Author: Joey Ciaramitaro
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Community Stuff Friday
John Ronan writes-
Hi Joey,
We are announcing the NYC premiere of The Yeats Game, which had its world premiere in Gloucester, back in ’07. With a much re-written script and a fine cast, the comedy opens Feb. 29 for a month’s run. A pr sheet is attached.
This is a wonderful production, and we have sponsorship help from the American Irish Historical Society, the W.B. Yeats Society of New York, and many others. Kathy Richter, who has worked both with Abingdon and Atlantic and other theaters, directs. I hope you can catch the show and let others know about it.
All the best,
John
(New York – January 3, 2012) – American Storyboard presents The Yeats Game, a farce of improbable darkness written by John J. Ronan. Kathy Richter directs a cast of four including Toby Wherry, Susan Stout, Jennifer Silverstein and Lucius Wall. Performances for The Yeats Game will be held at The Producers’ Club, 358 West 44th Street in NYC for twenty-four performances beginning Wednesday, February 29 to Sunday, March 25, 2012.
The Yeats Game is a farce about middle-age choices and their ridiculous consequences. At a funeral, as two frisky couples contemplate a friend’s fatal, love-nest heart attack, they flash back to their own recent snowed-in weekend at a mountain cabin. There, a board game designed for age-hating Boomers leads to tangled romance as the old friends explore love, lust, marriage and mischief. Just as guilt prompts confession, and all things point to reform, maturity and reluctant virtue, the play’s close tells us that virtue is a weak motivator, immaturity has its advantages – and that the corpse is perhaps not so dead.
A comical, brainy look at the pre-geezer years, The Yeats Game was inspired by the poet’s famous line: “Only
two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood – sex and the dead.” The Yeats Game, which played to standing room only audiences at Boston Playwrights Theatre, is a booze-, Viagra-, dice-driven romp.
The Yeats Game is produced by American Storyboard. Director: Kathy Richter; Playwright: John J. Ronan; Sound Designer: Timothy Dahl; Production Stage Manager: Keri Taylor; Assistant Stage Manager: Kristin Dwyer; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR.
The Yeats Game plays for twenty-four performances from Wednesday, February 29 to Sunday, March 25, 2012, with performances Wednesdays & Thursdays at 7:30pm, Saturdays & Sundays at 8pm, and matinee performances on Saturdays and Sundays at 3pm.
Tickets are $30 and can be purchased online at http://www.smarttix.com or by calling 212-868-4444. For more information, please visit www.theyeatsgame.org
Kent Bowker at the Metz Gallery
The Metz gallery at the Sawyer Free Library will be showing the figurative Essex paintings of Kent Bowker through the month of Feburary. As described by the artist, ‘I have tried to catch the essence of the Essex river tidal basin , the great drumlins, and the untidy elegance of the seaside shacks and houses that crowd the Conomo Point, and the sense of tide continually changing the aspect and color of the marsh. I do not pretend to recreate the landscape or ordinary realism.’
SeaPort Vet $50 Super Bowl raffle
Hi Joey,
Thanks again for the kind words during your last podcast. We love what we do and we’re glad it shows! Hey, just for fun, we threw together a last minute raffle to create a bit of Super Bowl buzz – as if there wasn’t enough already! If you could find space on the blog to help get the word out that would be great. If not, no worries; we know you’ve got a ton of other local stuff to cover.
Here’s the link: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=360827480613370&set=a.237460429616743.73324.225768857452567&type=1&theater
Cheers! Ray
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Minglewood is open for lunch and has a $15 for $30 deal
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Ben MacAdam’s new studio space at One Center Street, Downtown Gloucester
Here is his most recent work:
"Fort Point Channel District, Boston, MA "
72 x 48 in
Visitors welcome by appointment only
You can contact Ben at ben@benmacadam.com or call him at 978.394.1506."
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Alicia From Mamie’s Kitchen Muffin Tops Calls Out Dean Salah’s George’s Coffee Shop
The Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Smack Talk Has Begun In Earnest
Hey Joey
We would like our theme song to be “Sugar Pie Honey Bunch” since we are the Muffin Tops!
“We are gonna send Georges back sailin to Gloucester on their breakfast boat!”
BOOM!
Other Notes Team GMG Captained By FOB’s Dani and Kurt Lubber’s has an official name- Thr GMG Rubber Rippers!
Here’s the Facebook Event Page-
https://www.facebook.com/events/159464900834512/
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Gloucester Maritime Dory Topsides All Painted Up!
