A few shots of Manchester Harbor after the snow and as the temperature falls..
INSTRUMENTAL GIVING to support MUSIC CREATES at House of Blues in Boston ~ Wednesday December 18th
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Ring in the Holidays on December 18th
Please join us Wednesday Night, December 18th, at the HOUSE OF BLUES in Boston for a night of INSTRUMENTAL GIVING to support MUSIC CREATES.
MUSIC CREATES is a non-profit established in 2002 whose mission is to bring music programs into our Public Schools free of charge. Our Teaching Artists are all working professionals who have played with everyone from the Allman Brothers to Freddie Hubbard.
Based on our vision and track record in NYC, where we have been working for the past 11 years, we are pleased to announce that a very special CEO has generously underwritten MUSIC CREATES music programs in the Boston area.
One person rising up through their inspiration can change us all!
Kicking off MUSIC CREATES Boston debut, join us for a fabulously rockin’ night. Coming all the way from Orlando, we are so pleased to have Good Luck Penny. From NYC, Combust A Groove. This 8-member group is garnering a lot of media attention. It’s something you have probably never seen before!
Other special guests include Boston legend Andy Pratt and Gerry Mordis, 1st violinist for the Boston Pops who has also performed with Aerosmith and Cyndi Lauper.
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Music Around Town ♪♫♪ December 16-22, 2013
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GoPro car mount: A snowy ice drive up to Sista Felicia’s house on football Sunday!
Barry had the gang over for some football, and I was running late!
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Gifts from the Community
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Rant: Someone Needs To Take The Fashion Designer That Decided Aztec Prints Were Gonna Be The “Thing” This Year Behind The Woodshed…
Someone Needs To Take The Fashion Designer That Decided Aztec Print Fashion Was Gonna Be the “Thing” This Year Behind The Woodshed and Pop a Cap in His/Her Ass.
Who was the high powered fashion magazine editor or designer that decided that Aztec print clothing was gonna be the rage this year? I hope y’all don’t have any investments in retail because this shit just isn’t gonna sell and they’re gonna take some serious markdowns on this crap. And it isn’t just like one or two retailers having it on their racks. It’s like every single shop at the Mall has Native Aztec fashion front and center like it’s gonna revolutionize the fashion world.
Fire ‘em. Fire ‘em all. Every last woman’s clothing retail buyer should be fired on the spot for trotting out such ugly fashion this year.
Can’t we get back just a little bit to Jackie O? Is that too much to ask?
I was walking through Nordstrom and they’re also pushing MC Hammer Pants for ladies. For real??????? Oh and don’t even get me started on the whole high-waisted shorts thing. Might as well bring back 80’s bangs and spiked up hair.
They ought to just hire your boy Joey to get them back on track. You know the most unlikely joint of all that’s keeping things relatively normal- brace yourselves…. Sears Lands End for Men, Women and Children. If you would have told me I’d have more success shopping at Sears Lands End than Nordstrom 5 years ago I would have told you that you were crazy. But the facts are the facts- when Nordies rolls out MC Hammer Pants, High-Waisted Jeans and Aztec clothing as this year’s “It” fashions you gotta call ‘em out on it and someone needs to lose their job in the buying department. Bottom Line. End Of Story.
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Cutest Pup At The Middle Street Walk award Goes To…
Leslie Wind Submits-
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The Open Door 3-Minute Shopping Spree Winner!
Hi Joey,
Kathi Murphy ran The Open Door 3-Minute Shopping Spree this morning at Market Basket filling her cart with more than $1500 worth of groceries to help feed her big family for the next year! Congratulations to Kathi for a good run!
The Shopping Spree Raffle is offered each year as a fundraiser for The Open Door! Watch next August for your chance to enter and WIN!
Happy holidays and Onward!
