Author: Joey Ciaramitaro

The creator of goodmorninggloucester.org Lover of all things Gloucester and Cape Ann. GMG where we bring you the very best our town has to offer because we love to share all the great news and believe that by promoting others in our community everyone wins.

Discover Gloucester Weekly From Linn Parisi

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Dear Joey and GMG FoBs (Friends of this amazing blog 🙂

I’m proud to tell you that I’m going "behind bars" to help in the fight against muscle disease. I’ll be cell to cell with many local people caught doing good work and helping to help raise critical funds for MDA. I need your help to reach my bail!

The Cape Ann 2012 Lock Up takes place on June 6, 2012, but I’m raising my bail before I go to jail! All you have to do is click here to make a secure, online donation today. Your support will help families living in our community with muscle disease, and help guarantee that I get out of jail. I will be sure to add you to my list of contributors.

Please support me in this important goal by visiting my fundraising page and making a contribution. Your tax-deductible donation makes a difference to the hundreds of kids, adults and their families who live right here on Cape Ann.

So come on, Discover Gloucester partners, friends of the blog, and of mine and Nick’s near and far!Thanks in advance for your help. Don’t hesitate to call or email me with questions.

Many Thanks from Linn Parisi

Liv (Daughter of Kim Smith) Guest Post

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A few days ago I informed my mother and GMG contributor Kim Smith that I would be coming home to Gloucester for a short visit.

Immediately the first question she asked me was, "What do you want for dinner your first night home?" Of course I didn’t have to think twice about the answer: lobsters from Captain Joe’s! It had been months since I had fresh lobster; I suffer through flavorless, overpriced lobster tempura in sushi rolls and rubbery lobster nuggets in wanna-be lobster rolls during the winter months in NYC. The only thing I wanted was to get my hands on a tender, juicy two pounder straight off the boat, and boy did Joey C deliver.

Last night my family enjoyed our scrumptious boiled lobsters accompanied by artichokes, pasta pesto, and a refreshing salad. It was simply the perfect summer meal! Today I had the pleasure of visiting the king of the lobsters himself on his docks, the "epicenter of the lobster world", to see exactly where my delectable crustaceans come from. I was in heaven surrounded by the bins of live lobsters just waiting to go in my belly (sorry, PETA), and even got a few to model with me. Thanks to Joey for having me!

Check out Liv’s blog here- http://bostontobk.wordpress.com/

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Gloucester At Dawn 4:35AM 5/23/12 Harbor Cove- Felicia Oil and The Gloucester House

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First Fresh Rocky Neck Strawberry of 2012!

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Hi Joey,

Looks like Strawberry season started on Rocky Neck early this year!  Here’s a shot of our first picked strawberry – picked Saturday, May 19, 2012. It was small, a little misshaped, and was pretty tart when eaten.  If it was a lobster you would have thrown it back…

Enjoy!
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid

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Evie Rocks!!!!! You Know Who’s Goona Be The First Person To Get A GMG Logo Tattoo?

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#Boom!

To Say I’m Pumped Would Be The Understatement of The Year!

Bad Ass!!!!!!!!!

Alert: John McElhenny Doctors Warn That Skinny Jeans Can Cause Nerve Damage

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Johnny Johnny Johnny.  How long have I been telling you that wearing these skinny jeans just ain’t right.  I didn’t need no stinkin doctor to tell me. 

Isn’t it obvious that when your junk is all mashed up inside your body cavity that it just isn’t normal?

Please Johnny we don’t want to see you do any more irreparable damage to yourself than you already have.

I’m sure second Glance or The Dress Code can take that closet full of skinny jeans of yours off your hands.

Before it’s too late Johnny.  You mean too much to the our community with all of the civic minded good that you do. Please.  If not for your boy Joey C, if not for your community, then do it for Luke and Ruby so when pictures of you surface when they are in college they won’t have to deny you as their father or just say it was some terrible photoshop joke that made it look that way.

Fashion victims: Skinny jeans can cause nerve damage, doctor warns

Burnham’s Field Backboards get a Facelift Submitted by The Super Stylish and Athletic John McElhenny

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Joey,
The four basketball backboards at Burnham’s Field got a fresh coat of paint over the weekend.

