Month: December 2013
Artist Spotlight Series – Sinikka Nogelo
Spotlight on Sinikka Nogelo
Gloucester painter Sinikka Nogelo considers herself lucky to work in a studio overlooking Joey C.’s business, Capt. Joe and Sons. “The view is just lovely. I enjoy seeing the activity on the working waterfront, knowing my friendly neighbors are doing so much for the community with Good Morning Gloucester, while supplying us with the freshest lobster, and also supporting the arts. A few years back at Joey’s, one of my favorite art installations featured larger than life, black and white photos of faces of the waterfront. “
Though Sinikka has been most well known locally for her work in community television, art has always played a major part in her life. After graduating from Tufts, she studied at Montserrat with Oliver Balf, Barbara Moody, George Gabin, Roger Martin and Ethan Berry. She also took classes at Silvermine Guild in Connecticut and at the BFA’s Museum School in Boston. As a young artist, she was a founding member of the women’s cooperative “Center and Main Gallery,” located in what is now Passports Restaurant. Sinikka returned to painting full time upon her retirement from Cape Ann TV in 2010.
A member of Rocky Neck Art Colony and the Cape Ann Artisans Studio tour, Sinikka paints contemporary pieces inspired by thoughts and feelings, sea and sky. “I just love color and composition. I get a great deal of satisfaction from the process of making art, just seeing where things will go, experimenting and building on what I’ve made.” In recent years Sinikka has also been creating wall pieces from recyclables and found objects, some of which were on display last summer at the Cape Ann Museum’s White-Ellery House in Sinikka’s installation, “Tin – Relics and Remakes.”
At the Rocky Neck Art Colony’s Holiday Art Festival Sinikka is offering miniature paintings on easels to grace spots such as desks, book shelves and counters, as well as miniature paintings to hang as ornaments. Her paintings have long been influenced by the sea and sky which she uses as subjects and as metaphors. Sinikka loves color and composition and putting that first stroke on a canvas.
You can see more of Sinikka’s work at the Rocky Neck Holiday Art & Fine Crafts Festival (Sat. & Sun. noon – 4:00pm through 12/29) and at the Magnolia Historical Society’s Art in the Schoolhouse Show (Sat. & Sun. 10:00am – 2:00pm through 12/22).
E.J. Lefavour
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Thursday Toy Drive 6AM – 6PM ~ 3 Cape Ann stops with live music ~ Come donate a toy!
Special appearances by Chelsea Berry at the MAC (2 – 3 PM), Alexandra Valenti @ Shalin Liu (3:30 – 4:30 PM) and Allen Estes at Cape Ann Savings Bank (5-6 PM). Â See full schedule below!
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Wednesday’s with Fly Amero ~ Dan King to host this Wednesday with a tribute to John Lennon. 12.11.2013
 Wednesdays Only: Prime Rib, $12.95!
Hello everyone!
Wednesday, December 11th 8-11
Special Guest Host:Â DAN KING!
Dan King hosts this Wednesday with a tribute to John Lennon,
23 years this month since his passing. Â My touring takes me
away to Orlando, then Phoenix. Â But I will be here in spirit.
Thank you, Dan-O! ~ Fly
Dinner with great music!
*Each week features a special, invited musical guest
Dave Trooper’s Kitchen…
Prime Rib Special –Â Â $12.95Â (while they last)
Prepared fresh weekly by “Troop”… always good!
Plus – Check out Fred’s rockin’ new wine menu!
Upcoming…
12/18 – Amero Family Christmas
Looking forward…
…to seeing you there!  🙂 ~ Fly
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Tis The Season For Dinner, Drinks, And Dancing!
The Gloucester Housewives extend an invitation to all! This Saturday evening for a night of Holiday Cheer at Cruisport Gloucester. … Appetizers, Dinner, Dancing and “OPEN BAR” !
Hottest tickets in town !
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How Do You Like Your Nuts? Joey likes his Big and Sweet.
How do like your Nuts?
Hmmmm! Can’t wait to try the Walnuts.
http://thatnuttyredhead.com/products/sample-pack-pecansHow
Open House every weekend till Christmas.
Back by popular request, for many who could not make it, due to other local annual events. Our continued holiday open house is for the next two weekends, Saturday & Sunday, from 12-4 pm. Hope to see you!!!!!
A hot Woman and Tasty Nuts, Merry Christmas
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Off to the Grammy Awards!
Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 4:43 PM
“Many of you will already have seen on Facebook or Twitter, but I wanted to be in touch directly with you, my friends, to share the exciting news that “Singing Our Way Through” was nominated last night for a Grammy Award for Best Children’s Album of the Year!
We made it this far with the love and support of friends, family and, in the case of the album, an incredibly generous and talented group of musicians, engineers, designers, and other creative people I’m very lucky to know.
