Now You're Cookin'
Annye's chef Nancy Wheatley wants to teach you the skills to improvise in the kitchen, and she's got the tasters to prove it
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
      The staff at Annye's Whole Foods wants you to think outside of the box - outside of your recipe box, specifically. And to this effect, they are hosting three meet-and-eat cooking classes, focusing on French, Italian and Mediterranean cuisine.
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Poetry of Protest
Poets and protesters link arms (and words) on four-year anniversary of Iraq war
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
      Poetry slams and anti-war marches share a liberal flavor, but something more fundamental, perhaps, connects them - the power and the beauty of speech used efficiently and effectively. This weekend, Nantucketers' poems, chants and protest signs will join together to commemorate the fourth annivers...
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Media you can Trust
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      BOOKS Mitchell's Book Corner 54 Main Street 228-1080 "Reading Women" by Stefan Bollman, with a forward by Karen Joy Fowler "Reading Women" ($25) is a lavish book of paintings, drawings and photos featuring women enjoying the intimacy and tranquility of reading. Artists range from the Middl...
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      AAN Festival Winners Film Series: "Coney Island Baby" This winter, The Atheneum has brought other nations to Nantucket with the Festival Winners Film Series - a monthly screening of foreign films that have been awarded prizes at film festivals all over the world.
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ARTiculate
DOUG BURCH
WITH MARLI GUZZETTA
      Beloved Nantucket Historical Association museum interpreter Doug Burch is at his 20-year mark with the museum. To showcase "the deep baritone voice and dramatic cadences" that have made Burch such a favorite storyteller, the NHA will host Burch's presentation of "From the F'oc'sle" this Thursday.
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DISH
Faux Rolls
With Maribeth Maloney
      Dear Mr. Editor, Sir: I know you were expecting me to deliver that gripping piece on uses for stew meat outside the stew pot, but I've had to bump it. A food crime has been committed, right here on Nantucket. I already know what you're thinking: "A food crime committed on Nantucket? Is that someth...
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