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Tonights Supermoon and Last Years “Rum” Moon

Posted on by capeannpainter

Tonights Supermoon and Last Years “Rum” Moon

Moonrise 7:37pm  05/05/2012 

From EarthSky.org

Photo From http://earthsky.org/tonight

“According to U.S. clocks, May 5, 2012 features the closest and largest full moon of this year.  Calendars say May 6, by the way, for this same close full moon as seen from Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.  We astronomers call this sort of close full moon a perigee full moon.  The word perigee describes the moon’s closest point to Earth for a given month.  But last year, when the closest and largest full moon occurred on March 19, 2011, many used a term we’d never heard: supermoon.  We’ve heard this term again at this 2012 close full moon.  What does it mean exactly?  And how special is the May 5, 2012 supermoon?” CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT!

Below is a photo I took last Summer of the Full “RUM MOON”

 It’s something i’ll never forget. I almost retired after taking this shot.

https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/the-money-shot-forgive-me-lord-for-i-know-not-what-i-do/

Looking Out

Posted on by Marty Luster

Water has an endless horizon;

there is no limitation when you

look out into the water. There’s nothing to interfere

with the mind’s eye projecting itself as far as it

can possibly imagine.

Billy Joel

Brace Cove, Eastern Point

Posted on by God's Morning
 
 
Brace Cove, Eastern Point ©Fredrik D. Bodin
 
My friends Surrey and Rob, who live on Eastern Point, have a view of Brace Cove and Brace Rock. Surrey once remarked that she loves it when the rock turns “pink” late in the day. I made this photograph as a wedding present for them. While setting up my tripod and camera to capture the fleeting light, I was attacked by swarms of tiny biting insects, who had colonized the piles of damp seaweed on the beach. After suffering through several exposures, I grabbed my fully extended tripod with camera still attached and ran for the car. I’ve since learned to wear pants and long sleeved shirts, a hat, and carry insect repellant on photographic outings, just as I do for clamming and fishing. Surrey and Rob loved their present, and it hangs in their house to this day. Although I didn’t have it mind when I shot this photo, there’s a similarity between my photo and luminist painter Fitz Henry Lane’s Brace’s Rock, circa 1863–1864. We’re fortunate to have many of his paintings reside at our Cape Ann Museum.
 
Shot on 6×7 centimeter transparency film. Printed from a 4×5 inch color internegative. Image #FDB9667-001c
 
Fred
 
Fredrik D. Bodin
Bodin Historic Photo
82 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930

Another chance to be a star!

Posted on by Vickie & Peter

What were you doing on St. Pat’s Day?  If you weren’t at Minglewood, then you weren’t in this video (look for people you know.  I’m SURE you’ll be able to find at least one local, who recently wrote the funniest account EVER of a flight to Rome — plus you can see 6 behind the scenes videos here be sure to scroll down).

Don’t despair, you’ve got another chance to be a star TOMORROW night!  Brad Byrd is bringing his full band to Minglewood and Hollywood director Brandon Rose is coming back to film.  (If you see Brandon, be sure to congratulate him on his distribution offer and 8 award nominations for his latest film, The Key — see trailer here).

Music starts at 9.  Go there early, have dinner and get yourself into the next big video made in Gloucester!

But don’t wait for tomorrow night.  There’s a legend on Cape Ann tonight: Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul & Mary is at the Shalin Liu — and believe it or not, there are still good seats left  (see here)!

And of course, plenty of other great music in Gloucester for free.  See full music lineup here.

Compost Facility Open this Saturday

Posted on by Donna Ardizzoni

This is from Rose LoPicolo the Recyling Coorindator for the City of Gloucester…

Compost Facility Is Open This Saturday!

Gloucester’s compost facility, located on Dogtown Road off Cherry Street will be open this Saturday May 5th .  There will be extended hours for the first Saturday only – the hours will be 8am – 5pm.

The facility will be open May 12, May 19, May 26, June 2 and June 9th, with the hours of operation being 9am – 3pm.

Leaves must be clean and free of rocks & debris. Brush must be less than 4″ in diameter and 4′ in length. Please empty all bags for better composting and remember no bricks, no stumps and NO PLASTIC BAGS.

