The 2007 Graduates
Nearly 10 percent of the students graduating from Nantucket High School this weekend are going on to pursue their art
By Marli Guzzetta + Independent Arts Editor
      The island has produced another large batch of Nantucket High School graduates who will pack their paints, pencils, cameras, instruments, knives or sewing machines and head to college or other adventures with the intent of bettering their art this fall. That's a baker's dozen out of 80-plus studen...
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Maxi Priest to coast into the Box
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
      Raised in Jamaica and London, reggae star Maxi Priest represents the world. To Jamaicans working throughout the world, however, Priest represents a little bit of home, which he brings with him to Nantucket this week, when he performs at The Chicken Box on June 6.
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GALLERYGUIDE
      ARTISTS' ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET GALLERY 19 Washington St. Exhibition 2, a general AAN members show, is open through Monday. MERIDIAN GALLERIES 25B Washington St.
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      Above: "What's Your Function?" by Rob Smith, one of the artists included in our cover story. Smith writes of the photo: "One day a friend of mine dumped a bunch of trinkets out of her bag for me and my friends to see.
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'Scarry' summer fun for kids in Busytown
BY LUCRETIA VOIGT INDEPENDENT CONTRIBUTOR
      Nantucket is the summer home of many luminaries from all walks of life: politics, business, art and writing. It's no great surprise that I am partial to the writers. Mr. Rogers was a Madaket summer fixture for years, Frank Conroy called Nantucket his home, and David Halberstam was a summer presenc...
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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 ...
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for the ARTS record
      Eve Ensler's "Vagina Monologues" The show is comprised of a series of monologues exploring the proverbial "down there" as a continent of cultural transcription - via characters that include a cocksure dominatrix and a Bosnian refugee who had been violated during the war.
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Suzanne Daub won $10K at last year's Chamber drawing
So what did she do with the money?
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
      Suzanne Daub would have been happy to split the $10,000. An impoverished family in India is happy Daub didn't get her way. According to Daub, the co-owner of Nantucket.
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REEL TO REEL
NOW PLAYING ON NANTUCKET
      "Spider-Man 3" (Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense action violence; 140 min.) Peter Parker has his web full in this one, facing not one but four enemies - including his darker self. Wed. and Thurs. 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Fri. and Sat. 4 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Sun. 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.
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Media you can Trust
      BOOKS Mitchell's Book Corner 54 Main Street, 228-1080 "Summer Reading" by Hilma Wolitzer The lives of three different women intersect in this welldrawn novel set in today's moneyed Hamptons. The book's centerpiece is a reading group, the "Page Turners.
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