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Artist, Marilyn Swift http://www.marilynswift.com/ and NSAA Gallery Director, Suzanne Gilbert http://www.nsarts.org/ represent at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery on Saturday.  There were so many people on Rocky Neck yesterday that I am surprised it didn’t take on water.  It was so hectic in the gallery that I missed many photo ops and chances to have people represent.  It was great to meet so many fans of Good Morning Gloucester and I wanted to thank you all for coming by.  Don’t be strangers.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

That the grand opening of Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery will be held on Thursday, June 2 from 5:00 to 9:00 pm during Night on the Neck, with a performance by spoken word beat poet, Joda Khan (think bohemian, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Maya Angelou – not your grandmother’s poetry).  Some of your favorite GMG personalities are bound to be in the house (maybe even R. Duck accompanied by Paul Morrison).  Come on by, have fun, represent, get your photo up on GMG, and then at 9:00, swing over to Madfish Grill and kick up some sand with Soul Rebel Project (wharf girls, EJ and Alma McLaughlin will be leading the dance party – maybe Brenda Malloy and Wendie Demuth will join in).  Who knows, maybe we can even get Art Rocks! Paul Frontiero onto the dance floor.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

Too anyone who took the time to try to find an “Art, Rock!” please forgive me! it was all Joey’s idea! 🙂 I actually felt bad for the others who were looking for it. I Honestly don’t understand the intense interest in this “Art, rocks!” Thing. Others do.  But I enjoy doing them. Thanks goes out to my “Art Sensei” Deb Clarke for helping my simple mind think outside the box! She’s an awesome Women and ARTIST!  David “Doc” Vincent should feel lucky to have Such a woman! as his partner.  Also my “GIRL” Cathy who’s my biggest supporter and supports my “craziness” that this blog has brought me into. she has help so many families endure their parents challenges in their time of need at Seacoast Nursing home. You should feel very Lucky to have a woman like my wife Catherine looking after your Parents, Grandparents and Family. Their aren’t too many around like her! She’ll probably be mad at me for saying that here. But her and people like her never get the recognition they deserve publicly! I thank them now, because you never know what will happen in your life. I could get hit by an ice cream truck tomorrow. Which wouldn’t be too bad of a thing as long as I had an ice cold creamsicle before it happens. 🙂

 

Soul Rebel Project Rocked Rocky Neck Last Night during the Official kick off to Summer.

Looked like everyone was having a great time.

http://soulrebelproject.com/

Also follow them on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/soulrebelprojec

Posted from my back steps with my iPhone in my PJ’s. I love Sundays!

 

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”
Mary Jean (Lily) Tomlin (1939-     )

click picture to view Lily Tomlin wikipedia page

Detroit born comedian and actress Tomlin got her first big break in 1969 as a member of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In where she developed long-running characters such as Ernestine, the telephone operator, and Edith Ann, the wise and plain spoken five-year-old. She went on to create memorable roles in movies including “All of Me”, “Nine to Five” and “Short Cuts.” She was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Altman’s “Nashville”, and has received numerous awards including four Emmys, a Tony, and a Grammy for her Broadway and recorded work including the one-woman show "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe".

Greg Bover

photo from Susan Lucas

Wednesday, June 8th 7:30 to 9:00 pm.

Presenter: Jim McAllister, Local Historian and Art Collector

From the sandy beaches of Lynn and Swampscott to the rugged fishing communities of Cape Ann to the marshes of Ipswich, Boston ’s North Shore has long been a magnet for artists from America and Europe .

Winslow Homer, the Impressionist Childe Hassam, and Maurice Prendergast are just a few of the famous painters who were drawn to the area and left behind their visual impressions of its natural beauty and residents.

Join Jim McAllister as he traces the development of the lively North Shore art scene between 1870 and 1930. McAllister will profile some of the area’s home grown painters, including Frank Weston Benson, Arthur Wesley Dow, and Charles Woodbury. He will also look at specific North Shore locales, especially the Lynn Beach area, Ipswich, and East Gloucester , where artists gathered to paint. 

McAllister’s talk will be heavily illustrated with images of works depicting North Shore scenes by both resident and visiting artists. These works will range from urban views of Gloucester by John Sloan, Edward Hopper, and Stuart Davis, to woodblock prints of the Ipswich River by Arthur Wesley Dow; to the charming naive paintings by Marblehead ’s J.O.J. Frost.

Waterline Center

66 Main Street, Essex Essex Shipbuilding Museum

Admission $8 members, $10 nonmembers For more information call (978) 768-7541

www.essexshipbuildingmuseum.org

“Art, Rocks!” 12pm Post? What?

Was I supposed to post something at 12pm Today?

The Next Art rock ain’t gonna happen til’ Sunday Morning!

It’s a special edition ROCK!

Joey’s a pain in my A$$! 🙂

The Cape Ann Military Family Support Group meets on

the first Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at the

Major Fred W. Rito Veterans Center, 12 Emerson Avenue , Gloucester . They provide support to Cape Ann families and friends who have family and friends serving in the military.