It’s part of a great volunteer effort that created a Community Garden in Burnham’s Field last summer, has organized several field clean-ups and is making Burnham’s Field cleaner, safer and more family-friendly. Thanks to Ben’s Paint on Railroad Ave. in Gloucester for generously donating paint and brushes for the paint project. Check out Ben’s here<http://www.benspaint.benmoorepaints.com/home/home/sb.cn>.

Burnham’s Field is the largest green space in central Gloucester. It’s used a ton by youth sports teams and kids from downtown Gloucester – including many who don’t have yards of their own.

On Saturday, a man who’s lived near Burnham’s Field for 50 years and walks his dog there every day spotted the newly painted backboards and said he’s noticed that kids who play there seem to be taking better care of Burnham’s Field than they used to. Looks like the effort to improve the field is catching on!
John McElhenny

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Community Stuff May 23

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Karen Ristuben writes-

Hello Rocky Neck friends & neighbors!
A quick report:  The Rocky Neck Art Colony has received grant awards from two foundations in support of The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck:  The Essex County Community Foundation has awarded $2000. toward building our financial capacity, and the Bruce J. Anderson Foundation, through the Boston Foundation, has awarded $10,000 toward The Center’s initial operating costs. We are extremely grateful to these grantors, as their support will help us to build a solid foundation for this project and leverage financial support from other sectors in the months ahead!
On another front, an energized "Center Management Team" (Pat Conant, Vicki Diez-Canseco, Suzanne Audette, Tom Nihan and yours truly) have begun to schedule events at The Center and recruit volunteers to cover Welcome Center hours (Saturday & Sunday, 11-1 and 5-7) beginning this coming weekend.  Come by for a visit or to sign on as a volunteer as we get underway…
Hope to see you soon!
Karen

Do I Really Need to Remind Y’all About How Bananas Thursday Night May 24th At The Farm Is Gonna Be?

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If we haven’t proved it to you with the first Hot Wing Challenge, The DTF Burger Challenge, the Corndog Challenge or The Past Two Year’s Running Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Tournaments then stop reading now.

Gonna be off the wall.  Somebody better bring a fire extinguisher because shit’s gonna be en fuego for our second annual Hot Wing Challenge at The Farm Bar and Grille.

Don’t come if you don’t like to have fun.

Don’t come if you consider yourself old at heart.

But if you have ever experienced the fun we’ve thrown down at every one of these events then I want you to come on out and party with us.

We will be playing Kim Smith and Craig Kimberley’s Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Movies on the big screen and then things heat up even more with a test of wills to see who can take the heat!

Show up at 7PM for the insanity.

Here’s a little taste from the last one-

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The intros from the 2009 Challenge-

A little preview smack talk from round 1 with Jalepeno Timmy back November 11th 2009-

Round Six From the 2009 Farm Bar and Grille Good Morning Gloucester Hot Wing Challenge-

If you think you have what it takes call 978-768-0000

Video Ohana Pre-Opening May 21, 2012 Gloucester MA. Open To The Public May 23rd

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Ohana Pre-Opening Pictures and Interview With Alyssa Cohen

Here’s the address- 151 Main Street Gloucester (across from the Lone Gull)

telephone- 978-283-3200

Here’s the Facebook Page

Ohana will open it’s doors to the public Wednesday night May 23rd.  Do yourself a favor and get there before this place blows up and you can’t get a table.

click below for video interview with Alyssa Cohen, wife of Chef Enx and front of the house manager

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Gloucester At Dawn- The Paint Factory From Maritime Gloucester 4:46AM 5/19/12

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The human eye could barely make out the right side of the rock but the long exposure showed a much more interesting picture.

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Juvenile Black Crowned Night Heron Down The Dock

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The pictures under the top one are all crops from the camera with the lens fully extended.

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Last year I spotted a juvenile Black Crowned Night Heron With It’s Momma On June 17th-

Juvenile Black Crowned Night Heron and Momma At The Dock

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Joey C

Here are some of the other photos of Black Crowned Night Heron’s I’ve Taken here at the dock over the years

Click below to listen to the sounds they make at www.allaboutbirds.com

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GMG Inside The Numbers May 21, 2012 47,694 Views

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We usually average 30-35,000 people a day.  Monday was a little above average.  My guess is that people who were outside enjoying the weather all weekend finally came back to their computers on Monday with the rain and being back to work.

