Nantucket Film Fest Opening Night Party

The Nantucket Film Festival Opening Night Party took place at the Chanticleer immediatelyafter the opening film at the Casino, “Cold Souls”. Some of the people we saw there: Katherine Kay, Nancy Thayer, Mike and Charlotte Jehle, Jack & Anne Curlett, Hazel Fleming, Bill Frederick, Susan & Larry Levine, Susan & Howard Bloom, Jeniffer Blum, Anne [...]

NFF Opening Night 2

Jim Belushi on Nantucket Slideshow

Actor Jim Belushi belted out the blues on Friday night, August 1st in the new grand ballroom of The Point Breeze Club and Residences, hosted by Mia and Bob Matthews. This followed the grand opening of the ballroom on Saturday, July 19, with a beautiful performance by eight time Grammy winner, Natalie Cole, with over [...]

Coming Up

A late addition to the calendar, but a big one – the legendary Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson with the Magic Rockers is coming to the Muse on Saturday night, October 6th, from 8:00 to 11:00 pm. Luther is one of the best blues musicians to emerge from Chicago’s music scene, where he started playing in [...]

Thanks

Happy Birthday to Anne Meara, her birthday just last week. Thank you to everyone who showed up at American Seasons last week to donate to Carla‘s medical expenses for her broken, but now nearly healed, arm. Between the money raised in house and your tips that night, $6,500 was raised. Kerry Hallam donated a painting, [...]

A Night at the Summer House

Every once in awhile, the planets align and all the right people show up at the same place, and the result is a magical night you’ll not forget. Such was the night of Saturday, August 4, at The Summer House. Good friends, a fun group of people we didn’t know, a beautiful and quintessentially Nantucket [...]

A Night at the Summer House 2

Coming Up This Week 8/11/07

11th Annual Boston Pops with Natalie Cole, to benefit Nantucket Cottage Hospital, gets going at 7 p.m. Saturday night at Jetties, with conductor Keith Lockhart and host Tim Russert, sponsored by Nantucket Island Resorts Jill and Steve Karp. Ticket information and availability at 508-825-8181. Always a spectacle, the annual town beach party. Best Bets for [...]

Happy Birthday Jerry Stiller

Happy Birthday to Jerry Stiller, who was 80 years old last week.

A Tribute to David Halberstam

This from my oldest and best friend, Larry Hatab, known to many as “Arab”. I was not a close friend of David Halberstam. We met on Nantucket when I was living there in the mid 1970s. Gene and I came to know him through our mutual friends, Frank and Maggie Conroy. David also frequented the [...]