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The Arts December 13, 2006
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SURVEY SAYS DJ Devlin & DJ Tonic
BY MARLI GUZZETTA
      “Popularity and trend rarely correlate with quality in dance music.” That’s the tagline behind “Revolution” — a new series of House music sets that will be spun on island by DJs Devlin and Tonic, known at their day jobs as Peter Devlin Ahern and Tony Camilo, respectively.
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An Angel Reappears
Greta Feeney’s island musical career comes full-halo
by Marli Guzzetta
      The first time Greta Feeney donned Paulette Allemand’s vibrant costuming for the Angel Gabriel in the First Congregational Church’s Christmas Pageant, she was a Nantucket teenager.
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Nantucket New Year’s Eve Guide
BY MARLI GUZZETTA
      Reports of the death of Nantucket’s New Year’s Eve nightlife have been greatly exaggerated since the Nantucket AIDS Network discontinued what was an epic New Year’s Eve party at the Nantucket Inn. The NAN New Year’s party, which moved to other locations before closing, remains the gold standard fo...
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‘The Children’s Book Lady’ wants to make you the coolest story-time reader ever
BY MARLI GUZZETTA
      With the barrage of media products and information available to us in contemporary society, the value of a reliable filter cannot be underestimated. Educator and children’s book critic Dr. Miriam Marecek receives roughly 6,000 children’s books from publishers every year and culls from this massiv...
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Identify This
Georgen Gilliam Charnes
      The Nantucket Historical Association houses the most complete visual record of Nantucket history in existence. The image here is from our collections, and may be one we cannot identify, wish for more information about or just want to see if people can identify. Many more images are available for vi...
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Philbrick’s “Mayflower” on New York Times’ Top 10
      This week, The New York Times Book Review released its list of the Top 10 (fiction and non-fiction) books of 2006. The list included “Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War,” by Nantucket resident and respected historical author Nat Philbrick.
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for the ARTS record
      Nantucket’s Great Fire — could you give a visitor a basic explanation? You hear it referenced all the time, but how much do you really know about Nantucket’s Great Fire of 1846?
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