Julie
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Community Photos 12/16/13
Dock Square Christmas Tree Rockport, photo from Anthony Marks
Peter Digre Photo
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Step by step instructions on how to find the current Rockport flood zone maps as well as the "new", proposed maps
From Kenny MacCarthy
Gloucester Maps in the next installment
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Community Photos 12/15/13
Hi Joey,
A number of swans gathered on Beck Pond in Hamilton over the past week. When I first saw them, there were ten and then over the next few days, there were thirteen – six adults and seven youngsters, it appeared. On Tuesday morning, I noticed several of them getting out of the water and up onto the ice. When I checked back a short while later, they were all gone. A friend who is an avid birder, told me that over the week, they had been flocking together into a community that would then migrate together. Had I continued to watch as they got up onto the ice, I would have seen them get into the classic “V” formation and then take off! I missed that sight, but very much enjoyed the beauty and grace of the birds during the week. I thought that I would share one of the photos that I took of them!
Gail Byrnes
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“Displaced By Fishing War” by Sean Horgan
Excellent article in the Gloucester Daily Times, written by Sean Horgan, published December 12, 2013.
“Joe Orlando still wakes up in the night, when the wind is whistling, and wonders if he should go down to the Gloucester House and make sure the Padre Pio’s lines are secure.
There still are days when the longtime Gloucester fisherman, as if lured by something invisible and irresistible, finds himself heading toward the dock to check on his boat.
“I say to myself, ‘What am I doing’?” Orlando said.
He is doing what he’s done for the past 30 years, what he’s done since he bought the 65-foot steel fishing boat in 1983 in partnership with his sister Angela Sanfilippo and her husband John.
There’s only problem: Orlando no longer owns the Padre Pio.”
Read the full article here:
Displaced by Fishing War: Gloucesterman haunted by urge to go to sea and loss of vessel
Beautiful Padre Pio, Gloucester
More posts on GMG about the Padre Pio:
GLOUCESTER AT WORK
Game Over. It’s A Sad Day For Gloucester
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10 Days Before Christmas Songs ~ What is Your Favorite Chritmas Song?
A New Favorite ~ Mary J Blige and Jessie J “Do You Hear What I Hear” from Blige’s new Christmas album A Mary Christmas, released October 15, 2013. You have to get through all the adds first, but worth it!
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Are you the type of person who actually LOVES Christmas songs? I am, and find it really keeps my spirits lifted during the holiday season. I enjoy playing it throughout our home and when in the car (to the dismay of my husband) and adore Christmas music of all genres; traditional carols and standards, spirituals, and most especially, pop and rock and roll Christmas songs. My list is quickly growing too long as I write this–The Pretender’s “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” U2’s “Baby Please Come Home,” Brenda Lee’s “I’m Gonna Lasso Santa Claus,” Eartha Kit’s “Santa Baby,” and a new favorite, Michael Buble’s version of “All I Want for Christmas is You,” to name only a very few. If you have a favorite Christmas song, or two, or three, or more, I would love to know yours.
Here’ is of one of my favorites to keep your spirits up and to get you through the holiday madness, “Christmas All Over Again,” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. I think you’ll enjoy the funny and sweet lyrics.
Reblogged from 2012
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‘Tis The Season
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Rough Seas
On a cold and stormy Sunday, even the Sea Otter needs to stay warm.
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Artist Spotlight Series – Nina Goodick
Spotlight on Nina Goodick.
Nina was born and raised in Gloucester and comes from a hardworking family of Sicilian Italian and Portugese Gloucester Fisherman. Her great grandfathers, grandfathers, father, uncles, and brother were all fisherman and she spent summers on the family fishing boat the “Linda B”. From them and the women of the family, she learned hard work, love of family, faith, and of course food. Nina says: “In an Italian family, food is love, and we feed everything.” Family has always, and will always be the most important thing in her life.
Relatively new to the pottery world, Nina has been taking classes for the past few years with Cynthia Curtis and has enjoyed the company of her new fellow potter friends. In 2012 Nina was nominated as a seArts emerging artist, and from there decided to emerge herself into learning more about pottery. Her husband Stephen, who constantly encourages her, built her a studio to work from in their home. Then came the kiln, and lots of clay and learning. Her dear friend Marty Morgan, encouraged her to explore glazes, throwing technique, and to embrace the opening of the kiln – something any potter will tell you is both exciting and terrifying.
