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Lone Star Grace Directed by Giovanna Sardelli, Theatre Workshop of Nantucket's season opener, "Lone Star Grace," stars Susan McGinnis as Barbie Ann, a lingerie saleswoman who begins the New Year - and a new life - in a diner off Texas Highway 59. There, Barbie Ann waits on the cusp of her transformation with a bottomless cup of personal revelations, warmed up by the diner's mild-mannered, sweet proprietor, Persephone (played by Laurel Devaney) and Kenneth (Ciaran Byrne), an Irishman in a cowboy hat, on his own "quest for self-discovery." Susan Beaumont plays the sister who brings Barbie Anne a plate of reality from home.

An opening night party at the Brotherhood precedes the Wednesday showing, from 7 - 8:15 p.m.; the $50 admission includes cocktails and admission to the show.

When: Wed. - Sat., June 13-16 8:30 p.m. Where: TWN Main Stage, downstairs

at the United Methodist Church, 2 Centre St. Cost: $25 For more information, please call 228-4305 or

go to theatreworkshop.org, where you can

also buy tickets.

Lil' Bush on Comedy Central On June 13, Nantucket native Donick Cary premieres his cartoon, "Lil' Bush," on Comedy Central. The half-hour-long show depicts Dubya as a swaggering boy, living with Babs and Bush Senior and attending Beltway Elementary School, where he heads up a clique of familiar faces (Lil' Condi, Lil' Rummy and Lil' Cheney) and doles out critiques, compliments and nicknames to both classmates and school employees.

Even though the show is snarky, it has good, oldfashioned family values behind it. Donick cast his mother, Mara Cary, as the voice of Barbara Bush. Donick's half-sister, Martha (2001 Nantucket High School grad and daughter of Susan Cary) works as a production assistant on the show. (Richard Cary, founder of the now-closed Actors' Theatre, is their father.)

Currently, the show is produced by a small staff, with 10 total people stateside, and 150 animators in Bulgaria, overseen by native islander Alex Stancioff, whom Mara called "one of Donick's cronies from third grade."

When:Wed., June 13, 10:30 p.m.

Where: Comedy Central

Elin Hildebrand It wouldn't be summer on Nantucket if Ellen Hildebrand didn't release another beach read set on the beach where you are doing your reading. Her Nantucket-themed "Barefoot,"

When: Thurs., June 14, 6 - 8:30 p.m.

Where: Garden at PlumTV, 4 North Water St.

"Every Bite is Divine" author Annie Kay Nantucket dietician, yoga therapist and author Annie Kay studied nutrition all of her college and professional career, but never felt "beautiful in her own body" until a yoga class led to a spiritual epiphany.

"I was at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, in one of their beautiful, compassionate yoga classes, where all of this info I had on nutrition and body image intersected with this experience I had in my own body, feeling the perfection of its imperfection and feeling the spark of divinity within myself, even though I'm not model-thin or ready for prime time," Kay said.

Enlightened with a new direction for her work as a dietitian and yoga therapist, Kay wrote "Every Bite is Divine," a book intended to put the reader "on the path to finding balance and stretching joyfully, confidently and contentedly into loving who you really are."

The book recently beat out thousands of other titles to become one of three Nautilus Book Award finalists in two categories. The Nautilus Book Awards recognize literary contributions to spiritual growth, high-level wellness, responsible leadership, positive social change and, to the world of art, creativity and inspirational children's literature.

"I focus on something that's different from the weight loss culture, which is very self-hatred oriented - the common feeling being 'If I lose 10 pounds, I'll be happy mentally, and I'll finally be successful and happy,' which is simply not true in the reality of our daily lives," Kay said. "What I do is try to begin the process with cultivating positive self-regard, to help you find the divinity in you, no matter the size or weight or level of fitness you are, and let that positive, compassionate self-regard be the guiding principle of allowing healthy habits to unfold. Rather than trying to be somebody you're not."

The principle of moderation, for example, is one Kay explains in the context of yoga, as "standing in the fire, between two poles of attachment and aversion."

This week, Kay hosts a companion workshop on East/West Weight, "addressing nourishment and selfcare within the compassionate context of yoga."

In the class's three hours, Kay said, you can "make the spark and begin to make the connection and intro of the idea. When we do things like physical movement in combination with ideas and discussions and so forth, it is a wonderful way to learn and practice it in the body and feel it in the body, providing a relative paradigm for things like ahimsa, which is non violence in the body in the way you eat and how you hold yourself."

