Posts filed under 'Video'
Annette McFarland
Annette McFarland. I found this video on the web. Man In My Head, from the album Takas Paradise by Annette McFarland. It’s a good song, well produced, apparently sung by her, and presumable that’s her in the video, and it was shot on Nantucket.
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2 comments November 16, 2007
Mahon About Town in the News
Jamie Ranney interviewed me on his show on GenoTV, Channel 17, about the origins and story of Mahon About Town. Geno Geng, owner of Geno TV, was kind enough to put that interview up on his site for all to see. Here it is, and while you’re there, check out the dozens of other video clips on the site.
Here’s the photo I took on the set:
Add comment September 20, 2007
Nantucket Media Watch
Barbara Gookin has produced a slide show of pristine Nantucket scenes. Here it is:
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Diane and Bob Lehman have a new website for fans of “Nantuckot“, their parady of “Camelot”, sung by Bob at all their performances.
The 2007 Arts Guide is on the stands, published by Arlene O’Reilly of Mind’s Eye Productions. In it are 6 suggested Arts Tours with maps, gallery schedules, a comprehensive illustrated listing of galleries, designers, craftsmen, antiques dealers, auctions, museums, and the performing arts, as well as a feature article on the Nantucket Arts Council. Free at the usual places.
Another valuable arts resource is the 74 page Nantucket Independent 2007 Summer Arts Guide, now also available on newsstands and at their offices. The Guide includes listing of arts events for the year: books & lectures, galleries, children, museums, music, stage and screen. It also contains a comprehensive list of island restaurants.
Claire Murray’s La Vie Claire Spring issue features interior designer Donna Elle with photographs by Jeffrey Allen. $6.99 on magazine racks.
The Late Spring issue of N Magazine visits the wine cellar of and talks with Michael Kittredge, founder of Yankee Candle. Also in this issue: profiles on island antique stores; Connecticut antiquing, more from Theresa Heinz Kerry on politics and the environment; the latest Arts and Social Calendar; restaurateur partners dine at Water Street; and of course, the Foggy Sheet with 5 pages of photos of the social scene by Fifi Greenberg and me. My monthly column “Hot Dish” this time sees our island chefs and restaurant owners as ambassadors, speading the gospel of Nantucket fine dining to the world. Free in all the usual locations.
The June issue of Nantucket Today has articles on Scotch Broom, Feeding Weekend Guests, a trip to the Azores, the carvings of Paul McCarthy, Water Street restaurant, a Trudy Dujardin house tour, and Will and Julai Conroy in Arizona.
Add comment June 8, 2007
Nantucketers in the News
Pauline Proch has received an “Unsung Heroine Award” for the Town of Nantucket from the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women.
Alexandra Kopko sings Benedictus:
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Jamey Bennett, owner of LightWedge, has been selected by the Nantucket Chamber of Commerce to receive a ‘Build a Better Mousetrap Award’ from Cape Cod SCORE at its fourteenth annual awards breakfast to be held Tuesday, June 5 at Old Yarmouth Inn.
Jamey invented and patented the LightWedge product in the summer of 2001, based on a concept he had first developed while in high school. Lightwedge is a Nantucket based small business that designs, manufactures, and markets innovative lighting and magnification products. The five-year-old company started with its flagship LightWedge Original product in 2002. The company now has 12 full-time employees and sells more than 200 products to retailers nationwide. LightWedge products use energy-efficient LEDs and patented LightWedge technology that directs light efficiently onto the page.
LightWedge was named to Inc. Magazine’s prestigious ‘Inc. 500′ list of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.
Tickets for the event are $20.00. To make a reservation or get additional information, telephone Cape Cod SCORE, 508-775-4884.
Add comment June 8, 2007
Real Estate Roller Coaster
A unique and pertinent interpretation of U.S. home prices, adjusted for inflation, from 1890 to present, plotted to a roller coaster.
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Add comment May 22, 2007
Nantucket News
A recent New York Times article reports that lobsters are getting harder to find and therefore more expensive, due to bad weather, very cold water, and little or no back up inventory in tidal pounds. Larger lobsters are even harder to find. The price is nearly double what it was a year ago.
Nantucket will receive $11.9 million over a three-year period for the airport terminal expansion. Groundbreaking set for October 2007.
The new Esther Island on YouTube
Add comment May 6, 2007
Nantucket Summer Resident David Gregory Dancing
Summer resident David Gregory as back up dancer to new rap star Carl Rove.
Add comment April 3, 2007
Nantucketers in the News
Native Nantucketer Thatcher Spring is in the current issue of Boston Magazine. Thatcher, son of Susie Spring, is a nationally ranked sailor, licensed pilot, and now the founder of the Thatcher Spring line of ties. The fabrics are from Italy, but the ties made in America. The style is decidely preppy, though his newsest collection is African themed. Avaiable on island at Murray’s Toggery Shop, 62 Main Street; also available on Thatcher’s website.
Here are the results of a photo shoot I did for a full page article in the Boston Herald last year.
Barbara Gookin has a video on YouTube about the Off Season:
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Add comment March 17, 2007
