Shared "Space"
Artists' Association of Nantucket turns the Nantucket New School into a gallery and a studio this month
By Marli Guzzetta Independent Arts Editor
      When Artists' Association of Nantucket member Lucretia Chase suggested the theme of "Space" for the AAN's exhibition at the Nantucket New School, she was thinking specifically of the great, ephemeral and endless beyond, where stars twinkle. Space: the final frontier.
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March into April
The NCMC/ Nantucket School of Music and the Nantucket Arts Council celebrate Spring with a weekend of madrigals and a renowned Classical Trio
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
      "In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours." So wrote Mark Twain once, and between the snow and sun we've had within the same time frame, it seemed a prescient quote to remember.
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for the ARTS record
      Pinter on Nantucket This week, Theatre Workshop of Nantucket stages its performance of "The Dumb Waiter" along with another Pinter one act, "A Kind of Alaska." Written in 1957, "The Dumb Waiter" focuses on two hit men, one older (Ben) and one younger (Gus). They are thrown together in a basement b...
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A Cosmos of their Own
Historian, author and professor Martha Ackmann to speak on island about a secret, 1960s NASA program that tested potential female astronauts
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
      When the national media recently went crazy over the story of a female astronaut who drove cross country to confront a romantic rival, national news big wigs, including Anderson Cooper, called historian Martha Ackmann with invitations to be a talking head on their shows.
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      BOOKS Mitchell's Book Corner 54 Main Street, 228-1080        " Grace ( Eventually):          Thoughts on Faith"             by Anne Lamott
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      Two weeks ago, my co-worker, Peter, peeked over my cubicle wall on his way out to tell me about his new tech toy - TubeSock. It's a downloadable program that eats the URLs for YouTube videos and then regurgitates them back into your iTunes, either in the form of video with audio or just audio. The...
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