Joey! If you have some time and availability, could you post letting your lovely readers know that this Small Business Saturday, we’re having a sale? We’re offering 20% off pretty much everything in the shop, even used bikes! We’ll also have a 30% off clearance section. If you need cheap bike stuff, Saturday’s your day to shine! I will also give out cookies. For free. Yeah, that’s right. Free cookies. For your face. We’ve got gift certificates in any amount, as well, for this upcoming holiday season. And as always, we have all our used bikes up on the website so you can check out what we’ve got without braving the cold. We’re open 10-3 Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and 10-6 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Happy Thanksgiving! KT — Specializing in used bicycle sales and service. New and used parts and accessories. 978-222-3737 http://www.bigmikesbikes.org
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Satruday, December 1st from 2-4pm, in the Friend Room at the Sawyer Free Library. With Susan Oleksiw, moderator. The panel includes my husband, Tom Hauck, GMG’s E.J., Kathleen Valentine, Margery Leach, David Simmons, and Jane Ward.
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The Atlantics (circa 1980) Fred Pineau, B. Wilkinson, Tom Hauck, Paul Caruso, Bobby Marron.
Yesterday, Joey published this Men at Work 4x fast video with music by Gloucester musician Tom Hauck (founder of the Atlantics). So, how did he find that music? Did he go to iTunes and listen to all 8 million songs? Did he remember seeing the Atlantics open for the Ramones in 1976 at The Club in Cambridge and say, Hey Tom’s music would be perfect for this video? Did he ask Kim Smith (Tom’s wife)? Nope.
Joey found Tom’s music on gimmesound.com. Truth be told, he called me first to ask if I had any ideas for up-tempo songs by Gloucester musicians that would fit the spirit of his 4x video. I sent him some ideas, and after listening to a bunch of tunes on gimmesound he chose Tom’s song Stand Up. Of course, he asked Tom for permission first.
If you need music by Gloucester area artists, you can easily get a list of them here. But remember, before you use any music BE SURE TO GET THE ARTIST’S PERMISSION! It’s easy. There’s a CONTACT ARTIST button on every gimmesound Artist Profile (right next to the music player controls). Just click it and type a brief message — be sure to include a way to contact you. Your request will automatically be sent to the artist.
And to all you artists out there, if you want Joey to use your music, just let him know.
Now for the other tidbits about yesterday’s 4x movie. You’ve probably heard of Alfred Hitchcock, right? Besides being one of Hollywood’s greatest directors, Hitch is known for a cameo appearance in all his films beginning with The Lady Vanishes in 1938. Now, if you look at Joey’s movie carefully, you’ll see a cameo by Homie starting at 2:01 for 3 seconds. Hitchcock Homie lands atop the trailer and then flies away.
You’ll also notice that Joey does almost all the work — and you might conclude that’s why he’s fit and trim. But you’d be wrong. The real reason is that nobody he works with is trying to lose weight. See my Monday LOL post for a more complete explanation.
For all you college kids home for the weekend and looking for a good time in advance of your annual Tryptophan fix, check out the HUGE PARTY SCENE in town tonight!
Here’s a video for all you Tryptophan junkies featuring another Joey you might find fun — especially if you were at that Romones show in Cambridge:
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Ipswich Chronicle humorist and FOB Doug Brendel, known as “The Outsidah,” will release his funny new cartoon-illustrated book Only in Ipswich 2013 at a “Day After Thanksgiving Dessert Leftovers Potluck & Book Release Party” from 5 to 8 pm at Time & Tide Fine Art, 4 Market St., Ipswich. Doug will be reading selections from the book, and autographing copies. Also debuting at the party: all-new Outsidah cartoon mugs. For more information contact Doug personally via Outsidah@DougBrendel.com.
Continuing the Be Grateful Project through the holiday season with a nod to Gloucester’s own Open Door/Cape Ann Food Pantry. Under the energized direction of Julie Hazen LaFontaine, the Open Door offers a free grocery store and community meals for the needy, the elderly and the lonely at their Emerson Ave location as well as neighborhood, senior care and school-based mobile farmers’ markets and a second hand clothing and furniture shop at it’s "Second Glace" resale boutique on Pond Road.
For the rest of her blog post about The Open Door Pantry click here
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From Fast Company- Pictures from Siemens Manufacturing mold of a 250 single piece fiberglass construction turbine blade. Click the pic for the slide show and details at Fast Company.com-
Thanks Craig Kimberley for forwarding the link-
Also Video-
What’s inside a wind turbine?
An overview of the layout of utility-class wind turbine generators – where are the major components, what do they do, and what differences can be found between models and size ranges. Click for video-
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The November 13, 2012 CITY COUNCIL vote was UNANIMOUS to endorse the establishment of the proposed Downtown Gloucester Cultural District.
The DGCD coordinating group thanks the Councilors, our City Clerk, and the more than 30 partners and stakeholders who sent in letters of support and spoke at the hearing. Have a peek at a few: Cape Ann Museum , the Gloucester Public Schools , and Gorton’s.
Next steps: Send in the application and support materials and wait for word, guidance, and a visit from the Massachusetts Cultural Council!
GMG’s Father Green, a happy customer! Doesn’t he look Parisian, with beret, camera, and wine in hand?
Last night was the grand opening of Savour Wine and Cheese at their new location, 76 Prospect Street (the old Connors drugstore). A wonderful array of wine and beer was served; the wine was dispensed from state of the art “buy before you try” machines, and the appetizers and select cheeses, beyond divine.
