Gloucester Smiles ~ 169
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Gloucester at the Boston Globe Travel Show
More Cape Ann Dining News-
http://www.capeanneats.com
Discover Gloucester made a splash at the Boston Globe Travel Show, letting potential visitors from all around the state (and beyond) in on what makes Gloucester a tourism destination.
In addition to the booth, which featured fifteen local businesses, Chef Ryder Richie of Latitude 43 drew crowds to the show’s culinary stage for a discussion and cooking demonstration focused on Gloucester-landed seafood.
In the words of the Boston Globe Travel Show’s Chef Duda (of A&E’s Well Seasoned Traveler), “Chef Ryder’s presentation was Four Stars….one of the best of the show.”
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Sawyer Free Library: Week of February 28
More Cape Ann Community News-
http://www.capeanncommunity.com
Board Game Night Tues March 1
5-8pm
Open board game night! Spread out on one of our tables and play one of the library’s games. Or bring your own!
Learn a new game, play a classic, make new friends!
.
Cape Ann Astronomy Club Lecture Saturday March 6
1-3pm 
Representatives from the Gloucester Area Astronomy Club will present lectures/workshops on issues of interest to amateur astronomers. All are welcome!
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
ARTISTS MIDORI GLEASON AND NICK RANSOM OPENING TONIGHT AT MICHAEL BARNA’S MAIN STASH!
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
The Seaside Garden Club Presents Green City Growers
The Seaside Garden Club presents Green City Growers talk on Container Farming 101 on March 8th at the Manchester Community Center. Doors open at 7:00 pm for social time and program begins promptly at 7:30 pm. All are welcome. Guests $5. Light refreshments will be served.
Getting Started: Container Farming 101. From raised beds to pots and everything in between,learn the ins and outs of successfully growing vegetables and fruits in small spaces and unconventional containers. We’ll cover everything you need to know about setting up for success – location, design, light and containers. Learn about choosing your edible plants and the planting methods – goals, seasons, crop mapping, seeds and starts, where to get your plants and soil mix.
Jessie Banhazl is CEO and Founder of Green City Growers. She has managed Green City Growers since inception in 2008 while establishing GCG as the leader in urban agriculture in the Northeast. Since 2008, Green City Growers has built and maintains hundreds of raised bed and rooftop vegetable gardens in greater Boston and beyond, including a 5000 square foot milk crate rooftop garden on Fenway Park and a half-acre rooftop farm atop Whole Foods in Lynnfield. Jessie graduated from Smith College and worked previously in reality TV production, utilizing her project management, marketing and communications experience when choosing to launch GCG. Jessie was named “…arguably the queen of Boston’s urban ag visionaries” by Stuff Magazine, among the Top 40 Under 40 by Boston Business Journal, Top 30 Under 30 by Zagat, and a Root Cause 2013 Social Innovator. http://greencitygrowers.com/
The Seaside Garden Club’s upcoming programs include: April 12th – Simple Steps to Organic Lawn Care by Chip Osborne; May 10th – Annual Auction and Plant Sale; June 14th – The Art of Ikebana presented by Kaye Vosburgh and sponsored by the Manchester Cultural Council.
The Seaside Garden Club meets the 2nd Tuesday of the Month (September through June) and are always looking for new members. Make sure to sign up for your 2015/2016 Seaside Garden Club Membership – still on $25 for the entire season! Invite your friends and neighbors, all are welcome. Guests $5. Visit our blog https://seasidegardenclub.wordpress.com/ or find us on Facebook!
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Breakfast is Served…again
Last week, Steve and Kelly Salah closed the front door of Rockport’s Red Skiff for the last time. The last time until its reopening under new ownership this morning, that is. As I drove by at 7:30 last night I found new owner, Talia Khan-Bettencourt, and some others busy at work preparing for today. With a new sign hung by the door, that only remained closed for a mere ten days, comes the promise of more meals, mug ups, and memories.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Cape Ann Museum Host’s Career Info Session
More Cape Ann Community News-
http://www.capeanncommunity.com
On Saturday, March 5th, the CAM will host a unique opportunity for area college and high school students interested in working in the cultural sector to join in conversation with a panel of young professionals employed locally in arts- and culture-related occupations.
Participants will meet young men and women working for the Cape Ann Museum, the Hive, Maritime Gloucester and Trident Gallery. Curators, educators and administrators will recount the journeys that led them to their current positions, take questions from the audience, then split off into small groups for discussion and specialized consultations. For high school students curious about educational directions and college students wondering about what kinds of jobs are out there, this informational program is a great place to begin. Admission is free for students—all you need to bring is a collaborative spirit and career-minded questions.
For more information please call (978) 283-0455 x10 or email info@capeannmuseum.org.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Passports Wine Dinner Sirloin
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Are fishcakes obsolete? ___ No. 7 from Al Bezanson
From Leslie’s Weekly, courtesy of Gorton’s archives
See the excerpt about “how many men does each schooner carry”
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
GLOUCESTER HEROES
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCOVbV-jytW/
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
MAKE SOME NOISE FOR ONE BILLION RISING!
