Month: November 2010

Light and Demolishing

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Down the dock we have a saying.  Well I should give props to mark Ring for being the first one I ever heard coin the phrase but it has been  adopted by many of our lobstermen.

The phrase is used when the weathermen really fuck up a forecast and call for light and diminishing winds but in actuality the wind is heavy throughout the fishing day making for horrible fishing conditions.

Lobstermen and fishermen depend on weathermen to know when it is safe or manageable to go fishing. The day before yesterday was one of those days when the weathermen were calling for light and diminishing winds.  The average forecast was for 5-10mph of wind.

In actuality the wind screamed out of the Northwest 20-35mph all day and it was bitterly cold.

One by one our lobstermen hit the dock and commented about the off-the-mark wind forecast.

It wasn’t light and diminishing.  More like Light and Demolishing.

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Christmas Cookie Madness At Sista Felicia’s 2010

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Things got a little punchy after 10 hours of baking.

Keep in mind they still had 3 hours of baking to go at this point.

Deb Clarke Gets Her Winter Art Show Ready!

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Gloucester Artist and Regular Contributor to GMG, Deb Clarke will be having an Exhibit and Sale of her Works at The Random Arts Gallery in Magnolia during the month of December. Here are a few Photos of the set up. More Photos and Information coming soon!

$25 drawings. will remove these from the wall and sell them from clipboards. signed, no frame, no mat.

This is what I accomplished yesterday at Randomarts in Magnolia.  Today I will re-hang and adjust the lights.  the wall space gets smaller and smaller everytime I look at my work.  the backwall has my ‘new’ work:  the drawings from this past year.  need to get some putty to keep some of the work from ‘moving’ on the wall.  small detail of my favorite work follows.
4 mixed media ‘drawings’ with oil and leaf on 5×5″ panels.  definitely need sticky putty to keep these from wobbling.  selling all work unframed.  folk can spend as much money or not on frames.  and get the art at a very affordable price.  these panels will be under a hundred.  still working out prices.
best to all,
deb.
For more Information Go to: http://debbieclarke.blogspot.com/

2010 Gloucester Lobster Trap Tree Built In A Day

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Decorating of buoys for the tree will take place at Art Haven on Dec. 10th and 11th from 10am-4pm with the official lighting at 5:00 pm on the 11th. Feel free to call for more information.    978 283 3888

AWARD-WINNING OVERBOARD SINGERS IN GLOUCESTER HOLIDAY CONCERT DECEMBER 5

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The award-winning Boston-based a cappella men’s singing group Overboard will be performing in Gloucester again  – this time a holiday concert with special guests on Sunday, Dec. 5, at 2 p.m., at the Meetinghouse in the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church on Middle Street.

            Overboard was last on Cape Ann in July, when the six-member group, directed by Nick Girard, staged a five-part concert series at the Unitarian Universalist Church and built a local following.

            “We are thrilled by the reception we got in Gloucester , and the wonderful acoustics in the UU church make our performances there even more exciting,” Girard said .

            Formed in 2006 as a street performance group, Overboard quickly built its reputation in concert venues throughout New England and in five recorded albums. The group’s most recent album, Help!, was issued earlier this year with reinterpretations of over 40 Beatles songs and sounds and 23 original arrangements.

            Help! has been nominated for two Contemporary A Cappella Award honors and for eight other A Cappella Community Awards.

            Overboard’s holiday album Tidings was nominated for Best Album in last year’s Contemporary A Cappella Awards holiday album competition, and “We Three Kings,” a dance remix track on that album won top honors for Best Holiday Song.  

            Renowned among musicians and audiences for its acoustics, the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church, built in 1805, is recognized by the National Register of Historic Places and an iconic landmark on the city’s skyline. The church is at of Middle and Church Streets, one block off Gloucester ’s Main Street/West End shopping district.

            Tickets for Overboard’s Dec. 5 Gloucester concert are $10 ($5 for students or seniors) and are available at the door.

Gloucester Twitter Folk You Should be Following- GDT Sports

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The Gloucester Daily Times Twitter Feed is providing live scoring updates of area High School sports scores better than anyone in media.  You ought to follow them here-

http://twitter.com/gdtsports

Rocky Neck Goes Downtown

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Rocky Neck Goes Downtown

Meet the Artists Reception: Saturday, Dec 4, 5 to 8pm

Rocky Neck comes to downtown Gloucester for its sixth annual winter exhibit and sale from November 26 through December 23, 2010 at 130 Main Street in Gloucester. The public is invited to a Meet the Artists reception on Saturday, December 4, from 5 to 8 pm, featuring tastings from your favorite local restaurants including Passports, the Topside Grill and Espresso Italian Grille.

The special focus of this exhibit is great art on a small scale to give or enjoy. The show will feature painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, ceramics, and jewelry by members of the Rocky Neck Art Colony.

Hours: Mon. thru Wed., 10 – 5pm, Thurs. to 8pm, Fri. & Sat., 10 – 5pm, and Sunday, 12 – 5pm.

Artists Ruth Mordecai and Yhanna Coffin on Gallery watch on Opening day

Artist Ruth Mordecai on Gallery watch opening day

To check out more of Ruth’s and Yana’s Work click the links below

 http://www.ruthmordecai.com

http://yhanna.com

Wintery WhereZat! Winner gets a t-shirt!

