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Nantucket Restaurants & Wine Stores

The N Magazine produced Nantucket Restaurant Week will be two weeks sooner this year, running from Monday, September 29th through Sunday October 5th, with the Gala on Sunday, September 28th. A two tier pricing for dinner this year, at the choice of the restaurant: 3 course dinners for either $45 or $30. Lunches will not be officially included in NRW this year, but several are already planning to offer lunch specials. The Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce has come aboard as a co-sponsor of NRW, and will offer support through off-island marketing and public relations, administrative and organizational.

According to the Jared Coffin House website, the Harbor Wok will be opening there this May through October.

Shannon Haddon’s Bamboo Supper Club has applied to add liquor service to their second floor and install outdoor patio seating.

The Murray’s Liquor Store building is on the market. I guess that got some people thinking that should the building sell to someone not wanting to continue the liquor store at that location, it would mean no liquor store downtown. Three people have jumped in with three different ideas.

The Selectmen have approved Beth English’s application for a seasonal wine and beer license at 4 Easy Street for currentVintage, a wine & clothing boutique.

Selectmen have also approved Slip 14’s owner Jonas Baker’s application for a seasonal all alcoholic package store license at 5 Salem Street, previously the home of Barry Thurston’s Tackle Shop.

David Cantella’s application for a seasonal wine and beer license at 1 North Beach Street will be decided on February 20th.

LoLa has applied for an entertainment license. I expect that will be a live DJ on weekends. The hearing will be on February 20.

Here’s a list of restaurants open for Valentine’s Day. Click on the list below to download a printable pdf version. Thank you to Nantucket Visitor Services, especially David Sharpe, for providing the most current weekly restaurant list. For last minute guest room availability, call Visitor Services at 228-0925.

And the list of restaurants currently open. Click to download a printable copy.

Yack

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2008 Book Best Sellers on Nantucket

What were the top selling books on Nantucket in 2007? Local authors in bold.

First from Bookworks:

1) Harry Potter 7 by J.K. Rowling
2) Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
3) Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand
4) In the Heart of the Sea by Nat Philbrick
5) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
6) Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
7) Mayflower by Nat Philbrick
Dangerous Book for Boys by Con & Hal Iggulden
9) The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
10) Where’s Nat, A Nantucket Cat Adventure by Peter and Cheryl Barnes

Close behind Nat was The Road by Cormac McCarthy and The Prince of Nantucket by Jan Goldstein.

And from Mitchell’s:

1) Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
2) The Last Boat by Michael Hite
3) Nerve Damage by Peter Abrahams
4) Law & Disorder in Old Nantucket by Frances Karttunen
5) The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam
6) The Dangerous Book For Boys by Hal Iggulden
7) Life’s a Campaign by Chris Matthews
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
9) Whaleport by Mark Foster, illustrated by Gerald Foster
10) Schultz & Peanuts A Biography by David Michaelis

Community Announcements

The Nantucket Historical Association is looking for Museum Education Interns to assist in its educational summer programming at the Whaling Museum and other historic sites. The eight to twelve week position is full-time, paid, and with housing provided. Applications accepted through March 15, 2008. Interviewing begins in February. Click here for more details and how to apply.

High school students are invited to submit their best audition tapes for the “Boston Pops High School Sing-Off: A Best of Broadway Challenge“, the first chance for students to compete to perform with the Pops, at their Esplanade 4th of July concert. Submit videos of your musical-theater repertoire, either solo, duet, trio, quartet, or quintet. The deadline is May 9. More information here.

The Nantucket Arts Council is offering grants ranging from $500 to $5000 to support art and cultural projects. Applications can be found at the Atheneum, or at 508-325-8588. Application deadline is March 15, 2008.

Nantucket New Year’s Eve

New Year’s Eve photos taken at LoLa, Water Street, the Chicken Box, and the Rose & Crown. Photo assistance by Shannon Follett. Here’s a partial list of who we ran into:

At LoLa: DJ’s Devlin and Billy Desmond, Mark Daley behind the bar at LoLa, Chris Oberg, Kevin Conrad, Whitney Von Kamper, Jessie Gaunn, Silvia Solano-Ryan, Kerry Hicks, LoLa waitresses Shanna Cochrane and Jessica Mayerjack, Brad Phelps, Hadley St. John, Maggie Padzik, Peter Herner, Nancy and Mike Bean, Cora Stovall, Jessica Mannihy, Adam Audette, April Clarizia, Lisa Ranze, Laura Pappalardo, Renate Webb, Marco Coehlo, and Elisabeth Hasell.

At Water Street: Bartender Graeden Ambrose, Carl Lindvall, Sarah Rawlings, Robert Nelson (co-owner of Water Street), Dao Nguyen, Bob and Karem Smahay, Susan Lapine, Don Mroz, Linda and Peter Hoey, Michael and Laura Freedman, Ben Pastor, Jenny Crane, Bobby Malavase, Andre Arsenault, Kathy Flynn.

At Fifty-Six Union: Michelle Whelan, Troy Ellen Dixon, Sam and June Forman, Melinda Beal, Sunny Lund, Robert Sarkisian dancing with Wendy Janelle, Peter Janelle, Louise and Bill Hourihan, Mona Walsh, Donna Hamel, James Fuller, bartender Anna Worgess, Susan and Dirk Koopman, Shelly and Roy Weedon, and a year end full staff photo.

At the Box we saw Nathan Connor, Emily Metcalfe, Mervin Parks, Chris Bennett, Sandrine Legrarand, Michael Thatcher, Anne Sherman, and of course Rocky Fox.

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Nantucket New Year’s Eve 2

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