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HOLIDAY BLOOMS
The first of our amaryllis, planted about a month ago, are blooming, and just in time for the holidays! This variety is Amaryllis hippeastrum ‘Papillion,” and is one of the prettiest I think. ‘Papillion’ has three separate stalks, which means three bunches of flowerheads! 
Amaryllis hippeastrum ‘Papillion’
Chinese Paperwhites for fabulous fragrance
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TIDE SKIPPER DRESSED IN HOLIDAY LIGHTS
Dominic Nesta’s mini-trawler “Tide Skipper” decked out for the season.
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Sax Gordon Tonight! Dave Sag’s Blues Party 8:30pm @ The Rhumb Line 12.22.2016
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Our special Xmas show this Thursday features the clinically-proven Magi of Mayhem: Mr. Gordon “Sax” Beadle. With his own brand of fairy dust, Big G, catnip to your ears, will have you convulsing in the aisles,whilst you beg to donate to our Musician’s Retirement Plan©, and just basically turning the old bar into a steaming heap of writhing bodies.
D.S.
40 Railroad Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930
(978) 283-9732
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MIRAGE
Monday night’s sunset from Niles Beach, click image to see full size
Boston City skyline from Gloucester
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HAPPPY WINTER SOLSTICE!
Hooray – from now until the June summer solstice, the days will be getting longer!
Heading out on a cold December morning, Gloucester Harbor
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A very special night… Wednesday, December 21st – 7pm ~ The 7th Annual AMERO FAMILY CHRISTMAS!
On Christmas Eve, it was always an “Amero” tradition to gather and sing in the back room of the old house
in Essex with our beloved Mother Moulty and friends. These days, what happens at the Rhumb Line each
year on the last Wednesday before Christmas is pretty much an extension of our youth. In other words,
yes… we are INDEED grown up children. This Wednesday marks the 7th go-around for us – and it really
seems to have taken on a life of its own. Festive, fun and laughing all the way, the audience joins in on
classics like “Holly Jolly Christmas” & “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” – as well as a few of my, shall we
say, “twisted” numbers, like “(Have Yourself A) Willie Nelson Christmas” and “The Restroom Door Said
Gentlemen”. It’s a frickin’ blast no matter how you look at it. We urge that you arrive early to claim your
seat. It gets pretty nuts! Merry Christmas everyone! ~ Fly
For those who missed the Amero Family (Linda, JB & Fly)
on North Shore 104.9’s “Curtain Up” with Aurelia Nelson,
click the link below, choose the drop menu at the upper
right corner of the green podcast field and choose “Curtain
Up 12-18-16”… http://www.northshore1049.com/pages/17218006.php
ps: …and click this link to play/download a few of my original
holiday numbers… http://www.flyamero.com/christmas_wishes/
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…
12/28 Toni Ann
01/04/17 John Rockwell (guest host)
01/11 Sasquatch
Visit: http://www.therhumbline.com/
Looking forward……to seeing you there 🙂
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THANK YOU TO CAFFE SICILIA
Thank you to Caffe Sicilia’s Maria, Nina, and Dominic for the beautiful box of cookies and treats for our Christmas celebration. Just exquisite–and fabulously delicious–admittedly we tried one (or two). Thank you, thank you ❤ ❤
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the thousand dollar singer-songwriter finals are here. tonight @ katrina’s . what a lineup. the judges . CHRIS TRAPPER . RITA CARY . RUBY ROSE FOX
Katrina’s Tuesday 7:30 -10:30pm 12.20.2016
This Tuesday night It all comes down to this! After 7 weeks of incredible performances by over 35 acts, the field has been narrowed down to 8 finalists. These acts will perform before a panel of celebrity judges for a chance to win a piece of the $1,000 cash prize.
Our Judges are:
Katrina’s Tuesday 7:30 -10:30pm 12.20.2016
This Tuesday night It all comes down to this! After 7 weeks of incredible performances by over 35 acts, the field has been narrowed down to 8 finalists. These acts will perform before a panel of celebrity judges for a chance to win a piece of the $1,000 cash prize.
Our Judges are:
CHRIS TRAPPER, a Grammy Award nominated singer-songwriter, frontman for The Push Stars, and great-hair icon.
RITA CARY, a host on NRP radio who covers music on “All Things Considered.” She was the former morning host on 92.5, The River and a champion of up-and-coming singer-songwriters.
