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A member of the Gulu staff came across this video the other day. Its a day in the life type piece of a man in search of a cool place to go and eat in Salem... and he finds the Gulu-Gulu Café. Staring the Gulu's very own Laura and Alicia!

Gulu Sunday Morning Brunch - Starts May 4th!

Nothing goes better with great music like great food!  This May the Gulu-Gulu Café in Salem is introducing a Sunday Brunch for your eating enjoyment… Belgian waffles, fresh crepes, fruit, quiche, and other goodies!  Brunch begins at 10AM and runs through 2PM.

Gulu Idol! Poetry Series to Continue!

The turnout and feedback we’ve received for the Gulu poetry series has been absolutely incredible.  So incredible that we have decided to continue it! 

The Salem Gulu will host the Witch City Poetry Series on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of every month.  Sign-up begins at 5PM with readings beginning at 5:45PM.

The Lynn Gulu will host the Speak Up - Spoken Word Open-Mic every Wednesday of every month!  The Open-Mic starts at 7:30PM and sign up starts at 7PM.

And don’t forget – for you musicians out there the Lynn Gulu also hosts The Friday Night Open Mic!  Every Friday at 8:30PM (sign-up at 8PM). 

We Win!

This is really unbelievable! The Gulu-Gulu Café in Salem has won Salem's Best New Business of the Year 2007!

Check out the local press:

Salem News Report

Salem Gazette Report

New Art!

The Gulu-Gulu’s newest art show in Salem began in early April and so far has been incredibly successful! This show features the work of Adam Miller and Joshua Morrissette.

Next week we will be hanging the new show at our Lynn location. This show will be featuring the work of Colleen Coen. It's great work and we are sure you are going to love it!

As always all work is for sale and can be purchased directly from the Gulu-Gulu Cafe.

For more info on the artists goto the Gulu Featured Artists page.

Celebrate Your Birthday!  Save Some Schools!
This Friday - The 1st Annual Salem Save Our Schools/ Birthday Bash

As many of our Gulu readers know the Salem school system is in desperate need of financial help.  So this year the Gulu-Gulu Café in Salem is doing its own small part by hosting a fundraiser. This Friday April 18th! Tickets are available at the door and are only ten bucks!  All proceeds benefit the Salem Education Fund.

Plus it’s Steve’s Birthday… and Steve’s Birthday is YOUR Birthday!

The Details:
The 1st 100 people will get their very own birthday cupcake!  Wow!
The 1st 25 people get a FREE T-Shirt!  Double Wow!
Plus raffle tickets and prizes have been donated from some of yours and mine favorite Salem businesses.  Zowie!

Music shall be provided by the Czech sensation DJ Ondrej!

Pete “The Human Floor” Tino will be here to be stomped on!

And it wouldn’t be a birthday party without balloons - Royal “the #1 Balloon Artist in the World” Sorrel will be entertaining the masses!

Seriously this is going to be a massive party – even if you hate birthdays and/ or schools there will be something for you!  Come get funky!

Hey Mom! Somebody Likes Me!

We are happy (and incredibly humbled!) to announce that the Gulu-Gulu Café in Salem has been nominated for New Business of the Year 2007!   This award is given to the best new business that opened in 2007.  The winner will be announced at the Salem Chamber of Commerce's 86th Annual Dinner on Wednesday, April 16, in the beautiful Atrium of the Peabody Essex Museum.  Over 600 Salem Chamber members were involved in the nomination process, and the decision regarding the award winners will be made by this year's nominating committee under the leadership of Sandy Heaphy.
Here’s a list of the all the nominees:

• Aggregate Designs
• Gulu-Gulu Café
• Radiance Aveda
• Rouge Cosmetics
• Salem Wine Imports
• Upper Crust

For more information check out www.salem-chamber.org.

Our Beer is Back and There’s Gonna Be Some Trouble...

Starting Tuesday April 1st the Gulu-Gulu Café in Salem will have its Liquor License back every single day of the week!  Woo-hoo!!!  And along with that our hours will change back to their normal times.  Click here to see our updated opening hours.

We wanted to thank our Gulu fans for standing by us throughout the last couple months on the days that they couldn’t get their favorite beverages.   And we also want to point out the City of Salem has been fantastic throughout this whole process - Marie and I aren’t so convinced that we could have kept the restaurant going during the winter months without the weekend permits that allowed us to serve alcohol.  The city helped to keep us in business and we won’t forget that.

