Year: 2011

That the grand opening of Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery will be held on Thursday, June 2 from 5:00 to 9:00 pm during Night on the Neck, with a performance by spoken word beat poet, Joda Khan (think bohemian, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Maya Angelou – not your grandmother’s poetry).  Some of your favorite GMG personalities are bound to be in the house (maybe even R. Duck accompanied by Paul Morrison).  Come on by, have fun, represent, get your photo up on GMG, and then at 9:00, swing over to Madfish Grill and kick up some sand with Soul Rebel Project (wharf girls, EJ and Alma McLaughlin will be leading the dance party – maybe Brenda Malloy and Wendie Demuth will join in).  Who knows, maybe we can even get Art Rocks! Paul Frontiero onto the dance floor.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

Too anyone who took the time to try to find an “Art, Rock!” please forgive me! it was all Joey’s idea! 🙂 I actually felt bad for the others who were looking for it. I Honestly don’t understand the intense interest in this “Art, rocks!” Thing. Others do.  But I enjoy doing them. Thanks goes out to my “Art Sensei” Deb Clarke for helping my simple mind think outside the box! She’s an awesome Women and ARTIST!  David “Doc” Vincent should feel lucky to have Such a woman! as his partner.  Also my “GIRL” Cathy who’s my biggest supporter and supports my “craziness” that this blog has brought me into. she has help so many families endure their parents challenges in their time of need at Seacoast Nursing home. You should feel very Lucky to have a woman like my wife Catherine looking after your Parents, Grandparents and Family. Their aren’t too many around like her! She’ll probably be mad at me for saying that here. But her and people like her never get the recognition they deserve publicly! I thank them now, because you never know what will happen in your life. I could get hit by an ice cream truck tomorrow. Which wouldn’t be too bad of a thing as long as I had an ice cold creamsicle before it happens. 🙂

Soul Rebel Project Rocked Rocky Neck Last Night during the Official kick off to Summer.

Looked like everyone was having a great time.

http://soulrebelproject.com/

Also follow them on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/soulrebelprojec

Posted from my back steps with my iPhone in my PJ’s. I love Sundays!

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”
Mary Jean (Lily) Tomlin (1939-     )

click picture to view Lily Tomlin wikipedia page

Detroit born comedian and actress Tomlin got her first big break in 1969 as a member of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In where she developed long-running characters such as Ernestine, the telephone operator, and Edith Ann, the wise and plain spoken five-year-old. She went on to create memorable roles in movies including “All of Me”, “Nine to Five” and “Short Cuts.” She was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Altman’s “Nashville”, and has received numerous awards including four Emmys, a Tony, and a Grammy for her Broadway and recorded work including the one-woman show "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe".

Greg Bover

photo from Susan Lucas

Wednesday, June 8th 7:30 to 9:00 pm.

Presenter: Jim McAllister, Local Historian and Art Collector

From the sandy beaches of Lynn and Swampscott to the rugged fishing communities of Cape Ann to the marshes of Ipswich, Boston ’s North Shore has long been a magnet for artists from America and Europe .

Winslow Homer, the Impressionist Childe Hassam, and Maurice Prendergast are just a few of the famous painters who were drawn to the area and left behind their visual impressions of its natural beauty and residents.

Join Jim McAllister as he traces the development of the lively North Shore art scene between 1870 and 1930. McAllister will profile some of the area’s home grown painters, including Frank Weston Benson, Arthur Wesley Dow, and Charles Woodbury. He will also look at specific North Shore locales, especially the Lynn Beach area, Ipswich, and East Gloucester , where artists gathered to paint. 

McAllister’s talk will be heavily illustrated with images of works depicting North Shore scenes by both resident and visiting artists. These works will range from urban views of Gloucester by John Sloan, Edward Hopper, and Stuart Davis, to woodblock prints of the Ipswich River by Arthur Wesley Dow; to the charming naive paintings by Marblehead ’s J.O.J. Frost.

Waterline Center

66 Main Street, Essex Essex Shipbuilding Museum

Admission $8 members, $10 nonmembers For more information call (978) 768-7541

www.essexshipbuildingmuseum.org

“Art, Rocks!” 12pm Post? What?

Was I supposed to post something at 12pm Today?

The Next Art rock ain’t gonna happen til’ Sunday Morning!

It’s a special edition ROCK!

Joey’s a pain in my A$$! 🙂

The Cape Ann Military Family Support Group meets on

the first Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at the

Major Fred W. Rito Veterans Center, 12 Emerson Avenue , Gloucester . They provide support to Cape Ann families and friends who have family and friends serving in the military.

On Thursday, July 7 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., members of the Cape Ann Family Support Group will be in the Café at Addison Gilbert Hospital, please stop by and visit their

informational table.

During the month of June, items will be collected for our military serving in Iraq and Afghanistan . Items that are needed include:

Energy bars,Hard candy,Gum, Granola Bars, Pretzels, Pringles, Cookies, Canned nuts

Powdered Drink Mixes, such as Gatorade, Lemonade,, Kool-Aid, Ice-Tea mix, etc.

Micro-wave popcorn,Beef Jerky

Items may be left at the main entrance of the Addison Gilbert Hospital during the month of June. These items will be provided to The Cape Ann Military Family Support Group who will be making up care packages to our local soldiers serving.

Thank you for your consideration to help!

Tina Ketchopulos

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Best Cook: Downriver Picnics

When Laurie Lufkin was little, her folks would buy subs from the local deli, the family would all pile into a boat with drinks, a big pot, and a bag of steamers, and they’d head downriver to the vast white dunes of Crane Beach. Her father owned the marina here, and her grandparents lived across the Essex River. "We’d boil up the clams and eat them right there on the beach," she says.Now Laurie goes down to the beach with friends in her own little skiff, puttering along the river, past the marshlands and Hog Island, out almost to the open ocean. "I’m so lucky to live so close to one of the most gorgeous places on the planet," she says.

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Congrats Laurie!