Online Registration for this Sunday’s Run Gloucester Open Until Noon Tomorrow (Friday) at www.rungloucester.com

Late Registration at Gloucester High School Saturday and Sunday

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GLOUCESTER, Mass. (August 18, 2011) –  There’s still time to sign up for this Sunday’s Run Gloucester! 7-Mile race as online registration at www.rungloucester.com will remain open until noon on Friday.

“Online registration is easier and a little cheaper,” said race organizer Dave McGillivray, who is also race director of the B.A.A. Boston Marathon, the TD Bank Beach to Beacon 10K in Maine and about 30 other major events throughout the U.S. and the world. 

If you miss online registration, however, McGillivray says late registration will be held Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.  at the same time as bib pick up at Gloucester High School. Although not encouraged, bib pick-up and late registration will also be held race day from 6 to 7:45 a.m. at the high school. Online registration is $35, late registration is $40.

New this year, a Road Runner Club of America Expo with vendors will be held Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Race day parking will be available at Gloucester High School and at Stage Fort Park.

Proceeds from the Run Gloucester! 7-Mile (www.rungloucester.com) will benefit the Gloucester Fishermen Athletic Association which raises funds for Gloucester High School student-athletes, sports programs and facilities, and is a key supporter of the renovation of Gloucester High’s Newell Stadium.

Founded by McGillivray in 1981, DMSE Sports, Inc. is a leader in sports event management, specializing in creating, marketing and producing mass participatory athletic events throughout the U.S. and abroad. McGillivray has produced or consulted on more than 900 events throughout the world, including 24 Boston Marathons; the 2004 and 2008 USA Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials, the 1990 Triathlon World Championship, the 1998Goodwill Games Triathlon, and the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. For more info, visit www.dmsesports.com.

Shark Week Gone Wrong- Lobstering With Sharks

Uhm Sean, I’m pretty sure they get inside the cage before they lower you down to film for Shark Week.

I guess this is the best we can do on our limited production budget so let ‘er rip boys!

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Willy Greenbaum’s Mushroom Farm

Brownies anyone?

Willy Greenbaum writes-

Hi Joey,
Thought a lot of people might relate to how this mushroom farm has suddenly shot up in the mulch pile in my backyard. Enough already!
Willy Greenbaum

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Truckee Learns to SUP – Gloucester, MA A Short Film By Timothy Bradley

Tim writes-

August 13, 2011 – Our four month old Shiba Inu puppy, Truckee, learns to Stand-Up Paddleboard (SUP) along the Mill River in Gloucester, MA. Truckee weighs about 15 lbs soaking wet…but she didn’t fall in once! Filmed with my GroPro HD camera. Song: The Kooks – “See the Sun”

 

Gloucester At Dawn Yankee Clipper Crew Preps For Another Day Of Deep Sea Fishing Under A Full Moon 8/13/11 4:53AM

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The News From Rocky Neck via Judy Robinson Cox

A ROCKY NECK LEGACY, video by Henry Ferrini
music by Bert Seager and R. Carlos Nakai

A ROCKY NECK LEGACY BY HENRY FERINNI
click here to see video

With funding from Preserve America, the Rocky Neck Art Colony commissioned this video — a tribute to the place that we, contemporary Rocky neck artists call home as we rest on the shoulders of the many fine artists who came before us. Click the link above or view onrockyneckartcolony.org


Click to see GMG photos of Artist’s BallRocky Neck Artist's Ball

More photos | Even More photos


Summer Artist Series


August 17-30: PROPRIETARY CHAOS
Photography by Laurence Kent Jones

Laurence Kent Jones

Due to his assignment to the U.S. Embassy in Haiti, Jones has resided in Port-au-Prince for the last four years. Says Jones "Haiti has a vibrant street life. Most people have very limited resources and housing is frequently no more than shelter to sleep and eat, while the rest of the day’s activities take place on the street in the open. The small merchants settle semi-permanently into a spot on the sidewalk, a passageway, or in any open space that might be available, overrunning the public space. Poorer people have colonized the corners of the older neighborhoods and created huge informal squatter settlements. The line between planned portions of the city and the squatter settlements is obvious on the ground and shockingly clear from above. We’re seeing an urban infrastructure develop that is very different from anything in North America."

This collection of photographs taken before and after the 2010 earthquake, include journalistic street scenes and oversized panoramas of informally built hillside neighborhoods in Haiti.

