Month: August 2010
Chickity Check It!- Ysolt Usigan’s Gloucester article has hit the Huffington Post
Ysolt Usigan’s Gloucester article has hit the Huffington Post:
I’ve always wanted an Eat Pray Love adventure of my own. Author Elizabeth Gilbert once told Oprah that your journey can happen right in your own backyard — you don’t have to go far. Although there’s much to be desired about traveling to Italy, India and Indonesia for a year — that’s a dream come true really — let’s get real here… Some of us have jobs, obligations and financial constraints.
But the reality is, I’ve been in a funk and desperately needed a change of scenery. I didn’t care where I went, I just wanted to go somewhere and all I had was a long weekend. So for my personal journey, I traveled to an unlikely place: Gloucester, MA, a quaint fishing town on Cape Ann in Essex Count, MA where films like The Perfect Storm, Mermaids and Grown Ups were once shot. I’ve never been there. I had no expectations. It was the perfect place to regroup, revive and rediscover (myself). Although I didn’t pray (that’s never been my style), I ate, I loved and I found my spirit in four days.
Click the picture below for the entire story on the hugely popular Huffington Post
Arian Doud from Matter Communications the PR firm that was hired by The Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce reached out to Ysolt and invited her to visit Gloucester. Then, Tracey at the Bass Rocks hosted Ysolt and her traveling companion for the weekend and Matter provided Ysolt with a pre-set itinerary that included all the local businesses that wound up in her article. It’s a good example of why Matter was hired and the positive attention they’ve brought the city through it’s PR marketing.
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Summer Music Series at The Studio on Rocky Neck continues this Sunday with Garfish.
Gloucester, MA: Victory Agents and The Studio on Rocky Neck are pleased announce Garfish will be appearing this Sunday at the 2010 Deck Party & Concert Series! These concerts will be donating a portion of the proceeds to the Gloucester Band Boosters. Garfish will be performing classic rock-n-roll music from1960’s, 70’sand 80’s with some contemporary songs that will get the crowd to its feet.
The Studio on Rocky Neck boasts one of the largest outdoor decks in the Cape Ann area (right on the water); inside there is a large dance floor and a full bar, with water views. The Studio Restaurant is a Rocky Neck landmark, once the home of the Hugh Breckenridge Art School that was so important to American painting. Dockage is provided for visiting boaters. All summer series concerts will feature live music from some of the best bands in the area and all shows will have doors open at 5:30pm, show runs from 7 to 9pm. Free parking.
The Gloucester Band Boosters are a group that supports instrumental and string music in Gloucester Public Schools. An organization of parents, businesses and community members that provides funding for much of the expenses associated with the Gloucester Elementary School band, String ensemble, as well as the O’Maley Middle School Concert, Marching and Jazz bands.
The Boosters frequently provide music for civic celebrations and events such as Pride Stride. They are still providing this and many other important community services with our young musicians. Victory Agents, The Studio, and the artists participating in the summer series, are pleased to donate a portion of the proceeds from our shows, to music programs and education in the Gloucester schools.
You can catch Garfish Sunday, August 15 at The Studio on Rocky Neck. Tickets are $10 at the door. 51 Rocky Neck Ave, Gloucester, 978.283.4123
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Pleasant Street Tea Co Momma-Friendly
Kudos to the Pleasant Street Tea Co for not only serving up one of the nicest Chocolate Mint Smoothies and yummy little macaroons, but for canceling plans and staying open late for our Crunchy North Shore Parents mommies night out meet-up so we could all hang out and enjoy! Nice!
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Great Pics From Our Fishing Trip Yesterday
Greg Varsey Writes-
Hi Joey,
It’s Greg Vasey from Five Guys, we met when you came to our opening last
Fall. I took my managers out for a charter fishing trip yesterday morning
(just a little thank-you for their hard work) and I got some great shots of
Gloucester Harbor. I figured I’d send these three along.
Thanks Greg
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Deb Clarkes “BIZAAR DAZE”
From Debbie Clarke;
Here’s Kerry McNally and her Mom in front of my work at the Bazaar. We were so busy I was lucky to get any pics at all. I thought the folk on goodmorning gloucester would enjoy seeing pics from a ‘sales person’s point of view’. There were so many peeps and every now and then, I got to see some of my friends (Loretta and Adara, my friends from Gloucester’s Unitarian Universalist Church).
I would like to thank the readers of gmg that came down to the bazaar to see my artwork, and search for Paul’s ‘rock art’. I know of one other family ‘team’ that printed out directions to locate your rocks. Many folk thought they were supposed to find the rock, have a picture taken to document the event, then move onto the next clue. This might be a future development of your ‘rock art’ project Paul.
also: I sold three paintings at the Bazaar! (thank you to Richard and Sabine for allowing me to use some of their bazaar ‘real estate’). This was the most financially succesful bazaar for me, as I have been putting my work on Bananas’ sidewalk for several years. Thanks to word of mouth and the shout out by goodmorninggloucester, lots of folk came to see bananas and my work! I generated sales inquiries, networked like crazy, sold a lot of vintage, and had a lot of fun! Thank you to the folk that volunteered on behalf of the Chamber to organize the event.
