and rich flavor of a chocolate torte.
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3 weeks ago | 
mvtimes.com | Abby Remer
“Finding Our Way Home: The Denniston Family and 11 Masonic Avenue” uses photographs, objects, and archival materials to tell the story of a remarkable man and his family. The immersive show illustrates how the Dennistons created a faith-based community that touched the lives of many, many Islanders beginning in the early 20th century.
The show at the M.V. Museum, running through May 4, starts with the Rev. Oscar Denniston’s arrival from Jamaica in 1901.
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3 weeks ago | 
mvtimes.com | Abby Remer
“Eephus,” at the M.V. Film Center starting April 4, is a quiet feature by Carson Lund. It is ostensibly about a game in the mid-1990s between two New England recreational teams, which face off for one last time before their beloved Soldiers Field is taken over for the construction of a new middle school.
We open with players slowly filing in on a late autumn Sunday morning as the local radio announces small-town events, situating us in a bygone era.
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3 weeks ago | 
mvtimes.com | Abby Remer
There will be plenty of professional matchmaking opportunities on April 10 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the Grange Hall. That evening, approximately 30 organizations and businesses will welcome individuals seeking jobs and volunteer positions at the inaugural Martha’s Vineyard Career and Networking Night.
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1 month ago | 
mvtimes.com | Abby Remer
Creativity flows through artist Julia Marden’s veins, and has done so since childhood. Her creations are a direct tie to her Aquinnah Wampanoag heritage. Marden is perhaps best-known for her fine traditional “twined” basketry. She learned to weave baskets while working as an interpreter at the 17th century Wampanoag homesite at the Plimoth Patuxet Museums in the early 1990s. “I immediately took to weaving, and definitely believe it was genetic imprinting,” says Marden.