The Brad Byrd Band~Saturday night @ MinglewoodAtLat43 ~ From 9-12

Posted on by Joanne

I absolutely love Brad Byrd and have all of  his CD’s. There’s just something about that voice that grips you and the songs that he sings are so heartfelt. I am sure many of you can identify with the lyrics. Go see Brad Byrd and his band and have a look at the links below to get familiar if you are not already. My favorite song of all time.”ReleaseMe”

http://www.bradbyrdofficial.com/bb_downloads/release.php

http://www.bradbyrdofficial.com/

Click here and check out Brad Byrd >http://www.thetroubadoursroad.com/featured-artist-brad-byrd-zero-to-the-101/

Rome: Day One

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

It’s 11:18PM here and I’m about ready to turn in.

Everything people had told me about Rome has so far not been true, except that the food is great.
People said it wasn’t clean. I’ve found it to be very clean for a big city. People said it wasn’t safe and that people would be trying to rob you blind. I’ve felt safe everywhere I’ve gone even out by myself down some dark alleyways to get some night shots for you guys.

I’m starting to think that these stereotypes are from people who never travel and have a heart attack if a street vendor approaches them and they feel insecure about how to handle the street urchins.

Anyway maybe Rome used to be that way the same way New York was before Giuliani kicked the bums out. I don’t ave a point of reference for Rome 10 years ago but I know NYC is infinitely cleaner and safer now than it was 15 years ago.

My goal in these photo is to make you feel like you are right here with me.  Hopefully the photos will draw you in.  You can click the pictures for the larger versions.  All the photos are straight out of the camera.  I dont have my computer to tweak them.

Here are some captures from today-

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Bowl Painting at Rockport Senior Center

Posted on by God's Morning

 

An enjoyable afternoon of bowl painting took place recently

at the Rockport Senior Center preparing bowls for The Open Door’s

annual “Empty Bowl” event to be held on Thursday, May 10

from 4-8 p.m. at Cruiseport Gloucester, Six Rowe Square,

Gloucester.  Tickets are available at the door $15. for adults

and $10. for children under ten.

 

Faith Ronan (L), Lisa Novello, volunteer coordinator

for The Open Door and Rachael Ketchopulos

prepare paints for the nearly 50 people who attended this

fun event!

 

Empty Bowl events are held nationally to generate awareness

concerning hunger and to raise money for local hunger-relief

programs. Proceeds from this event will benefit the

Summer Lunch and Mobile Market programs.

E.J. Lefavour

Day One Photos Rome

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Our room is tiny but modern, spotless and in the middle of everything. The people watching is spectacular. One thing that struck me was the amount of green space you encounter right out of the airport. People that come from Italy, land at Logan and then drive through East Boston, Revere, Saugus and further before they see a field must feel pretty cold.

I can’t figure out how there are palm trees here either, right in the middle of the city.

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Morphine Front Man in Gloucester with T Max & Deb Hardy next Saturday

Posted on by Vickie & Peter

Remember Morhpine?  Not the drug, the band, led by Mark Sandman, who died on stage of a heart attack in Italy in 1999.

Mark’s friends are carrying on and have started a music education project that does excellent work.  They’ve also got an excellent band fronted by Jeremy Lyons, who sounds enough like Mark Sandman that if you close your eyes, you just can’t tell the difference.  They were gracious enough to headline the first gimmesound GiveBack benefit for the Mark Sandman Music Project at TT’s in Cambridge (check out a very entertaining article about that concert — and Mark Sandman here).   See a video of Jeremy and his band below (Jeremy is at the end of the video)

And if bringing Jeremy to Gloucester isn’t enough, T Max, founder and editor of The Noise, has added Gloucester singer/songwriter Deb Hardy to the bill along with himself (and he’s always super entertaining).  Here’s what he says about next Saturday:

JEREMY LYONS – American Roots from New Orleans to New England

“You sure can sing dem notes on dat GIT-tar!”
—Dr. John

Jeremy Lyons, versatile performer, slide guitarist, singer and songwriter, plays in and with American music traditions. After his home was washed away by Hurricane Katrina (chronicled in the song “Hurricane”), he moved up North but left a good chunk of his heart in New Orleans. His repertoire is deep enough that he could easily play an entire evening of 1) folk and blues traditional songs; 2) all original material; or 3) driving rock-tinged grooves. Though most often in his solo shows you hear an intriguing mixture of styles that add up to the best of roots music.