As Jane and I walk down the red carpet next month we’ll be thinking about all of that and of all of you who helped us get there. As far as I’m concerned we’ve already won…
Love,
Moock”
http://www.moockmusic.com
http://www.singingourway.com
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Gloucester Getting City-Wide Lighting Upgrade!
Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk is pleased to announce the completion of a four-year, city- wide lighting upgrade that will produce significant energy savings estimated at l.2 million kilowatt hours annually. The upgrades include l8 individual projects in nine municipal buildings and Will result in improved safety and better lighting quality in these buildings.
Gloucester was designated a Green Community by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) in 2010. As part of that designation, DOER provided funding to help the City achieve a 2() percent reduction in municipal energy consumption over five years. The lighting projects are part of that greater five-year energy reduction plan and are projected to reduce the City’s energy consumption by seven percent.
Mayor Kirk stated, “Our community benefits from the clean energy generated by the Wind turbines. Similarly, we all benefit by reducing energy Consumption. It is better for our pocketbooks and for our planet. l am proud of the progress We are making in reducing energy costs While helping to build a sustainable future.”
As a result of Green Community grant funding and use of National Grid incentives, the cost to the City for the lighting projects was 53 percent less than it would have been and resulted in a savings of $710,000.
In addition to the lighting projects, Green Community grant funding has been used to purchase idle reduction technology as part of a pilot project for the city’s vehicle fleet. The goal is to reduce vehicle fuel consumption and emissions. The grant funding is also being used to explore the potential retrofitting of City streetlights with LED lights in order to further reduce municipal energy consumption and costs.
The Green Community projects are managed collaboratively by the Department of Public Works and the Community Development Department with support from the Clean Energy Commission. Together, these two departments and Commission are Working to develop and fund additional energy reductions projects.
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Bank Gloucester Hosts Hospice Tree of Lights
Patrick Thorpe President and CEO of Bank Gloucester hosts the Hospice Tree of Light on Dec 9th 2013, many people came to honor memory of loved ones, and support the dedicated work of Hospice .
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Pet of the Week-Big Puppy
Hi, my name is Big Puppy. I am a sweet and affectionate girl who loves to play and snuggle.
I like playing with the other pups here at the Cape Ann Animal Aid (CAAA), located at the Christopher Cutler Rich Animal Shelter in Gloucester.  I weight about 32-pounds, so I will be medium when I am all grown up.  If you would like to know more about me, see photos and learn more about the CAAA please visit: CapeAnnAnimalAid.com
I am looking forward to joining you at obedience class and for adventure outdoors.   I like all the trails and all the wonderful things they have outdoors here at the shelter. I am so excited about finding a home and a family to love me, well, I get to the point where I can’t even sleep and when I do sleep, I dream about a family spoiling me…I just want my dreams to come true. Just by looking at me you can tell I am going to be a great dog!
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Having a Bad Night?
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The Daily Traveler Chimes in On Gloucester’s Most Beautiful Lobster Trap Tree (and those other horribly misfigured Lobster trap trees from other places)
This Is a Thing? Lobster Trap Christmas Trees Are Serious Business in New England
December 7, 2013, 11:00 AM
We’re always excited to discover a Christmas tree that isn’t a “tree” at all. Like the one made of wine bottles at Seattle’s Hotel Vintage Park, the 2,130-foot tall “tree” of lights on the side of Italy’s Mount Ingino, and Lithuania’s recycled plastic bottle spruce. But for more than a decade, a new holiday tradition has been brewing in some of New England’s most charming coastal towns: lobster trap Christmas trees. And the competition to build the best of the bunch has gotten heated. We’re not about to get in the middle of a friendly fishing village rivalry, but take a look at the different ways in which five towns are putting their personal stamps on the lobster trap tree trend.
Click here for the entire story
I believe we’ve already chimed in year after year on the matter- the evidence is clear and the people have spoken.  Sane people prefer our Lobster Trap Tree decorated by sweet adoring children from the Gloucester Community with heart felt appreciation for our lobster industry and hard working fishermen to the abominations seen below.
Don’t forget to bring your children down to Art Haven to paint a buoy to adorn the tree. That’s what separates our lobster trap tree from all those horribly disfigured monstrosity lobster trap trees up in Maine that are all simply built out of generic traps and cheap pre-made ribbons imported from China and manufactured in sweat shops with unfair labor practices.
Here we go folks, the fourth year of our fair and balanced GMG Lobster Trap Tree poll-
Gloucester’s Lobster Trap Tree Decorated With Hand Painted Buoys By The Loving Appreciative Children Of Gloucester MA-
vs.
Provincetown lobster trap tree adorned with cheap imported Chinese pre-made slave labor ribbons-
Isn’t Provincetown where all the gays are? I know the gays are better than this, much more creative and artistic. Be better Provincetown, you’re not representing well here- at all.
vs.
Then you got the terribly disfigured one from Maine where it looks more like a Christmas Spike than a Christmas Tree-
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Alicia MF DeWolfe Chimes in On Sticky Fingers
Hey Joey,
Just made my maiden voyage to Sticky Fingers in Browns Mall and OMG! I grabbed one of everything (well i really wanted too) and brought it back to the restaurant for everyone to try!
