Don’t forget it’s Cinco de Mayo

Posted on by Vickie & Peter

Cinco de Mayo Raffle at Jalapeños

Enter to win a trip for 2 to Cancun Mexico!  
This weekend ~ May 3rd – 4th
Purchase an entrée dine-in or take-out, and you will receive 3 Raffle tickets for the trip.

Hours:  Friday and Saturday open for lunch @ 11:30
Sunday open for Dinner at 1:00
Phone # 978 283 8228
Thank you for your 20 years of business.
This offer is valid only at Jalapeños Gloucester.

Fish on Fridays

Posted on by Marty Luster

The Fish on Fridays series is a collaboration between Gloucester photographers Kathy Chapman and Marty Luster. Look for various aspects of Gloucester’s centuries-old fishing industry highlighted here on Fridays.

This is a somber week on the waterfront. There was no last minute reprieve from the quota cutbacks that took effect on May 1, which, when combined with the catch share management system, has put many small Gloucester fishermen on the brink of extinction.

Naz Sanfilippo, owner of f/v Cat Eyes, has been fishing for 47 years, since he was 8 years old. Naz tells us it looks like that is all over. The cod cutbacks are so stringent, he says, he can exhaust his entire quota in one haul.

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Peter is forced to take greater risks and fish in January and February to get winter’s higher prices. He questions whether the cold, wind and rough seas are worth the slightly higher income.

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 www.kathychapman.com and
© Marty Luster 2013
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Ashford, Ella, and The Dream – Tonight and Tomorrow Night!

Posted on by God's Morning

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Sam Cunningham & William Gleckner present

Ashford, Ella, and The Dream

directed by Sam Cunningham and William Gleckner
Friday, May 3, 7:00 pm and Saturday, May 4, 4:00 pm
The Unitarian-Universalist Church, 4 Cleaves Street, Rockport
Free, Donations appreciated.
Refreshments for Sale
 
21 Troupers ages 8-18
Sam and William also appear in the play
The Chicken Coupe Troupe
The Little Fairies Troupe
The Two Men and A Lady Troupe
The Carling and Friends Troupe
 
ELLA is a girl with a best friend, ASHFORD, and a Fairy God Father, and a plan to go to college. 
ELLA is a girl stuck in the worst job ever as a maid for Lady Clementine and her daughters Rose and Lily–Ashford calls them the Hag and Hagettes.  
But BEST FRIENDS are MAGIC.  
Ashford gave Ella Shakespeare’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM.  
As Ella reads fairies, and elves, and Athenian workmen, and even The King
of the Fairies fall out.  Fairy Tales can come true, the dream can happen to you.  
 
Please come to our show.  We would
love to have you.
 
Special thanks to The Unitarian-Universalist Church and Society of Rockport, Rev. Susan Moran, Pastor,
Jennifer Ober, Administrator, Music Director, and The Board of Directors.

The Making of a Podcast

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Joey and Craig setting up for podcast about Craig’s Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Movie Saturday night at The Farm.  It was alot of fun watching them and great to have them in the hizzy.

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Robert Duvall and Robert Downey Jr Movie To Film Inside The Rhumb Line

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hi Joe
We had 30 people from Warner Brothers Studio here today…they are planning to shoot some scenes inside The Rhumb Line..sometime in late June…the movie is ‘ The Judge’ starring Robert Duvall, Robert Downey Jr., and Vera Famiga.

my best to youFred

Brad Byrd ~ The Landing @ 7 Central This Saturday 9-12

Posted on by Joanne

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If you didn’t get a chance to catch Brad Byrd last night at the SingerSongwritersShuffle @ Giuseppe’s Ristorante, Gloucester, Ma or later @ The Dog Bar .
Don’t fret, because you can see him @ The Landing @ 7 Central
Saturday 9-12
5.4.2013
Not everyone can make it out on a week night…

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Artists Work Spaces: Eileen Oliver

Posted on by capeannpainter

Hi Paul;

You featured my little studio space last year when I was living in Rockport. We moved to Bayview in Gloucester last September and I have been painting more than ever since I’ve been here. I’m walking distance from Plum Cove beach and Lanesville and both my husband, Jim, and I (he’s also an artist) have been doing some of our best work. Here are some pictures of my work space.

I have a website through Fine Art America..
 http://eileen-patten-oliver.artistwebsites.com

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Family Promise North Shore opening ceremony

Posted on by Matthew Green

Beverly Mayor Bill Scanlon was at the newly established center for Family Promise North Shore to cut the ribbon together with FPNS’s Network Director, Elise Sinagra, yesterday evening:

 

Family Promise North Shore serves homeless families with children, providing a day shelter with all the essentials, and overnight sleeping quarters in conjunction with houses of worship in the region.  Family Promise is a national model for helping homeless families live with dignity and find permanent housing solutions.

I will have a slideshow of the event and the facility tomorrow.

– Fr. Matthew Green

More Crazy Huge Rubber Duck Sightings

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

World’s Biggest Rubber Duck Floats In Hong Kong Waters
By Anthea Quay, 02 May 2013

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World’s Biggest Rubber Duck Floats In Hong Kong Waters

Thanks Linn Parisi for submitting the story. I’m sure Paul Morrison is sitting in his lab scratching his chin and bellowing out an insidious Dr Evil-like laugh as he reads this post.

