Get your glass, Nantucket
Nantucket Wine Festival's Denis Toner doesn't waste words and he's recommending events that are still available
By Marli Guzzetta Independent Arts Editor
      Aweek before the Nantucket Wine Festival (now on through Saturday), co-founder and president Denis Toner rested his glass of wine - Inman Family 2004 Pinot Noir - on a small stack of boxes. Some contained snifters and others, 'cutting-edge' oyster shuckers not yet availabl...
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"Detention" was never this much fun
By Marli Guzzetta + Independent Arts Editor
      Atalk show that highlights the life of Nantucket kids doesn't sound much like detention, but Mark Carapezza's "Detention with Oliver Diamond" will hold your child's attention in one place with music, magic, dance, jokes, interviews and skits, all occurring on a talk show-sty...
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Student artists, patrons >>>> Pay it Forward
By Marli Guzzetta Independent Arts Editor
      It's working. The idea Pamela Pindell and Casey Sayre Boukus implemented to honor their late daughter and sister, Rebecca, is in its second year, and the interest is growing.
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GALLERY GUIDE
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Stylists to the Sandbar
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
      Cheryl Fudge and Hays Westbrook are the reigning power couple of Nantucket clothing - his and hers stylists to the sandbar - and Fudge's fashion show at the Nantucket Wine Festival will be something of a coming-out party. With over five years of experience in island fashi...
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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 ca...
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JOSEF KARDELL
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
      He's got the look of a young Chris Carrabba, down to the first forearm tattoo. But 18-year-old Josef Kardell has at least a fiveyear jump on the Dashboard Confessional frontman, who cut his first CD when he was out of college.
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for the ARTS record
      Book talk: Ronne Hartfield It is a matter of personal significance for author Ronne Hartfield to be speaking on her memoir, "Another Way Home," this Wednesday at the Nantucket Atheneum, where Ralph Waldo Emerson once stood and spoke.
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Escape your child's "Nantucket Whine Festival" with a day at the Creeks
BY LUCRETIA VOIGT INDEPENDENT CONTRIBUTOR
      The Nantucket Wine Festival descends on our fair island this weekend. My life as of late, however, could more appropriately be summed up as Nantucket Whine Festival. The energy stored up while doing "indoor activities" this winter is bursting through every pore in my child's...
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Media you can books Trust cds movies
      BOOKS Mitchell's Book Corner 54 Main Street, 228-1080 "Theft" by Peter Carey "The Economist" sums up Carey's brilliantly worked-out art-fraud plot far better than I can: "Peter Carey's funny, rumbustious new novel takes on the contemporary art world. ...
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REEL TO REEL
NOW PLAYING ON NANTUCKET
      "Disturbia" (Rated PG-13 on appeal for sequences of terror and violence, and some sensuality.) Aquick and crafty teenager (Shia LaBeouf) is on house arrest when he observes his neighbor exhibiting the behavior of a murderous sociopath. Tough times.
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