On Thursday, July 7 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., members of the Cape Ann Family Support Group will be in the Café at Addison Gilbert Hospital, please stop by and visit their

informational table.

During the month of June, items will be collected for our military serving in Iraq and Afghanistan . Items that are needed include:

Energy bars,Hard candy,Gum, Granola Bars, Pretzels, Pringles, Cookies, Canned nuts

Powdered Drink Mixes, such as Gatorade, Lemonade,, Kool-Aid, Ice-Tea mix, etc.

Micro-wave popcorn,Beef Jerky

Items may be left at the main entrance of the Addison Gilbert Hospital during the month of June. These items will be provided to The Cape Ann Military Family Support Group who will be making up care packages to our local soldiers serving.

Thank you for your consideration to help!

Tina Ketchopulos

Check It Out-

Best Cook: Downriver Picnics

When Laurie Lufkin was little, her folks would buy subs from the local deli, the family would all pile into a boat with drinks, a big pot, and a bag of steamers, and they’d head downriver to the vast white dunes of Crane Beach. Her father owned the marina here, and her grandparents lived across the Essex River. "We’d boil up the clams and eat them right there on the beach," she says.Now Laurie goes down to the beach with friends in her own little skiff, puttering along the river, past the marshlands and Hog Island, out almost to the open ocean. "I’m so lucky to live so close to one of the most gorgeous places on the planet," she says.

For the rest of the story click here

Congrats Laurie!

That I had a really dirty car until she was amazingly cleaned by the Boy Scout Troop 112?  They are doing a car wash right now on East Main Street behind Smokin Jim’s Bar-B-Que – until noon.  If you have a dirty car and want to get it clean and help support Troop 112 – get down there right now.  Troop 112 will also be holding a yard sale on June 18 from 8:00-noon at East Gloucester Marina on Norwell Court (across from Richdale’s on East Main).  Get clean.

E.J. Lefavour

That this is an adult male common eider in eclipse plumage?  Male eiders are very handsome sea ducks, who exhibit strong sexual dimorphism to attract females, so when I saw this mangy looking fellow feasting on a mollusk beside Capt. Joe & Sons, I didn’t know what it was.  In the non-breeding season, they moult into this drab female-like appearance, which is called the eclipse plumage. When they shed feathers to go into eclipse, the ducks become flightless for a short period of time.  Some duck species remain in eclipse for one to three months in the summer, while others retain the cryptic plumage until the next spring when they undergo another moult to return to their breeding plumage.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

Perfect night for white sangria, lobster ravioli, and the piano at Giuseppe’s

look at all that lobster meat!

That Paul Frontiero does a really great job at T-shirt printing?  See Paul and Joey here in front of Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery holding up two of the fresh off the press GMG Tees.  These Hanes Beefy T-shirts come in stone washed blue, pale pink and dark gray and can only be found at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery, 77 Rocky Neck, G3, so come on down and help promote the blog which does so much to help promote Gloucester and greater Cape Ann.  While supply lasts, only $20.

E.J. Lefavour

That there is so much going on around Rocky Neck this Saturday, that you should plan to pack a bag and stay over?  Aside from all the great galleries, restaurants, music and general funky coolness that are going full swing this Memorial Day weekend, there are some special added attractions. 

Amy’s Coffee & Cones will be featuring reggae with Soul Rebel Project from 3:00 to 6:30.  If you missed them Thursday night at Madfish Grill, make sure you catch them at Amy’s, or even if you were at Madfish, you’ll probably want to hear them again, they’re that good.  Then there is always cool, fun, funky and positive Brenda Malloy’s Imagine Gallery – stop in and see what’s new.  Then there are three opening parties going on, so pace yourself.  Rocky Neck Art Gallery will be holding Receptions for both the 2011 Members’ Exhibition and the Break Out Student Exhibit from 5:00 to 8:00pm at 53 Rocky Neck.  Then at 75 Rocky Neck, Kathy Archer of White Bird Gallery and Sigrid Olsen of ISLA at 75 Rocky Neck are collaborating on an opening party, also from 5:00 to 8:00pm – a must do.  And stop by Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery at 77 Rocky Neck G3, just for the adventure of it, and check out Chris Murray’s new exhibit of 3d photography of Mexico (everyone who has seen it says the same thing: “WOW”), as well as work by the man behind GMG, Joey C. and contributors “Art Rocks” Paul Frontiero, photographer extrodinaire, Sharon Lowe and “Did You Know?” EJ Lefavour.  Then check out Wendy Demuth Photography’s soft opening at 77 Rocky Neck, G5 (next door to Khan Studio and across from ISLA). 

At 8:00pm, Madfish Grill will feature Young Guns Jamboree with Joe & Renee, Charlee Bianchini, Pete Lindberg Band and Jake Parde Band.  I think Rocky Neck is just about the most happening place in the Universe this weekend – so be here, or be somewhere not quite as cool.