As a member of the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center (Maritime Gloucester) you can take this dory out for a row. There’s no better way to see Gloucester Harbor than on a dory. Just one of the many perks of membership.
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AYN
Ayn Rand
From Wikipedia–
Ayn Rand (
/ˈaɪn ˈrænd/;[1] born Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum, February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher,[2] playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism.
Born and educated in Russia, Rand moved to the United States in 1926. She worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood and had a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. After two initially unsuccessful early novels, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel The Fountainhead. In 1957, she published her best-known work, the philosophical novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward she turned to nonfiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own magazines and releasing several collections of essays until her death in 1982.
Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge and rejected all forms of faith and religion. She supported rational egoism and rejected ethical altruism. In politics, she condemned the initiation of force as immoral and opposed all forms of collectivism and statism, instead supporting laissez-faire capitalism, which she believed was the only social system that protected individual rights. She promoted romantic realism in art. She was sharply critical of most other philosophers and philosophical traditions.
The reception for Rand’s fiction from literary critics has historically been mixed and polarizing, with extreme opinions both for and against her work commonly being expressed. Nonetheless, she continues to have a popular following, as well as a growing influence among scholars and academics. Rand’s political ideas have been influential among libertarians and conservatives. The Objectivist movement attempts to spread her ideas, both to the public and in academic settings
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Calling out the North Shore Waterman
Maxfield, you gonna get a squad together for Bikini Speedo Dodgeball or does that poor excuse of a blog you run over there not have enough folks to form a competitive team?
Only a few slots open for teams.
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Video- seARTS Annual 2012 Meeting Preview
Click on the button below to vote for Gloucester as the Top Small City Arts Destination in The Country, and thank you for supporting Gloucester and it’s artists!
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The Schooner Ernestina From Len Burgess
One of the 6 remaining old schooners built in Essex, MA is now 118 years old.
Len Burgess writes-
On February 1, 1894 118 years ago the Effie M. Morrissey, the ship that became Ernestina, slid down the ways at the James and Tarr Yard in Essex, Massachusetts.
The Ernestina has been designated by the Department of the Interior as a National Historic Landmark. She has sailed on through the century to become one of six remaining Essex-built schooners and is now in New Bedford, MA.
She reached within 600 miles of the North Pole and is the last ship to bring immigrants to this country under sail from the Cape Verde Islands. Ernestina was given to the people of the United States by the people of the Cape Verde Islands in 1982. Her history is a remarkable legacy that spans continents, races and generations.
A very large scale model of the “Morrissey” is in the Waterline Center at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum.
Here are some videos and photos I took of her back in May of 2009-
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Loren Doucette- Recent Work Showing At The Art Room Feb 4 to April 4
Loren Doucette, local Gloucester artist will be showing her recent work from Montserrat College of Art at The Art Room on 3 Center Street in Gloucester. She is exhibiting her portrait work, abstractions, large ink works and some small landscapes from her July 2011 trip to Italy. She invites you all to stop by her opening reception anytime between 10am and 7pm on Saturday February 4, 2012. Her work will hang from Feb 4 to April 4, feel free to call her and make an appointment to see the show. Any questions, call Loren at 978-879-8981.
To view recent artwork: http://lorendoucette.blogspot.com/
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Community Stuff Thursday
hi joey!
the cape ann waldorf school is sponsoring a free screening of the movie Race To Nowhere. please see below for details. we still have room for the friday night screening and are inviting all those who are interested in seeing this fabulous movie.
have a good one!
stacey
Cape Ann Waldorf School (Moraine Farm) 701 Cabot Street, Rte. 97, Beverly, MA will be screening the award-winning and socially provocative movie,RACE TO NOWHERE, The Dark Side of America’s Achievement Culture, on Friday, February 3, 2012 at 7pm. The film is rated PG-13 and runs 85 minutes.
RACE TO NOWHERE is a call to families, educators, experts and policy makers to examine current assumptions on how to best prepare the youth of America to become the healthy, bright, contributing and leading citizens in the 21st century.
All are welcome to this free screening but seating is limited. Admission requires a reservation via http://rtncapeannfebthird.eventbrite.com/ There will be an opportunity for group discussion following the film. Visit www.capeannwaldorf.org for directions and school information.
North Shore Tour de Cure Kick Off Party
The North Shore Tour de Cure is holding its Kick Off Party next week. Come and learn about how to get involved in this one-day cycling event across our region that raises funds to find a cure for diabetes.
