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Upcoming Cultural Events at UMass Lowell

New World Jazz Composers Octet (Music on the Merrimack series), featuring UMass Lowell faculty member Walter Platt on trumpet and flugelhorn. Feb. 23, 7.30 pm, Durgin Concert Hall, 35 Wilder St, UMass Lowell South Campus. Free and accessible. Columbinus, a performance by the Off-Broadway Players student theater group at UMass Lowell.…

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Public Sculpture in Chicago

(Web photo by Tessa Marshall, courtesy of timeoutchicago.com). This is the sculpture “Cloud Gate” (2004) by Anish Kapoor in Chicago’s Millennium Park, which has been integrated into a new temporary sculptural installation whose colored lights are synched up and change with a related musical track. The light/music design is by Luftwerk, a collaborative…

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Healthy Civic Culture

The voter turnout in last fall’s city election was low, but Lowell gets a high rating on its level of civic engagement. Last night, for the second time in a few weeks, more than 100 people packed the City Council chamber to show their interest and express opinions about an…

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Cold Common

Cold morning. Glove-cold. Bright clear sky. The blue-disc sun is warming if you step into its 98-million-mile-away rays, exactly, but otherwise the air is frigid. This is weather for staying in. I didn’t see any random walkers in the South Common Historic District. One man in a jacket over hooded sweatshirt…

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