RECEPTION : SAT, August 20, 5-8pm | Artist Talk : 7pm


Guest Artist
at Khan Studio


Paintings by Sinikka Nobelo, August 19-Sept 1

Tidal River by Sinikka Nobelo
Tidal River, painting by Sinikka Nogelo

Opening reception: Saturday, August 20, 5-7:30pm

Khan Studio / Good Morning Gloucester Gallery
on Madfish Alley

Sinikka Nogelo, a Gloucester artist, was a familiar face on Cape Ann Television until her retirement last summer. This year she’s returned to sharing work in her first medium – paint. Sinikka uses natural elements and personal symbols in the abstract expression of surroundings, thoughts and feelings. The works she will exhibit at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery encompass a "year of re-discovery."

A graduate of Tufts University, Sinikka studied art at the Silvermine Guild in CT; the Museum School, Boston; Rockport Art Association; and Montserrat School of Art in Beverly, MA. She was a founding member of the women artists’ cooperative, Center and Main, located at that Gloucester corner until the mid-1980s. During her years on television she produced many arts specials and interviewed people working in all aspects of the arts.

Sinikka’s exhibit will run from August 19-September 1 with an opening reception on Saturday, August 20th from 5:00-7:30pm at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery, 77 Rocky Neck Ave., G3 on Madfish Wharf in the historic Rocky Neck Art Colony.

Khan Studio, Madfish Alley | www.khanstudiointernational.com | 857-891-9054


Madfish


Music at the Madfish

Thursday, August 18 – 9pm to close ~ Soul Rebel Project

Friday, August 19 – 9pm to close ~ Groove

Saturday, August 20 – 9pm to close ~ Live Dead Tribute

Sunday, August 21– 7:30pm ~ Divas on the Waterfront
Sunday, August 21– 8pm to close ~ Jack Lee and Diversity


Mug Up
photo from GMG of last week’s Mug-Up


Sunday, Aug 21 : First Annual GMG Deviled Egg Contest

Did you Know … That people love deviled eggs? Having made deviled eggs a bunch of weeks now for Mug Up, I have come to realize that people really love deviled eggs, and it seems everyone has their own special recipe. So during August 21st Mug Up, we will be sponsoring the First Annual Good Morning Gloucester Deviled Egg Competition. We will assemble a panel of distinguished judges, including Ed "I’ve never met a food I didn’t like" Collard and Paul "R. Duck and I love deviled eggs" Morrison. The judges’ decision will be final and the entrant with the winning deviled eggs recipe will receive a 2012 Gloucester’s Finest Kind calendar or a Good Morning Gloucester T-shirt (if there is one available in your size) and a ribbon.

If you are a deviled egg aficionado and would like to be considered for a position on the judge’s panel, please post a brief description of your deviled egg experience and credentials. Those who would like to have their special deviled eggs included in the competition and featured on the blog, just bring ’em this Sunday. This is way bigger than Topsfield Fair competition and doesn’t cost anything to enter. People who don’t like deviled eggs feel free to bring along something non-egg related to share. Not to sway the judges, but I hear Mark Ring from the fishing vessel Stanley Thomas is a possible shoein for the winning deviled egg recipe.

Khan Studio, Madfish Alley | www.khanstudiointernational.com | 857-891-9054


Goetemann Artist in Residence


Conrad Eric Armstrong (September 8 to October 7)

Thursday, September 8, Introductory Slide presentation, Rocky Neck Gallery

Brain Buggy by Conrad Armstrong
Brain Buggy (part of the Mnemonosphere cycle), 2010, 21.7" x 29.5"
Watercolor on glue gesso on panel

Conrad Armstrong is an American artist who currently lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic, where he splits his time between teaching English, making art, and exhibiting. One of Conrad’s primary interests is the intersection between landscape and memory in human culture and history. Over the last decade, Conrad’s work has dealt with this theme in various media and from different perspectives. Landscape paintings made from memory, topographic paper sculpture, mnemonically-encoded images, landscape installation, and drawing and painting in situ are all manifestations of this interest. In addition to this theme, Conrad has also produced other bodies of work and exhibitions on other subjects including fetish objects, the role of social networks in contemporary life, the relationship between cars and alternative modes of transportation, and the potential of the classroom as a creative space. Underlying all of Conrad’s work is a sense of curiosity, playfulness, and whimsy that results in a compelling and often funny experience for the viewer. Though he is quite familiar with the North Shore, Conrad is delighted to have the opportunity to deepen his relationship with the area while developing his work at Rocky Neck in September 2011.