Nina enjoys throwing functional pottery, bowls, mugs, platters, things you can use. In addition to these, she recently has been creating wall pieces – Codfish, Haddock and Redfish – which connect her to her family heritage. She has also been making wall crosses which she was inspired to create through her work with a medical mission group from the Holy Family Parish, helping the poor in the Dominican Republic. Most of her inspiration comes from her family, friends, faith, and her sister Theresa who is an artist. Nina has always looked up to her creativity and abilities to capture feelings in her artwork. Nina does not consider herself an artist, but just a person who like to make pots.
This past year Nina was a participant in the Cape Ann Ceramics Festival at Rocky neck, and the Pottery Trail. Having people visit her studio and home gallery was a great experience for her, which she truly enjoyed. She is a member of seArts, and the Rocky Neck Art Colony. Her work can be seen at the Rocky Neck Holiday Art & Fine Craft Festival weekends through December 29th, seArts Wearable Art & Home Décor Show, December 14th & 15th, and Flatrocks Gallery Feast Exhibit through December 28th.
If you’ve finished shoveling out and want to have some fun, come by the Center for Happy Hour from 3-5:00 today and see some of Nina’s work, which is being exhibited alongside some of her sister, Theresa’s work.
E.J. Lefavour
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Fear Not, Be Brave, Creative and Bold
We need a few more entrants for the Season’s Best Cookie Competition during the Winter Solstice Party at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck on December 21st. We think that some great cookie bakers out there may be afraid to enter because of the judges.
You should know that this is a blind competition, so the judges will not know whose cookies they are judging until the competition is finished.
About the judges.
Ed Collard is one of the most fair and impartial judges I have ever had the honor of working food competitions with. He likes to eat, knows what he likes, but is open to trying anything and everything, and is a master at determining excellent criteria for judging and having fun.
Mayor Carolyn Kirk is also a fair and impartial judge who really likes cookies and wants to have fun on her birthday. She has worked really hard for us and deserves some fun and good cookies to eat on her birthday.
Sister Felicia, now this could be the judge that is striking fear into the hearts of some would-be entrants. But fear not, be brave, creative and bold and enter your best cookie, confident in the knowledge that you can impress even the renowned queen of Sicilian cooking – just don’t bake Italian cookies unless you are really sure you know what you’re doing!
Go for it! Email Gigi at gigimederos@gmail.com or me at khanstudio@comcast.net with your name and the type of cookie you will enter (remember, no chocolate chip). Entrants will be asked to bring their dozen cookies in before the judges arrive on 12/21 at 2:00 to begin judging. They do not have to be holiday cookies. NEWS FLASH: All entrants in the Season’s Best Cookie Competition will be eligible to attend a free group cookie baking class with Sister Felicia!
E.J. Lefavour
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Gloucester Housewives Christmas Party Photos
Last night the Gloucester Housewives, Lillian LoGrasso, Sabrina Alves Giordano , Nina Randazzo, Christine Guarrasi DaSilva, Cinsia Ciolino, and Josie Ferrara Martell hosted their annual Christmas Party at Cruisport Gloucester.
Early yesterday, Lillian LoGrasso made a public announcement that the weather forecast for the evening was predicted to be “100% chance of fun with a few scattered crazies!!!” She could not have been more correct! The snow did not stop this party from happening. Party goers arrived at Cruisport dressed in their very best holiday attire sporting snow boats and clutching their dancing shoes! The festive vibe in the ballroom was contagious with a packed dance floor all evening. This morning I woke thinking of all the times my parents, aunts, uncles, and grandparents would pack the Amery on Prospect street each New Years Eve, for this type of fun. I am so thankful that the Gloucester housewives brought this tradition back to our beautiful community. Photos courtesy of the Housewives-
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State Fish Pier 12/15/13
11:51am
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2013 Downtown Gloucester Christmas Raffle Winner Is…
Toni Brennan!
Joe, see photo of the 2013 Downtown Christmas Raffle winner Toni Brennan. Toni won $1700 worth of gift certificates for downtown shops and restaurants.
From left to right, Joe Ciolino from the Weathervane hands the gift certificates box to Toni Brennan. Looking on are Susan Parent of Toodeloos, and Linda Palazola from Palazola Sporting Goods and Clothing.
Thanks…
Good Morning Gloucester 