Category: gloucester

SNOWY DAY TOUR OF GLOUCESTER

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Snowy April Fools Day scenes from Niles Beach, the Greasy Pole, City Hall, backshore, Bass Rocks, Good Harbor Beach, Fitz Henry Lane house, and more. 

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John Keegan Tonight ~ Dave Sag’s Blues Party @ The Rhumb Line 8:30pm 3.30.2017

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High school Spirit is at an all-time low, so let’s welcome back Mr. John Keegan®. See if he can rally your endocrines with his unsinkable style and Dejá Voodoo. Longtime leader of Madhouse™,Johnny will surely have you banging your shoe on the dance floor with his timeless renditions of timeless toons. Better yet, his choice of factotem poles will include such illuminaries as Mr. Dave Brown, ev’rybody’s favorite seasoning on catarrh, Mr. Brian Alex, leader of the famed band Entrain, another intense flavor, on gootar and vocals, topped off with Mr. Benny Benson, the cherry on top of the whipped cream. Hot Dog!

Dave Sag

40 Railroad Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930
(978) 283-9732

http://www.therhumbline.com/

AL BEZANSON’S GREEN DRAGON SCHOONER FEATURED IN CHARLES MOVALLI PAINTING!

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Did you know that the schooner shown here in the Charles Movalli painting is none other than Gloucester’s Al Bezanson’s Green Dragon?

Saturday, April 1st, at 2pm author and art historian Judith Curtis is giving an illustrated lecture to accompany the “Charles Movalli: Cape Ann and Beyond” exhibit currently at the Cape Ann Museum. To reserve seating and read more about the event go to the museum’s website here. 

Liz Frame This Wednesday 7pm @ The Rhumb Line 3.29.2017

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Dinner Specials Each Week!
Wednesday, March 29th – 7pm
Special Guest: LIZ FRAME!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wanna see a nice bit of sharp songwriting? Performance with
attitude? Wanna have some fun? Come see this week’s
incredible music guest, Liz Frame. A exquisite package! ~ Fly
Dinner with great music!
*Each week features a special, invited musical guest
The Rhumb Line Kitchen……now features Janet Brown with some new and healthy ideas!
Plus a fine, affordable wine menu!
Upcoming guests…
Bradley Royds

Toni Ann

Jon Butcher

Visit: http://www.therhumbline.com/
Looking forward……to seeing you there 🙂

 

BOSTON CRITICS RECOGNIZE GSC FOR EIGHT IRNE AWARDS!!

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Will Lyman in Israel Horovitz’s Man in Snow Photo by Gary Ng

Boston Critics‏ Recognize Gloucester Stage Company’s 2016 Season

Non-Profit Theater Receives Eight IRNE Award Nominations

The Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) recently announced the nominees for the 21st Annual IRNE Awards. Gloucester Stage Company received a total of eight nominations for the 2016 season. The IRNE Awards honor the best of the previous year’s actors, directors, designers and companies across the full spectrum of large, midsize and fringe theater companies in the New England area.

The nominations for Gloucester Stage’s 2016 season include two for Israel Horovitz’s Man in Snow: Best New Play and Best Lighting Design: Mark O’Maley; three for Deborah Zoe Laufer’s The Last Schwartz: Best Actress-Play–Midsize: Brianne Beatrice, Best Actor-Play-Midsize: Paul Melendy and Best Supporting Actress-Play-Midsize: Andrea Goldman; and three nominations for Peter Shaffer’sLettice and Lovage: Best Actress-Play–Midsize: Lindsay Crouse; Best Supporting Actress-Play-Midsize: Marya Lowry and Best Director-Play-Midsize: Benny Sato Ambush. In 2014 Gloucester resident and Academy Award nominee Lindsay Crouse won the IRNE Award forBest Actress-Play–Midsize for her performance in GSC’s 2013 production of Driving Miss Daisy directed by Benny Sato Ambush.Ms. Crouse returns to GSC in 2017 in the New England premiere of Lucy Prebble’s The Effect from June 16 through July 8.

