Where every brewer knows your name
An 'old Nantucket' holdout, Cisco Breweries makes room for more friends with a new layout
By Marli Guzzetta + Independent Arts Editor
      Cisco Breweries' newly renovated tasting bars are a kind of oasis of Nantucket ease. You enter via a little arbor, with parking spaces cleared out just last week, to the greetings of pleasantly unrefined handwritten signs.
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Creativity is king in "Story Time with a Princess"
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
      It's too much for children to refuse - a beautiful young princess, with her own castle, asking them to join her onstage.
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GALLERY GUIDE
Contact the galleries for hours of operation.
     The AAN Gallery is a cooperative representing over 150 year-round and seasonal Nantucket artists, from emerging talent to seasoned veterans with an established following. Open daily 10 a.m. -- 6 p.m., with fresh exhibitions hanging every two weeks throughout the season until the holidays. Upcoming: ...
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The "Prince of Nantucket" comes home
Author Jan Goldstein on island to discuss the book Nantucket inspired
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
      Jan Goldstein was having a rough time - his father had just died, and he was going through a divorce - when he came to Nantucket for time away. "I felt like an island in a sense, and I found Nantucket a glorious place to heal and renew myself," said Goldstein, who set his latest and sophomore ...
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Ten of my Favorite Things: Amy England
On the eve of releasing her album "Nantucket to Nashville," the folk and country musician counts her blessings
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
      Topography is the stuff of identity when you have a last name like "England," and Nantucket folk musician Amy England named her new album accordingly. Released this Saturday, "From Nantucket to Nashville" spanned two years and the distance from here (where England wrote her songs) to Music City (w...
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Your Wine
SUMMER ROSE
By Leslie-Ann Sheppard
      Wfor summer, I think of rosé. As I've often told my customers, to me, rosé is 'summertime in a glass.' Rosé can be made from just about any red grape varietal. As the grape clusters are pressed, the clear juice from the grapes begins fermentation with the grape skins, which are res...
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for the ARTS record
      Ghosts of the Great Hall: An Evening with Maria Mitchell Maggie Conroy brings her one woman show about Maria Mitchell to the Atheneum. We love Maria Mitchell because she was our first librarian, but the world recognizes her as an outstanding astronomer and teacher.
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REEL TO REEL
NOW PLAYING ON NANTUCKET
      "Ocean's 13" (Rated PG-13; 122 min.) George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and the boys return for the third series of the Rat Pack remake. This time, the super slick, metrosexual thieves mount up to avenge one of the original 11, Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould), after he is betrayed by casino o...
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Nantucket's little jazz renaissance
Local musicians rush to fill the demand for live jazz and blues
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
      Whether you like it or not, there is a part of your brain that only jazz understands. It is the part that teeters crookedly to a great idea, the part that needs both excitement and relaxation at approximately 11 a.m. on a sunny Sunday morning.
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Media you can Trust
      BOOKS Mitchell's Book Corner 54 Main Street, 228-1080 Nat Philbrick calls Eric Jay Dolin's "Leviathan" ($28) "the best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." How can we add to that?
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