In New York Magazine, political and cultural observer Frank Rich urges President Obama to fight hard for the America he envisions. Read the article here, which I picked up from huffingtonpost.
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Photo courtesy of Maggie Holtzberg from blog.massfolkarts.org. See also Keepers of Tradition on the blogroll to the right. Nine, count ’em, nine color photos of details from Lowell’s multi-ethnic market scene grace page one of the Globe North section of today’s Boston Sunday Globe. The article by Taryn Plumb recounts…
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Sunday, Sept. 25, 2 – 5 pm: UMass Lowell String Project Benefit Concert in collaboration with the Revolving Museum, Appleton Mills Atrium, 29 Jackson St. (Donations requested). Friday, Sept. 30, 6.30 pm: Celebrate sports at the 1st annual Dream of Perfect Games tribute at the UMass Lowell Inn &…
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Here’s the schedule of activities for the Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! festival, which starts on Thursday, Oct. 6, and runs through the Columbus Day holiday on Oct. 10. Note that on Thursday, Oct. 6, at 5 pm, there will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception to officially open the new permanent exhibit…
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“Darts” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
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Here’s the latest on today’s stock market dive from NYTimes. Could investors be signalling that it is time for action and that doing nothing is not an option? I heard one analyst on the radio saying that experts and politicians claimed they were caught by surprise in 2008 when Wall…
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Poet Kay Ryan, who read her poems to an overflow crowd at UMass Lowell last spring, and three members of the Harvard University faculty are among the 22 recipients of the 2011 “genius grants” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The Harvard professors are economist Roland Fryer,…
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Ed Kilgore in The New Republic boils down the ingredients of national Republic Party policy positions. Is this what it has come to? Looks like a stark contrast for Nov. 2012. Read his short piece here, which I picked up from realclearpolitics.com
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The American Scholar has published an excerpt from the forthcoming memoir by the dean of literary agents in New York City, Sterling Lord. He became Jack Kerouac’s agent in the mid-1950s, and in the early 60s linked up with Ken Kesey, who had just written “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s…
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Book Launch: From Critical Science to Solutions: The Best of Scientific Solutions Monday, September 26, 4:00 pm, at the Allen House, South Campus, UMass Lowell Richard Clapp edited the book, which is a selection of New Solutions articles published over the past two decades—articles by scholars and staff from UMass…
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