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BOOKS Mitchell's Book Corner 54 Main Street, 228-1080 "The Boston School with introduction by Christopher Volpe Want the perfect hostess present or small birthday gift for an art lover? Then "The Boston School" ($20), a beautiful collection of color plates, is ideal. More ... Ever since authors like Herman Melville and Edgar Allen Poe cracked the shell on Nantucket's oyster and shared it on a bed of book pages with the world, many Americans have dreamt of quitting the mainland to write from this island, and about this island. More ... This week, Surfside Films is screening its short film, "She and He," at the Starlight Café. Filmed at Cottage Hospital, "She and He" is the story of a husband and seriously ill wife reliving their entire relationship through one conversation, which consists of one-word replies. More ... 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 viewing and identification at www.nha.org. More ... Attention: High School kids with artistic talent Money and prestige could be yours! Rep. Bill Delahunt has announced an art competition for students in Massachusetts' Tenth District. (The fightin' tenth. More ... In 1968, James Cennamo was a 13- year-old Brooklynite who, along with his buddies, idolized the antiwar radicals of the time, specifically the members of Students for Democratic Societies. Cennamo and his friends even formed their own group, "Children's Strike for Peace. More ... Multicultural, multiracial and interdenominational, the Jubilee Singers share music by African-Americans or about the African-American experience. They are not a gospel choir, stressed founding director, J. Donald Dumpson. "We sing gospels, spirituals, folk music, jazz and even popular music; anything from the diaspora," Dumpson said. More ... "TMNT" (Rated PG for animated action violence, some scary cartoon images and mild language.) A technological re-visiting of the 1990s cast of sewer turtles who've mutated into crime-fighting, pizza-loving, martial artists named after luminaries of the Italian Renaissance. More ... |
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