RUBY ROSE FOX, 2016 Singer-Songwriter of the Year Award Winner at the 2016 Boston Music Awards and the Improper Bostonian magazine’s pick for Best Musician of 2015 in the “Boston’s Best” issue, and featured on the cover of its 2015 “ Music” issue.
The evening’s lineup is as follows:
7:30pm: Introductions
8:00pm: Nadia Robertson
8:20pm: Chris Fritz-Grice
8:40pm: Sarah Seminski, Eric Reardon & Derek Dupuis
9:00pm: Martha Bourne
9:20pm: Pat Ramey
9:40pm: John Jerome
10:00pm: Benny Z & Mike Gruen
10:20pm: Renee & Joe
11:00pm: Announcement of the winners
~
Brought to you by Chris Langathianos of Single Tree Music, Louise Welch
&
Katrina’s
14 Rogers St, Gloucester, MA
(978) 515-7817
tfuller01929@comcast.net
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Music Around Town ~ December 19- 25, 2016
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HAVE YOU POPPED INTO BACKYARD GROWERS POP UP SHOP?
There you will find an array of thoughtful, fun, and useful gifts; not only that, but your purchases help support this outstanding organization that gives back everyday to our community, in ways great and small.
Garden gadgets and gloves, gardening how to books, Backyard Growers tees, children’s gardening tools, one of a kind finds, and much, much more. Here are some favorites of the favorites.
Give a gift of a garden to a member of our community. A donation of $25.00 purchases a card printed on paper that is embedded with seeds. The donation provides a season’s worth of seeds and seedlings to a family, and you can plant the card in the spring–your choice, a carrot- or lettuce-infused seed card. Wonderfully clever! (and Laura made the envelopes from seed catalogues, too).
Victoria Martins is helping at Backyard Growers. She is an Americord service member and her position is community engagement coordinator. I couldn’t decide which photo 🙂
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LEN BURGESS ICE CRYSTALS
Len writes, “With this deep winter freeze the ice crystals are back on my window.”
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EIGHT DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS CAROL COUNTDOWN: (Edited) RAMONES – MERRY CHRISTMAS (I DON’T WANT TO FIGHT TONIGHT)
Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight)
Addendum – My husband Tom shares a photo that he took of Joey Ramone. His band The Atlantics were opening for the Ramones at The Club in Cambridge in May 1976. I think a bootleg album was made that night and you can see the Atlantics on the marquis in the first minute of the video.
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The Ameros invade 104.9 FM tomorrow (SUN) at 9am
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Just in case you didn’t know, the Amero Family Christmas is a Gloucester tradition and it’s coming back to the Rhumb Line next Wednesday 12/21. You can get a taste of the fun tomorrow (SUNDAY) morning at 9AM when Curtain Up host Aurelia Nelson welcomes Fly, Linda & J.B. Amero into her studio — and you just never know what will happen when those folks get together. Tune in for some outrageous musical fun!
Here’s a sampler of some of Fly’s Christmas songs.
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MAKING PIGNULATA WITH GRACE AND NINA AT CAFFE SICILIA
This past week I stopped by to say hello to Maria and her family at Caffe Sicila. Nina, Maria’s Mom, invited me to come and see she and her sister Grace making pignulata. Caffe Sicilia has dozens and dozens of orders for this wonderful traditional fried pastry desert and they had already begun the first stages several days ago. Nina explains it is most typically served in Sicilian homes around Christmas time, but also other holidays too. Making this treat is a multi-step process, and labor intensive in the volume undertaken by Caffe Sicilia. The sisters offered lots of tips for making the most delicious pignulata (also spelled pignolata) and I hope I am remembering all that they shared!
The dough is rolled out, cut into marble-sized bits, and placed in cold oil.
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The bits of dough are throughly drained and set aside for several days as they release more oil. When ready to mold the pignulata, a glaze made of boiled honey and sugar is poured over the fried dough.
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Always-in-motion-Maria!
Nina and Grace grew up in Terrasini, Sicily, emigrating from Italy when they were young teens. The sisters talked about how back in their childhood days, most people did not have a kitchen oven. To bake their weekly bread and to bake treats during the holidays, families would take their loaves and cookies and cakes to the local town baker and “rent” their oven for a nominal fee. Cookies and cakes were placed on long, long wooden trays and carefully placed in the baker’s oven. Now everyone has their own oven, but most don’t bake nearly as much as they did in the old days.
