Month: August 2013

Nantucket Events

Dracula on Stage

Dracula performances continue at Theatre Workshop of Nantucket.  Tickets are $30 at theatreworkshop.com. Shows are held at Centre Stage at 2 Centre Street. Until September 7, the curtain rises at 7:30 Wednesday – Saturday, with a 6 p.m. show on Sunday, September 1.

Nantucket Events

Jessica Sosebee Artist Reception

By using mainly oil paint sometimes mixed with resin, wax and gold leaf, artist Jessica Sosebee engages the viewer not only by means of subject matter, but through the subtlety of dimension, tranquility with her choice of pallet, and with the harmonies of texture, all while capturing the splendor of […]

Island Cooking

Obstinate to an Agreeable Eater

• by Jenn Farmer • Walking in the garden today was one of the loveliest experiences of the summer.  I cannot think of a more wonderful thing than eating veggies straight from the garden after a quick rinse.  Right now the garden is bursting with ripe, healthy goodness.  The smell […]

Featured Articles

Saving Slices of Nantucket

• by Sarah Teach • One would think that being a fine wine aficionado and restaurateur is enough of an enterprise in life.  Mark Goldweitz, owner of the Nantucket Wine Festival, partner at several restaurants (including Grill 23, which is widely acclaimed as one of Boston’s best steakhouses), and owner […]

Nantucket Essays

Freedom Has No Tip Jar

• by Robert P. Barsanti • At the Juice Bar, the scoopers put up a sign over the ice machine that read “Relax, things could be worse.  You could be on this side of the counter.” When I found this sign, I was one of about thirty people with my […]

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Music Is Its Soul

• by Katharine Rooney • “We had surf today.” Two men raised their pints with a smile. “To August.” John Jordin, co-owner of The Chicken Box, had just returned from Cisco Beach, where his bar was sponsoring the 12th annual Ozone Surf Classic. He walked across the linoleum and wood […]

Island Science

The Magical Island of Tuckernuck

• by Dr. Sarah D. Oktay, Managing Director UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station • For the past two summers I have been fortunate to visit the Tuckernuck Land Trust’s (or TLT, website can be accessed at http://www.tuckernucklandtrust.org/) field station and do some basic biological collection (bees and mosquitoes) and give […]

Nantucket Events

Jazz and Art

Widely collected sculptor, painter, and musician David Hostetler has had  a “break out” year for 2013.  He’s moved in a new direction with his painting. Using his paper patterns that mark the outline on the log of his wood carvings, he painted his largest oil to date: 71”h x 74”w, […]