Gulu-Gulu Café + Salem Film Fest 2008 = B.I.K.E.

Salem Film Fest 2008: This year join a celebration of international film and music in Salem MA!  Starting February 28th and running through March 6th, Salem will be hosting a film festival that is showcasing the work of brilliant and controversial filmmakers from throughout the world!

The Gulu is sponsoring the film B.I.K.E: the documentary of a radical underground bike jousting club based in Brooklyn NYC. The film will be shown at CinemaSalem on Saturday, March 1st at 9:30 pm.  Click here to check out the official website.

On Friday February 29 the Gulu will be hosting a Filmlover's Party which will feature local favorite Machine 475!  The band goes on around 8PM and the official Filmlover’s party starts at 10PM.  Hope to see you here!

What is the Price of Loyalty?  Free Coffee!

Now at your participating Gulu-Gulu Café – Customer Loyalty Cards!  Drink 9 regularly priced coffee drinks (and get Jack’s head stamped) – and your 10th one is FREE!  Will the wonders of marketing never cease?

Salem Gulu Liquor License Issues

Many of you have heard the rumors.  It’s sad but true - the Gulu-Gulu Café in Salem is temporally losing its liquor license starting this Wednesday, January 16th.  Now before some of you start getting upset let me explain… 

The long and the short of it – when the Gulu opened up in Salem this past summer the city didn’t have any more beer and wine licenses to give out and there weren’t any for sale on the open market.  So we (and our beautiful neighbors at the Upper Crust pizzeria – great pizza – Yummy!) took the only option that was available at the time – a seasonal license.  This allows the proprietor to serve beer and wine from April 1st – January 15th.  Our time is up.

So what does this mean for our loyal lovers of Gulu beer and wine? 

Short term: on “Event Days” (meaning primarily Thursday, Friday, and Saturdays – days we have live music at the café) the Gulu will be pulling special one-day permits so we can continue to serve.  So if you need your Gulu beer fix (and can’t make it down to the Lynn Gulu) come in Thursday – Saturday and drink up!  For the time being though Sundays – Wednesdays will be Prohibition Days at the Gulu.

Long term: the city has OK’d our request for a year around beer, wine, and cordial license and the formalities are now at the State level.  I feel very confident that we will receive the license but it will probably take some time.  Hopefully we will have it soon but if not we will go right back to having a seasonal license starting April 1st.

It could be worse.

New Art!

The Gulu-Gulu’s newest art show began on Monday January 7th and will run through March!  This show is continuing to feature North Shore and Boston area artists... Adam O'Day, Adam Fitch, and Gabriel Kent.  The work is incredibly cool and unique and we hope everyone loves it as much as we do.

For more info on the artists goto the Gulu Featured Artists page.

The Night Before Christmas

T’was the night before Christmas at the Gulu café
Not a customer stirring, no tea, no latte.
The glasses were hung by the barside with care
With hopes perhaps “Toasty” might even appear.
The staff finishing up to get home to their beds,
While visions of tip-outs danced in their heads.
Alicia in her apron – JD cleaning the tap,
Jen counting the drawer, Steve with his night cap.
Then down in the basement arose such a clatter!
Danny sprang to the stairs to see what was the matter.
When what to his wondering eyes would appear,
Just angry cook Joe, bring up wine and beer.
Amanda blows out the candles without missing a beat,
While April laughs in the kitchen slicing some meat.
Kara does one last lap looking for tips,
When the dishes crash – yep it was Tiff.
Through it all Andrea’s smile doesn’t wane,
She clears off the last dish – tuna on plain.
VW waiting filled with Jack, Max, and Marie,
Steve hurriedly finished his Kruso and brie.
With one final glance he peered all around,
Then sped to the coat rack in one single bound.
His eyes all a twinkle – his cheeks all a-glow,
The streaks in his hair the color of snow,
His signature backpack he flung on his back.
Keys in one hand and a cigarette pack.
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
“Laura do you think you could wrap up the bread?”
As he climbed in the wagon to drive out of sight,
He exclaimed “GREAT JOB GUYS!”
And “HAVE A GREAT NIGHT!”

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to everyone from the staff at Gulu-Gulu Café: Salem!

New Beer – New Wine… Oh My!

