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Liz Longley (photo by caesar photography) On her third visit to the Lowell Summer Music Series, Liz Longley appeared to be very comfortable in front of a Lowell crowd. She’s probably at ease on any stage after doing 150 gigs a year while in college. She recently graduated from Berklee…
Read More »Opinion writer Timothy Egan of the NYT has an eye-opening column online today that makes a connection between Prohibition and some of today’s extreme social behavior regulators. Read his essay here, and get the NYT if you want more. And watch for the upcoming Ken Burns documentary on Prohibition.
Read More »Folksinger and songwriter Richard Thompson is featured tonight in the Lowell Summer Music Series. There was a long line of people waiting for the opening bell to ring at 7 a.m. so they could get their chairs and blankets in place. The forecast is for mixed sun and clouds, so…
Read More »“Tomatoes Box” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 To see more artwork, please visit www.richardmarion.net
Read More »A surprise showed up yesterday on Facebook when a Friend posted a link to a blog entry from Huffington Post/AOL that was by a writer who works in Lowell, maybe lives in Lowell, and was writing about the remarkable pluralism in the city. Read Nataly Kelly’s post here. About the…
Read More »9th Annual Kerouac Road Race Race proceeds go to the Jack Kerouac Scholarship awarded to a Lowell High School graduating senior planning a major in literature or the arts. Time is running out to get your micro-tec race t-shirt!!! Sunday, September 25th Be one of the first 400 registered and…
Read More »“Hudzik’s Market, Palm Sunday” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 To see more artwork, visit www.richardmarion.net
Read More »My old schoolmate Bob Jette posted on FB about this short essay by Deepak Chopra on huffingtonpost.com about the issues that he believes will determine the outcome of the presidential election next year. Read the essay here.
Read More »This is interesting. I picked it up from the staunchly progressive news service truth-out.org.
Read More »NYTimes opinion writer Paul Krugman today sounds the alarm on the anti-science, anti-intellectual character of the leading contendors to be the Republican Party’s challenger to President Obama. Backing up his opinion with facts and candidate quotes, Krugman warns about the prospects of an “anti-knowledge” platform and subsequent legislative agenda. Maybe it’s…
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