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The front page of “The Arts” section in the NYTimes has an article about the long and winding road to the cinema screen for the mostly Lowell-filmed Micky Ward bio-pic “The Fighter,” starring Mark Wahlberg as the boxer, Christian Bale, and Amy Adams, among others. The nationwide release date is…
Read More »People are reading about Lowell’s Irish-American roots all over New England this morning. The UMass Lowell/Queens University of Northern Ireland archaeological project on the grounds of St. Patrick Church in the Acre earned major coverage in the Boston Globe today (bottom of Page One). I was on a National Park canal tour…
Read More »Writing this week in the NYT, columnist Bob Herbert decried the educational slippage in the nation. He says we’re collectively, but especially the younger and up-and-coming generations, getting softer intellectually. He cites figures. UMass Lowell, I should say, is doing its part to buck the trend described in the column. Note the comments, too, which…
Read More »I read Marie’s post about the Coffee Party before I went to buy groceries at the Market Basket at Stadium Plaza, Rte. 38 in Tewksbury (I always think I’m still in Lowell there). Anyway, I was standing in line with my number waiting to be called on at the deli…
Read More »Boston.com is carrying a news wire report from the Associated Press about UMass Lowell students and archaeologists from Queens University in Northern Ireland digging for traces of the early Irish presence in the Acre. They’ll be excavating around St. Patrick Church (1831) beginning the week of August 16. The project is…
Read More »CALL FOR ENTRIES: Request for Qualifications, Appleton Mills Art Installation Project Eligibility: Open to all artists/designers/teams residing in New EnglandProject Description: Trinity Financial invites artists/designers/teams to forward qualifications for an artwork to be permanently installed in the four-story atrium of the Appleton Mills redevelopment, an historic textile mill located…
Read More »Writing for TIME, Joe Klein offered up a sober assessment of President Obama’s speech to the disabled vets a few days ago that marked the end of “major combat operations” in Iraq by our country. You can read the August 2 blog post here. It’s not unusual for a writer to…
Read More »“Dear Friends, “Massachusetts became the first state in the nation to adopt the Creative Challenge Index proposal – an initiative to raise the priority of creative work in our schools – when Governor Deval Patrick signed the Economic Development Reorganization bill into law this morning. We thank Governor Patrick for…
Read More »With his latest essay, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, a native of southeastern Mass., hums a brush-back pitch at Republicans who are leaning in to take a whack at the 14th amendment in the midst of the mid-term election frenzy. E.J. reminds the GOP that the so-called “Civil War or…
Read More »The Wall Street Journal is reporting a significant legislative win for Democrats in the U.S. Senate, made possible by the support of the two Republican Senators from Maine. Speaker Pelosi will call the House members back from the break to vote next week. The President is expected to sign the bill,…
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