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Cape Cod Art
Association
presents a
sayonara
to snow
"Almost Spring' sends up
stylish shoots
By Brad Lynch
arts@barnstablepatriot.com
SO LIFELIKE IT STARTLES - "Snow Day" (seen in detail),
a portrait of youthful beauty, won best of show at the Cape
Cod Art Association "Almost Spring" exhibit for Cynthia
Brunk.
Gardeners and landscape painters are a bit wary
about the coming of Spring 2006. We've had lots of
cold, wet days but less snow and climactic violence
than in 2005.
One place to celebrate the coming season of heart's
desire is the "Almost Spring" juried art show and
sale at the Cape Cod Art Association gallery at 3480
Route 6A in Barnstable. Whatever the weather, the
show is indoors.
The exhibit, which continues through April 7, con-
tains 125 works. The juror was long-time professional
painter Marieluise Hutchinson.
The association is has been one of the Cape 's major
artscenters since 1948. Now staffed by three curators,
it has had its own building for three decades. There
are 600 members , all creative artists or associates.
Exhibits of their work are changed monthly.
Best of show at "Almost Spring" went to Cynthia
Brunk for "Snow Day" in colored pencil . Edward
Mead took top honors for oils and acrylics, Robert
Mesrop for water media, Susan Kelly for pastels , and
Mark Preu for photography. Gloria Carson and Amy
Lindeman tied for first in mixed media.
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THE WRITE STUFF
Second A.ct Trouble
(Applause, $27.95)
It would be something
wonderful to say that Steven
Suskin's book is an entirely
delightful, dishy,gossipy guilty
pleasure. However there is
something ultimately heart-
breakingabout the 25 Broadway
shows he chronicles, produced
to entertain us and make every-
one connected with them rich
-and each failing ... mightily,
miserably and very expensively.
Suskinillustrateseach example
withacontemporarynewspaper
or magazine article, explaining
the birth (and death) pains with often witty commentary. Gore
Vidal once said that it's not enough to succeed - one must see
others fail.But in this case,there is a sense of overkill.Ultimately,
the divas, directors, egos, hysterics and fights all go to prove that
sometimes people have no business in show business.
Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood
(Random House, $14.95)
We could be corny and tout this as the kind of book you'll sink
your teeth into, but that seems so bloody obvious. Instead we'll
say that Five Quarts is a damn good read. Author Bill Hayes
uses his HIV-positive status to springboard into a pulsating
exploration - as fascinating as it is frightening, as humorous as
it is harrowing - of the cultural, historical, spiritual and medical
myths, misconceptions and marvels of blood. From the legend of
Dracula to the scared saga of the Eucharist, from aheart-warming
bedside visit with a woman suffering from hemophilia to a look
inside a blood bank... there's lots of interesting and informative
on this plate(let).
FOR THE RECORD
50th Anniversary: A Musical History of Disneyland
(Walt Disney Records)
Nothing Mickey Mouse about
this one: The six-disc collection
commemorates the history of
the Happiest Place on Earth ,
from Day One back in 1955 to
the present. Rare tunes, restored
tunes,unreleased tunes,music
from all the attractions
and all the lands, even
Uncle Walt's opening
day speech... all of it fun
and festive, bouncy and
bubbly, grand and, well, Goofy. Give this one
an E ... as in "excellent," as in E ticket.
DVD QUICK PICKS
Marquee Musicals: Daddy
Long Legs , Pin-Up Girl and
Week-End in Havana
(Fox Home Entertainment)
In the Golden Age of Holly-
wood, each studio usually took
a stab at various genres, but ex-
celled in only one.Warner Broth-
ers cornered gangster films,with
forays into musicals (Busby
Berkeley) and noir (Bogart).
Universal dabbledin lots of B-films, but
succeeded big-time with horror. MGM,
of course, produced the best musicals.
Fox did melodramas -especially noir
- with an occasional romp on MGM's
1 musical turf. And usually those romps
hit some really bad notes. Witness the
first three flicksin their Marquee Musi-
! calsseries.Daddy Long Legs has Astaire
1 and Caron , Pin-Up Girl has Betty
Grable, Week-End in Havana has Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda.
The memory of these films, for the most part,isalot better than
the filmsthemselves.The pleasant
but fairly pedestrian scores, thin
plots and busy character actors
scurrying around propping up
the story make for rough going.
And make one yearn for Mickey
and Judy.
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Hyannis a hot
spot for Hibernian
happenings this
weekend
By Maureen Connelly
arts@barnstablepatriot.com
WHEN IRISH GUYS ARE SMILIING - Sure, they'll steal
your heart away. St. Patrick's Day Parade organizer
Dave Hickey of Dublin and Hyannis, right, confers
with ir.nny McGilvray of Yarmouth, a retired Waltham
police officer.