The winners will be announced at the 21st Annual IRNE Awards to be held on Monday, April 24th, at 7:30 p.m. at the 1200 Hotel Ballroom (Holiday Inn) in Brookline, MA, just outside Kenmore Square. Tickets, as always, will be free, courtesy of the Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE). They  are soliciting donations to help cover expenses for the event. Donations can be made athttps://www.youcaring.com/irneawards-769410

The Gloucester Stage 2017 season opens on May 19 with John Kolvenbach’s Bank Job directed by GSC Artistic Director Robert Walsh and featuring Johnny Lee Davenport and Nael Nacer. For information about Gloucester Stage, or to purchase single tickets or subscription packages, call the Box Office at 978-281-4433 or visitwww.gloucesterstage.com.

Marya Lowry and Lindsay Crouse in Lettice and Lovage Photo by Kippy Goldfarb/Carolle Photography

CALL TO ARTISTS AND UPDATE FROM JUNI VANDYKE

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This from Juni VanDyke:
The latest Northshore Magazine (Spring 2017) carries a featured article on the new home furnishing company…Room&Board.  In the article is a reference to artist Juni VanDyke with photographs of the artists’ work (page 128). In 2015, the then new company (Room&Board) selected Juni’s work for distribution among the store’s statewide locations (California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, NewYork, Oregon, Washington, Washington, DC). Photos from the magazine are on their way!
Call to Artists!
seARTS Art Loan @ Bass Rocks 2017
Our Tenth Anniversary!

Deadline for Applications: April 1, 2017

We are very proud to announce that the Art Loan @ Bass Rocks program has hit a milestone… its tenth anniversary year, in 2017!

As an artist-member of seARTS, you have the opportunity to exhibit and sell your artwork in the beautiful setting of the Bass Rocks Golf Club, where over 500 club members plus hundreds of visitors will attend club events, weddings, community group gatherings and functions. Now in its tenth year, this annual display/exhibition has been appreciated by countless viewers, generating sales, commissions and exposing our artist-members to a tremendous group of art enthusiasts. This unique partnership between the arts community and the club, made possible through the efforts of the seARTS team, creates an incredible connection to local arts. All seARTS members are invited to submit recent works, and all work will be juried in by an esteemed panel of judges, hand-picked by the seARTS board.

If your membership may have lapsed, or if you’d like to become a seARTS member, please take this opportunity to renew or to join when you send in your Art Loan @ Bass Rocks application.

Once again, an informative, enjoyable, beautiful opening reception will be held at the club (date TBA) that is free and open to invited guests as well as to the public. These receptions have always been tremendously well-attended, featured a panel of experts speaking on some aspect of making/selling/collecting/caring for art, and offer an opportunity for artists and patrons to meet and mix. This is a wonderful chance for the 20-40 selected participating artists to expose themselves and their work to a local, affluent, art loving crowd.

We hope that you will submit work to be included as part of this very successful program, especially in this milestone anniversary year! To find out more, please visit the seARTS website. For the 2017 application form, click here.

KIM SMITH POLLINATOR GARDEN TALK AT THE SAWYER FREE LIBRARY

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Dear Friends,

Please join me April 6th at 7pm, at the Sawyer Free Library where I will be giving my Pollinator Garden talk and screening several short films. The event is free and open to the public. I am looking forward to presenting this program at our wonderful Sawyer Free and hope to see you there!!

Thank you to Diana Cummings at the Sawyer Free Library for making the lovely poster!

 

Echinacea and Bee

WHO REMEMBERS THE RAT?

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People sure love their Rat stories! I shared a post on facebook about the Rat that my friend Kathy Lituri had shared on hers and the comments are super fun. If you have a favorite Rat story, please share!

Rocker

By Erin Amar

The Rat Remembered: 8 True (and Terrifying) Stories from Boston’s Legendary Rock Club

The music, the vermin, the disturbing bathrooms – Rocker celebrates the filth and the fury of the seminal club!