Deb
http://debbieclarke.blogspot.com/
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Chickity Check It! North Shore Rocks
We went out for dinner last night- the man is hilarious-
Check out his piece on 5 lobster rolls in 5 days here-
5 Lobster Rolls in 5 Days!
Love it!
From the about page-
About
North Shore Rocks is essentially a photo blog by an ex-pro blogger that documents how great life is on the North Shore of Massachusetts. It’s a view from my camera phone. I still am a New Yorker at heart and by sports teams, but I simply love the North Shore.
What you get with North Shore Rocks!
– Banter on North Shore PiZZa (lack there of)
– My 2 beautiful children
– A few MUST DO things on the North Shore
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A Great Interview With Lindsay Crouse Coming Tonight At 6PM
Yesterday morning I had the pleasure of talking with and interviewing Lindsay Crouse at Sailor Stan’s.
Lindsay, if you didn’t know has acting credits on Internet Movie Database going all the way back to the 70’s, was nominated for an Academy Award and starred in a film which is one of my favorite films of all times- House of Games with Joe Mantegna.
This interview was one of my favorites out of over 1000 that I’ve done and right up there with The Bobby Bobskill Chronicles (must see for any GMG Fan).
Now if you’ve been following along for the past couple of years you know I have a certain interviewing style in which I like to put my subject at ease and the editing I do usually consists of putting titles, credits and a few key transitions (fades in and out). What I like most about my interviewing style is that I’m not afraid to mess up and point out my glaring mistakes mid-interview. While I could easily edit the mistakes out, the honesty of leaving them in and letting my subject know that I’m consciously going to leave them in lets them know that I’m not trying to take what we do here too seriously and the point is for us to have fun and get the message across. To that end I think we succeed.
The interview with Lindsay is a classic example of this style and an example of the contrast of how some people who run TV studios will fuss over lighting for 45 minutes and try to control every single element of the interview and end up actually detracting from a great interview. When the subject is so nervous about making everything so technically perfect the message doesn’t resonate nearly as well as our gonzo style of letting it roll -mistakes be damned.
You can take your $10,000 cameras, you can spend 45 minutes on lighting and makeup, you can have a team of editors and dress it up with some crazy post production effects- Give me my $250 Sony HD camera with a tripod and let me roll- it’s gonna be gold baby!
It didn’t hurt that Lindsay is about the least pretentious warm hearted people that you’d ever want to meet.
Our interview yesterday was one of my favorites despite flying coffee creamer cups, diesel trucks passing by and drunken interruptions.
Below is a clip from House of Games, rent it if you can-
and don’t forget to come back tonight at 6
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Annisquam Players “Annie” Slide Show- Pics From David Cox
click the picture below to see the slide show
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Local Ad Company Makes National Music Video For Guster
My childhood buddy Jonathan Cahill- AKA Abby Joy Cahill’s older brother writes-
Hey Joey,
Some breaking news for you:
Universal Republic Records has chosen Chad Carlberg, owner of Bait & Tackle Ad Company in Gloucester, MA, and director with Production Blue, to create the new music video for Guster’s new single “Do You Love Me?” Chad Carlberg and Gloucester-based visual artist Jon Sarkin have begun collaboration on the project. Chad and Jon have been friends and have worked on a number of projects together for ten years. Chad and Guster drummer Brian Rosenworcel have been longtime friends as well.
Two months ago, Brian was talking to Chad about needing artwork for a new album (in two weeks!) and still had no artist. Chad suggested Jon Sarkin. Sarkin has work in the private collections of Meryl Streep, Robert DeNiro and Diane Von Furstenberg. He has shown at Diane von Furstenberg, The DeCordova and others (see www.jsarkin.com for more), has been featured in three BBC documnetary films, an ABC Medical Mysteries, articles in GQ, Vanity Fair, Readers Digest, etc. Brian loved the idea, and a few days later the band was on-board and Sarkin was off and running on the album cover and all art for album.
Shortly thereafter, Brian asked Chad to direct one of the 12 songs off the new album for a web video. Chad chose the single “Do You Love Me?” But Brian called back later and recommended picking another song because the single was getting a real budget and would be done only by a director with Universal’s approval. But Chad was up to the challenge and said, “Let me try.” He wrote five treatments, and created a video page for his pitch of demo work. Even though he had Brian in his corner, Brian had no influence over Universal, who held the purse strings.
As it turned out, Universal and the band members loved the idea that Chad pitched using Sarkin as part of the video. This pitch video was based on a test Chad previously made with Sarkin and noted musician, Sten Bowen who also co-directed with Chad on this project.
Under Chad Carlberg’s direction, this is the first major Production Blue project, (Bait & Tackle Ad Company’s new, high-end production partner). Chad is assisted by Emile Doucette, Bait & Tackle’s Technical Director and Tom Papows, Camera Operator.