On March 17, 1906, when 40 percent
of Boston's population was of Irish
descent, newly-elected Mayor John
F. Fitzgerald led, on horseback , his
city'sfifth St. Patrick'sDay parade. On
March 12, 2006, when nearly the same
percentage of Southeastern Massachu-
setts residents is of Irish descent , Cape
Cod hosted its first St. Patrick's Day
parade, not in Hyannis where Honey
Fitz's grandson voted for himself for
president in 1960, but two towns away,
in Dennis.
Dublin native and now Hyannis
resident Dave Hickey was the parade's
official"Mayor." "That's because I was
one of many who helped raised money
to make the parade a reality," he said,
notingthat Terry Clen was the parade's
organizer.
Hickey,whofirst came
to the Cape to work the
summer of 1978, soon
returned to Dublin to
complete his degree:
"Then a friend came
over, this was in 1984
when jobs were scarce,
and said, 'Come back to
the Cape,' and I did."
An acoustic guitar-
ist "with one foot in
Boston" (his new CD is
appropriately called At-
lantic Avenue ) , Hickey
loves the Cape and likes
the changes. He finds it
more cosmopolitan,less
backwater,than it wasin
the 80s."
As for the Irish mu-
sic scene, Hickey said,
"Its epicenter is the
Yarmouth and Dennis
area with places like
The Irish Village, The
Olde Inn and, most
recently, The Sons of
Erin." This afternoon,
Hickey will perform at
The Lost Dog on Route
134 in Dennis.
In Hyannis, thanks to Tony Raine of
Cape Cod Melody Tent,Irishperformers
like The Saw Dogs often appear. And,
added Hickey, at The British Beer Co.,
HairyGnongoften hasIrishperformers.
Tonight, he,s booked The Colum Cille
Pipe and Drum Band. The parade, by
the bye, may be in Hyannis in '08, said
Hickey.
And speaking of bagpipes, parade
viewersnoticed that the Highland Light
Scottish Pipe Band had severalwomen
musicians,including bass drummerSu-
zanneMacKenzie of Chatham,bagpiper
Anne McManus of Sandwich and tenor
drummer Susan Smith of Centerville.
The 23 band members rehearse weekly
at the Barnstable Middle School.
But St. Patricks Day on Cape Cod
isn't just music. Writer (his Irish-
American memoir is The O'Connell
Boy: Educating the 'Wolf Child' ) and
professor ihe teaches at Cape Cod Com-
munity College) TomO'Connell plansto
have his favorite Irish breakfast at the
Keltic Kitchen on Route 28inYarmouth.
Maybe he'll visit the John F.Kennedy
Hyannis Museum on Main Street when
it opens at 10 a.m. and later lunch at
The Barnstable Tavern where, said
reservation agent Molly Fox. " there'll
be traditional Irish music like the tin
whistle and a menu including corned
beef and cabbage and lamb stew."
Even the Barnes & Noble story hour
on the 17th at 7 p.m. is Irish. Colleens
and boyos may enjoy "Jamie O'Rourke
and the Big Potato" at the Hyannis
store. And after that , their mums and
dads may celebrate at The Cape Cod-
der farther up Route 132,where County
Kerry's Tommy O'Callaghan will, to be
sure, sing "Danny Boy" and where, to
be sure, "the traditional Irish buffet"
willinclude you-know-what followed by
you-also-know -what kind of coffee!
Take a stroll through Our Town
Harwich Junior
Theatre impresses
in classic show
By John Watters
arts@barnstablepatnot com
To patrons of 20th century
American theater the fictional
New Hampshire town of Grover's
Corners is a familiar locale. It is,
of course, the setting of Thornton
Wilder 's Pulitzer Prize-winning
play, Our Town , which offers a
glimpse of life and times in this
country poised on the cusp of
modernization.
Grover 's Corners in 1903 is an
idealistic hamlet . The horse still
pulls the daily milk wagon, there
are white clapboard churches on
practically every street corner, and
an ice cream soda is the drink of
choice when spending time with
your girl.
There is nothing flashy about
Our Town, nothing flashy about the
small village of Grover 's Corners
nestled in the low hill country just
over the border from Massachu-
setts. It's a quiet burg where life
goes on as it has for more than a
couple hundred years, and if it had
its way it would stay that way for
another couple of hundred
Wilder 's universally recognized
characters, 25 of them, form the
backbone of this epic play, and are
the main reason it has been done by
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