Visit Caffe Sicilia and see their beautiful display of cuccidati (and every other kind of traditional Sicilian Christmas cookie), wonderfully sweet and spicy gingerbread cakes, cassata cakes, mini pignulata’s, Maria’s handmade marzipan fruits, and much, much more deliciousness!
Caffe Sicilia is located at 40 Main Street. For more information call 978-283-7345.
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UNIQUELY FUN AND WONDERFULLY USEFUL GIFTS FROM ALEXANDRA’S BREAD
We all love stopping into Alexandra’s Bread (not just because Alexandra and Jon are always so welcoming) for their yummy cranberry scone’s, breads, cobbles, and cookies. The smells of fresh baked breads emanating from the bake shop are inviting and inviting too are Alexandra’s wonderful selection of fun and practical home and kitchen gifts. Amidst the shelves brimming with aprons, tea towels, vintage dishes, prints, and handmade ornaments, you’ll find one-of-kind gifts as well.
This very unusual sterling silver spoon is etched with schooners and the words Gloucester Mass. The handle has both a lobster and starfish.
Detail of spoon
A favorite of the favorites, I love the neat way to contain clothes pins with this clothes pin bag that you hang on your laundry line.
Alexandra’s Bread, located at 265 Main Street, Gloucester, is open Tuesday through Saturday. For more information phone 281-3064.
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Dave Sag’s Blues Party tonight with Brian Templeton, Billy Loosigian 8:30pm @ The Rhumb Line.12.15.2016 Put on your dancin shoes
Dave says,
Everybody keeps asking me: when ya gonna bring back that guy, you know, big as a bear with designer overalls and a voice that could shatter diamonds? Or your sub-human desires. What? Who are you?
But seriously, folks; we got him this week. i’m talking about Mr. Brian Templeton, a great songwriter and foghorn, who commands your presence. His incisive toons and heady interpretations of classic gems is sure to explode the elastic in your BVD’s. He’s one of my go to guys when the goin’ gets rough, like my shrimp Po-boy- induced acne that needs some lovin’.
Helping out on the guitar will be Mr. Billy Loosigian, celebrity pet stylist and New Hampshire’s answer to Jimmy Page. Been in every Boston band in the world since 1975.Mr. David Mattacks, the Atomic Clock, will add his cesium and desist order to the proceedings. I’m bringing my big-ass tube amp, just to show ya. Do not miss this.
Nexxxt Week: Sax (Flash) Gordon Beadle and the hippies from hell. OMG! Free radiation suits to the first 20 customers.
here’s a short clip from the last time Brian, Dave, Billy and Dave played The Rhumb Line
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CONGRATULATIONS TO MAYOR SEFATIA AND CHEF ANTHONY CATURANO FOR HUGE SUCCESS FIRST EVER SAUCE COOK OFF FOR A CAUSE!
Bravo and huge shout out to Mayor Romeo Theken, Chef Anthony, the Tonno staff, and all the volunteers who contributed to today’s successful sauce cook off charity luncheon. Held at Tonno (Anthony donated his restaurant and the Tonno staff volunteered their time), the event raised money to benefit three families with a member undergoing cancer treatment at Addison Gilbert Hospital. The families will each receive $500.00. The additional monies raised are going to the oncology department at AGH. A wonderful time was had by all, especially the Chefs, Mayor Sefatia and Anthony Caturano.
The event was inspired by Chef Anthony (erroneously) referring to sugo as gravy. War was declared and a sugo cookoff to benefit charity was decided upon. See Mayor Sefatia explaining Gloucester-acceptable terms for sauce (practically anything but gravy) 🙂
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ELEVEN DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS CAROL COUNTDOWN:BARBARA BONNEY AND MARIA CALLAS SINGING AVE MARIA
Ave Maria may not strike some as season appropriate, but I have them both on my Christmas play list. I love the Schubert Ave Maria and Barbara Bonney’s is the most beautiful ever recorded. Sadly, her recording is often mistakenly attributed to Maria Callas (look on youtube for yourself). Two extraordinarily beautiful and uniquely different voices, its difficult to understand the erroneous attribution.
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PRETTY GOOD HARBOR BEACH SUNRISE
Chilly December morning sunrise at GHB today–only eight more days until the winter solstice, which is December 21st, and then the days will begin to get longer!
Good Morning Gloucester 