Some of the talented people who made last night’s opening a great success
Tony Woolcott
Nick Morgan
Matthew Beach
Lisa Rein and Michael Tilden
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Chad Carlberg writes-
We made a couple of commercials for the Doritos Crash the Superbowl contest. GRANDMA starring Taylor Fitzgerald. Lucked out and got her with waivers from SAG and AFTRA. Actually, like the star of PURITANS, Taylor’s my neighbor. She has no acting experience! Missed her calling.
PURITANS is currently ranked 6th in overall ratings. Good. Keep it up. Rate on, friends! Stars Erin Streeter, my OTHER neighbor. Unlike Taylor Erin has acted quite a bit, though not since the 8th grade play. But as a hungover tour guide for Syracuse as a student, she was well suited for the part. Mark Stevick and I wrote and directed this one together.
The Meathouse in Beverly (yup, across the bridge) is holding a Raffle on Saturday 2-4pm to benefit Beverly Bootstaps (local food pantry) as part of their “Try It Before You Buy It Thanksgiving Buffet”. Now, Beverly is our neighbor and this is for an excellent cause, so we donated tickets, which means if you win, you’ll get tickets to Berklee in Gloucester Indie Rock Night featuring Boston Indie Rocker, The Shills with Gloucester own Renee & Joe.
So GO FOR IT!
The Meat House
15 Enon Street
Beverly, MA 01915
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You heard it first on GMG: This just in from our friend Will Hunt:
Cape Ann musicians will perform at The Hive at 11 Pleasant Street in Gloucester from 4 p.m to midnight this Sunday, November 18, in a benefit for the Rockaways, the New York coastal community devastated by hurricane Sandy. Admission is free, but cash donations will be gratefully accepted. All proceeds will be donated to effective relief organizations already on the ground in the Rockaways.
Musicians scheduled to play as of today include Bradley Royds, the BFs, the Honky Tonk Women, Just Like Newman, the Buckners, Ron Schrank, Inge Berge and Guy Zacardi. Many more will appear. A complete listing will be posted on gimmesound as Sunday approaches.
Superstorm Sandy brings devastation to Far Rockaway (Mark Lennihan/AP)
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Students and parents interested in GCA are welcome. Students will attend their choice of classes based on the theme Community Service. Classes include a Dance-A-Thon to raise money for the Red Cross, Drumming for Action, Inc., writing letters and preparing gift baskets for our troops, science with slime and much more.
Parents can participate in morning meeting and attend a workshop: How to help your child in math. For more information – send an email or call / 978-283–0832.
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Somewhere Between is a documentary that tells the story of four teenaged girls adjusting to life in the United States after their Chinese birth parents are forced to part with them due to China’s “One-Child” policy. Local author Mick Verga will be reading from his book The Lonely Little Horse: A Chinese Adoption Story. Showtime is at 5:00 pm, this coming Saturday, November 17th, at the Cape Ann Community Cinema.
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Back in the beginning of the year an architectural designer, Catherine Widgery purchased a lot of my macro photos of ice crystals that she found on my Flickr site, ‘Photoholic1’. She used them, combined with lightning graphics, into large etched-glass windows for a transit station platform, elevator enclosure and stairs in Salt Lake City, Utah which is now under construction. Here’s a few photos of the work being done. -Len Burgess
Check out some of the great projects that Catherine has done and is designing for future contracts.
Saturday night we saw the latest James Bond film Skyfall (now playing at Gloucester Cinema) and it is simply fantastic. The opening sequence will set you on the edge of your seat; the design and cinematography of the opening credits, extraordinary (as always), and are particularly evocative set to Adele’s Skyfall. The self-parody was a little over the top for my taste, but don’t let that prevent you from seeing this beautifully designed film. Daniel Craig is one of the best Bonds ever although, I don’t think anyone will ever top Sean Connery.
Young Sean Connery has an unfair advantage as all the films he starred in were filmed during 1960’s, with all the chic high style of the era. And then there was his Aston Martin DB5.
A blogger buddy and I had a back-and-forth recently about the future of news. He had just read a post called, “The incredible shrinking newspaper audience,” and was pessimistic about the future of how people would get their news.
“Scary stuff if you value real news,” the blogger, Joey Ciaramitaro of Good Morning Gloucester, wrote in our Twitter chat.
This week’s Nor’easter, packing wind gusts up to 50mph, swept a Gloucester fishing boat all the way across Massachusetts Bay. This morning, while driving down Jerusalem Road in Cohasset, I was surprised to see the boat was still there, so I took these pictures from the street (the vessel appears to be on private property, so I couldn’t get much closer). The location of this vessel is near the intersection of Jerusalem Road and Atlantic Ave. Evidently, the boat broke from its mooring in Gloucester’s Magnolia Harbor, which is just over 22 miles away!
Click photo below for full sized pics of The F/V David and Jenna from Boston Harbor Beacon
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Cape Ann Community Cinema Presents Greece’s #1 all time box office hit movieA Touch of Spice, with a light Greek dinner from Brothers Kouzina, on Sunday, the 11th (tomorrow) at 6:00. Tickets are 17. 50 and 15.00 for members. The evening’s ticket sales will be donated to The Open Door, Cape Ann’s food pantry. To purchase tickets for dinner and movie.
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Good Morning Gloucester 