When: Sat., June 16, 1-4 p.m.

Where: The Yoga Room, 49 Fairgrounds Rd.

To register, call 825-2211.

Concert: NCMC/ Nantucket School of Music This week, the NCMC/Nantucket School of Music Chorus presents a concert featuring the Requiem of Gabriel Fauré.

"The Fauré Requiem is now so familiar to concertgoers in this country, it is surprising to learn that, although composed in 1887 with revisions through 1890, its first performance here occurred in 1931, not in a church or concert hall but a school, a student concert at Curtis Institute," according to NCMC instructor Robert Behrman. "It didn't take long for its melodic lines to make it a favorite of choruses in this country."

Other works on the program, all by American composers (all but one still living), include "Sing We to Heaven" (1991) by Daniel E. Gawthrop; "Beneath These Alien Stars" from "The Settling Years" (1950) by Libby Larsen, "From the Ends of the Earth" (1961) by Alan Hovhaness; "Wondrous Love" (2000) by Steven Sametz; and "Zion's Walls" for male chorus, a "rousing" Aaron Copland arrangement of an 1860 melody.

Music Director at St. Paul's Church, Joe Dudzinski conducts, and Marcia Hempel, Director at the Unitarian Church, accompanies. Both are faculty members of NCMC/ Nantucket School of Music. Soloists are tenor Phil Stambaugh ("Hostias et preces"), baritone Dwight Beman ("Libera me") and soprano Nan Strelnitski ("Pie Jesu"). Martha Neuhauser adds flute to the accompaniment of the "Sanctus."

When: Sat, June 16, 8 p.m.; Sun., June 17, 4 p.m Where: Coffin School, 4 Winter St. Cost: No advance tickets are needed; the suggest

ed admission of $10 for adults, $5 for seniors

will be accepted with thanks at the door.

Students in Nantucket schools are welcome free.

NOTE: In last week's issue, I misidentified the NCMC/Nantucket School of Music's Web site. The correct site is www.nantucketschoolofmusic.org.

Indy Crossword author a puzzling success Nantucket Independent crossword author Sam Bellotto Jr., has recently chalked up several notable book titles. In partnership with another wellknown puzzle master, Terry Stickels, they've produced a Spider-Man activity book which was launched by Harper-Collins Children's Books in conjunction with the latest "Spider-Man 3" movie.

http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060837 310/SpiderMan3PuzzlesandGel

_Pen/index.aspx

The book includes crosswords, word searches, sudoku and other puzzles geared to a younger audience.

Bellotto is also doing a similar activity book to be released with the upcoming "Narnia" movie sequel.

Bellotto and Stickels have also co-authored a mammoth book of cryptogram puzzles for Random- House. With more than 600 cryptograms of every type and difficulty level, this volume is sure to keep cipher aficionados happy and occupied for months on end.

In addition to The Nantucket Independent Bellotto's brain-teasing crosswords appear weekly in The Hill, the leading newspaper for and about Capitol Hill, and Back Stage, the weekly trade newspaper for the acting profession.

Prints of Nantucket: NHA wins publication awards The Nantucket Historical Association received three publication awards from the New England Museum Association 2007 Competition, which received 238 publications submissions from 81 museums in 22 different categories. The awards recognize excellence in design, production, and effective communication in all aspects of museum publishing.

"Nantucketers & Their Pets - 2007 Member Calendar" received third place in the "Supplementary Materials" category.

The 2006 summer exhibition catalogue "Signs of the Times" received an honorable mention in the "Exhibition Catalogues" entry.

In addition, in the category of Educational Publications, Materials, and Kits, the "1800 House Early American Arts & Crafts 2006 course catalogue" was awarded an honorable mention.

The judges, comprising experts in the design, communications, and marketing fields, focused on the effectiveness of each publication and how it reflected the mission of the museum and communicated its message to its intended audience. All entries will be donated to the Boston Public Library after the conference.

Chamber Survivor 10K Last Thursday, Jay Lovering - an off-island U.S. Foods Service employee whose good reputation precedes him on Nantucket - won the Nantucket Chamber of Commerce's $10,000 Survivor Challenge. According to Toby Greenberg, information aide for the NCC, 239 of the 250 tickets sold for a gross total of almost $25,000 raised for the Chamber's island scholarship fund. Lovering was not in attendance, which has no bearing on his winnings. (I, however, was in attendance, and my last name is pronounced 'gazzetta,' like the Italian word for "newspaper," Chris Morris. I guess lucky numbers can't be lucky all the time.)

- MG