If, like me, you think that “Jaws” is the greatest film ever made, you may want to get down to New York City to see a new play based on the making of that Steven Spielberg masterpiece. “The Shark is Broken,” co-written and co-starring Ian Shaw, son of the late great actor Robert Shaw, has […]
Gwyn McAllister, who has been covering the Vineyard art scene for more than 20 years, got a brainstorm, and fortunately, we are reaping the benefits. She says of the origins of her exhibition, “Artists You Should Know: An Art Critic’s Picks,” “Every once in a while, I’d come across someone who wasn’t represented by a […]
Island writer Gwyn McAllister’s new play, “Accidents Will Happen,” is being read by actress Lynne Adams and guest actor Nicole Edmonds on Sunday, August 15, at 4 pm at Tisbury Water Works. Directed by Brooke Adams, the 30-minute play is about prejudice, boundaries, and consequences. According to a press release from Pathways ARTS, which is […]
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A young woman who’s been summering on the Vineyard for all of her supernally natural life, namely Lisanna Wallance, has a positive genius for making it all work in the kitchen. She understands how nutrition, taste, and presentation may be deployed for total healing.
You may recall reading about her in a fall edition of this newspaper (“Cooking up magic,” Oct. 28). My talented friend Gwyn McAllister wrote about the native New Yorker who has long spent summers on the Island and, in fact, is here now during the winter lockdown. We learned that this nature lover, nay, nature interpreter, always mystically attuned to the plant world, at an early age developed her own resources to better manage a rare condition, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.