Beer and wine lovers – Christmas has come early to the Gulu-Gulu Café!  We have brought some delicious and interesting beverages onboard for the holiday season – some highlights on our new wine list include:

• Victory Golden Monkey – made in Pennsylvania, the brewers used German malts and Belgian yeast to make a powerful (9.5% abv!) yet surprisingly drinkable light beer.
• Lindeman Kriek from Belgium – considered to be the finest lambic Kriek in the world!
• Unibroue Maudite AKA "The Damned One" – A very strong (8% alc/vol) Belgian style – spicy without being overpowering this amber-red ale offers a distinctive flavor that is cognac-like in complexity.

... And believe it or not there's even more new items on the list - click here to check out our newest beer and wine list.

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Fundraiser - Friday December 14, 2008 at the Salem Gulu!

The Gulu-Gulu Café: Salem and the amazing Scott of “Radio Scotvoid” are proud to announce that we will be holding a Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Fundraiser.

The fundraiser will be starting from 5:30pm. There will be a raffle and prizes include gift certificates to local restaurants and stores, an I-Pod Shuffle, holiday gift baskets, amongst other cool stuff. And of course the aforementioned amazing Radio Scotvoid will be perorming that evening as well.  

All the money raised goes to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Holiday Support for Those Overseas
  
The Gulu-Gulu Café is having a gift drive for our soldiers that can’t celebrate with their families during the holiday season.
 
A drop off can be found at the Gulu-Gulu Café in Salem.  Any monetary donations will be used to help ship packages to the troops overseas.

Need a gift suggestion?  We have plenty of them:  

Doritos, comics, rice krispy treats, magazines, music (CD's), candy/gum, decks of cards, books, stationary/pens, batteries (all sizes), toothbrushes/paste, soap, deodorant, moisturizing lotion, chapstick, mouthwash, baby wipes, non-aerosol bug repellant, gloves & hand warmers -anything that is shipping friendly and will bring a smile to our soldiers' faces is welcome!

We’ll be shipping packages out on Friday the 14th.

Urban Elements in Lynn!

Two Lynn ladies that live in one of Lynn’s lovely lofts have decided to quit their day jobs to open a high-end home accessories store in Lynn on Oxford Street.  Marie and I feel that this is a great step forward in the evolution of our downtown and we are very proud of Yadira and Kim. Urban Elements is opening to the public on Saturday, December 8th at 12PM.  They are located directly next to the Downtown Bistro (one of our favorite local restaurants BTW). If you are in Central Square swing on by their store and check it out.  Good luck guys!

October Recap and what’s coming up

Marie and I wanted to thank everyone who came out to the Gulu over the past month – October was absolutely rocking for us and we really couldn’t have imagined it would have been so busy... or so much fun!

We especially wanted to thank our staff – old and new – from Lynn and Salem.  These guys came up big for us over the holiday and we seriously wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for such them.  Thanks guys!

If you missed the late October Salem chaos click here to check out some pix from the Rev Bob and the Darkness and click here to see pix from Halloween night with Dagmar and the Scalawags!

Just because October has come and gone that doesn’t mean there is nothing to do – tomorrow night at our Lynn Gulu we are having our Meet the Artist night! Featured artists Kurt Cole Eidsvig, Judi Muscara-Orfanos, and Nicholas Demakes will be appearing to meet with guests and talk about their work and music will be performed by the beautiful manAnthony Migliaccio. 

On Saturday November 17, 8PM the Salem Gulu is holding a fundraiser to bring the arts into the For Kids Only Afterschool program at Bates Elementary school in Salem.  Doors will open at 6:30 and the evening’s entertainment will be the immortal Mamadou.  Good stuff, a good cause, and only 20 bucks.

... and that's not all - check out the Gulu Events page for all more events and fun!

Gulu Halloween Tickets now available!

Wednesday October 31, 2007 - Our inaugural Halloween Bash!  The newliest incarnation of the dangerously unpredictable, New York-based art-rock-opera band DAGMAR and theARRRR music of the pirate band THE SCALLYWAGS take the stage to help us celebrate our first Gulu Halloween in Salem!

Doors open at 7PM with the show starting right around 8PM! Space is limited and tickets will sell out!  Tickets are only $10 and can be bought in person at either Gulu-Gulu Café or online at www.gulu-gulu.com/merchandise.asp. If bought online please save your Paypal receipt and bring to the show as proof of purchase.

