AAN SHOW & TELL
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
      Four years into its new home on Gardner Perry Lane, the Artists' Association of Nantucket's workshop has become many things to many people. For Maura Wendelken, it is a tool for keeping her skills limber and her commitment reaffirmed before applying to art school. For Nantucket Bank President Bill...
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Mack retires as head of NCMC
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
      After five and a half years as a good steward of the NCMC/ Nantucket School of Music, Dr. Gerald Mack submitted his resignation as its director last Wednesday. Having elevated the numbers of students and instructors at the school, while also spearheading programs like the NCMC's benefit concert ser...
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for the ARTS record
      "WineDown" For the first time ever, the Nantucket Wine Festival is hosting a carefree champagne brunch to cap off the four day wine and food fete. Contrary to what was reported in this Arts section last week, tickets are still available for this seaside "winedown." (It is the Grand Dame Champagne b...
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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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Gideon Freudmann is Arts Not your grandmother's cello player
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
      To see Gideon Freudmann's electric cello is to want to play it, or at the very least, touch it. The streamlined, futuristic and beautiful reincarnation of the acoustic cello makes one wonder if purveyors of classical music have been hiding something from us. How could any kid who's ever seen this i...
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Media you can Trust books cds movies
      BOOKS Mitchell's Book Corner 54 Main Street, 228-1080 "Book of Air and Shadows" by Michael Gruber Adistinguished Shakespearean scholar found tortured to death...A lost manuscript and its secret buried for centuries...An encrypted map that leads to incalculable wealth...
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We make the pick
      MUSIC METRO AREA - METRO AREA With a clear influence of the 70s and 80s underground disco and boogie, transcending to an innovative soulful minimalism, Darshan Gersani and Morgan Heist, from Metro Area, created a fine example of what is a contemporary classic in electronic music.
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REEL TO REEL
NOW PLAYING ON NANTUCKET
      "Amazing Grace" (Rated PG for thematic material involving slavery, and some mild language.) Ioan Gruffudd stars as William Wilberforce, the imperfect but inspired Englishman who led the charge to abolish slavery in his country.
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