Month: August 2026

Surfside Subs TODAY’S SPECIALS ARE HERE! 🦞🔥

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Treat yourself to a little bit of everything today!

🦞 $17.99 + tax Lobster Roll
Served with chips & pickles — fresh, loaded, and perfect for a summer Sunday! 😋

🍕 16” PIZZA SPECIAL
Buy any 16” pizza and get the second 16” HALF PRICE!
Limit 2 per customer

🍕 18” PIZZA SPECIAL
Buy any 18” pizza and get the second 18” HALF PRICE!
Limit 2 per customer

Grab lunch, dinner, or enough pizza to feed the whole crew! ❤️

Excludes gluten free
Excludes online orders
Pizza specials cannot be combined

Mural Update

Posted on by Pat D

Awesome Gloucester is helping to fund Gloucester’s 10th public mural at the Gloucester Rental Center on Maplewood Ave. Here are a few shots as the work from Josh Falk and Dana Woulfe is coming along. By the time you see this, I imagine it will be completed. Nice work!

This is a big deal. David Hockney art show presented by Bing McGilvray #GloucesterMA at Manship

Posted on by Catherine

Expecting this to be a life changing look at the art of David Hockney, and Bing McGilvray, with revelations big and small, rare and personal, shedding light on artist friendships, critical art history and core themes of both artists, especially Hockney’s ways to create, share and distribute art.

And two more shows not to miss right here right now:

On view now–not overlapping with the above show) Jeff Weaver at North Shore Art Association (thru Aug 30)

and

Cape Ann Museum’s –overlapping a few days!–Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko (thru Sept. 27th)

RIP David Hockney 1937-June 2026. June! 😦

and big sympathy to Bing 🍒 who has also written a three part series ahead of the exhibition, “Hockney Reproduction(s): A Celebration of the Life and Art of David Hockney (1937–2026)”, and published on Cape Ann Cosmos, Part 1, 2, and 3.Read Part 1. The 1980s: A life in pictures by Bing here

THROWBACK. A selection from a piece I wrote about David Hockney and shared on GMG back in 2013:

“…DC, NYC, and more: Armory Centennial shows from New York Historical Society’s Armory Show at 100  and Washington DC’s Phillips and  on line too for the Archives of American Art;  do yourself a favor as they are worth engagement. Many of the artists had Gloucester ties.  I always paused whatever I was doing for any of Sarah Fishko’s analysis on WNYC, usually Morning Edition or All Things Considered, and syndicated through other outlets now, too (Studio 360 and On the Media). Her extended radio documentary for the Armory anniversary, Culture Shock 1913, continues to be re-broadcast through outlets. Like a painter using color to move our eyes across a surface, Fishko’s pieces are brushed with pauses and impeccable ambient sound and audio moments–mini Lubitsch sound banquets. Art to savor.

