Month: September 2011

"Celebrate Wearable Art!," the seARTS Fall Benefit hosted by the wearable arts group of seARTS

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Clare Higgins writes-

We don’t want anyone to miss out on "Celebrate Wearable Art!," the seARTS Fall Benefit hosted by the wearable arts group of seARTS.  See over 70 "looks" by fashion designers and artists on the runway and shop with 17 fabulous local and invited artists! Purchase art experiences from our "Art Experience Marketplace."  Enjoy a fabulous brunch from Timothy S. Hopkins Catering. We’re also proud to announce a special appearance by Mayor Carolyn Kirk, who will distribute the Viewer’s Choice Awards.You can get a sneak preview this Wednesday night September 21 at 7:30 PM, when Cape Ann TV interviews Wearable Artists about the show.

Today, Monday, September 19, is the deadline for reserving your place at "Celebrate Wearable Art!" If you mail a check Monday, please call us at 978-281-1222 and let us know so we can reserve your seat, or you can buy tickets online through Tuesday, September 20th at midnight. For online tickets, please visit our website or our blog. After September 20th, please call our office to see if any places are available and if so, they will be reserved on a first come, first serve basis.

We look forward to seeing you at what promises to be a great show!

Loren Doucette Cape Ann Artist

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Loren Doucette Cape Ann Artist

Loren Doucette is a working artist painting and residing in Gloucester, Ma with her husband Rick and son Andrew. She is currently studying painting at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Ma.

For the past ten years she has been exploring landscape, portrait and abstraction in watercolor, oil and acrylic. She has decorated homes and businesses with her custom mural work as well as T-shirt designs and logos. She recently started a face painting businnes offering services at parties and events.

You can Check out her Artwork and New Blog by clicking the links below;

http://www.artistlorendoucette.com/Cape-Ann-Paintings-and-Drawing.html

http://lorendoucette.blogspot.com/

Loren Doucette Cape Ann Artist
Centennial Ave. by Loren Doucette

 

Magnolia Peeps From Terry Weber

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Good Morning Magnolia!

click here for Terry’s slide show

As you know, Saturday was a beautiful day with plenty of sun and a cool breeze, so I took a walk around Magnolia with my camera. Everyone was outside–sunning, working on their yards, and smiling! At the start of my walk I noticed this busy bee…

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I also noticed a GMG sticker on the car of Bob and Lynn Bird, so I approached them and they gladly posed with their pooches: Willy, Asta, and Trixie. They’re representin’ in Magnolia!

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As you can see from this doll’s smile, even she was enjoying the day. More pics in the slide show….

The Bird Family

The Taormina Sisters and the Misuraca Brothers Gloucester Families Make The Coveted NY Times Wedding Section

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Click the title for the whole story at The New York Times

The Taormina Sisters and the Misuraca Brothers

THE back-to-back weddings on a rain-drenched day in Gloucester, Mass., might never have happened if Caterina Taormina’s older sister Patty Hodges did not have a big mouth.

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Jodi Hilton for The New York Times

Annie Taormina and Kyle Misuraca after their ceremony.

Patty knew that Brian Misuraca had been in love with Caterina, who goes by Katie, since high school. She shared the secret with Brian’s boss in a chance encounter at a restaurant in 2009, and when word got back to Brian, he left a decidedly mixed message on Katie’s phone.

“I hate your guts,” he said. “I can’t stop thinking about you.”

the rest of the story here

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Sawyer Free Library Art Auction

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Sawyer Free Library Art Auction

My Contribution:

“Stranded On The Annisquam”

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There’s some Great Artwork at The Sawyer Free Library that’s up for Auction all through the Month of September. You can get a great deal on some awesome paintings and drawings from some of Cape Ann’s Famous Artists.

The Silent Auction will take place throughout the month of September in the Matz Gallery. The Live Vocal Auction will be held on October 5, 2011 at 7 pm. A Preview Party at 6 pm will precede the auction.

 

http://www.FrontieroGallery.com

I Got A Bunch Of These Google Plus Invitations To Hand Out

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If any of my GMG peeps want one you can click on the symbol below and use ‘em up for free while they last-

Big Time Thanks To Tim Blakeley From Gloucester Bytes For The Webcam Install at Lat 43

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After thanking my man Ed Collard, Sista Felicia, BJ and Amanda, Mark McDonough, Jen Amero, Matty Burke, Frank and Joey Ciolino, Terry Weber, Rick Moore, Donna Ardizzoni, Paulie Walnuts,The Rabbit and Thom Falzarano as well as the entire staff at Lat 43 including super chef Zach Sears and Jen Waitkus I’d like to send a special shout out to my  computer guru- Tim Blakeley at Gloucester Bytes.

Here’s his contact info- www.gloucesterbytes.com

Tim overcame some serious technical obstacles and got our webcam up and streaming just in time for the Celebrate Gloucester Show. Here he is setting it up-

Tim Blakeley Installs Lat 43 Webcam

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I can tell you without hesitation- if you need computer work done call Tim.  His rates are reasonable and he is always looking for ways to save you money by finding the parts you may need for less money.  But most importantly, he does the job right.