From 1974 to 1997 Boston’s Rathskellar – aka “The Rat” – was a rock and roll institution.  A launching pad for some of the most important new wave, punk, and alternative rockers if its day, it’s dank basement stage played host to The Pixies, The Ramones, The Atlantics, The Damned, Blondie, The Fall, Robyn Hitchcock, as well as local luminaries including Mission of Burma, The Lyres, ‘Til Tuesday, The Neighborhoods, and more.  Although the storied Kenmore Square space closed 19 years ago, its legend lives on through the memories of patrons who encountered not just their rock and roll heroes, but also wild drunken debauchery, seemingly on a weekly basis, all in the name of a great night out.

The recollections below have been sourced from a variety of former employees, patrons, bouncers and musicians who lived to tell the tale.  At this point, they may be all hearsay (disclaimer! don’t sue us!), but as they say on the X-Files: We want to believe.

Thanks again to the folks who contributed their memories to this list. Every nightclub has a great story, this just a taste of the Rat’s.

 

  1. The Fleshtones were introduced by a homeless dude they found outside, and he led their parade onto the stage banging a garbage can. They bought him beers all night too! Great guys, I still follow them! – Tom Beaudet
  1. There was the night the stage collapsed at a Human Sexual Response show, and the one where a giant rat that crawled out from under the stage at an Atlantics show,… Whenever we played there we got dressed in our cars so that we wouldn’t get cockroaches in our clothes. – Valentino Herrera
  1. A customer decided to grab Kerry’s (an awesome waitress) boobs, and she knocked him out with one punch. She came over to me after, and asked me to throw him out when he came to.– Rick Bunker

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Gloucester Fresh campaign attracts international businesses

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Boston Globe

March 23, 2017

By Dave Rattigan

The city‘s Gloucester Fresh initiative had a big week, with a major promotional event and the announcement of a $13,000 grant award. It hosted more than 70 guests — including businesses from Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Mexico, and Iceland — at a tasting reception at Seafood Expo North America in Boston. The three-day expo, which ended Tuesday, attracted about 100 new business leads, according to a prepared statement from organizers. Also this week, Gloucester learned it would receive $13,000 from the state Division of Marine Fisheries’ Seafood Marketing pilot grant program. “If you are looking for fresh seafood, the quality that comes off our boats is 100 percent,” said Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken, who spoke at the reception and ran a cooking demonstration with Angela Sanfilippo of the Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Association.

Mayor Sefatia and Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Association Angela Sanffilippo provide and update to the Seafood North America Expo delegation on the seafood opportunities in Gloucester.

 

NOAA’S ERIC HUTCHINS TO PRESENT SLIDE SHOW ON DAM REMOVAL AND GLOUCESTER’ LITTLE RIVER RESTORATION, PLUS LITTLE RIVER FISH COUNT TRAINING!

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Tonight Katrina’s showcases The Martha Bourne Band 9pm 3.25.2017

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The Martha Bourne Band
w/ John Funkhouser on keys; Mike Connors on drums; Mike Castellana on guitar and Jim Haggerty on bass
(Martha Bourne winner of “Katrina’s ‘$1,000 Singer- Songwriter Challenge”  last December).
9pm
@
Katrina’s
3.25.2017
have a listen and hope to see you there!


https://marthabourne.bandcamp.com/album/just-drive
https://marthabourne.bandcamp.com/album/the-light-in-me
http://www.marthabournemusic.com/

Details

Come check out the winner of the first Katrina’s ‘$1,000 Singer- Songwriter Challenge. Martha Bourne freelance musician, composer and producer.
Katrina’s is very excited to welcome the Martha Bourne Band!
Martha Bourne also writes and produces music for tv and indie film.You do not want to miss this event!

” Martha Bourne’s new album is awash in moments of brilliance…some of these songs are true gems.”
— Steve Morse

“Bourne’s musical ideas are so expansive they rarely can be contained in a 3-minute song”

 

 


Katrina’s
14 Rogers St,
Gloucester, MA
(978) 515-7817
https://www.facebook.com/katrinasgloucester/

 

 

 

 

BIKINI SPEEDO DODGEBALL IS COMING UP- A COUPLE OF SLOTS ARE OPEN!