Have you subscribed to get the daily GMG feed emailed to you so you won’t miss a thing?

If not you can by clicking this link and get with all the cool kids.

A good day for the home team. #Boom!

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Bex’s Sweet Potato Chili Submission For The GMG Easy to Prepare Loaded With Flavor and Healthy Recipe Contest

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The GMG Easy to Prepare Loaded With Flavor and Healthy Recipe Contest:

I’ll rate your recipe based on three criteria: Taste, Easy To Prepare (if you can make it in an office without a stove you get bonus points, without a microwave even higher), Nutritional Value. Minus 5 points for lack of photo.

I should also add that for nutritional value I’m going for something that will reduce fat, give energy but provide enough as to not lose muscle.  A fruit salad I understand is nice and all but it isn’t gonna get me through a work day.

For The First Four Weeks I will award one prize per week from our GMG Swag Bag to the highest rated pic/recipe.

Contest winner will have to pick up their award and if not claimed within two weeks it gets awarded to the next person.

Bex Sweet Potato Chili:

My original recipe calls for no meat but I’ve amended it for you. Photo attached is vegan and gluten free.

If you like heat, Tapatio Hot Sauce is the best hot sauce around but I haven’t been able to find any in MA.  It is not vinegary like Pete’s, Red Hot or Tabasco. Makes a huge difference. I use it in anything when I want a kick of heat.

Bex’s Sweet Potato Chili

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1 pound lean ground turkey

2 T olive oil

1 large onion diced

1 garlic clove fine chop

1 large carrot small chop

1 large sweet potato, peeled and cut into 1/2" cubes

29oz + 16oz can diced tomatoes

16 oz can black beans, drained and rinsed

1 package chili power

1t hot pepper flakes (optional)

2T Tapatio Hot Sauce (+/- depending on your preferred heat index)

Sauté the ground turkey in the oil until cooked. Remove turkey and add the garlic, chili powder and onion. Cook until soft. Add turkey back and everything else and cook until the sweet potato is soft on the fork. Serve with brown rice.

1-10 in each category with the cumulative score being the final and minus 5 for a lack of photo.

Taste: Looks mighty tasty, and I do like the heat.  10

Easy To Prepare: It’s easy enough for a chump like me to make but a step or two more than Sarah’s recipe from yesterday and definitely not able to make it at work without an oven.  5

Nutrition Value:Looks solid, I’m a huge fan of ground turkey over ground hamburger. Sautéing the turkey in the oil gets a slight ding I guess but still a very solid score. 9

Total for those of you keeping score at home Bex  scores a 24

Well well well what do we have here? Yet Another Reason to Designate Gloucester A World Class Cultural Destination- Gloucester Stage Company Renderings!

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While Boston Magazine top ten sleepy bedroom communities take their shots at GTown (while secretly making 95% of their dinner reservation and  community event fun plans around it) we have yet another reason to celebrate.

Check out the renderings from the Epstein Joslin Architects, Inc newsletter and forwarded to me by GMG contributor Greg Bover

Here’s an interview I did with Alan Joslin on May 17, 2011

From the Epstein Joslin Architects, Inc newsletter-

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An auto dealership, a fish processing warehouse, and

now a WORLD CLASS REGIONAL THEATER:

A vision for Gloucester Stage Company’s home on the harbor

The Gloucester Stage Company was co-founded

The Gloucester Stage Company was co-founded in 1979 by Geoff Richon, Denny

The Gloucester Stage Company was co-founded in 1979 by Geoff Richon, Denny

The Gloucester Stage Company was co-founded in 1979 by Geoff Richon, Denny

The Gloucester Stage Company was co-founded in 1979 by Geoff Richon, Denny

The Gloucester Stage Company was co-founded in 1979 by Geoff Richon, Denny Blodgett, and award-winning playwright Israel Horovitz as a “safe harbor for playwrights and new plays”. For it’s first seven seasons, the company performed at the historic Blackburn Tavern in downtown Gloucester. In 1987, Gorton’s generously offered GSC a long term residence in its building in East Gloucester on The Gloucester Stage Company was co-founded in 1979 by Geoff Richon, Denny Blodgett, and award-winning playwright Israel Horovitz as a “safe

Butterfly ID Request From FOB Cynthia Hill

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Hi Joey,
Can anyone tell me what this beauty is- the butterfly looks like a Monarch but the blue spots got me…
Ciao
Cynthia

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Ohana Pre Opening Premiere Photos Uhmm, Yeah You Better Get Your Reservations Now.

