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Big crowd this afternoon at the Chelmsford Elks on Rt 110 for “Big Phil’s Record Show.” I hadn’t been to a collectibles extravaganza for years, so this was different and a lot of fun. I even saw people whom I know among the avid music appreciators, most of whom were…
Read More »Web photo of historic view of the South Common in Lowell, Mass., courtesy of cardcow.com What: South Common Haiku Book Project: An Earth Day Celebration in Lowell When: Sunday, April 22, 2 pm to 4.30 pm Where: Location to be announced soon What’s going on?: Join well-known maker of artist books…
Read More »From Sir Paul’s website, this newsy blog post about his few days in Los Angeles recently, getting honored as MusicCares person of the year, going to the Grammy Awards, attending the unveiling of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, chatting up Neil Young, and more. https://www.paulmccartney.com/web/guest/news/-/blogs/still-buzzing-on-la?
Read More »“Young Angel Midnight,” the arts anthology published by Bootstrap Press of Lowell in collaboration with COOL, the Cultural Organization of Lowell, last night won a New England Art Award in the Book category. The anthology won “The People’s Choice” award. More than 60 writers, visual artists, and musicians contributed material…
Read More »The following story is by Julia MacDonnell, whose first novel “A Year of Favor” was published by William Morrow in 1994. Her writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, North Dakota Quarterly, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. She was born in Maine and grew up in Massachusetts, where…
Read More »See www.lowellcelebrateskerouac.org for the full schedule of activities from March 5 to March 12, organized as a weeklong tribute to the Lowell cultural powerhouse Jean-Louis Kerouac (1922–1969). UMass Lowell is involved with several events including a special screening of the film “Lowell Blues” with the director Henry Ferrini on Monday, March…
Read More »Somebody once said that Lowell is a “little big city,” and that character is due in part to the spectrum of activities on any given day: small to large, low to high, basic to extravagant, local to global, traditional to experimental, common to cosmic — you get the idea. Yesterday…
Read More »What do I think of “Howl in Lowell”…? Just what the doctor ordered. A huge push-back from the culture-makers and -consumers in the city who believe that more attention should be paid. Logical next step, given the vast supply of cultural product in the city, and broad recognition that we have…
Read More »Suzanne Cromwell posted this minutes ago: Halftime in Lowell & Howl in Lowell
Read More »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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