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The Murray’s Beverages building is for sale for $6.5 million. The liquor store can be purchased seperately. Independent.

Marine Home Center is entertaining an offer to be purchased, recapitalized, and expanded by a Boston investment company named the Audax Group. A deal could be made in the next 2 to 3 months. Story at the I&M.

A new shoe store called Addison Craig will open this spring in the location formerly occupied by R.J. Miller, Zero Main Street. Their Sarasota Florida salon carries designer shoes and accessories such as bags and earrings. Source: Nantucket Independent.

Capizzo Gallery at 22 Old South Wharf has closed its doors after 19 years in business.

If you’ll be flying Island Airlines, Nantucket Airlines, or Cape Air to New Bedford or the Vineyard, you will depart from the Annex building adjacent to the Main Terminal until further notice. Travelers to Boston, New York, or passengers on the Nantucket Shuttle should continue to use the Main Terminal. All arrivals continue to come through the Main Terminal.

The SSA fast boat will not run again now until the end of March.

If you plan to be in NYC for New Year’s Eve, island resident Tony Messina will be performing his tribute to Dean Martin at Dillon’s on 245 West 54th Street. For reservations, call call 646.491.0987.

Jet Blue is the first U.S. airline to provide WiFi access for passangers to send emails and instant messages through their laptops or BlackBerrys. It’s a test on a few flights now, but if it goes well, it will be rolled out to all airplanes. American, Virgin America and Alaska airlines say they will provide the same plus internet access sometime in 2008. So far no one is planning to allow cell phone calls. Source: Boston Globe

The Nantucket Historical Association has achieved accreditation from the American Association of Museums (AAM). Accreditation brings national recognition to a museum for its commitment to excellence, accountability, high professional standards, and continued institutional improvement. Of the county’s nearly 17,500 museums, only about 775 are currently accredited. The Nantucket Historical Association’s Whaling Museum is one of only 44 museums accredited in Massachusetts.

Bicycling on Nantucket was recently featured in Coastal Living Magazine, entitled “A Two-wheel Island Adventure - Pedal your way to the unexpected treasures of Nantucket”, by Jacquelyne Froeber. Mentioned are Ryan Dobbins (”The world would be a better place if we all rode bikes”), Harvey Young of Young’s Bicycle, Sankaty Lighthouse, Siasconset, the Polpis loop, the White Elephant hotel and the Brant Point Grill. Read the full article here.

Last summer, MaT subscribers were invited to a small, intimate house concert in ‘Sconset featuring Ingrid Michaelson. If you were there, you know how beautiful were her songs and was her pitch perfect signing, and that Ingrid is on the way up.

On December 18, the New York Times profiled Ingrid and her ascendent career. Entitled “Singing Her Way From Obscurity to Fame on the Internet”, here are some excerpts.

“Cinderella is alive and well and living on Staten Island. Ingrid Michaelson, a 28-year-old singer-songwriter whose self-produced album “Girls and Boys” reached No. 2 on the iTunes pop chart, is enjoying an enchanted transformation as a recording artist.

“Ms. Michaelson’s climb out of obscurity started, as is so often the case these days, on the Internet. Now she is known to many “Grey’s Anatomy” fans for her quirky, heartfelt songs that were featured over the past year on the ABC television series. After a cross-country music tour, she is performing on Wednesday at the Bowery Ballroom in Manhattan, and she pointed out that the concert sold out a month ago without any advertising.”

Read the full article here.

On November 7, 2007, VH1 named Ingrid the Next Artist ‘You Oughta Know’, the first unsigned artist to be featured in the high-profile program. Her single “The Way I Am” has sold over 180,000 copies on iTunes and peaked as the #4 most downloaded single. Her appearance on “Last Call With Carson Daly” was one of YouTube’s most watched music videos. Her name and song lyrics to “The Way I Am” and “Keep Breathing” have several times been among the top 50 searches on Google.

The people who brought Ingrid and Josh Ritter to the island last summer plan to bring other artists here this summer, and I expect to be able to offer you an opportunity to be there on one of these very special nights.

Ingrid Michaelson’s MySpace Page

You can also hear a NPR World Cafe Live full concert set here.

A new band debuted at the Rose & Crown on December 14th - I’m with Stupid, with Floyd Kellogg (Big Bad Bass and Vocals), Omer Shemesh (Killer Keyboard and Toy Piano), Audrey Sterk (Per rum pa pa pum). I’m with Stupid opened for the Undergraduates to a lively winter crowd. Photos by Amanda Morgan and Gene Mahon.

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