That artist and GMG contributor, EJ, hasn’t been paying attention to the time, and will soon be out in the field with no barn in sight – aka homeless? My lovely winter rental home in Annisquam reverts back to the Bentleys for their family’s summer enjoyment come June and I need to find new digs/work space. If anyone out there in GMG land knows or hears of an artist friendly (affordable) situation out there, I would be grateful to learn about it. I can return here after Labor Day (which I would love); but I would also be happy to know about more permanent arrangements. Cape Ann is home to me now, and I don’t love moving, so finding a more permanent home base would be wonderful. I am clean, quiet, come with great references, and am a good neighbor. Did I mention I have cats (very well behaved, indoor couch potato cats). Please email me if you know or hear of anything at khanstudio@comcast.net. Thanks, EJ
PS This was a cow I did a barter commission painting of when I lived in Jamaica, in return for a season of fresh honey bananas.
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Underwood Photography will be holding a portrait event for your pet(s) to help raise money for the Cape Ann Animal Aid. Saturday and Sunday, March 26th and 27th 9am-4pm
Package includes one 30-minute portrait session and one 5×7“ portrait for $49 plus one bag of dry pet food or can of wet food that Underwood Photography will donate to the shelter.
1/2 of the fee goes to Cape Ann Animal Aid and 10% of all additional proceeds goes to CAAA
Each pet receives a pet goodie bag with items from supporting businesses.
Portrait sessions must be booked in advance. Please call 978-768-7472 for more information or to book your appointment.
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Caution Regarding Sewer Treatment Disks — Update March 15, 2011
Thousands of discharged disks from the Hookset, NH wastewater treatment plant have washed up on local shores including Coffins Beach, Wingaersheek Beach, Long Beach and private areas along the coastline.
The city is formulating its clean up plan, and in all likelihood will require the assistance of citizen volunteers.
If disks are handled, rubber gloves must be worn and hands should be washed or sanitized immediately afterwards. Disks can be placed in plastic bags and dropped off at the Dept. of Public Works on Poplar St. for disposal.
I was driving in past Fenway Park this morning and as I moseyed down Lansdowne Street something strange was happening. The sky seemed to be flashing yellow, then magenta, then the next moment it would be pure Red Sox red. They were testing out the new super mega screen. I’ve posted earlier how this pure black monolith sucked the light out of the sky above Fenway like that one in the movie “2001 a Space Odyssey”.
I immediately got on my cell to my pal who sells tickets in Fenway and asked her what they were doing and she explained that they could now put anything up on the screen. So I gave her the internet address and a moment later,
Click on the screen to see what I saw next …
If you do not say “wow” the first time you enter the park this season you really ought to check your pulse.
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I generally don’t bring the camera out for dinner with the Mrs which means places like the Duck don’t get pictures of the food in our pages.
Let me just say that there is a reason it’s the number one Zagat rated restaurant in the northeast.
They hit all the points of excellent service, fantastic food, and reasonable prices (yes you read that right) reasonable prices. I think many times people assume they are going to be pricey but it general it isn’t any more expensive than going to any other fine restaurant in G-town.
How in 1990 a high school art teacher in Michigan helped his students, and ultimately Cape Ann solve a problem? They were searching for a way to raise funds to support a food drive. What evolved was a class project to make ceramic bowls for a fund raising meal. Guests were served a simple meal of soup and bread, and were invited to keep the bowl as a reminder of hunger in the world.
By the following year the originators had developed this concept into Empty Bowls, a project to provide support for food banks, soup kitchens, and other organizations that fight hunger. Since then Empty Bowls events have been held throughout the world, and millions of dollars have been raised to combat hunger. The Open Door/Cape Ann Food Pantry saw this event as a way to raise funds and also to raise awareness in the community that hunger does exist on Cape Ann.
For the last ten years professional potters from the North Shore ClayWorks group have donated bowls; seniors at the Rose Baker Senior Center made bowls; students in public and private schools all over Cape Ann made bowls; and lots of people who had never worked with clay created hand-built bowls at Marty Morgan’s studio.
The photos above are: 1.) Jim and Lea Watson and Mark Morgan creating their lovely bowl contributions, 2.) some completed bowls awaiting glazing and firing, 3.) inside Marty’s workshop are many bowls in process (the blue tinted ones have been decorated, glazed and are awaiting firing) and a couple of finished products, 4. & 5.) pottery on a rolling shelf system, that when the time is right gets rolled into the large gas-fired kiln at right, and 6.) some of Marty’s lovely pottery in the studio shop. Marty Morgan Pottery is located at 428 Washington Street in Gloucester. Mary has been working on Cape Ann since 1972, creating dinnerware and other functional pottery. Her glazes and designs, inspired by the quarries and river outside her studio, has evolved over time. Her latest work features heavily textured, multi-colored porcelain wall tiles and vessels. She welcomes visitors to tour the studio, see work in progress and sit by the river to watch the swans and egrets. Visit www.martymorganpots.com to see more (and better photos) of her work. Marty also has some of her work on exhibit at the Sawyer Free Library as part of the Cape Ann Artisans Group exhibit through March, a very nice exhibit which you should definitely stop in to see.
