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Iraq Veterans Turn Warrior Writers

Linda Black

“You are not my enemy / my grandmother my grandfather. / I built walls between us. / Rubble made sound / sand scattered plastic bags all around / rifles and checkpoints / bright lights into your eyes...”

Twenty-six-year-old Iraq veteran Drew Cameron writes poetry to heal the trauma of war. And he makes paper. From combat uniforms. 

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Puppet Troupe Tells Toad’s Tale

Linda Black

In the age of electronic entertainment, how delightful to see a roomful of children wrapped in the spell — not of a movie, video game or Web site — but an old-fashioned puppet show. Che’s Lounge in Vineyard Haven played host Sunday, Feb. 15 (the second of three consecutive Sundays scheduled) to a local puppet troupe performing a Brazilian folktale — Toad and the Party in the Sky — to a packed house. 

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Café Fashions Designer Yard Benefit

Linda Black

What do food, fashion and fine wine have in common? Surprisingly, the Yard, the Island’s choreography and performing arts center in Chilmark. Connecting the dots requires going to the other end of the Island. First, across from the Black Dog Tavern in Vineyard Haven, where fashion designer Stina Sayre keeps shop. 

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Entrain Picks up Pace with New Album

Linda Black

Entrain is back — not that the high-voltage global rhythm percussion band (you really can’t pin it down to one genre) actually disappeared. Just that, having veered away from producing new albums, Entrain is back with an album of all new songs, a new lead singer, new take on old philosophies, and new phase of what band founder Tom Major calls “prolific creativity.”

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How to Have a Perfect Picnic

Linda Black

How to Have a Perfect Picnic: Scenic Spots, Secret Ingredients

There’s lots of wonderful things to eat, and wonderful games to play ... Today’s the day the teddy bears have their picnic.

And for us humans? When the gods provide the weather — and they’ve been holding back so far this summer, so let’s hope they’ll be generous from here on — the Vineyard provides many an idyllic spot for a picnic and no shortage of sources to fill the basket with delectables. 

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Cracking the Art of Cooking

Linda Black

The egg, despite its bad rap for cholesterol, is a symbol of wholeness. It also is one of only a few so-called “complete” foods. Some nutritionists call it a perfect food, because it has the highest protein content of any one food and it kicks in a large part of your recommended daily intake of other vitamins and minerals such as iodine and riboflavin as well. In nature, the egg is second in nutritional value only to mother’s milk. Plus, there are fewer 100 calories in an egg.

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Atria Chefs Say Secret to Summer Menu Is Simple

Linda Black

Atria Chefs Say Secret to Summer Menu Is Simple: Fresh, Local Food Tastes Good.

“Summer in a dish,” Christian Thornton says of the Seared George’s Bank Scallops and Summer Heirloom Tomatoes dish he and his team prepare, a variation of the seared scallop dish on the menu at Atria on Main street, Edgartown. 

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What's Cooking at The Sweet Life Cafe?

Linda Black

Knowing they would be filling some pretty big — well — skillets, when they bought Sweet Life Cafe in Oak Bluffs a year ago, Susan and Pierre Guerin’s goal is to take the renowned fine dining hot spot in a slightly different direction.

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