Annisquam Light photos and Historic Icehouse Tours for a rainy day

Scott Memhard writes-

Hi Joey – this photographer Bill Downey was down here at the ice co Saturday pm taking some pix, and looking for locations for a LaSalle college photography class project.  He said feel free to post his Annisquam lighthouse photos to GMG if you’d like.

We were slammed with "rainy day" tours here at the icehouse today.  Offered at 9:30, 11 am and 2 pm.

Best, Scott
Scott Memhard, President
CAPE POND ICE COMPANY, INC

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Kathleen Valentine is the Author of the Week this week on Tracey Allen’s World

Gloucester novelist and writer Kathleen Valentine is the Author of the Week this week on Tracey Allen’s World.

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Tracey Allen’s World is a popular blog that introduces new and independent authors every week. The feature contains an interview in which Kathleen discusses how writers finds a niche that fits as well as her books on knitting, a memoir/cookbook abut growing up Pennsylvania Dutch, novels, and short stories. You can read the interview and book synopsis on the blog.

That’s Right Baby- We’ve Got Believers!

Jimmy looks like a stuffed sausage in that t-shirt.  Probably should have gotten an xxl Smile

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Sean Hurley inks a copper plate etching for printing at his studio at Beacon Marine Basin

Adam Bolonsky reports-

Sean Hurley, local artist at work in his studio at Beacon Marine Basin, just one of many artists’ beehives located throughout Gloucester, opens up his studio to Good Morning Gloucester.

Watch while Sean runs the first step in printing a large-sized copper plate etching: inking the etched copper plate.

The print Sean has created is far larger than 11″x17″.

And, attention, Gloucester and Rockport gallery owners! Sean has representation in New York, but none on Cape Ann!

What’s New in Jenna’s Garden? Week 9

What’s New in Jenna’s Garden?

Jenna Howard headshot

Pleasant Street resident Jenna Howard is providing updates on the peppers, squash and other vegetables growing in her plot at the new Burnham’s Field Community Garden. The reports and photos will allow GoodMorningGloucester viewers to follow the garden’s progress with a weekly answer to the question, “What’s New in Jenna’s Garden?”

By Jenna Howard

Week Nine

"It was a sad week in my garden. What was once a healthy, hardy pumpkin is now no more. In just a few days my pumpkin went from a 5 foot long, flourishing green vine to a mess of wilted brown and yellow leaves. All that is left is a greenish-yellow pumpkin that is about 6 inches in diameter. The pumpkin itself actually looks like it is on its way to being a big orange Jack-o-lantern! But unfortunately, from the looks of it, I’m sad to say it is dying. Even more upsetting is the fact that at this point in the season it is too late to grow another pumpkin in time for Halloween as pumpkins typically take 95 days to mature. Well, I guess there’s always next year! But what could have happened to my pumpkin?!"

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Not CSI… CMI Comedy Mystery Interactive Where Comedy and Mystery Interacts

For Tickets: Call 978-879-9293

OR   Email: japepayette@hotmail.com

***Tickets must be purchased in advance-Seating Limited***
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2011 Schedule Summer

CMI… Murder I Predict MURDER MYSTERY BOAT CRUISE

Onboard Gloucester’s The Privateer

Saturday July 30th SOLD OUT!!!

Saturday August 27th   7-10 pm

The Privateer – Gloucester Harbor

63 Rogers Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

$49.95 plus tax…includes dinner, show, and boat ride.

Bar and Dancing Available!

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Fall

CMI… MURDER ON THE DANCE FLOOR
At historic Gloucester House Restaurant

Saturday September 24th   7-10pm

Saturday November 19th   7-10pm

The Gloucester House Restaurant

63 Rogers Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

$39.95 includes dinner & show*Tax & Tip not included
Bar and Dancing Available!

Sign up for CMI mailing list or check http://www.japescape.com for additional Show Dates & Venues ***Bring your party to us!

ü Birthdays/Graduations/Anniversaries

ü Mother’s Day/Father’s Day

ü Bachelor/Bachelorette parties

ü Halloween/Christmas
…or your company outing!

***Group Rates Available***

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20 = $20 off total cost

30 = $30 off total cost, etc…

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2011 Rhumbline Striper Tournament Winner Interviews From Fred Shrigley