DEB HARDY 
Deb Hardy is a singer songwriter from Gloucester whose songs reflect the drama, beauty and serenity of this ocean harbor community. Her style of singing and guitar playing is rhythmic, expressive and powerful, with influences of Kate Bush, Yes, and Led Zeppelin.
In 2005 Hardy released the full length CD, Done By Water, which includes recordings of the Transmissions, the Deb Hardy Band, as well as her live solo performances from Club Passim. Deb has recently been recording with John Hicks.
T MAX
T Max recently released his third solo CD, Shake, an environmental tale with a score written, produced, and played completely by T Max. He is also known for founding Boston Rock Opera, doing one-man performances of Why Do We Go to War? and producing Boston Rock ‘n’ Roll Trading Cards. His publication, the Noise, is the longest running music magazine in New England.

Observations From Our Trip To Italy Day One

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Day One:

It’s 5:54PM and we are almost an hour into our flight from Boston to Rome. We’re flying Alitalia even though after reading many reviews from seasoned travelers that you want to avoid Alitalia if at all possible. Reason we booked Alitalia was because it was about $150 cheaper per ticket and offered non-stop flights at great times.

Hopefully I’ll be able to get some shut eye as the plane is scheduled to touch down at 7am in Rome. I stopped at Kappys after the Mrs requested that I pick up some orange Ketel One nips to help get some shut-eye.

Plane observations, this Alitalia plane is old, I mean OLD. I’ve been on cleaner planes and I’ve been on planes where the plastic stuff holding the seats together wasn’t all busted up like this one. Even so, overall (an hour in) I’d book this flight again for the cost savings and direct flights.

There is an American couple directly in front of me bringing what looks to be a one year old to Italy. The kid has been on again off again crying and while I sympathize with the couple there’s no way I’d take The Bean and Snoop Maddie Mad on an eight hour flight and lug them around Europe at 4 and 6 years old let alone a one year old.

Thankfully we’re not sitting near to the stanky mofo in 11D. I nearly passed out walking by the filthy animal. Those poor poor people who have to sit next to him for this 8 hour flight. I’m not sure if I could endure it. He’s rotten. How do you lose that much self respect for yourself that you walk out of the house with obnoxious BO knowing you’re gonna be on a confined plane to Europe?

Surprised to see an Indian woman (dot not feather) as part of the all Italian flight crew. Also the flight crew is comprised mainly of attractive women. I guess they don’t have to fill any gay men flight crew quotas on Alitalia.

They don’t have cranberry juice on Alitalia but the nice Indian stewardess (dot not feather) just poured me some mango/papaya juice that should pair well with my orange Ketel One.

6:40PM
Dinner is served. Saying what they serve is bad cafeteria food on Alitalia is an insult to bad cafeteria food. Some salmon with hints of green tinge mixed with soggy broccoli , some funky looking pasta shells and bread. The Mrs passes altogether offering me her tray of food which I refuse and I eat only the roll on my tray. Eagerly awaiting the stewardess to come and take the funk away. It looks like my decision to purchase the industrial size package of beef jerky at Target may have been a wise decision. The mango/papaya juice with orange Ketel One is niiiice. 🙂

The flight crew has been better than the average domestic flight crew that I’ve encountered in the past 4 or 5 years. They are friendly and very efficient. Service has been swift and very accommodating.

7:45PM

I get reamed out by the Indian stewardess (dot not feather) who catches me taking a picture of her and demands to see my cell phone. I tell her the reason I took the picture was for an article and show her my cell phone gallery which included photos of the shitty food, an envelope they handed me for a UNICEF donation which I thought was pretty fucking brazen considering the cost of the flight, a shot of my beef jerky and two photos of the Indian Stewardess (dot not feather).

Understanding that the Stewardess might think I’m some type of sicko who intended to do unsavory things with the picture like post them to a Indian stewardess (dot not feather) fetish website I offered to delete the photos of her. I explained that the picture was part of a travel story I was doing for my blog. I even offered to show her what I had written which in hindsight was probably not a wise decision but in my head the last things I had written in my 6:40PM entry was about the good service.

I deleted the photos wishing to avoid confrontation and “getting” why she might think it’s weird even though the photo was really just to demonstrate how there was an Indian stewardess on an all Italian flight crew. So needless to say you’ll just have to take my word for it.

