Day: May 12, 2010

Let’s have our GMG people pack the joi nt! It pays to read these pages! Be among the first to witness a concert here free!

Rockport Music Offers Three Free “Sneak Preview” Concerts on May 22

On Saturday, May 22 (Rockport’s Motif #1 Day) Rockport Music offers three, FREE one-hour concerts in the Shalin Liu Performance Center, as renowned acoustician R. Lawrence Kirkegaard tests the acoustics, a process known as “tuning the hall” that lets the design team listen to and adjust the concert hall acoustics while musicians are performing.

Here’s the information:

TUNING THE HALL
THREE FREE COMMUNITY CONCERTS

SATURDAY, MAY 22
SHALIN LIU PERFORMANCE CENTER
37 Main Street, Rockport, MA

Saturday, May 22, 2010
1 pm: Jupiter String Quartet with pianist and Rockport Music Artistic Director David Deveau – SOLD OUT
3 pm: Triton Brass. LIMITED
6 pm: Celtic fiddler Hanneke Cassel (Not available until 9a on Monday, May 17. Online ordering only.)

RESERVING YOUR SEATS: Reservations, free-of-charge, may be made on Rockport Music’s web site www.rockportmusic.org. Limit of two tickets per household for the entire day.

SEATING: General admission seating only. Entry into the Shalin Liu Performance Center and seat selection are on a first-come, first-served basis. Attendees music arrive 15 minutes prior to concert start time.

From: Robert Elwell

Dear Joey

Thought you might have a little fun with this one.

Caught a glimpse of this ratrher large cruise ship passing by Brace Rock around 6:30PM on Sunday evening 5/9/2010.

Someone should be able to figure it out.

OK, I’m going to post this because I love the idea of carpooling and helping people save energy/money/space on the highways.

I however take no responsibility for the author as I have absolutely no clue who he is.

So if this sounds like something that would work for you have at it-

Pete Writes-

Hello,
Not sure if this has been attempted before but I’m looking for a ride share from gloucester to the woburn area. I drive this everyday M-F for the 9-5 and wanted to see if you could post this in the hopes of connecting like minded people that might be in the same situation.
Hoping this is blog worthy 🙂

Pete

A kind reader who takes issue with some of the crude postings would like me to post this clarification of her position which I will gladly do because of her thoughtful response.

We aren’t always going to agree what is appropriate or not but I appreciate her pointing out the positive as well.

She writes-
Dear Joey,
Saw the copy of my EMail this a.m., so please add this to it.
Of course I realize it is your blog to do with as you wish…and you have done some spectacular things for sure. And you should know I am just as good with salty and a good laugh as anyone. It’s just that it seems that all of Sharon’s great pix and David’s pix and your coverage of whazzup and your pix of your trips and your family and early morning Gloucester all get dimished when you have …not just salty but… downright crude stuff. I know Gloucester, I know her very well and I love her, all of her. But I don’t think there are many women who would like to have the caption under their laughing and having a good time pic with the word “ho” in it. Not if they told you the truth. And I don’t think a guy should do that anyway…why disrespect women to get a laugh..why can’t you say “the gals” having a good time whatever? Everyone would still love seeing such a picture of people being happy. If your beautiful wife was at a party, would you want someone to call a pic of her with her friends “the ho’s” …or in 15 years, your daughters?. I bet not. So, I’m not holier than thou as you might think from my first note…I just don’t get why you take the great stuff you have accomplished and your great photography and your great family and drag it down with guys sitting on toilets on docks with skivvies around their ankles…In any case, you won’t hear from me again and I’ll still go to GMG for all the good stuff, of which there is plenty, and I thank you for a wonderful Gloucester site.
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While I think there is a disconnect where the nice woman thinks that I truly mean that women are ho’s and bitches instead of it being a joke or a term of endearment.

My wife routinely says to her girlfriends “what’s up bitches?”

It’s just a joke.

As for the toilet humor which sometimes Paulie Frontiero posts, I stand behind him as a great contributor to the blog.

Sometimes I need to reel him in but he loves the blog as much as anyone and his contributions are invaluable just like Sharon’s and Quirky Paul M, Alicia, Laurie, David Cox, Donna Ardizzoni, Joanne Silva, Thom Falzorano, Donna Ardizzoni, Mike Lindbergand the great Manny Simoes.

I appreciate our readers and won’t do a disservice to them by serving up a watered down vanilla blog full of dull service announcements. And while we never bash politicians or local businesses we also don’t promote stuff we don’t believe in. So it is what it is folks. We ain’t changing.

I’m not a saint and I’m not pretending to be one. But I hope you know that what you see is me, is us and we consider all our readers and contributors great friends.

-Your Pal Joey

Annisquam Village Players audition for ANNIE

WHEN : Sunday May 30th starting at 6pm. (Callbacks on Monday May 31st.)

WHERE : Annisquam Village Hall on Leonard Street, Annisquam

WHAT TIME : Children to audition at 6pm; adults to audition at 7:30pm

AUDITION SONGS: Children (boys and girls) should prepare
“Tomorrow” and “It’s a Hard Knock Life.”
Adults (both men and women) should prepare “NYC” and “Easy Street.”

Cast to be announced during the week following auditions. Cast to gather for a read-thru
on Wednesday June 23; rehearsals to begin on June 28. Show opens on August 10 and
runs through August 15.
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The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow… In Annisquam.

You can bet your bottom dollar that this summer there’ll be fun. ANNIE is set in the
era of the Great Depression, which bears unfortunate but timely similarities to present
day events. But the show is far from depressing — it offers upbeat music and a fast-paced, humorous script with many zany characters.

There are numerous opportunities for children. There’s Annie and the girls from the orphanage,
the rapscallion boys of the hobo village, the “NYC” chorus including both boys and girls, and even as Sandy, the dog.

ANNIE has some of the best adult roles of the Broadway stage, starting with Miss Hannigan,
the mistress of the orphanage who everybody loves to hate, and whose song “Little Girls” is a
guaranteed scene-stealer. Miss Hannigan, her brother Rooster and his girlfriend Lily St. Regis,
soft-shoe to one of the best songs of the musical stage, “Easy Street.” And of course there is
bald Daddy Warbucks and his beautiful confident Grace Farrell. Politicians abound, starting
with FDR and members of his Cabinet. At the other end of the spectrum is the hobo village, replete with both savory and unsavory characters; there are the lovely Boylan Sisters, who croon a tune in long, slinky gowns, and the starlet who sings her way to fame in “NYC.”

Information : Contact Terry Sands at 978-283-7065 or sands_a@jud.state.ma.us