The New Gulu Art Show – Little Bit of Old and a Little Bit of New!

Every three months we open a new art show at the Gulu-Gulu – for Fall 2007 we have brought back some old Gulu favorites (Bren Bataclan, Greg Orfanos, and Anna Slade) and some fresh new talent (Kurt Cole Eidsvig, Judi Muscara-Orfanos, and Nicholas Demakes).  This is a very exciting show and work is already starting to sell fast. 

Please note that the Meet the Artists reception for Gulu-Gulu Lynn has been scheduled for Thursday November 8th at 8PM. Performances and Gulu Salem's Meet the Artist night will be revealed soon.  

Buy your Christmas gifts early – Buy Art! Click here to check out the Gulu-Gulu art page!

"Gulu-Gulu Has A Posse 2 " T-Shirts now available!
The first edition of Max's very own T-shirt was so popular we decided to do another version. This time the shirts are available in several different exciting colors! Hurray!

Once again the design is based on the “Obey Giant” graffiti art campaign created by Shepard Fairey. 

Join the Gulu Posse! T-Shirts are only $14 Bucks (plus S&H)! Go to the Gulu Shopping page to get your very own!

Modern Millie fashion show - Encore Performance!

Since the Modern Millie fashion show sold out so fast, and the response for a second show has been very good, a second show has been planned.  It's a benefit for the puppies and kitties, so why not?

The 2nd show will take place this coming Sunday, September 30th, at the Gulu-Gulu Cafe in Salem. Doors open at 6pm and the show at starts at 7pm.  Once again there will be a limited number of tickets - they will be sold first come first serve the night of the show, cash only.  Please tell your friends!!

Everyone had a great time the other night, see for yourself!

Click here to see some pix from last week's fashion show!

Blah Ha Ha!  Dinner and a Movie Night Returns!

Marking the month of October the Gulu-Gulu Café is bringing back Dinner and a Movie Night!  Every Tuesday night in Lynn and every Wednesday night in Salem the café will present a classic horror movie – check out our events page for more details!

It's time for a fashion show!  Help save some Puppies!

The Gulu-Gulu Café: Salem is hosting the 2nd annual Modern Millie fashion show!  For those of you that aren’t in the know, Modern Millie is a wicked cool clothing store stocked full of cute trendy modern clothes as well as vintage stuff.

This year’s theme is 9 to 5, (yes, just like that movie from 1980).  Like previous Modern Millie fashion shows it will be more like a small theater production than your standard fashion show. Modern Millie’s lovely models will each be a character.

Styles are taken from the movie 9 to 5 and other late 70's and early 80's women's work wear. Some will be integrated with modern pieces but keeping with the theme. Tie necks, puff sleeves, jeans tucked into boots, ect. The music will be select favorites from the time period.

The date is September 23rd - doors open at 6PM and the show begins at 7PM.  The Gulu will be putting out a light buffet and there is also a cash bar.

As if you needed another reason to attend the party - 100% of the proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the Northeast Animal Shelter in Salem. Woof!  Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at Modern Millie.  Modern Millie is located at 103 Washington St, Salem Ma. Please note: Tickets are very limited and will sell out!

It’s going to be a ton of fun!  So put on your best retro and vintage threads and join us!

For more info on Modern Millie check out: www.myspace.com/modernmilliesalem.
Click here to download the Fashion Show Flyer.

Gulu Bam Thwok!

Looking for something to do this Saturday afternoon?  Well if you aren’t planning on going to the Gulu-Gulu Café (shame on you!) we encourage you all to check out the Gulu's very own Alicia Marcaurelle as she skates with the Boston Massacre roller derby team!

Will the Dominion Derby Girls All-Stars be able to prove that Virginia isn't just for lovers, or will Boston's quad-skate militia once again bring the beatdown on their nemesisters from the south? Come and find out!

September 22: Boston Massacre vs. Virginia's Dominion Derby Girls
Doors at 5 pm, Bout at 6 pm
Shriners Auditorium, Wilmington, MA
Tickets $14 in advance, $16 at the door

Check out www.bostonderbydames.com for more info.

Half time entertainment by Can't Face the Falling and a public after party on site with DJ Boo Boo Danger.

Gulu-Gulu Café: Salem Grand Opening Extravaganza Week was Super Cool!