Why I Am Glad I Brought My Girls to the Fishbox Derby

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Having 2 daughters has clearly changed my life in so many ways. I am outnumbered in the household and watch a lot less football. I want my girls to be confident, athletic and smart. So, I get really frustrated when I see t-shirts at major retailers targeted for girls that say “I’m too pretty to do homework, so my brother does it for me” or “Alergic to Algebra”.  This is why I am so glad I was able to catch the end of the Fishbox Derby with my oldest daughter Emma. Why you ask? Check the standings!

We got there for the final runs and caught the great final runs of all the girls, including both overall winners, Ava and Alexis Wiswall. I am always trying to instill confidence in my daughters and while I am not steering them away from princesses, I drop hints that they can do anything boys can do. These girls did exactly that and won it all! Check out the bikes they won.  We walked through the pit afterwards and had a quick conversation with Ava and Alexis’s Dad -He was so proud of his two girls and we caught him taking it all in. Emma told me that she wanted to race in the Ava’s pink car and win!

Here’s to all the Fishbox Derby participants and winners, you are a part of a great tradition. Lets not also forget all the volunteers and parents that make this such a great event.

Thanks – Patrick

2011 Coastsweep Event Last Thursday Pics From Howard Amaral

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Hello Joey, Here are several pics of Coastsweep at Plum Cove Beach, Homie was there to represent!

The Cleancity Initiative sponsored a Coastsweep Event at Plum Cove Beach Thursday. Each year volunteers clean and collect data from what they pick up, and submit it to the Ocean Conservatory in Washington D.C. The data is collected from the entire east coast and used to help define what materials are littering our waterways and beaches, and work towards environmental solutions to reduce or redefine how the materials are used. There are more Coastsweep events scheduled for this fall, please volunteer to help out.

“Help us to Keep our Homeport Clean”

Howard P Amaral and Patti Amaral

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Navigating GMG- Some Tools You May or May Not Know Are Available to You

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Some of you access the Blog directly through the webpage address- www.goodmorninggloucester.com some of you through our Facebook page, some of you get the nightly feed in an email by subscribing to Good Morning Gloucester.

I’m happy whichever way you come back to us, so long as you indeed , come back to us. I’d like to explain for the folks that follow along with us through Facebook and through the nightly email subscription about some features you may want to utilize.

Number one of all features that resides in the left hand column of the blog at www.goodmorninggloucester.com –

THE SEARCH BOX!!!!!!!!

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So if there is something that someone tried to tell you about that they saw on GMG say last week and it doesn’t happen to be on the front page any more, just type in the topic in the search box.  If we wrote about it, chances are you can find  it in the search box.

Below the search box in the right hand column when you access the blog directly at www.goodmorninggloucester.com There are options to email me, Follow our posts on facebook, follow along with recent comments and below each posts there are little buttons you can click if you care to share a post you like.  the options offered are sharing on facebook, twitter, share by emailing the post, you can print the post, share in google circles, and more.

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Below that you can check out the podcast, Learn how to get a free GMG Sticka, and listen to the official GMG Theme Song From earl and Arch

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That may be a lot for the technology challenged folks to absorb all in one day so we will revisit more GMG tools available on the blog in installment II tomorrow.

Celebrate Gloucester 2 At Lat 43 From Kim Smith and Terry Weber

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Compaq at Stage Fort Park – Free Concert

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Final concert of the summer concert series at Stage Fort Park – internationally acclaimed Compaq Big Band tonight 6:00 pm at Antonio Gentile Bandstand.  Dress warmly and have fun.

Edward Herman Jr Has Some Nice Things To say

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Edward writes-

Joe,I don’t know you well,but you’ve let me paint at your dock for years and always treated me with  respect and kindness.You appear to have wonderful and beautiful family and most of all you do a great job with this blog.I don’t read many.You work your ass off and do a lot for this great community.Enjoy the accolades;you deserve it.Thanks for the good work,Edward Herman Jr   Lanesville,by way of the Middle St fire.  p.s. your wife looks like Ingrid Bergman.

Thanks Edward but I’ll remind you like I do everyone, it is a team effort.  I have the best contributors, web and local community that all pulls in the same direction for the betterment of each other.  It makes the “work” easy when there are many hands contributing such positive energy.

Drumroll please . . . and the Winner is!

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Video of the judging of the First Annual GMG Lobster Roll Competition during Mug Up this morning.  And the overall winner was Stevie Black (partner of Gigi Mederos who was the winner of the deviled egg competition), with 2nd place going to Joanne Souza of Schooner Adventure.  More photos and info about the winner entries to follow.

E.J. Lefavour

Live Blogging the Gloucester Fish Box Derby with Donna Ardizzoni and Melissa Cox

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Results courtesy Melissa Cox-

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Greg Bover with the lever

Greg Bover with the lever

Bumble Bee

Bumble Bee

Dragon Fish Box

Dragon Fish Box Derby

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September Cape Ann Skeptics in the Pub Will be on the 20th

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Skeptics in the Pub

The September Cape Ann Skeptics in the Pub Will be on the 20th. The program will be titled Free Will–is it an Illusion? and be presented by Jim Masciarelli. It will be an interactive discussion taken from traditional arguments and quotes from brilliant minds and what new science has to say about  how we make decisions. It will take place at the Dog Bar, 65 Main Street, Gloucester. We meet at 6:00 to mingle and order food and drink. The program begins at 6:45.

Jim Masciarelli is an entrepreneur, management consultant and writer, It‘s sure to be an interesting evening.