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This photo was taken several years ago, but I know that someone with sharp eyes who passes by this spot each day will be able to identify this location. It’s right on a main road. Good luck and thanks for playing!     —-Sharon

Paul Morrison’s Warm Up Omelet At Passports

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Paul sensing he was in for a long day of work helping erect the Lobster Trap Tree went all in on this omelet at Passports.

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I maintain that Passports has the best homefries in Gloucester. 

Some of my other favorite Gloucester breakfast’s

Crab Cakes Bene at Sugar Mag’s- my #1 Gloucester Breakfast

Best Homefries- Passports

Breakfast Boats- Georges Coffee Shop or Anadama French Toast

Sclafani’s Pizza at 9:00AM

Apple Cider Donuts –Willow Rest

Pleasant St Tea and Coffee Co Egg/Goat Cheese/Pest Croissant

Lone Gull Café Americano with a toasted sesame bagel

Cape Ann Coffee Egg/sausage croissant

Last Stop Variety Blueberry Muffins

Charlie’s Place Fried Dough

Baking Cookies An All Day (and night) Family Affair At Sista Felicia’s

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

They started at 9:00AM, got into the booze at 1:30PM and finished up at 10:30PM.

Over 50lbs of flour over 15 lbs of sugar.  Table upon table filled with holiday cookies of various shapes, sizes and flavors.  True teamwork in the insane cooking marathon that is Sista Felicia’s Christmas Cookie Baking Day. Video tonight!

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The 2010 Gloucester Lobster Trap Tree Is Up- David Brooks Has Some Words of Thanks

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A special thank you to all involved with the 2010 Lobster Trap Christmas Tree. The tree isn’t as big as last year but It certainly is a beauty. Standing around 30 ft. topped off with a lobster trap star. Its a sight to behold. If you haven’t seen it yet make sure you do. Location: Gloucester Police Station Plaza 197 Main St. Decorating of buoys for the tree will take place at Art Haven on Dec. 10th and 11th from 10am-4pm with the official lighting at 5:00 pm on the 11th. Feel free to call for more information.    978 283 3888

Traps came from the following fisherman:

Scott Horne, John Symonds, Jay Gustaferro, Kevin O’Malley

Special Thanks to Volunteer Builders:

Ed Collard, Paul Morrison, David Brooks, Russell Hobbs, Daniel Brooks, Donna Ardizzoni, Rick Moore, Alex Bigger-Allen, Shane O’Neill, Theon O’Neill, Vicotor Quesada, Iris Quesada

Also Thanks to media from:

Joey Ciaramitaro  (Good Morning Gloucester),Desi Smith  (Gloucester Daily Times), Masao Okano and Yuichi Watanabe (Cape Ann TV)

more video coming later

Bob Ritchie Identifies Curious Fish as Shortspine Boarfish

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Joey,  I believe the Mystery Fish is a Shortspine Boarfish  (Antigonia combatia);  "body shape varies from ovate to roughly diamond-shaped.   Head and body reddish pink above, becoming silvery below.  9 spines in  first dorsal fin, 26-30 soft rays in 2nd dorsal fin;  23-28 soft rays in anal fin.  Size: up to 5 in.  Range:   NJ and south to Brazil, at  depth 400-2000 ft., generally on or near bottom on the deeper continental shelf and the upper slope, especially near ledges and rocky outcroppings."    Source: C. Richard Robins, A Field Guide to Atlantic Coast Fishes of North America, Houghton Mifflin 1986.   Available at Dogtown Book Shop (books, used and unusual)  $8.00
Bob
Bob Ritchie
Dogtown Book Shop

Bob’s email was in reference to this curious fish that Tony Gross brought up in his trap last week.

Click the picture to view larger-

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Tony brought it down the dock for me to photograph and all our lobstermen passed it around the office (there was probably 500 years of lobstering experience in the office at the time) and not one of our lobstermen had caught one in their traps before.  Tony caught this one just off of Lanesville. Rare indeed.

Available today at Dogtown Book shop

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What’s A Lobster Dealer Eat For Thanksgiving?

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Why Lobster of course. 

The folks that read the blog know that we spent Thanksgiving in NYC. 

After the Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade and watching the Pats we went out to a great restaurant in Chelsea – COOKSHOP. 

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Now I don’t know about you but if you are going to give me an option to eat lobster over turkey I’ll take lobster 100 times out of 100.  COOKSHOP offered a multi-course prix fixe menu.

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Here is my first course, the roasted lobster salad.  Avocado, cilantro,red onion, lobster and roasted chili sauce.  It was RE-DIC-U-LOUS!

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The main course was Beef Short Ribs.  Man o man.  It was great.  Loved eating out and being able to enjoy each other’s company instead of the mass hysteria that can be associated with huge Holiday meals.  I vote that we eat out every thanksgiving!

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Jaime’s Pumpkin Soup

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The 2010 Gloucester Lobster Trap Tree Takes Shape Pics From Donna Ardizzoni

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Rick Moore and Russell Hobbs In the Heart Of The Monster

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Russell Hobbs, Paul Morrison and Rick Moore In The Belly Of The Beast

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