Everything is homemade and there is something for everyone! They even have a nice variety of gluten free goodies!
I’m in love and I think I gained 20 lbs just walking in!
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Passports Sangria Recipe!!!
On Ladies Night we posted a Vine of Sally making the super delicious Passport’s Sangira. Readers wrote requesting the recipe and here it is, brought to you by Sally!
 A dollop of homemade raspberry puree (Passports makes their own puree)
Splash of orange juice
Glass of red wine
Fresh squeezed lemon and lime juices
Top off with a dash of club soda or 7 Up, depending on individual preference for sweetness
Garnish with an orange slice
Thank you Sally!!!
Passports  ~ Three Courses for $35.00 ~ Make Your Reservations Now for New Year’s Eve!
Recent GMG Post about Passports:
Passports Has Reopened Newly Renovated and Offering 20% Off All Gift Certificates Through New Year’s Eve
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Yo! No photo.
Missed all photo ops. Watched all of season 6 Breaking Bad. I’ll do better tomorrow. I did it for my family. Bitch!
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The reason Papa and Nonnie drive for over 7 hours
It takes over 3 hours up and 3 hours back, but to see your Granddaughter as an angel in a production of the Nutcracker is so worth it. So blessed to have these grandchildren in our lives.
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Practicing the Twerk for the Friday the Thirteenth Christmas Party
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“Got Milk?” RNAC’s “Season’s Best Cookie Competition”
Saturday, December 21, 2:00PM
The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
As part of the Holiday Art & Fine Crafts Festival, the Winter Solstice Party on Saturday, December 21 will feature a “Season’s Best Cookie Competition”. Any kind of home-baked cookie may be entered, except chocolate chip – everyone makes good chocolate chip cookies – as we are looking for competitors to come up different, unique and prize-winning entries.
The first prize winner of the cookie competition will become the proud owner of this hand-painted silk scarf by Adriana Mederos, titled “Got Milk?” This beautiful scarf depicts Shortbread, Anise, Oatmeal-Raisin, Linzerkuchen, Chocolate-dipped Diamonds, Biscotti, Baklava, Sugar Cookies, Snowball, Mandelkuchen, Macaroons, Almond Mezzalune, Polvorones, Pizzelle and Crinkles. There is also a First Place Blue Ribbon painted on the scarf to memorialize the winner’s proud achievement.
There will also be 2nd and 3rd place prizes, as well as prizes for “best presentation” and “classic”.
First prize – “Got Milk?” hand-painted scarf
Second prize – limited edition trivet
Third prize – set of Ice Box Bling
“Best Presentation” and “Classic” prize winners will receive notecard sets
The cookie competition will be judged by the Honorable and Venerable Judges Ed Collard (renowned master of food competition judging), Mayor Carolyn Kirk (whose birthday is December 21, so come help celebrate her birthday by bringing your well wishes and most awesome cookies for her to judge), and Sister Felicia Ciaramitaro (the Cape Ann Queen of culinary delights, so bring on your absolute best).
We are hoping to have some unique and festive cookie entries, such as those depicted on this delectable scarf, but bakers are encouraged to enter what they know to be their best cookie (again, no chocolate chip). If you would like to enter the competition, please email gigimederos@gmail.com with “cookie competition entry” in the subject line and your name, type of cookie you plan to enter, and your phone number in the email body. Entries will be limited to the first twelve unique cookie entry submissions received (we want to have diversity and be considerate of the judges’ waistlines, and eating more than 12 cookies isn’t in anyone’s diet). Please be prepared to bake at least two-dozen cookies, for the judges and party attendees to taste and enjoy.
Also, RNAC is considering creating a Best Cookies calendar as a fundraiser for 2015 which would include the recipes, bakers’ credit and photos of the 12 cookie entries. Please indicate in your email entry if you are willing to share your recipe and have it included in the calendar, if we go forward with producing it.
E.J. Lefavour
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Just in Santa just left the North Pole and is on his way to Cape Ann TV!
Santa will be a Cape Ann TV today from 3-7 pm. Don’t forget to bring the kids in to meet him!
Cape Ann TV
38 Blackburn Center
Gloucester, MA 01930
978-281-2443
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The Friendship Tree and 24 Festival of Trees are lit!! – Manchester
Sunday evening was the official lighting of the Friendship Tree and the 24 trees in The Festival of Trees on Manchester’s Town Hall Common. A huge crowd had packed into the Congregational Church (SRO) for a 3:00 PM concert of Christmas songs and music, and then spilled out to fill the Town Hall Common and see the trees lit. They joined an already growing crowd who came for just the Tree Lighting and everyone brought the kids!
Just before..
The Friendship Tree Lights!
Followed by the Festival of Trees!
Good Morning Gloucester 