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Calling all dodgeball players and spectators, the 6th Annual Bikini and Speedo Dodgeball tournament is here!
Not only is the dodgeball tournament back on of this year, but due to a few teams combining and a few teams dropping out (none of the defending champs from the last 4 years are able to participate this year!!) THERE ARE STILL A FEW TEAM SPOTS OPEN FOR REGISTRATION!  Get on it ASAP as regstration is first come, first serve.
We have a new location and a new charity as well.  The event will be held in Essex on April 8 from 11-4 (tournament starts at noon).
This is a great event for players and spectators. All proceeds go to Sweet Paws Rescue, which is a phenomenal local animal rescue charity.
Teams of 5 players must have a minimum of 2 women to play and all players must be 21+. It is a double elimination tournament and takes place outdoors with music, and an event MC. Registration fee includes 5 event T-shirts. To register your team and check out pictures and videos from previous years, go to the Facebook event page here:

Or if you want just the google doc for registration:

Please contact Frankie at ftgwynne@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.  See you on game day!

LONGING FOR SUMMER DAYS

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In a quagmire of trying to organize 95,000 photos and came across this glowing Annisquam scene. Happy summer days to come! 

Annisquam Lighthouse and Ipswich Bay

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Chris Stovall Brown joins The Dave Sag’s Blues Party Tonight 8:30pm @ The Rhumb Line 3.23.2017 ~ Put on your dancin shoes!

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The Weal of fortune spins around this Thursday to land on Mr. Chris “Stovall” Brown again. One of your favorite glitar commandos and rust bucket vocallists, Chris and I often play together at O’Rielly’s (more on that later). He’s truly killer and a grate stage performer.

http://users.rcn.com/drhepcat/CHRIS_WEBSITE/Home.html

No bogosity here.We’re wealing in the biblically named Mr. Ephraim Lowell to help out on the skins. BTW, I don’t hear those alien voices much anymore, but I’m gonna wear my tinfoil hat anyhow, just for practice.


40 Railroad Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930
(978) 283-9732

http://www.therhumbline.com/calendar/

 

TAG FROM THE “PERFECT STORM’S” HANNAH BODEN FOUND ON IRISH BEACH

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Irish Examiner

March 21, 2017

By Patrick Flynn

A tag from a fishing boat that famously survived the Perfect Storm off the US coast in 1991, has washed up on a beach in Co Clare.

The tragedy, which resulted in the loss of the fishing vessel Andrea Gail and her crew, was later featured in a film starring George Clooney.

The last vessel to communicate with the Andrea Gail was her sister ship the Hannah Boden which at the time was skippered by Linda Greenlaw. Both boats had been fishing off Massachusetts when they encountered a raging storm which eventually sank the Andrea Gail.

The Hannah Boden remains in active service to this day and it was a tag from one of her lobster pots that was discovered on Fanore beach by beachcomber Liam McNamara last Tuesday.

Liam made contact with a crew member from the Hannah Boden who confirmed that the tag was from the vessel. The tag travelled over 5,000 kilometres across the Atlantic from the US coast but may have been lost overboard between 10 and 15 years ago. Liam said: “It is in fact a tag from the now very famous New England boat, the Hannah Boden, which survived “The Perfect Storm” of 1991 while her sister boat the Andrea Gail which was lost at sea with all hands. A stern man from Linda’s boat has confirmed the tag and license number with Linda herself and confirmed it as being from her boat. I posted it on my Beachcombing page and shared it on some of the USA lobster and commercial fishing sites in the hope of getting it positively identified,” he said.

In September 2015, a United States Coast Guard (USCG) life ring was found on the Clare coast thousands of kilometres where from it was lost overboard in Florida.The life ring, and attached strobe light unit and emergency beacon, were washed up near Byrnes Cove in Kilkee and spotted by the crew of the Shannon based search and rescue helicopter. The US Coast Guard later confirmed the equipment to be from a Response Boat Small Class 25ft from Coast Guard Station Port Canaveral in Florida. Port Canaveral is located 3,900 miles (6,276 kilometres) from Kilkee where the items were discovered.