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Seabrook boy stars in “The Fighter”
Today’s Globe identifies they young actor who played Dick Ecklund Jr in “The Fighter” as Jackson Nicholl of nearby Seabrook, New Hampshire.
Read More »CNN’s Review of ‘The Fighter’
Dick mentioned CNN in a comment tonight. I went to the CNN site and found the network’s review of “The Fighter.” The reviewer gave the film an A- rating. Read it here.
Read More »Economic Field Report: Nashua Retail Scene
My family did a little shopping in south Nashua this afternoon. The lines were long and money was flowing. In Best Buy, 40 people waited at the registers. The exchanges line was 25 deep. We lucked out because we bought an item in the computer department, which has its own registers.…
Read More »Mass. Poetry Festival in Salem, May 13-14
Speaking of the power of cities, after two highly successful productions in Lowell (2008-09), the Massachusetts Poetry Festival will move its tents, workshops, coffeehouse readings, and auditorium events to downtown Salem in 2011, with a packed schedule of activities set for May 13 and 14. Keep checking www.masspoetry.org for updates as the…
Read More »The City – an Engine of Revival?
In today’s Boston Globe Edward L. Glaeser – a professor of economics at Harvard and author of a soon to be published book “The Triumph of the City” – penned an op-ed piece well worth reading. DURING ECONOMIC downturns, we begin to fear that we are entering a permanent period…
Read More »“The Fighter” on the ground in Lowell
I’ve tried to create a Google Maps mashup showing the various locations in Lowell where “The Fighter” was filmed. Just click on the blue markers to read a description of that location and use the zoom and and out tools to see the entire map. Many of the spots are…
Read More »Marty Meehan Talks UM Presidency and Redistricting
In the videos below University of Mass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan talks with WBZ’s Jon Keller about the university presidency and the upcoming redistricting of Massachusetts’ congressional map.
Read More »Headline Wishes for 2011 by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. My colleague Tom Waseleski, editorial page editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, always prepares for New Year’s Day an aspirational list of headlines from which we could all benefit. Here, with my own imprint, are the headlines I’d like…
Read More »Here’s My Review of ‘The Fighter’
Tonight, with my wife and two friends I saw “the movie” at the Showcase Cinemas, just a slapshot away from Micky Ward Circle. The film ended two hours ago and I’m still in a kind of shock from the hyper-realism on screen. Lowell appeared to be under a colossal magnifying glass.…
Read More »Who owns the sidewalk?
A story in today’s Globe follows a couple of Boston code enforcement police around as they issue citations to folks who shovel/plow/blow snow into the already plowed street. The story mentions that unnamed “legal experts” say the city is liable for injuries that occur on sidewalks so it’s in the…
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