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Two guys cross the playing field in the half-dark, heading for the train station. Bishop Markham Village glows amber from the night-lights on South Street, and there’s nothing moving on Summer Street, where the houses face the park like homesteads on the edge of their fields. The big tree-less bowl and floor…
Read More »“Blue Smoke #3” by Richard Marion See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Sound recording engineer Jamie Tagg of Nashua, N.H., a graduate student in UMass Lowell’s Music Dept., has been nominated for two Grammy awards for his work on recordings by Seraphic Fire, a Florida-based singing group. Read more about the Syracuse, N.Y, native at syracuse.com Gabrielle Tinto and Jamie Tagg sometimes would stand shoulder…
Read More »Watch the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony live on Saturday, Dec. 10, from Oslo, Norway, where Leymah Gbowee will accept the Peace Prize jointly with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakkol Karman. See the ceremony at www.nobelprize.org
Read More »The latest UMass Lowell-Boston Herald poll on the Mass. U.S. Senate race shows Elizabeth Warren leading Scott Brown 49-42. At this moment the poll is the home-page top story on huffingtonpost.com. The election polling is a project of the UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion in collaboration with the Herald. Here’s the poll…
Read More »The Pawtucketville Citizens Council received the email below from a Pawtucketville resident and is asking us to let all parents know what took place. I am writing to inform you of suspicious activity in Pawtucketville that took place this morning. One of our young baseball players was approached by a man in…
Read More »Billy Joel at UMass Lowell’s Durgin Concert Hall tonight for a conversation about the art and business of Music, with a few songs dropped in. This is a university-only event at the request of the Piano Man. He does these college visits once in a while as a way to…
Read More »From nbcbayarea.com, a report on efforts to serve the entire public at national parks like Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco. Nationwide, the Park Service is trying to attract a more diverse audience.
Read More »When I drove up the driveway yesterday afternoon there was a platoon of squirrels arranged around our freshly raked back yard. Every one of the critters appeared to be eating something that the lawn was yielding up. I thought it might be the little nub of matter in the helicopter blade-like…
Read More »From one of our correspondents flung not-too-far into the Atlantic off the Cape, Ray LaPorte, comes this pick-up from National Public Radio about haiku-style traffic signs in New York City. I want to know how they showed the signs on the radio? Read about it here.
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