Tuesday, February 7th
6:00pm – 8:00pm
The Village Green
225 Newbury Street in Danvers
Light appetizers provided and cash bar available
Sponsored by the American Diabetes Association
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The History Channel Tapes Segment With Wives and Daughters of Gloucester Fishermen At The Lone Gull
On February 1st 2012 the History Channel was at the Lone Gull to tape segments talking about the fishing industry and how the wives and daughters of Gloucester fishermen remember the industry.
Here are some photos I took at the taping-
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Minglewood Tavern Again Open For Lunch Everyday
If you were like me and jonesing for one of Gloucester’s best burgers at lunch for the past couple of months and gone by Minglewood only to have found tehm closed for lunch fear not my friends!
They are now re-opened and serving up one of Gloucester’s best burgers and killer hand cut steak fries.
Not only that but they have a different deal going on 7 nights a week.
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Tacos Lupita Gloucester Now Officially Open!!!
O M G I just had a pork burrito with everything cut right off the spit! Hellooooo Tacos Lupita!!! OUTSTANDING and Fresh and Cheap!!!!!!
This place is gonna be mobbed!!!!
68 Washington Street Gloucester
Tell ‘em Joey from Good Morning Gloucester Sent You!
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Tacos Lupita Gloucester Second Customer- Joey C Woot!
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Edward Hopper Paintings/Pictures Presentation
This link was sent to me by Catherine Ryan. Click the picture for the full presentation
Catherine writes-
Hey Joey
There are more than 80 known titles of Gloucester imagery by Hopper. There is a dynamite range throughout our downtown: several by Flanagans/Our Lady, by the RR, by CAM , by Joan of Arc, throughout the Fort, and by Stacy BLVD
Sincerely,
Catherine
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Flat Ledge Quarry From Skip Montello
I got this primo shot at Flat Ledge Quarry on Tuesday;
"January 24, 2012, it’s 50 something degrees, the snows gone in one day, the sky is blue and so is the water, what more can I say…oh yeah the Pats won on Sunday!"
North Coast Angler www.northcoastangler.com
Skip Montello Photos www.skipmontellophotos.com
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New Segment- Gloucester House For Sale Of The Week
Talking to Kenny MacCarthy, my podcasting buddy and a man I know to be a man of integrity and around the Real estate business forever I asked him to send me what seemed like a great property for someone thinking about either moving to or relocating within Gloucester.
Of course all of you know my affinity for God’s Country (East Gloucester) so we will start out there with a 4 bedroom house in an awesome neighborhood within a hop skip and a jump to Duckworth’s Bistrot and Smith Cove views. A short bike ride or walk to Niles Beach or Oakes Cove beach on rocky Neck and the killer elementary school that is with an intensely involved PTA at East Gloucester Elementary.
Here’s the property Kenny pulled up- Now Kenny putting this in front of you and with my recommendation as a great realtor I would hope you would call him to have him show you the property at his cell phone number –
Kenny MacCarthy 978-758-0983
23 Highland St
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Here’s a map showing just how great this location is and how affordable you can get into what I consider the greatest neighborhood in town to raise a family.
Click the map for the interactive zooming in and out.
Walk to Duckworth’s Bistro, Gloucester Stage, East Gloucester Elementary, Rocky Neck, Oakes Cove Beach, Niles Beach, Beacon Marine, North Shore Arts Association, this is the neighborhood where all the cool new shops have been opening like Again and Again Sailbags, Scout Vintage Finds, Bob and Dave’s, Last Stop Variety, and all of the coolness that is Rocky Neck.
Perfect for anyone from a retiree to a family.
So if you are interested give my boy Kenny a call.
Kenny MacCarthy 978-758-0983
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Community Stuff Wednesday
The Essex Elementary PTO is gearing up for the 3rd Annual Messy Art Night! This event, which was written up in the national publication, PTO Today, connects children to the vibrant world of art on the North Shore. Over 15 area artists are slated participate in this hands-on, creative evening. Children move freely from station to station where they try their hand at different mediums including pottery, printmaking, collage, charcoal drawing and more!
Messy Art Night is on Friday, February 3 from 5 – 8 pm at Essex Elementary, 12 Story Street, Essex, MA. Admission is $5 per person or $20 per family. All proceeds go to the enrichment programming for the children of Essex Elementary. For more information, visit www.essexpto.com.
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