9:50PM

I just fell asleep about a half hour ago and the one year old directly seated in front of me has begun to shriek, waking me up. What I didn’t realize was that there was another one year old in the seat directly in front of the first one year old and they are out dueling each other for who can cry the loudest.

Now again, I can sympathize with parents that fly with children and like I said before I wouldn’t bring my 4 and 6 year old cross the pond yet but what is pissing me off is that these dopey parents aren’t getting up and walking the kids up and down the aisle. That’s parenting 101 shit. Don’t just sit in the chair with the kid screaming. Get off your ass and walk the kid around the plane. The seatbelt sign is not illuminated FFS. I won’t give the parents the stink eye as I know how much that has to suck for them but it would be nice to get some sleep.

It could be worse, I could be sitting next to Stinky BO guy up in 11D.

10:21PM

The parents sitting directly in front of me finally get up and rock the baby in the aisle after a good 40 minutes or so of their baby screaming. It takes all of one minute for the child to calm down and stop crying.

10:33PM

I let a monster seat ripper beef jerky fart fly with reckless abandon. I wouldn’t normally but It’s payback time for waking my ass up. Having trouble falling back asleep.

10:46PM

Still can’t fall asleep and guess who just walked by en route to probably lay a beating on the airplane’s toilet?

If you guessed Stinky BO guy from 11D you win the booby prize.

It’s too bad I didn’t know when he would make his way down here or I woulda saved up that seat ripper beef jerky fart and timed it so he woulda got a nice face full as he passed on his way to the lavatory.

11:50PM

Our flight is directly over Madrid. Just got about an hour of sleep. We’re flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet. Air temperature outside the aircraft is minus 65 degrees and we have an hour and 32 minutes left on the flight. When we land it will be estimated 7:22AM with the time zone change.

12:18AM East Coast Time 6:18AM Rome Time

Flying over Barcelona, Spain as the orange glow of morning illuminates the sky. Thinking about The Hot Wing Challenge 21 days from today. We should have a deep field of contestants. Should be a great night.

12:47AM

Over the Mediterranean Sea outside temp -58 C, 40 minutes or so til touch down. The flight we are currently taking has no wifi. What I want and I want it yesterday is wifi globally. On my plane, on my boat, everywhere. I figure we’re about a year or two away but let me tell you that flying without wifi makes a flight seem at least twice as long. I’m not sure what the technological glitch is that takes so long to roll out wifi on all airplanes in this day and age but if I were an airline and I already had it on all my planes I’d put that front and center on my advertisements.

11:30AM

Lunch at Virgilio’s RistorantePics below from the flight-

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Texture

Posted on by Marty Luster

Noun

texture (plural textures)

  1. The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
    The beans had a grainy, gritty texture in her mouth.

Can’t buy a VIP Upgrade, but you might just WIN it.

Posted on by Vickie & Peter

You may remember that Peter and I are presenting a concert series at North Shore Music Theatre this summer (see post & videos here) and we’ve got some great VIP packages that offer exclusive access to VIP Pre-Parties, 3 Course Dinner at Backstage Bistro, Meet & Greet, Gifts & more  (see VIP details here).

Maybe you want to take your sweetheart (Joey might even recommend that sort of thing in his advice column, who knows?).  Now, when you’re a couple, VIP is the best way to go.  But maybe you don’t want to spring for VIP Tickets.  Here’s your chance to win a luxurious VIP experience for the evening.  Just sign up for the gimmeLIVE Concert Club (click here, it’s free) and you’ll automatically be entered into a drawing to win 2 FREE VIP UPGRADES to the concert of your choice.  All you need is 2 regular tickets and you and your honey can go as VIPs!

Lot’s happening in Gloucester tonight.  Will Hunt is Allen’s guest on the premiere of a new Local Music Seen show tonight at 6:30 on Cape Ann TV Channel 12.  Then, you can see Allen Estes in the flesh at the Rhumb Line with one of the area’s best blues men, Bill Gleason (who has also been Allen’s guest on Local Music Seen).

Plus there are 2 open mics, Karaoke and Dennis Monagle featuring Ric St. Germain w/ Ken Steiner on upright bass. blues/rockabilly.  See full music lineup here.