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The Arts June 14, 2006
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THE OFFICIAL GUIDE NANTUCKET TO FILM FESTIVAL THE
by Marli Guzzetta Independent Arts Editor
     In a world where status quo membership has its pastiche privileges, film festivals are a cabaret of
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Is Al Franken ready for prime time, or what?
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
     The conduits for campaign messaging were as defined as the protocol for a candidate's tie color before the elections in 2004, which saw an increase in the attention paid to bloggers, Web sites and pundits.
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Conversations with an emerging screenwriter Gabby Zevin
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
     Screenwriter and author Gabrielle Zevin is an ambassador to multiplicity. Her press photo - taken by Aaron Eckhart, the male lead in her film "Conversations with Other Women" (appearing at the Nantucket Film Festival) - depicts in black-andwhite the 28 year old's shade of beautiful ethnic grey: Asia
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Goliath wears cement shoes in Two Square Miles
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
     It used to be in America that corporations were the hands that fed small towns. The opening of a large plant or office meant steak and potatoes, Friday night movies and better Christmases for the people in its immediate area.
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The myth of Sisyphus ... with cream and sugar
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
     In Manhattan at least, the shimmer of polished steel is still an emblem of American industry thanks to the street corner food carts that sweeten thousands of morning work commutes with the pleasure of coffee, and maybe a bagel.
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When the truth hurts enough to draw blood
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
     When a man's psyche is infested by the tangled thickets and heat-weary beasts of heartache, frustration and disappointment, he doesn't have to travel to the jungles of the Congo for his heart of darkness to be released. So goes David Mamet's "Edmond," playing at the Nantucket Film Festival this week
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Your morning coffee may be dirty
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
     Tadesse Meskela has as his adversaries companies like Sara Lee, Proctor and Gamble, Kraft and Nestle.
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NATHANIEL AND THOMAS PHILBRICK HAVE UNEARTHED THE OLDEST WHALING LOGS OF THEIR KIND
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
     Peleg Folger was the second youngest of 18 children, an 18th century Quaker who was bound by Nantucket's religious sobriety to become a pious and responsible community elder. He was the man who ultimately excommunicated from the pacifist Nantucket Quakers the young men who left to fight in the Ameri
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You break it, you buy it: a war story
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
     Think of an American soldier story. Where does it take place? Who's in it? What are they doing?
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Survey Says: Jake Vohs
     Real name: Jake Vohs Jedi Name: (Middle name spelled backwards + mother's name spelled backwards): Nehpets Yhtac
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Identify This
Georgen Gilliam Charnes
     The Nantucket Historical Association houses the most complete visual record of Nantucket history in existence. However, many photographic images of people and places we cannot identify, so we are asking
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Honoring Nantucket's anti-slavery tradition
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
     It seems a bit odd, doesn't it, that the United States doesn't have a national holiday commemorating the emancipation of the slaves?
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Media Trust books you can cds
The merchants make the picks
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Q&A with Jonas Baker Executive Chef/Proprietor Slip 14 I found Jonas Baker to be as fresh as his seafood
     MM: What's the deal with restaurants with numbers in the name. Coincidence, trend or conspiracy?
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