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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(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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Last night there was a flurry of farewells instead of white stuff from Cobblestones upstairs to the Talon Room of UMass Lowell’s Tsongas Center as scores of friends, co-workers, and admirers gathered to pay tribute to departing city cultural affairs chief LZ Nunn and National Park Supt. Michael Creasey. The Cultural Organization…
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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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“Young Angel Midnight,” the very COOL anthology of emerging artists, writers, musicians, dancers, and other creative types in Lowell, has been nominated for a New England Art Award in the “Book” category. Online voting is highly encouraged. Here is the link. Please vote and share the link to get the…
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The Merrimack River’s Pawtucket Falls at Pawtucket Dam in Lowell (copied from a post on Facebook by Alan S. Manoian)
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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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I’m a fan of the entertainment industry award shows on TV. Tonight, we get to see the Grammy Awards. The production was revamped last year to include more music than the shows used to offer. If you are not someone who keeps up with the latest in Music, like me,…
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