Snoop Maddie Mad Is 250th Percentile For Loving Soccer

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Running joke in our house is that our kids are 250th percentile at this or that.  A joke making fun of obnoxious parents that claim their kids are this percentile or that percentile at some skill set.  You’re only supposed to be able to go up to 100% but I like to say back to those folks when they say their kid is 85th percentile at something that my kid is 250th percentile and stare back at the quizzical looks on their faces.

Snoop Mad is 250th percentile at loving soccer.  And that’s a higher percentile than your kid.  Deal with it.

The whole paying attention during practice part maybe negative 250th percentile.  Like when she was tending the net as the goalie and giving me the thumbs up on the sidelines when another six year old drilled a shot right past her for a goal.  Oopsies.

and would you look at those rags we’ve got her in?  She looks like a homeless soccer kid. Her parents get a negative 300th percentile for rolling their kid out in that get-up. Need to go to the sporting goods store stat and pick up some umbro soccer shorts.

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Community Stuff 5/3/13

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Theatre in the Pines – “Dividing the Estate”

Opening Night – Proceeds will be donated to Susan G. Komen Foundation

“Dividing the Estate” by Horton Foote and directed by Nan Webber, will be held on May 9, 10, 11 at 7:30 and May 12 at 3 p.m. at Spiran Hall located at the corner of School Street and Broadway,  Rockport.

In, “Dividing the Estate,” old resentments and sibling rivalries surface as the members of this hilariously dysfunctional family go head to head to see who might claim the biggest piece of the pie.  Rich humor clearly reflects the spirit of the playwright. Cast members include Scott Hazzard,  Kierstin Hazzard, Sarah Clark, Sue Barratt Souza, Rick Doucette, Eileen Fitzgerald, and  Mark and Patti Natti, Ruth Exama, Alexa Exama, Patricia Richards and Carl Pulkkinen. Randy Dupps is Stage Manager, Frank Walcott is the technical director and  set design and production manager is Martin Ray.

Tickets are now on sale at The Bookstore in Gloucester and Toad Hall Bookstore in Rockport.

WalkBoston Honors Gloucester With Golden Shoe Award

City recognized for “Creatively getting Gloucester walking”

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Mayor Carolyn A. Kirk was pleased to recently accept the Golden Shoe Award on behalf of the city. WalkBoston awarded Gloucester in recognition of its efforts to make the City more pedestrian friendly.

The award recognizes Gloucester’s recent achievements, including:

  • Creating “Gloucester HarborWalk” to promote accessibility and walkability around Gloucester’s working waterfront
  • Increased funding to dramatically improve sidewalks and development of a Complete Streets Plan to identify gaps in the existing sidewalk system
  • Advocate for a Transportation Bond to improve sidewalks around Gloucester’s elementary schools and to establish a Safe Routes to School assessment for O’Maley Middle School

With the help of WalkBoston, Gloucester also developed GloucesterWalks maps, and has distributed 2,500 maps to residents and tourists since May. Gloucester was honored at WalkBoston’s annual celebration, along with Madison Park Development Corp. and the Barr Foundation.

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Wendy Landman, Executive Director WalkBoston; Stephen Winslow, Get Fit Gloucester!; Sarah Garcia, HarborWalk Project Manager; Mayor Carolyn Kirk, Gloucester; and Matt Lawler, Vice President, WalkBoston.

It’s that time of year again. Could you post that we are having our Open House on: 

Sunday, May 5th

5-7 PM

at Maritime Gloucester, Harbor Loop

Come learn about our community rowing program, see the boats and meet a fun group of people.  Free and open to the public. 

Thanks!

Heidi Tarr Henson

GloucesterCast With Host Joey Ciaramitaro and Guest Craig Kimberley Taped 5/1/13

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

GloucesterCast With Guest Craig Kimberley and  Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped May 1, 2013

Click to play-

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Topics:

Alicia DeWolfe Sex Line

Keys To Being A Good Video Editor

Shooting Trev Gowdy’s Monster Fish and Sasquatch- Mountain Man

Bikini Speedo Dodgeball The Movie Premiere At The Farm Bar and Grille

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Good Morning Gloucester Gallery

Selling Photography and Love For Cape Ann Giclee

Alicia DeWolfe Once Again Mentioned On The Podcast

Video Shooting Tips

Cape Ann TV

Death Row Sub

Virgilios Nor’Easter

Death Row Meal

Cape Ann Brewing

Death Row Sub

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

For this post to be successful you would leave a comment on it explaining what your choice would be.

So yesterday I had Chamber CEO Robert Heidt in for a podcast and I posed a simple question that I think I’ll make a regular feature with all my upcoming guests-

If you were on Death Row in Gloucester MA.  Going to be executed that night and the executioner gives you an option for one Submarine Sandwich from any Sub Shop In town which sub would it be and from which joint?

Place your answer in the comment section below this post.

To leave a comment look directly below the post for the link that either says “Leave a comment” or “Comments with a number before it” ie: 21 Comments,  letting you know how many comments have already been left on that post

Mine would be a Nor’Easter From Virgilios with prosciutto added.

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Virgilios, in the heart of Gloucester’s Beautiful West End.

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