Hosted by Mayor Sefatia, a tremendous and well-attended event was held today in support of Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention. A coalition of survivors, supporters, community leaders, local police, and service agencies gathered in City Hall’s foyer to stand up for compassion towards survivors and an end to violence against women locally, nationally, and internationally. Make some noise for One Billion Rising!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCODuBnDyp2/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCONxw9DytD/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCOPSMmDygR/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCOQMhsjyif/
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Splash Over
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Ebb Tide
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Mug Up Goes to Texas
Those of you who were regular participants at the weekly Mug Ups at Khan Studio and the GMG Gallery on Madfish Wharf will remember Gigi and Stevie from Aquatro Gallery. They were good friends, great artists and very determined competitors (and winners) in many of the food competitions we held. They moved to Texas last year, and have started a Mug Up tradition there. In this newspaper article, they say I started Mug Ups (which I did at the gallery), but we all know Mug Up is a very old Gloucester fisherman term for coffee break, and nothing I came up with, but we did have fun, and I hope they do in Texas too. Nice to see one of our oldest seaport traditions making its way to Texas.
San Marcos Corridor News 2/24/16
Rio Claro Studio Announces Mug-Up – Community-Building One Cup of Joe At A Time
Rio Claro Studio, a San Marcos TX downtown gallery, is pleased to announce a big new monthly event called Mug-Up. The event will be held in the foyer of Rio Claro Studio at 120 West Hopkins Street, San Marcos TX 78666 this upcoming Saturday morning, February 27, 2016 between 10 am – 12 pm. Rio Claro Studio invites everyone to stop by and to bring your own mug! Mugs will be provided if you forget.
Mug-Up is a caffeine-fueled, informal meet-up. Rio Claro Studio will provide the coffee and some baked goods; all are welcome to bring a sampling of their favorite goodies and treats as well. Tradition holds that there are always deviled eggs to start things off.
The first Mug-Up was created by Ellen “Ejay” Lefavour on Madfish Wharf in the Rocky Neck Art Colony in Gloucester MA where Gigi Mederos and Stevie Black had their successful gallery, Aquatro Gallery. Mug-Up was a way for anyone and everyone to enjoy community building and networking on a grassroots level while enjoying a hearty cup of coffee and a tasty treat. It is because of Ejay’s love of deviled eggs that Stevie and Gigi will keep that tradition alive here in San Marcos.
Rio Claro Studio will hold the event monthly on the last Saturday of every month. Each month the studio/gallery will create an event page on Facebook with dates and times. The event will be held rain or shine, and the public is welcome and encouraged to attend this free event.
ABOUT RIO CLARO STUDIO
Rio Claro Studio is a concept space located on West Hopkins Street between Guadalupe and Comanche Streets in the West Downtown neighborhood of San Marcos TX. Opened in September of 2015, the unique space has a working fine art studio alongside a bustling retail gallery/boutique space. The two artist/designers, Gigi Mederos and Stevie Black, create and sell their own fine artwork, and design surfaces and textiles for their own lines of fashion accessories and home goods. Rio Claro Studio also carries local and international jewelers, and a variety of fair-trade certified goods from artists and artisans from around the world. For more information or to schedule an appointment to visit Rio Claro Studio, please go to their website at: http://www.rioclarostudio.com
E.J. Lefavour
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
BREAKING NEWS Amy Speace Concert Cancelled for Friday Feb 26th
All tickets will be refunded. Credit card charges will be refunded. If you bought tickets at The Bookstore in Gloucester or Toad Hall Bookstore, please return to that store for your refund. If you have questions, write to info@oldsloopcoffeehouse.org or call 
978-309-9667.
Old Sloop Coffeehouse will try to reschedule – please check back!
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Old Sloop Coffeehouse announces that the Amy Speace with MaryLeigh Roohan show is cancelled. See info below
Old Sloop Coffeehouse
We are sorry to say that the Amy Speace concert for tomorrow, Feb. 26, has been cancelled because Amy is ill. We hope to reschedule this concert and will let you know. For ticket refunds: if you bought your tickets at The Book Store in Gloucester or Toad hall Bookstore, please return to that store for your refund. If you bought your tickets online at our website we will refund your payment. Any questions please contact: oldsloopcoffeehouse.org or call 978-309-9667. So sorry for the inconvenience! — with Celene Lyon and Geof Lyon.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Tonight A Tribute Allen Toussaint at The Dave Sag’s Blues Party 8:30 to 11:30pm 2.25.2016
It’s a special week for me as I capture some of my favorite high-value targets and toss ’em on the stage for a big whoop-di-do. Seeing as how one of my favorite songwriters and performers passed on a few months ago, I thought It’d be a good idea to honor him with a tribute. I’m talkin’ about Mr. Allen Toussaint.
You may not have heard the name, but this guy was one of the most important tunesmiths of the 60’s and 70’s. He wrote over 1000 songs, some of which are classics.. We’re gonna do like 30 of them, if we can, with no rehearsal, no backsies and no money down. To help me out I’ve engaged my most favorite lovers of his music. Phew!
Let’s start with Edd Scheer, everybody’s favorite frontman, drummer and vocalist. Add Mr. Jon Ross, on guitar and vocals, and Mr. John Cameron , on keys, and me, suffering with a swollen enigma, coughing my brains out, and writing out words to 30 songs and what do you get? Hopefully a stellar night of Allen’s top notch music!
Somebody help me!
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Gloucester Smiles ~ 168
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
20 Fort Square – Progress (Roof Top Deck)
Working Together – Giacalone Contracting, Taormina Architects and Builders, Kyle C. White Construction
Good Morning Gloucester 