See video here about the idea for the music video and the Carlberg/Sarkin/Guster relationship:
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Rocky Neck Scene On a Hazy August Morning
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Derelict Fishing Boat Video
From Stern To Stem We Look At An Abandoned Dragger
A Sad State Of Affairs For Sure
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What Up Homie?
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On the Boulevard
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Gloucester Artist Interview With Paul Ciaramitaro Part III From Dave Sullivan
Dave’s site Is
GloucesterArtists.com
Dave writes-
Paul Ciaramitaro has been a roofer, a mover, a fisherman, and – at the same time – an artist.
Dave will be producing more videos for GMG in the coming weeks.
Thanks for watching
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Gloucester Triathlon Bike set 3 from Thom Falzarano
More to come tomorrow at 3pm!
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Kathy Gentile Roberts Art Exhibit At Local Colors
Kathy Writes-
Hi Joey ! Enjoy reading your emails daily. I know you must be very busy this weekend with all the events. I just wanted to drop you a note about an art exhibit.
The art exhibit is located at LOCAL COLORS, 121 Main St. in the window alcove. They are the paintings of Kathy Gentile Roberts, a local, watercolor artist for 20 years and a new member of the artist cooperative since November. Kathy enjoys painting local marine scenes and still life. She also uses recycled antique windows to do reverse glass paintings of sea life. Come on in to the store to view her whole gallery of paintings and original cards.
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31st Annual Rockport Acoustic Music Festival This Sunday!
Alek Razdan and The A-Train Orchestra are playing for FREE on Sunday … with some fantastic other performers all day…
Here is the Lineup of Performers for the Rockport Acoustic Music Festival
Click on Performers at www.RockportFestival.com
12:00- Two Johns and a Matt
12:30- Brian O’Connor
1:00- Bandit Kings
1:30- The Dejas
2:00- Brad Byrd
2:30- What Time is it Mr. Fox?
3:00- Alek Razdan and The A-Train Orchestra
3:30- Baze Band (Christine, Greg Dann and friends)
4:00- Bob Kramer Band
4:30- Bingo Fridays
5:00- Jam till we’re done with Sonny Fishcakes Music Review
Throughout the day’s setups, experience Diabolis Musica.
Food sales to support Rockport’s own extravaganza – New Years Rockport Eve – Save room for: hamburgers, hot dogs, veggie burgers, chips, strawberry shortcakes, desserts, Nisu (Finnish Coffee Bread), popcorn, lemon ice, and beverages.
HERE IS AN OVERVIEW TO USE:
Please join us for the 31st Annual Rockport Acoustic Music Festival
See new info and video at www.rockportfestival.com
Sunday, August 15, 2010
In Millbrook Meadow – Across From Front Beach in Rockport, Mass
Noon to 6:00 PM
All Are Welcome for Free
See you there…. for:
BLUES – FOLK – JAZZ – WORLD – BLUEGRASS – JAMS
Food and Fun are always available
Spread the news… tell your friends about www.RockportFestival.com
Thanks to everyone for supporting this free community event!
David
David Cutler
http://www.RockportFestival.com
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Annisquam Villiage Players Present Annie- Captured By David Cox- Playing Now!
What : Annisquam Village Players presents the musical ANNIE
When : August 10 through August 15, 2010
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday performances at 7:30pm
Friday, Saturday & Sunday performances at 8:00pm
Where : Annisquam Village Hall
34 Leonard Street, off of Route 127 North
Annisquam, MA 01930
Ticket prices : $15 General Admission
$30 Reserved Seating, ordered only online at www.annisquamvillageplayers.org
General Admission tickets can be purchased at :
The Bookstore of Gloucester, 61 Main Street, Gloucester MA 978-281-1548
The Annisquam Exchange, 38 Leonard Street, Annisquam MA 978-281-0358
Lula’s Pantry, 79 Main Street, Rockport 978-546-0010
Sea Fair in Annisquam Village only on Saturday July 31st
and online at www.annisquamvillageplayers.org
The Annisquam Village Hall is air-conditioned and handicap accessible.
Refreshments available at intermission.
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Fireworks Fund Asks For Donations
Suzanne Silveira Writes-
The Fireworks Committee is far behind in their goal to make this year’s Labor Day weekend fireworks the great show it always has been. Thankful for donations received, they are urging those that have not contributed to do so now. All donations, big or small, will be gratefully appreciated. Contributions are tax deductible and can be sent to The Gloucester Fund, 45 Middle St., Gloucester, MA 01930. Please note Fireworks Fund on your donation.
The Cape Ann Marina under the tent will host a fundraiser for the Lighted Boat Parade on Friday, August 27th from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM. The cost for the evening is $10 and includes some great food and music. There will be a cash bar. The Lighted Boat Parade held the Saturday night of Labor Day weekend is such a fun event and provides great scenes on the harbor leading up to the fireworks. This is a community happening and needs your support. Questions for the fundraiser can be directed to 978-281-0434
Good Morning Gloucester 