This year’s Empty Bowl event will be held May 12th 4- 8 pm at Cruiseport. Tickets $15 for adults and $10 for children and are available at the door. Extra parking is available at Harbor Beach with complimentary trolley service to and from the event site. The Silent Auction part of the event features work by local politicians as well as local artists such as Marilyn Swift, Kevin Ellis, Betty Lou Schlemm and Sigrid Olsen. There will be delicious soups and breads donated by local restaurants and bakeries. Best of all, everyone in the community who attends the event has a wonderful time, makes a significant contribution to the Food Pantry, and gets to take home a beautiful bowl as an unspoken reminder that somewhere someone’s bowl is empty. In 2010 nearly 1,000 people attended the event and they raised over $26,000 for the Food Pantry!
On Saturday, March 26 from 10:00 am to noon, you too can enjoy painting a bowl to contribute for the event at Open Door Food Pantry, 28 Emerson Ave.
For more information on the Empty Bowl Project, visit www.emptybowls.net. For more information about the Open Door/Cape Ann Food Pantry: www.foodpantry.org, or call: 978-283-6776.
The Spring Fling Fair is a great event happening March 26th at O’Maley Middle School, 32 Cherry Street, Gloucester from 9a-2p. See attached flier. Proceeds this year will go towards the purchase of lockers for O’Maley Middle School. The current lockers pre-date backpacks (yeah, when I was there in ’79, we actually CARRIED our books!). New lockers will be wider and will accommodate coats & backpacks. Hope to see lots of folks at the Fair. As you can see, there will be all kinds of terrific vendors, kids’ crafts by the PTOs, pizza & snacks, etc.!!! It will be a lot of fun and a great way to SPRING forward! Erika
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Yes I’m not going to stop banging the drum about how important it is to use social media for your business or organization.
Here is an example of a company who just started up their twitter thang and how they just plain get it already-. The Bean and Leaf Coffee House is in Rockport and they tweeted this-
Now I wouldn’t have known this otherwise. It took the owner or employee responsible for their twitter feed all of 5 seconds to write out this little special deal but it got my attention and I’m sure a whole bunch of either folks attention. Building a business and brand one customer at a time.
Check out their twitter feed here and follow them- @BeanLeafCafe
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You asked that I keep you updated with news from our efforts to have No Pretty Prayer accepted into film festivals.
I am happy to let you know that ‘No Pretty Prayer’ will screen at the Boston International Film Festival on April 21 at 29 at the AMC Theatre at 175 Tremont Street, Boston, MA. According to information provided by Festival organizers, the film was one of about 100 films accepted from 2600 entries.
More information about the Festival is available at their website: www.bifilmfestival.com
Exciting stuff!
Thanks again for your help, support and interest in the project.
Sincerely,
Sal
Here’s my interview with Sal before the first screening-
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Thursday, March 17 · 8:00am – 11:00am
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THE FARM Bar & Grille
233 Western Ave
Essex, MA
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THE FARM Bar & Grille
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Saint Patrick’s Day happens to be our favorite holiday at the Farm. So, in celebration of this holy event we will be opening the bar up at 8am for a traditional Irish Breakfast. Throughout the day we will be offering food specials (boiled dinner, Guinness mac and cheese, Irish bread, bread pudding, etc), music, games, tomfoolery, contests, dancing, celebrating and other various shenanigans. Join in whenever your schedule allows but don’t miss out on spinning the big board. This year we are offering t-shirts and sweatshirts, they are limited so the earlier you get here the better off you’ll be.
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That Gloaming is the time of day immediately following sunset and before dark? People go to watch and photograph the sunset; but it is the gloaming that to me is always the most spectacular atmospheric condition and what determines whether a sunset was amazing or just nice. I have had people say to me as I arrived at a spot: “Oh, you just missed the sunset”, as they were leaving and missing the grand finale of the event that I was arriving just in time to catch.
A free skin cancer clinic will be held at the Addison Gilbert Hospital on Tuesday, March 29 from 1-3 p.m. in the Gorton’s Specialty and Cancer Care center locate on the fourth floor. The clinic will be conducted by dermatologist Robb Marchione, M.D. with Northeast Dermatology Associates. Appointments are necessary and may be scheduled by calling the Health Connection at 888-253-0800. Those individuals who are concerned about a mole or other skin abnormality are welcome to attend the clinic. This is not a dermatology clinic and surgical procedures will not be performed. The clinic*s purpose will be to determine whether any treatment is necessary.
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Don’t miss your chance to win $10,000! There are less than 15tickets left for the12th annual Irish Sweepstakes. The party istomorrow, March 15, from 5:00 p.m. to7:00 p.m. at the Gloucester House Restaurant, 63 Roger Street, in Gloucester. The festivities will include Irish music and dance, traditional appetizers, great door prizes, and the chance to be one of eight winners who will share $15,000 in prizes.
The Chamber’s Sweepstakes Committee, chaired by Patrick Thorpe of BankGloucester, has printed 300 tickets, which are for sale at $100 per ticket. Purchase of a ticket will admit two people to the party and drawing. There will be a $10,000 first prize, three $1,000 second prizes, and four $500 third prizes. Contact the Chamber office at 978-283-1601 or susan if you would like to purchase a ticket.
Saturday and Sunday, March 26th and 27th 9am-4pm
Good Morning Gloucester 