San Francisco, de Young Museum, 2013: A major retrospective of David Hockney’s work completed over the last decade, A Bigger Exhibition (closing this month), has generated voluminous press and praise, mostly for his legacy of embracing new technology. Oh, and how old he is now, somehow compelling him to create before time runs out. The latter opinion grates and not just because of repetition. (See a good overview of the de Young exhibit on Newshour but listen at 4:24 dispensing this cliché while introducing another. When hasn’t Hockney investigated any series, media or pursuit without daunting and constant focus? He’s always testing and the mastery and means to do so, and often exuberant.) It’s also in the news because of Vermeer, but more on that below. Reactions to this Hockney exhibit are reminiscent of a 1980s traveling retrospective for his earlier work, not regarded universally with favor, but ample discussion. I recall moving along that crowded exhibit, a chronological layout with each room different series, artistic intentions, styles & techniques– and a log jam most at the space featuring his monumental collaged Polaroids (1988 at the MET).  Hockney print shows were also traveling (for MA both the MFA and the DeCordova). I didn’t think about Hockney then as a trailblazer for artistic pluralism. Lightbulb memory next: I do remember the Hockney New Yorker article everyone was talking about in January 2000, The Looking Glass, by Lawrence Wechsler. I remember where I was when I first read it, the first contemporary artists who spoke with me and who I turned to for opinions, curators and friends. “Vermeer and the Delft School” at the MET was coming up; it had been since the 1995 National Gallery/Hague exhibit when we last had a fresh chance to see Vermeer paintings en masse. Not to be overly dramatic but it continued as a white hot ‘what is art topic’; enjoy a dishy 2001 New York Times article covering one charged  symposium filled with memorable quotes by curators, Susan Sontag, and Chuck Close (”some scientists are just as annoying as some art historians”) maybe on the same day you listen to that Fishko audio doc, 
Culture Shock 1913 (the near riot at the premier for 1913 Ballet Russes Stravinsky’s Rights of Spring). An optical debate symposium 15 years later might be worth an anniversary, current thoughts from Close, Hockney, and others involved and so much that has happened since.  Photographer Joseph Pennell is thought to be the first to write (1890s) about optical lenses and Vermeer.  There are many others but I’ll just list one because of the Gloucester connection. A. Mayor Hyatt, the eminent print curator for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, wrote The Photographic Eye in 1946. (Gloucester’s Joan of Arc WW1 memorial was created by his “favorite person in the world”, his aunt, Anna Hyatt Huntington. This brilliant family spent summers in Annisquam for nearly 100 years.) People will always be fascinated by virtuoso technique, the ultra exceptional DIY. Artists I’ve worked with consider tools of the trade in myriad ways: inspiring, a challenge, filtering, but decidedly unfixed as they’re about process and exploration of ideas throughout all iterations of their art. Art and magic–themes of mastery, obsession, even “it’s all done with smoke and mirrors”—seems fittingly matched in the Penn & Teller documentary, Tim’s Vermeer …and a visit with Hockney is included…”

Surfside SubsTODAY’S SPECIALS! 🔥

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

🦞 $19.99+ Lobster Roll served with chips & pickles

🍕 Buy any 18” Pizza, get a second 18” HALF PRICE!
Limit of 2 per customer

🍕 Buy any 16” Pizza, get a second 16” HALF PRICE!
Limit of 2 per customer

Whether you’re craving a lobster roll or pizza night, we’ve got you covered! 😋

Excludes gluten free crusts
Pizza specials cannot be combined
Excludes online ordering

Come see us today! 🦞🍕

Singers! Auditions today Aug. 22, Aug. 26, 29th, and by appointment! For epic concerts!

Posted on by Catherine

Sharing audition opportunity news from Cape Ann Symphony:

Auditions will be held at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Lanesville,  the rehearsal home of the  CAS chorus on : Saturday, August 22 from 9am-1pm; Wednesday, August 26 from 4pm-7pm; and Saturday August 29 from 10am-2pm. Contact Choral Director Betts at brittanybetts@gmail.com for further information or to set up an audition appointment.

Mark your calendars for these biggies

Vocalists selected as part of The Cape Ann Symphony Chorus to be featured in the fall and spring Cape Ann Symphony Concerts during the orchestra’s Diamond Anniversary Season.

Cape Ann Symphony’s wildly popular annual Holiday Pops Concert on November 28 at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm and November 30, 2026 at 2:00 pm features The Cape Ann Symphony Chorus. The 75th Season Finale Concert on May 9, 2027at 2:00 pm features Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and a world premiere symphony from internationally acclaimed Gloucester based composer Robert Bradshaw written especially for the Diamond Anniversary Season.

Cape Ann Symphony Chorus Director Brittany Betts

Terns on the Stern

Posted on by Pat D

Our summertime visitors the terns have been very active in the harbor these last few weeks. They are quick and noisy and fascinating. I don’t often catch them sitting still enough for a photo but I recently captured one resting on the Schooner Adventure soon disturbed by a second one and chased off. I expect they will be leaving soon and it will be a little less chatty out on the water.

Fun 14 year old birthday

Posted on by Donna Ardizzoni

A 14-year girl had her birthday party at magnolia Pier.  Fun time jumping off the pier and fishing.  There were about 20 kids having a salty party.  These kids are enjoying themselves outside, ocean air and exercise.  No tablets just fun.

