Good Morning Gloucester

Last night stopped by Cape Ann Collectors at 474 Washington Street, Gloucester to see some more present and past Plein Air paintings.  Met one of this year’s artist Joe Lombardo and loved two of his painting, “Breaking Blue” and “Autumn”.

Emile A Gruppe’ “Mending the Nets”
Charles Movalli, “Lobster Cove”

The gallery also has works by past masters, including Emile A. Gruppe’ (1896-1978) and Charles Movalli (1945-2016)

Joe Lombardo
Joe Lombardo

The beach was dotted with bright yellow bags and dogs this morning for the clean up sponsored by Clean Gloucester/ Gloucester Clean City Commission.  Coffee provided by Happy Belly (thanks so much!) brightened up the damp morning.  Ainsley told me that almost 40 people helped out by picking up garbage and recyclables at Good Harbor Beach this morning.  It seems the weather did not hold anyone back!  Great turnout.  GMG was well represented by Donna Ardizzoni and FOB Melissa Cox was helping out as well.

These people take the “carry out” rules very seriously!

The Clean Gloucester people were very efficient and friendly.  They even re-use the yellow collection bags!!  Now, that’s in the spirit of Clean Gloucester!  Well done, everyone.

Alicia Cox and I were talking about the great restaurants we have in Gloucester on the Alicia Unleashed Podcast 369 last night which you can listen to here-

Alicia Unleashed 69 With Joey C and Alicia Cox Taped 10/12/17

During the podcast we complimented Maria Seniti and her staff at The Franklin Cape Ann as being one of the most consistently good restaurants in town over a long period of time.  Then I got to thinking about that Hanger Steak with pommes frittes that she sells and wondered out loud just how many over the years they have sold seeing as it’s been on the menu as long as I could remember and it’s hard to not order it as its so damn good.  Well Maria messaged me last night and offered a free hanger steak and two drinks to whoever guesses closest.  So put your guesses in the comments or on the Facebook post on this post.  Closest guess wins.  We will close it at midnight Saturday for guesses.

The podcast is timestamped so you can go right to the parts you’re interested in-

Topics Include:

Take 2

01:40 Talking about being single differences between now and 20 years ago

03:35 Millennials Playing By Their Own Rules

05:52 Coming Out Day

06:30 Alexa Uses

14:00 Talking Tolerance

23:00 Bud Light Beer Can That Lights Up When Your Team Scores

25:20 Passports Social Media

25:55 Why Is It That Every Waitress Inevitably Asks You How Your Meal Is The Second You Put A Full Bite Of Food In Your Mouth?

28:00 The Most Consistent Gloucester Restaurants Over The Longest Period Of Time (Franklin, Passports, Duckworths)

30:17 Maria Seniti At The Franklin Guessing How Long They’ve Been Open, The Hanger Steak, Guessing Game- How Many Hangar Steaks Has The Franklin Served? Guess In the comments, closest wins a Hanger Steak and two drinks.

33:00 Au Beaujolais

34:40 Meeting Toby Pett

35:30 The Slut Double-Standard

37:15 Questions For Maria Seniti

37:55 Pronto Pizza

39:25 Shoutout To Hanna Kimberley and Predicting A Movie Deal

42:00 Harvey Weinstein Pulling The “I Need Rehab” PR Move Is So Cliche

44:40 Studio Crepe Closing

48:34 JD Aspesi Puts It All On The Line Stating Rockport House Of Pizza Has The Best Roast Beef Sandwiches Ever And I’m Intrigued

52:40 Alicia Does Her Roast Beef All Wrong

53:20 Huge Roast Beef Mystery

 

I loved this movie I saw it twice.  Once with the Rabbit and then because it was such a strong female role I wanted to bring my daughters who also loved it!

Here’s the link to buy it at half price