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Hello Ohana!!!!!

Here’s the number-

978-283-3200

Before you do another thing just take my word for it and dial it.  Like now.  Because if you don’t get your reservation in soon, within two weeks time when word gets out you’re not going to be able to get into this place. Don’t forget to let them know Joey C from Good Morning Gloucester sent ya!

Here’s the address- 151 Main Street Gloucester (across from the Lone Gull)

Here’s the Facebook Page

#Boom! 

Gloucester Game Changer- Shit Just Got Real In The Asian Fusion Dining Scene In Our Beloved Gloucester Massachusetts.

I could go on and on but let me just shut my yap and post some pictures and let them do the talking  (video at 8PM)

Chef Enx studied under Roy Yamaguchi and if any of you know a little something about Roy Yamaguchi you know the guy basically brought Asian fusion to where it is today.  Based on what I ate and saw last night it looks like Chef Enx took what he learned at Roy’s and brought it to a whole ‘nother level.

Chef Enx and wife Alyssa

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Click below for the slide show with more food pics and the who’s who of Local celebs making the scene-

Community Stuff May 22

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Got Stuff? Need Stuff? Recyle in Style: Rockport Rotary Mega Yard Sale this Saturday May 26

Got Stuff? Need Stuff? Rockport Rotary Club is hosting a huge yard sale where you can sell or buy – and have some family fun!  YMCA youth will be doing face painting and you can grab a coffee, donut, or hot dog to start your day.  Wow – there are even restrooms! It all goes down at the Rockport School Grounds (24 Jerdens Lane, Rockport) this Saturday May 26 from 8 am to 1 pm (Rain date Sunday May 27, 1 to 5 pm).  Admission is free, and so is parking. Recyle in style, and if you wanna renta space to get rid of your good junque, contact the Club and for just $50 donated clams you get a nice big spot, and they help you market your stuff with lotsa customers and area advertising (you keep all the dough from your sales). Contact Kecia German, ksgerman@verizon.net, 978-283-2924 or, Bill Elwell, 978-423-4855 for details, or seewww.rockportrotary.org

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Manchester Beach Club Looking At Its History

Does anyone remember when there were horse shows–yes, horse shows—on Crescent Beach (aka Gray Beach and Magnolia Beach) and the private gallery from which to watch them? Or perhaps the grand hotels prominently situated with spectacular ocean views? Are there any recollections of ladies in knee-length bloomers and swim dresses basking on the sparkling sands of Kettle Cove? Were the fifty cases of “real old Scotch,” jettisoned into Harbor in 1922 just as authorities were about to nab the Prohibition-busting smugglers, ever found?

This is only part of the history of the Magnolia/Manchester seaside, when the beach and its beach club were sought-after summer destinations for the movers and shakers of the early Twentieth Century’s “Golden Era.” From Boston and St. Louis, Philadelphia and Kansas City, politicians, captains of industry and society swells flocked to the sunny sands of “little Newport” to see and be seen.

In 1913, the North Shore Swimming Pool made its debut, with a salt-water swimming pool and a membership roster of the “who’s-who” in families of that era. With changes through the years, it is now known as the Manchester Bath & Tennis Club and will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2013, and asks for your help in compiling memories from days long gone and not so long ago.

If you are a present or former member of the B&T, attended events there, or have friends or relatives who did, the Centennial Historical Committee of the Manchester Bath & Tennis Club would appreciate your photos, menus, dance cards and other memorabilia to compile a memory book recounting the past 100 years. All submissions will be catalogued and returned to the owners when the project is finished. Please share your memories and memorabilia with the MB&T Centennial Historical Committee by contacting MBT100th@gmail.com orwww.facebook.com/groups/mbt100th.  Your contributions will be greatly appreciated.

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