THE CUT PARTNERS WITH PUBLICK HOUSE TO LAUNCH A NEW FULL-SERVICE RESTAURANT AND BAR

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Publick House at The Cut will open seven days a week for lunch and dinner beginning September 1

GLOUCESTER, MA — The Cut is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Publick House, bringing an elevated, full-service restaurant and bar experience to 177 Main Street in downtown Gloucester. Publick House is the group’s second restaurant and the partnership will marry The Cut’s recent BONS award of Best Sports Bar and Coolest Night out Vibes with the hospitality group’s experience of creating exceptional dining experiences. 

Beginning September 1, Publick House at The Cut will be open seven days a week for lunch and dinner, welcoming concertgoers, local residents and North Shore visitors alike.

One of Publick House’s partners, Brian Zarthar, said: “What immediately attracted us to The Cut was that it is so much more than a restaurant. Tom and his team have created a really special gathering place in downtown Gloucester, and we’re excited about the opportunity to build on what they’ve created. Our goal is to bring our hospitality experience to the restaurant and bar while working together to make The Cut an even stronger destination for great food, live entertainment, sports and events. We’re incredibly excited to become part of the Gloucester and greater Cape Ann community and can’t wait to get started September 1.”

Guests can expect an exciting new menu curated by Chef Nick Dowling, featuring creative coastal dishes such as sweet corn and haddock chowder alongside expertly prepared pub favorites like classic fish and chips. The restaurant’s refreshed food, beverage and hospitality program will elevate the space while preserving the welcoming energy that has made The Cut one of the region’s most distinctive gathering places.

“We are really excited to partner with Publick House and introduce this next chapter at The Cut,” said The Cut’s owner, Tom O’Grady. “Our goal has always been to create a destination where people can come together over great food, live entertainment and unforgettable experiences. Publick House shares that vision, and we cannot wait for our guests to experience what Chef Nick and his team are creating.”

The Cut Live will continue booking an exciting lineup of live performances, and the restaurant and venue will remain available for weddings, corporate gatherings, celebrations and other private rentals. Together, The Cut Live and Publick House will offer guests a seamless destination for dining, entertainment and special events—all under one roof.

The Cut also extends its sincere gratitude to Bravo2 for its outstanding pop-up residency. The Bravo2 team brought tremendous energy, creativity and hospitality to the space, and The Cut is deeply appreciative of its partnership and support during this transitional chapter.

Publick House at The Cut opens September 1 at 177 Main Street in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Additional information, menus and reservation details will be announced soon.

SURFSIDE SUBS FRIDAY 8/21 SPECIALS! 🚨

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Kick off the weekend with some delicious deals! 🦞🍕

🦞 $19.99+ Lobster Roll served with Chips & Pickles

🍕 Buy any 18” Pizza and get a second 18” HALF PRICE!
Limit of 2 per customer

🍕 Buy any 16” Pizza and get a second 16” HALF PRICE!
Limit of 2 per customer

Perfect excuse to skip cooking today! 🙌

Excludes gluten free crusts
Pizza specials cannot be combined
Excludes online ordering

Zoom Meeting Regarding New Trash/Recycling Program Tuesday Aug 25

Posted on by Pat D

Sharing information from our City Councilors regarding an upcoming Zoom meeting with Casella, the newly contracted Trash/Recycling company. Here’s a live link to the meeting: https://gloucester-ma-gov.zoom.us/j/84082369131 if you are curious or have questions.

IMPORTANT!!

The new trash and recycling contractor, Casella, will be making a presentation at the August 25th City Council meeting. The Zoom link is https://gloucester-ma-gov.zoom.us/j/84082369131

The meeting starts at 6:30 pm. Please watch to learn more about the new trash pickup system.

Coming Soon To Prospect Street

Posted on by Pat D

We saw some “Coming Soon” signage for Leland Dental on Prospect Street at the site of the former Savour Wine on the corner of Pleasant and Prospect.

Another beautiful day

Posted on by Donna Ardizzoni

This summer has been wonderful.  Swimming is so relaxing.  The salt water is very healing and peaceful.  We are blessed to live at the beach; you can work and then go to the beach.